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Any long-lasting exceptions? I’m wondering what characteristics/personalities were more resistant to power trips, if any.

• qingcharles 3y ago
  That's a great question. I can't remember any exceptions, which is alarming. Except myself, and I was just an absent mod, never mean. And my lackadaisical attention to the forums was what lead to me hiring all these unpaid mods. I'm endlessly fascinated by this subject as I'm about to go down the rabbit hole of opening another series of forums and I have no idea how to protect against this.
  • fragmede 3y ago
    It's not a "set it and forget it problem". In engineering terms, you've got a steam engine, not a bridge. A bridge you spend a lot of designing and engineering before a single brick is laid. There's upkeep and maintenance required, but it largely just sits there. A steam engine on the other hand, only just sits there if you don't want it to do what it was designed to do - be an engine. It needs a team of people working tirelessly round the clock babysitting it to cajole it into performing. What does that have to do with moderating a forum? It needs to be actively managed. Don't expect to put up a set of rules and then you'll be done. Solved the problem like it was a math problem. No, it's like the dishes, or doing laundry, it's ongoing work. New would be to use an LLM to automate moderation. Give it the code of conduct, and then score the comment on how well it follows those guidelines. Set a bar above which requires manual review.
    • qingcharles 3y ago
      That's a really good way of putting it. Thank you.