Comment guidelines feedback
Posted by Steven Hurdle on November 17, 2008
Though it offers to let you “View Results”, you cannot view results of the below poll at the present time. Nonetheless, I would encourage readers to have their say.
In the time since I handed off Inside Langford to its third moderator, comment posting has become a very contentious issue. Most news blogs are moderated however the person, or people, running it see fit. As I sit back down into the moderator chair here, I thought it would be an interesting opportunity to try the new poll feature that was recently added. Let me know what level, and style, of moderation you would like to see on Inside Langford and I’ll consider the results.
I am stunned to see the number of posts that have not met the comment posting guidelines in my absence. They cover both sides of several contentious discussions and I agree with some of the comments and disagree with others, but Cheryl McLachlan appears to have done an admirable job in applying them fairly.
Steven Hurdle said
There are now enough votes that you can view the results for the poll, for those interested.
West Raven said
Right now there is a tie between two choices that are almost opposite of one another. ‘removing only defamatory comments’ is tied with ‘remove comments that ARE LIKELY to degrade the discussion.’
I feel sorry for you if the latter wins. What a challenge to have to decide what may ‘likely degrade’ the conversation.
Some people’s participation degrades the conversation almost right away in my opinion, so I wouldn’t want to moderate with that loose of a guideline.
Good luck on this one.