# Suggestion about moderation that might help the mods **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 25, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550 "2020-04-25T10:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/1 "2020-04-25T10:31:52Z")
This is in reference to [this point](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22269635&postcount=2712) 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. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/2 "2020-04-25T10:40:17Z")
Great idea. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/3 "2020-04-25T11:49:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/4 "2020-04-25T12:55:11Z")
I’ve suggested along these lines before. Maybe they’re interested now. Something Awful adds a “poster was banned[suspended/etc.] for this post” They tend to just ban everyone and let them pay to rejoin. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/5 "2020-04-25T13:00:53Z")
And the R place just disappears posts and replaced them with a now-you-have-fucked-up explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/6 "2020-04-25T14:00:47Z")
Great idea. But I can’t make heads nor tails out of this post: > [@Ruken](#): > > And the R place just disappears posts and replaced them with a now-you-have-fucked-up explanation. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/7 "2020-04-25T14:08:09Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Great idea. > > But I can’t make heads nor tails out of this post: Reddit maybe? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/8 "2020-04-25T14:16:45Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > And the R place just disappears posts and replaced them with a now-you-have-fucked-up explanation. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/9 "2020-04-25T14:46:53Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Reddit maybe? I don’t like it so I don’t advertise it ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/10 "2020-04-25T14:48:03Z")
It’s true that many things done elsewhere are facilitated by board software. So implementation here would be manual and likely a pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/11 "2020-04-25T15:03:26Z")
There’s a simple way to do this: Edit the offending post and add the moderation right there. It’d look something like this: > [@LizardPeople Theorist](#): > > You sheeple don’t even REALIZE that Joe Biden is controlled by the aliens from planet VARGOL and is going to EAT US ALL if he wins the election! BAAA! BAAAAAA! > POST EDITED BY MODERATOR COBRILI: Lizardpeople, bleating at other posters is a violation of the rules. Do not do so again. Everyone else, please do not respond to Lizardpeople’s post. 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. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/12 "2020-04-25T15:18:24Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > I don’t like it so I don’t advertise it 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. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/13 "2020-04-25T15:19:47Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > 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. Especially because [www.reddit.com](http://www.reddit.com) is a totally different software and the same things can’t be done automatically here. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/14 "2020-04-25T15:51:43Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > 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? I think I misinterpreted the proposal here. 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. However I also support OP’s idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/15 "2020-04-25T15:58:59Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I don’t understand I’m ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/16 "2020-04-25T16:41:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/17 "2020-04-25T16:59:41Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > 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. [Not](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=667548) [Always](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674688) [Feasable](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813085) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/18 "2020-04-25T17:00:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/19 "2020-04-25T17:19:58Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > 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. Are you saying you read through every post of every 10-page thread that you reply to? Color me skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550/20 "2020-04-25T20:04:17Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Are you saying you read through every post of every 10-page thread that you reply to? Color me skeptical. Yeah, few do that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-about-moderation-that-might-help-the-mods/852550.md?page=2)