Jeremy, If you’re saying that you believe that we don’t need moderators for this > group, then I respectfully disagree. Firstly, the use of moderation in > online communities is universal, and secondly we’ve always had moderators. >
I am not saying this, perhaps moderators are necessary, I am saying to avoid active moderation unless there is a real need. Sure spammers and trolls should be locked out. I have being involved in online communities with* little or no moderators*, because the membership as a whole moderate themselves. In many respects this already occurs in the TiddlyWiki groups. We regular posters also promote a healthy collaborative environment without applying moderation. > > I don’t think you’re saying that moderators shouldn’t work through an > agreed, transparent framework of decision making, but really that’s all > that is being suggested. The alternative is that the moderators work on > their gut feel, which will inevitably lead to disagreements. > I am keen on a "transparent framework of decision making" but I am not at all keen on reducing functionality to the general membership and thus demanding more effort from moderators on the basis of "perceived" concerns. An agreed, transparent framework of decision should be based on evidence not opinion (including my own). You invited us to comment on this and I know my suggestion may seem non-intuitive and contradictory to many groups, but I is based on my experience. People now migrate to largely unmoderated forums and social media because of the limitations the old fashioned forums and strict moderation. A google search can find dozens of, all but abandoned, forums all over the internet. Look at the TiddlyWiki Discord as an example for a lightly moderated forum. If I were employed by tiddlywiki community some may consider questioning the status quo as a CLM (Career Limiting move) but I naturally only put a strong and novel argument, if I have substantial experience to support my assertions, as I do on this occasion. Any way I have put my case, perhaps sufficiently outside the box that it is not understood. But as long as we maintain the current forum culture we should be fine. Regards Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cdd76311-0450-425f-bffa-31eaf1a638a1%40googlegroups.com.
