This is in reference to this point where Colibri expresses some understandable frustration.
I admit that I responded to the offending post, but caught Colibri’s moderation in time to self-edit my post. However, it is clear that the message isn’t always getting through in time. While some of it may be overenthusiastic debating, some of it is probably what happened to me: I simply did not read far enough in the thread to find the moderation before I posted. Would be especially bad if in someone’s view of the page the offending post is on one page and the moderation on another With current events and the speed at which some threads are growing I’m guessing this problem might be more common that it usually is.
Is there a way to mark the actual posts that are moderated somehow so the rest of us can go “Oh - this has been marked, I better look for the moderation post before I respond”? Maybe just the word “MODERATED” in front of the offending text?
This might cut down on both the workload for mods and some of their frustration. It would provide more guidance for the readers/posters. Really, none of us need more stress right now.
I like it. I’d go far as to change the thread title to [MODERATED] blah blah blah, so we’re alerted to the fact that an exeptional directive is in effect, without reading an entire 10-page thread.
We can say Reddit here. There’s no rule against it.
Reddit has all kinds of moderation mechanisms that would be helpful here. I’ve mentioned them, but consensus seems to be that they’re unwanted here. Combination of old software and laziness, rationalized with various flavors of free-speech absolutism.
I do think one workable, helpful thing would be altering threads with tags like [MODERATED], [WARNINGS], [ANSWERED] (for a question). Maybe not those exactly, but you get the idea.
There’s a simple way to do this: Edit the offending post and add the moderation right there.
It’d look something like this:
There’s a danger, that this might not be seen by people later in the thread. The solution to that is one extra tiny step: after editing the post, the moderator could quote-reply with a “see moderation” text.
Seems like a rather extreme reaction to Reddit, but I guess if you want as few people to advertise Reddit as possible, then I guess abbreviating Reddit to ‘R’ is one way to minimize mentions of Reddit by name.
But if you’re that allergic to it, I don’t understand why you brought it up at all.
I was in favor of renaming the actual thread title to something like to:
[MODERATED] Michael J. Fox is an alien: thoughts?
That way, people who (understandably) jump right to the end of a 20-page thread would be advised that there’s a flag on the play, and they should probably take a minute and get up to speed.
IME, posters have always been instructed to read the thread BEFORE replying. I don’t see why moderators should have to do more work to accommodate those that don’t follow said instructions.
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding, but adding a “MODDED” comment to the text thread won’t help with ginormous threads that may have multiple modded posts over the course of a millennium.
The fact that people sometimes reply to a modded post after the fact doesn’t happen often enough IMHO that a new procedure has to be developed. My 2 cents.