Moderation in this forum.

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Examples, for concreteness: this one, this one, most of the posts responding with facts in this thread are bullsh*t

Since you asked for our opinion, I'm personally in favor of a high high high signal:noise ratio. Don't forget those posts which do say something, but nothing that wasn't said in the posts immediately above it, like this one.

I did read all of the posts above me, and some I quite liked:

as a younger user, i know that it's "exciting" to get a reply to your thread (i remember that when i was younger), but you must learn to see what posts are useful and what aren't.

threads like [this] don't contain anything intellectually stimulating, so it's anti-satisfying to read.

you can post posts like "nice", but word it so that there's feeling into it.^[1]

Wow, it works! You end up with hyperbole, but a more interesting post.

intellectual posts don't have to contain more than one word^[2], but more often than not they must



Azriel~

Of course. I suppose this thread could do with some concrete non-examples as well.

so what's the solution?
if you simon (or any other mod in fact) think that a post on your report list (or directly in front of your eyes in the forum) is super shallow and not adding anything to the community except for saying "nice, i like this!" - but somehow just doesn't really break any rules
then why not answer this poor user, ask him why he thinks so - what does he like about it?

really any member in this forum could/should do this if he's got problems with 'spam' posts (which might just be a showcase of gratitude - why the hell punish that?)
especially the thread starter that is being praised
but mods actually do a job here so they really should be active in that way - most of all the global ones
(or am i misunderstanding the term global moderator?)

Nah, too much overhead, that would just increase the signal:noise ratio ("Why do you like it?" "Oh, I dunno, it's really nice"). But since you indirectly called me out, I will humor you.

so either get some members to actually communicate with those that seem to have trouble with it (that way they will learn) - or yes, decide for a more silent community and trash everything that bores you

You seem to have a pretty plastic model of internet personalities. I see nothing wrong with the second option anyway.

I haven't read the thread (only OP) so it might have been said already, but in any case - Accomodate forum so it won't end up deserted. It's obvious that only next generations can keep LF alive and their forumposting/english skills are obviously not on par with standarts around. Constant ban/post deletion might keep any newcomers out of here and eventually even old geezers will leave due to nothingshappenning. So I'd think twice if something like short sentence post is really worth the trouble of causing possible eventual abandonment of forum.

Sometimes a simple "well done" or "cool" has much more value than you can imagine.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe not. What a scary point. (By the way, no, you didn't repeat something someone else said.)


Oh, and here's an example of an only-intellectual forum: http://www.gamedev.net/forum/17-game-design Then again Simoneon thinks the discussion is done :(