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Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I love the idea of a mod who unnecessarily makes a participant's issue public to dozens of people but expects all those people to keep it to themselves. Couldn't the participant's issue stay confidential?

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

dc

The mod server exists for these kinds of questions, though. You're modding an exchange and have an issue you don't know how to address, you can bring it to the server to ask the opinions of more experienced mods. Some have dealt with these same issues before and some have had similar problems with these same participants in the past. As the mod you make the final call but the other mods are there to help.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Surely these questions can be asked in hypotheticals and without identifiable information? It all feels pretty tactless to me.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I find most of it is asked in hypotheticals/without identifiable information.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds reasonable enough, especially if the details are kept vague, but it doesn't sound like it was kept vague enough here. I can't really articulate why I don't like this, but it's something about potentially one-off or relatively benign mistakes having a much higher social cost than expected.

I've had gifts that were maybe EPH-worthy that I didn't bother bringing to the mod, because it was on-the-fence stuff like arguable gen tagged as ship or a story that clearly grew too many legs for the author to finish and ended up reading pretty incomplete in its posted form. Not some flagrant disregard for the rules, just questionable judgement calls. In those cases I'm glad I didn't put those creators on any mod group radar like that.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with your first paragraph. Most things are vague enough that you can't investigate the details to the degree you could in this instance.