A Theory of Moderation

A Theory of Moderation

Various things about Spring that do not fit in any of the other forums listed below, including forum rules.

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MidKnight
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A Theory of Moderation

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http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a ... oderation/

This is an article about the community philosophy Stack Overflow's creators hold. That site and all of its sister site operate under these ideas, and they're wildly successful.

A nice read for anyone, and I'm interested to see how these principles could apply to our community.
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bobthedinosaur
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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interesting approach
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Jazcash
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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Good idea, we should use this for these forums. I realise we don't have a rep system so lets just use postcount instead 8)
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knorke
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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mods are sleeping.
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koshi
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by koshi »

Would at the very least be fun the see election results, nvm the hilarious fail when shit hits the fan afterwards :)
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KaiserJ
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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ITT: lord of the flies
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AF
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by AF »

Jazcash wrote:Good idea, we should use this for these forums. I realise we don't have a rep system so lets just use postcount instead 8)

hmmm, my postcount suggests Im that powerful that I edited your post, then edited my own history to prevent me remembering

postcount++
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Iz3
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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Maybe getting moderation so far when you got 50000 members, for spring I dunno. ^^
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SwiftSpear
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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We're kind of tied into a system that works based on what the forum/lobby-software is capable of. I've had many similar ideas to what is being discussed here, but PHPBB just doesn't do much of that kind of stuff.
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AF
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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Im sure you can shove a little JS to insert an up and down vote button and an indicator, linked to a side script. Sure it wouldnt be integrated into phpbb itself, but it would be an indicator
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Jazcash
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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If you implement a Karma system like YouTube then ima splode.
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1v0ry_k1ng
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by 1v0ry_k1ng »

karma system here would be trolled superhard :-)
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smoth
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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truthfully, I used to have as much negative karma as postive. Often just 2-3 positive above negative but probably the highest score for that community.

people love to hate to love me.
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knorke
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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My Theory of Moderation is that i should be a moderator.
Ill bring back emmanuel.
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PicassoCT
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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Can you be voted of the ignore lists if you are good enough?
klapmongool
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by klapmongool »

knorke wrote:My Theory of Moderation is that klapmongool should be a moderator.
Fixed.
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1v0ry_k1ng
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by 1v0ry_k1ng »

knorke wrote:My Theory of Moderation is that i should be a moderator.
Ill bring back emmanuel.
you have my vote
Warlord Zsinj
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

Post by Warlord Zsinj »

Wouldn't work here, most of the most well known and experienced content creators are raving lunatics like myself
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PicassoCT
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Re: A Theory of Moderation

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Any sane approach is phailing hard when meeting the insane rand-generator that is the heads of artists. Imagine a overdramatic borderlinen Theateractor and a logic, Mr.Spock Programmer meeting on a Party. This cant end well, so the only logic - is apharteid of minds (ignorelist/diffrent sub-groups/smurfsurfin) and have a neutral group, that watches that nobody in the apezoe climbs over its ragecagerods.
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