duvessa wrote:It's tricky to know this stuff since the moderation team refuses to publish any of their rules, you have to figure it out from observation.
it is almost as though they are just some random people who have never actually met each other who decided to say "sure I will help keep the forum from being a complete shithole" and for some reason have not decided to stop visiting the site, and instead of formalizing some kind of shared governance structure are basically making shit up as they go along
In all honesty, it is in many ways hard to know what's acceptable and what's not. Are bad advice and bad game design ideas OK in their forums? I don't know. What about
egregiously bad advice or ideas? I don't always know bad advice or bad ideas. Bad ideas get implemented sometimes. Bad advice can yield wins.
How much snark is too much snark, and when does it become harassment? Is it the same when it's a pattern for a poster rather than an uncharacteristic outburst? What should we do when some people just don't much like each other? How should I moderate posts from people who bug the shit out of me? Is it censorship to delete a post that disagrees with a dev's idea if it also says that dev is completely stupid for having it? How much noise should we filter out to keep the signal good?
How much time and energy are the mods expected to put into figuring this stuff out? I ask this somewhat glibly, but there's a nugget of seriousness to it. What are your expectations of the mods?
Anyhow: We don't have some hidden rules-stash to publish; I can't speak for any of the other mods but I basically do not know what I am doing most of the time, and try to do what feels right. Or, at least, least-wrong.
I am not a very good player. My mouth is a foul pit of LIES. KNOW THIS.