[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum

Wed Mar 23 11:33:57 CET 2011

2011/3/23 Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net>:
+>>
+> Nope in my mind helping can be done by everyone but helping responsability should go to a dedicated team with partial moderation abilities to take care of forum cleanliness (topics titles, statuses...)
+
+Ok, here we disagree. IMHO in a community forum there should not be
+anybody you can point to and say, "why should I bother, it's his
+responibility". I saw this too often in forums with such "appointed
+helpers". My idea of a community forum is that everything should be in
+the responsibility of the users of that forum, special rights only
+given to people who are necessary to keep order and enforce rules. In
+an ideal world everything is done by the users of the forum,
+moderators would not have anything to do at all but to be there in
+case of need.
+
+> But enforcing rules (banning, validating, warning) should not rely on their shoulders
+
+Banning should be the very last action, so this should be done by the
+forum admin after discussion with the moderators.
+Same with erasing posts/threads. This should not be done at all[1].
+Erasing posts breaks transparency and continuity, makes it hard in
+case of discussions to evaluate opinions given after a post/thread was
+erased.
+
+[1]  - exception for posts with spam and illegal contents (where
+illegal means illegal according to French law because the owner of the
+forum site is in France)
+
+-- 
+wobo
+