Post #72721 by Kono on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 7:25 PM

On 2004-01-26 19:14, hanford_lemoore wrote:

I've been on a lot of boards over the past several years and I must say that I prefer the "user supported" moderation.

I agree, but it wasn't working. The complaints I'm getting these days are not about specific posts but in the quality of posts in general (and always about the past, for example: "for the last 6 months there's been a real increase in the number of redundant and stupid posts").

Comments like that are not targeted at specific topics, so the only way to deal with it is with a policy change.

Thanks for the feedback. Our current approach is by no means the final way of doing things around here ...

~Hanford

Yeah but how can you address "quality of post" issues without making the place a password only site? I don't understand why anyone would gripe about dumb threads. If you don't like a thread, don't read it or don't respond to it. What's so hard about that? Good posts will rise to the top and crappy posts will sink farther and farther down the list.