Brought to mind by this thread but, I always wondered about that – and why like Monty’s made in fun suggestion they can’t be bolded or enreddened or “enblinker-ed” (?) or something like that.
How come? Why are they just sort of slid in there like any other post – is it a Technical thing or did it just evolve like that or was it a purposeful decsion?
I guess we never thought about it. Each moderator does her/his own thing. But, basically, why should we want to call attention to them?
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why should we want to call attention to them?
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I thought you guys had that red LED thing that scanned across your visor. Or is that just the Moderators?
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I guess we never thought about it. Each moderator does her/his own thing. But, basically, why should we want to call attention to them?
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Isn’t the whole point of issuing a warning - to call attention to them? Not being chesty - I really am asking that.
Besides the person being warned, I think for others Especially in a 3-4 page thread it is really easy to miss. Why not just send an email to the folks being warned if you don’t want to call attention to the warnings?
Well… e-mail isn’t sufficient. We want others to see that an offense received a warning. But we don’t need to rub people’s nose innit. That’s my thought.
But, as I say, I don’t think we set it up deliberately, it just happened.
MOD WARNING
Your zipper is down.
MOD WARNING
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Isn’t the whole point of issuing a warning - to call attention to them? Not being chesty - I really am asking that.
Besides the person being warned, I think for others Especially in a 3-4 page thread it is really easy to miss. Why not just send an email to the folks being warned if you don’t want to call attention to the warnings?
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It’s my understanding that they do issue warnings via email if the violation is indicative of a posting trend across several threads; however, if it just looks like somebody being jerkish in a single thread, warning them in that thread is assumed to suffice. If the person later says in another thread “Well, I never saw the first warning,” I would guess that emails would ensue.
We want to issue correction where needed – but also not to embarrass or humiliate people, which bolding would do.
There are a lot of sensitive souls on the board and it’s already too easy to upset as it is. We’re not inclined to go further to inflame hurt feelings.
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There are a lot of sensitive souls on the board and it’s already too easy to upset as it is.
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You’re talking about me, aren’t you? Aren’t you?
