SF administrative duties

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Josiah

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I guess this is just addressed to Matrix and SeaBreeze. Just out of curiosity, and if we ignore cases of moving a thread to a different forum, how often do you find that you are wielding your editorial swords and what are the kinds of infractions that most frequently turn up?
 

The thing we try to do is keep the forum user-friendly and easily to read by members and visitors. A lot of things go into the General Discussions forum, which is okay, but with so many threads there, many are lost in the mix. So if it obviously is a Money or Health thread, etc., we'll move it into the appropriate forum when time allows.

If we add a new forum, as Matrix did recently for English Language, then we move any related posts there. Matrix set it up recently, where whenever a thread is moved, there is a 3-day redirect, so there's no confusion in finding it. We're easy here, members can post wherever they feel comfortable, we don't consider anything like that an infraction at all.
 
I may moderate on the following occasions:

1. Meaningless thread titles such as "I have a question."

2. Typos in thread titles.

3. Posted in the wrong forum. I only move few of them, especially the good ones, it's a pity to see good threads buried in the chitchat forum. You can see that some of the ancient language related threads have revitalized after being moved to the new language forum.

4. A very long post in only one paragraph. I for one find it very hard to read and may break it into several smaller paragraphs. But it takes time so I only do this on quality posts occasionally.

5. A post only contains a link. I will add one or two paragraphs from the source page.


No infractions will be given. If your posts were moderated, please don't take it personally, I only wanted to make it easier to read. I don't add/remove/alter words.
 
This is a large forum and growing. A thumbs up to both of you. I've been on forums where there are moderators outnumbering posters and yet they do not run as well as this one.

When things take a nasty turn it is tolerated, trolls are allowed to return after creating havoc and obscenity and racial hatred is not only tolerated but almost encouraged. I see none of this behavior here.

I'm glad I found this little corner of cyberspace and have utmost respect for Matrix and Seabreeze and all the members here too.
 
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