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[ItsGoTime]

I too wish we had more consistency. I just do not know how to achieve it. 

I honestly don't read this board like I am a moderator and need to be "watching out" for anything. So I only respond when something catches my attention. So inevitably my biases are a huge part of that, my pet peeves are the things I will respond to (e.g. jumping on a new person or misrepresenting the opinions of others in a blatant and purposeful way). I personally don't have the energy or desire to be in "consistent policing" mode, I do that enough with my kids and it is exhausting.

I personally think we do a pretty good job, overall. But would love the community as a whole to continue to improve.

This is what I’m trying to figure out. Sure we’re mods, but we were posters first, I think most of us still feel we are posters first. I’ve read just about every post made on all iterations of this board over the years (I have an obsessive need to make all bolded titles unbolded, the right way), when I see a conflict between posters, I hardly ever start out thinking, “do I need to moderate this situation?”. I keep reading and try to see how it plays out, like I always have. It’s not till tempers get out of hand where I think “oh crap, it’s my job to take care of this”.


I guess after reading the rules we made for the board, respect is the one thing we wanted to have here. That word is pretty ambiguous and the line drawn as to where the rule is crossed can be set at different spots for each of us moderators. It can also be drawn at different spots for each poster. 

In general, we want respect in the truest form of the word, but that is not realistic, as rules in general that are strictly enforced is not a realistic way to moderate. So, I think the way most of us have tried to do things is to first try to de-escalate when a member gets their feathers ruffled in an outburst way. I think at times we get the offender a bit wrong and sometimes tend to moderate the offended because they are the ones disrupting the peace more than the offender (they also usually join in on the disrespect, so their moderation is warranted), but we always talk out the things we could do better with eachother.

We’ll always be a work in progress, that you can be sure of.