Duplicate Threads

[lindil]

Estelyn T.

lindil, the guidelines are there, but moderating to that extent is unbelievably time-consuming! Just doing the obvious takes hours and effort; fine-tuning will be done when possible. I'm afraid it may get busier rather than better when TTT starts showing...

By updating I really mean uderscoring, I do not think the guidelines need to be reworked, just underlined, again and again and again....I think the phrase is Ad nauseum ad infinitum.

Regarding the basics and the obvious being time consuming, I know it well. Everytime I try and clean up and organize the Silm forums, it takes hours [ usulaly 1-5 AM to be precise!]


Estelyn you really have a lot on your plate w/ N&N and the Movies. I bet if you wanted you could find some/a support mod.
I imagine N&N alone could be a full time job!
Please do not take any of my comments as being critical of your moderating at all, I think as regards Books [ the only one I frequent enough to comment upon] it has done much, much better since you took over. As you note though the law of entropy [ especially in a barrow [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ] is not to be forgottn. TTT will bring a fresh wave of newbies who will need to be coached.

Bethberry said,

Our way of learning that is through debate, evidence, reasons, inference, reflection. We do not simply state our opinion in the hopes that some will notice it and say, right on, but we strive to find those reasons which support our ideas or hypotheses. That means listening to everyone, those who have come before as well as those who are here now.

And I whole heartedly agree, and esentially what she outlined above should, IMO, be SOP [oops] Standard Operating Procedure for Books. N&N is I think designed specifically for the impulse poster.


IN regards to the N&N Forum maybe going back and deleting old repetitous one's can save the bandwidth.How much archival value do 7 'I love legolas' threads have?


In summary, the repetition of topics in Books should, whenever a moderator has time be carefully scrutinized and possibly retitled to bring out the nuance of a thread.

Otherwise nipping them in the bud so that there are not 3 topics all entitled Sarumans Ring is justifiable. Since the Downs is a pretty civilized place that much more than policing flamers is what a Mod does here. Seems to me, but then again I have never been given a 'How to Moderate your forum handbook'!


I am rather ruthless about things in my forums but they are specialized, so it is many wasys not a suitable model to apply to the other forums.I will ship things off to Books the moment it seems tangential to the Silm project.

Overall the time after Underhill's sticky, things were great, now it just seems to be loosening and that is completely to be expected, and people are aware enough to notice and that is good, and people care enough to comment politely with helpful suggestions ,and that is better and the Admins and mods listen, ponder scrutinize,agonize and finally act! and that is what makes the Downs an excellent board methinks.

Symbiotic [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

[ October 25, 2002: Message edited by: lindil ]