Would a different set of moderators for that one thread be workable (or possible/worth trying)?
Possibly a superset, with the new "front line" moderators being responsible for the day to day janitorial cleanup of the most egregious/mod-time-wasting content?
Personally I like this idea, but ultimately it is up to Dave (@EEVBlog)
I'm not against that, and that is possible I think, at least on a board level (like the entire Test Equipment section). I don't think it's possible a single thread level, I'd have to check.
I've looked at the
other TEA forum, and honestly I don't know WTF people want. That forum seems to be made up of people who left the TEA thread here?, although I know some post in both.
And I
assume that these people left because of the over-moderation? Yet this other TEA forum has the same very strict rules:
TEA does not permit discussions of contentious topics which include, but are not limited to, politics, religion, race, sensitive current events, etc. In other words, we're all here to enjoy camaraderie based on test equipment and electronics, not to start conflicts.
Honestly I have no frigg'n idea what people actually want?
Some people bitch about too much moderation on the thread, and others not enough?
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We try and keep TEA on-topic and some people (even long standing ones) are going ballistic and want to leave? Why?
What would another new TEA moderator actually handle this any better?
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It reminds me of the Australian canyoning forum. It started out as a completely unmoderated Yahoo group then a Facebook group started up and got more popular, and then people were complaining it was overmoderated so they set up another "less-moderated" group, and then that group started banning people, and another forum started up. It's a mess.
I just deleted a post in TEA that had nothing by two unrelated Youtube music video. Why post this crap? Surely eveone can agree that shouldn't be there? Or am I wrong and the majority think that's just fine?
Seriously I have no idea how to handle this, I'm getting so many mixed messages it's impossible to make heads of tails of it.
IMO the
obvious least impact thing is to encourage people to stay on topic, is that too much to ask?