Hi All,
With all the stuff that has been going on I thought I would propose a couple of ideas that could prevent any “miss-understanding” over issues in future. These are just thoughts based off of the recent issues, the thoughts behind this post mainly come from some stuff that went on yesterday.
The stuff yesterday was a case where I’d done something really stupid (maybe more naive) – this wasn’t some “grey area” – this was just outright wrong. This was pointed out by a mod to initially ask a question to clarify, (to which I responded) then the mod highlighted to me what I’d done wrong. Once the mod had informed me of my error, I rectified it as quickly as possible. Sounds great and smooth doesn’t it? What makes this even better is that while the mod was trying to get this error sorted there were a handful of posts of a more aggressive nature and the mod still kept a level head and stated that time should be given (i.e. no knee jerk reaction). It would have been very easy to trash threads etc – but the mod didn’t. Note: I’m deliberately not specifying usernames – lets not turn this thread into another blame game. (Use the original thread for that please)
Anyway, back onto my original thoughts, to help keep clarity, maybe the mods would consider something like the following:
Moving Partial Threads (i.e. some posts from a thread)
There have been a few cases where “some posts” were part of a thread, and were moved to the trash – in this case, can we have a message on the original thread something like:
Quote:Relocated X number of posts to <location> because <reason>.
This would ensure that there was transparency and we’d know who moved them and why. (I have gone to a thread before and thought – wasn’t there more than this previously – what’s going on?)
Killing Threads
This is sort of a harder one to deal with, but I have an idea I would like to put out there. I am aware there are lots of post for pirated content that need to be binned – however I have noticed that most of them come from new(ish) users, so how about this:
If there is a post made by a user with less than 100 posts previously – the kodi team can safely trash it if it’s seen by them as invalid. (This should cover 99% of cases I hope). And the existing method of trashing remains.
However if there is a user with more than 100 previous posts, then there needs to be 2 mod’s in agreement before things get trashed. When the thread is trashed, both mods that agreed get their name assigned to it – and a clear reason.
Quote:Fred and Ginger agreed to trash this thread because <reason>.
This “greater than 100 posts” case should make it much clearer for “dispute” type cases rather than things just disappearing – with 2 mods to contact and putting their name to it I’d hope that there would be a clear reason for the trashing posted on the forum. It also gives the threads author 2 different people to try and contact and get more details.
(Obviously the 100 posts could be any number – please keep this thread sensible – lets not post … yes, lets have 1,000,000 posts as the threshold!)
Thoughts?
Thanks
Rob