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Moderation policy and philosophy

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Is it cold in here?:
There don't seem to be any questions about how the forum will be moderated.

Is it cold in here?:
Reopened, since people in the weekly comic thread were curious about moderation, and this thread is a better place for the discussion.

I'd rather head off problems when they're small, or before they start, than let a fire get established and then react in Wrath of God mode. I do worry about the risk that's been pointed out of desensitizing people to moderator feedback. Fortunately there's been more and more peer-to-peer feedback lately, a healthy phenomenon that saves me from looking like a petty nag.

As time goes by I expect the forum will _mostly_ run itself. There have been long stretches in the past where it worked OK with no local moderators and with the global moderators absent. The fact is that people here have a common goal and the brains to implement it.

This thread is a good place for questions whose answers will be of general interest. PMs are welcome for generic feedback.

bunnyThor:
There seems to be a bit of a controversy about the whole 'shipping thing. Let me try to sum it up:

It is okay to talk about a character's past and present romances, but talking about their future romances is forbidden.

Is that about it?

pwhodges:
This has been gone through a number of times, including in the "Conduct" sticky at the top of this forum - this bit, here (NB, "cold" wasn't a moderator at the time he contributed to that thread).  If you haven't read that thread yet, please take the trouble to now.

We use the term "shipping" in general to describe the introduction or discussion of pairings for their own sake, unrelated to any coherent plot development.

The case of Hanners is slightly more particular.  Jeph has said on various occasions (like just two days ago) things to the effect that he does not want any kind of sexual speculation about her; so it would clearly be inappropriate to allow his own forum to be used to upset him.

gprimr1:
In a discussion forum, the person who owns the board and pays the bills gets to decide how much free speech you have. The right isn't protected in a private forum owned by a private citizen.

I am on several forums, some have extremely tight moderation and it results in a lot of topics dying quickly because the scope is too narrow, and some have almost no moderation, and good conversations get turned into degenerate matter and good people stop coming back.

I usually think of the forum as someone's house.

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