Should moderator actions be in public or in private?

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@MrDibble

less overworked mods are happier mods, and we all benefit from that.

Absolutely! Anything we can do to improve tooling for staff is a priority.

@Martin_Hyde

I think if you have a short list of clear and cohesive rules (which we currently lack),

There is https://boards.straightdope.com/faq – but that’s boilerplate we ship with Discourse. The pinned rules are at

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registration-agreement-rules-and-faq/823562

There’s quite a bit of cruft accumulated over time in there. I’d recommend paring it down to the essentials? Perhaps the key takeaway here is

Let’s revisit the rules, simplify them and update them for 2021?