Private and public: moderators' roles.

Skrej · Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:18 am *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

It's got to be a pain in the butt for the moderator to keep up with, but a fairly common usage I've seen on some boards is for a moderator to use one color of text (something that obviously stands out) for his or her 'mod voice' and another color text (usually the default color) for their personal comments.
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Lost_Soul · Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:36 am *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

Mister Micawber · Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:17 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

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Oh boy!-- and after I have tried to convince so many posters to avoid all the garish, distracting technicolor. Sorry-- I'll stick with monochrome.
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Molly · Mon Jul 21, 2008 15:53 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

And now we've got ordinary members making attempts at moderating!

Molly · Mon Jul 21, 2008 15:54 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

Yankee · Posted Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:53 am:

Molly · Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:57 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

Personally, I find my suggestion (that a particular thread be locked) to be much less drastic than, for example, your demand in the quote from July 16th. But that's just my own opinion.

And the context for that July 16th post was?

So, If I suggested deleting off-topic posts, which has already been done on this site so no new thing, it was because I didn't see the need to delete a thread in which on-topic posters were already participating. You suggested closing a whole thread.

Well, you got what you wanted, so...

Note Alan's words though:

Skrej · Mon Jul 21, 2008 19:55 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

English-test forums theme song?

Wasn't the July 16th post something totally inappropriate, like an advertisement for games or something, that a few people happened to tag onto before the original post was deleted?

I sometimes do that, make a snide comment on such a post, with the full expectation that my post will be deleted along with the advert/totally unrelated post. I think such was the context of Yankee's comment suggesting deleting the thread, no?

RE: All these demands for deleting or locking posts that go off topic. If we lock or delete every thread where somebody disagrees, gets their feelings hurt, takes offense, etc. then we're left with a rather empty forum. Spammage, thread hijacking, and the like are features of forums. If it's not something totally unrelated to the site (such as the gaming advertisement), and it's in the proper area (if not the mods will move it to the relevant area, or move it at such time it devolves into something else) then my suggestion is to try and ignore that which bothers you, avoid fanning the flames, try and post only relevant (at times this is a bit subjective) commentary, and finally stockpile the following. There's no danger of ODing on these, so use liberally.

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MrPedantic · Mon Jul 21, 2008 20:58 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

I wouldn't worry, M. It's only the internet.

MrP

Molly · Mon Jul 21, 2008 21:17 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

MrPedantic · Mon Jul 21, 2008 21:27 pm *Private and public: moderators' roles.*

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