05-08-2016, 06:26 PM
(05-08-2016, 06:07 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-08-2016, 12:03 PM)Webmaster Wrote: locking
A few suggestions and thoughts.
All forum members should try to talk issues, avoid discussions of other contributor’s flaws. Don’t name folk by name and follow up with insult or character assassination.
Those are good suggestions.
Quote:If a thread does have to be locked, some indication of why might be nice. I’d minimize the personal blame putting, or keep it to private messages, but at the same time make available lessons learned so others can avoid the problematic behavior.
Locking a thread because of the misbehavior of a few might be discouraging and problematic. Something more targeted and specific might be nice.
If one individual is repeatedly problematic on multiple threads, you’d might want to go after the individual responsible rather than all the threads the individual contributes to.
Generally I’ll look a thread when it has broken down and the new posts are predominantly personal attacks. I attempted to lock this thread because it was going downhill. The forum software contains a warning system that I intended to use once I have come up with a consistent policy for using it.
Quote:Also, you might want to check the lock?
That’s the second time I messed up the in thread moderation, I’ll get the hang of it.