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Adrian, to your last point -- how would you suggest the site encourage polite responses such as your examples? I agree with you that having them makes a huge di
by mediaman 17y ago
Adrian, to your last point -- how would you suggest the site encourage polite responses such as your examples? I agree with you that having them makes a huge difference to the character of the site, and others seeing that will take them as cues as to how to behave themselves.
Are these responses often modded down? That seems like a bizarre response for a moderator.
- adrianwaj 17y agoWell, for better or worse, the notion the mod is the response sticks here. Perhaps my examples weren't great: you wouldn't say "thanks for telling me that, I'd been burning to know..." you just mod up. What can happen is that something can be modded down, without a clear reason why. It could be just me, but sometimes I'm left scratching my head - I'll have to pay closer attention to precise examples: also you generally can't write "someone's modded that down: please explain". The only idea is some type of mod-flagging mechanism. Something like that would unlikely be implemented though, probably for a number of good reasons, the main being complexity, labor and power-shifting.