Community Moderators

Moderation make work or it may not.

What bothers me a bit (and it might never happen) is bad moderation. I've 15k+ posts on DPR going back 12 years and in that time I've fallen foul of moderation once. The offence was clear cut (swearing) and I was briefly banned.

But what the mod missed was the cause of the offence: the previous 30 posts of bullying by a gang of half a dozen aggressive posters. If the mod had read the thread properly rather than reacting to my final post they'd have banned the others, not me. But they didn't and punished the victim (as I knew they would).

Bad moderation makes things worse. The bullying + the bad mod experience made me decide to effectively retire from DPR. I post now only occasionally.

Anyway, I hope the experiment works out.

--
Galleries and website: http://www.whisperingcat.co.uk/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmillier/