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Moderation policy and philosophy

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Is it cold in here?:
In the old archives, there's been at least one attempt to ask how the moderators make decisions. This strikes me as a fair question, and though I can only answer for myself I'll offer a summary, regrettably but necessarily incomplete.

At the root of it all is the goal of making this subforum a place where Jeph is willing to visit. This means trying to head off discussions and new threads that are going into territory that makes Jeph sad.

Other things, for example fun offtopic digressions, I'll be pretty relaxed about. That said, if a thread is offtopic, it's got no redeeming features to weigh against a rules violation. There was one weekly discussion thread which wandered into a discussion of the US Civil War, and when the first uncivil posts appeared I was on the edge of locking it before another moderator beat me to it.

Questionable Content is an intelligent strip which attracts intelligent people. I'll try to appeal to people's intelligence and good nature as a first resort. It's been working so far. If you get a PM from me, then please assume, even if I write it hastily and clumsily, that it's in the spirit of respecting your ability and intent to keep the subforum a good place.

Threads will get locked if they're in bad places. This will be a judgment call and hard to define in advance, but I'll make an effort to cite chapter and verse when I lock something so that new people can more easily pick up the culture here by observation.

I'll leave this thread open for a while to accommodate suggestions and questions.

AnAverageWriter:
Something that's bugged me...

Who is testguy, and why is he moderating "fffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"?

Eris:
testguy was an account that est made to test when making people mods for certain boards.

pwhodges:
It's perhaps worth noting that moderators generally make decisions individually - not least, at the time a decision needs to be made, there is no particular likelihood that any other moderator is around to discuss it with anyway.  Of course, we hope that we agree sufficiently on how things should be handled that our decisions are reasonably consistent, even if at times it may turn out that our styles are different; we were probably chosen as moderators with that consistency in mind. 

Also, I am certainly aware that every time I interfere with a thread or a post, I am touching on matters which concern freedom of speech and censorship, and so take care that I am sure in my own mind that the action I take is justified by my understanding of the forum rules.

Nick and Marla:
It's assumed that testguy could kick your ass.

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