Originally Posted by
kokonutz
I'm trying to understand how you draw the conclusion in your last paragraph from the rest of your post.
You seem to be saying that the mod discussion thread on DL, one of the busiest and sometimes most heated forums on FT, is a Very Good Thing. I agree! The exchange between you, kipper and other DL posters yesterday was, I thought, a model for how well that thread serves to allow posters to both understand AND have input into the day-to-day management of FT. ^
But that it is not a good thing for other forums?
There are other concepts, like allowing embedded images, that made folks nervous. But it was tested in some forums and found to be quite beneficial despite dire predictions.
The same thing seems to have taken place with the moderator discussion threads that have existed in various forums on FT.
Why should great ideas be limited to certain forums and not made broadly available across FT?
Every forum on FT is different as you well know. What has worked on the DL board might not be needed on another forum.
I am totally opposed to having
a dedicated forum for moderation input. In addition, if there is a thread on a particular forum for this purpose as we have on the DL board one would think that a longtime member like yourself would trust the judgment of the moderators on those forums as to whether or not we need a sticky. In addition, on forums that do not have these mod discussion threads you should also trust the judgment of those mods as to the need for a thread such as this. BTW, the DL mods could have simply closed down our mod discussion thread in 2003 and used the TOS as our reason but we totally understood the need to have this dialogue with some of our members and opted to keep it open. In my book this is called a judgment call.
If the mods on a particular board decide to start such a thread there would be no argument from me.
The bottom line is that the TB should allow the mods to decide if this is needed and have a little faith in our decision making process.