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Perhaps you should have a public transparency log for all mod-determined transgressions. Might allay some of the accusations we're seeing here of accused abuse
by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Perhaps you should have a public transparency log for all mod-determined transgressions.
Might allay some of the accusations we're seeing here of accused abuses.
- dang 7y agoMy sense is that it would lead to an order-of-magnitude explosion of litgious meta discussion, which is last thing we we need or want. If that's right, then it's worse than that, because then metaness would consume a lot more resources than it already does, starving the rest of the site of other things we need to work on. That would be a vicious feedback loop; I'd rather look for virtuous ones.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoHN is quite a lot larger than anything I've personally moderated. There are scaling issues involved.
- tptacek 7y agoHN moderation is far more transparent than it was before Dan took over (when 'pg moderated, things like subjective shadow bans really were a norm), and more transparent than it was when he started --- I hesitate to explain how, for fear of fulfilling Dan's prophecy, but one simple, not-fraught example would be the expansion of the guidelines. I perceive no corresponding change in the amount of meta threads about mis-moderation; noodling debates based on random accusations are still evergreen here. If I were involved in moderating HN (thank Christ I'm not), I'd conclude that substantive process-level changes aimed at quelling these kinds of debates probably aren't a productive goal.