Kate wrote:No, actually. Rarely do we disagree. It's generally pretty obvious when something is off-topic, because the standards are pretty broad.
Your proposed standards fit your definition of news.
It is very easy to ignore a thread that does not interest you.
I do appreciate it.
I do want checks on mods.
All I can do as a mod is try to let my actions speak for me, and other people can judge them.
(which is why we have a slew of rules for ourselves that you will never see;
it isn't just to make your life easier, it's to do our very best to protect your interests...one of which is to have as free a discussion as we can have while still staying within the bounds of civility). Greater flexibility in discussion is not just to the advantage of moderators. In fact, "you know it when you see it" is not a great standard for mods. It makes our job harder. It means we need to make judgment calls when we should be sleeping, or eating, or taking care of our kid (we...we keep one kid. It's a very nice kid), or studying, or doing homework, or working. Whenever you see "mod discretion" that is not usually to our advantage, but there in order to enable a greater degree of freedom of discussion than we would otherwise have with stricter rules.
I absolutely appreciate that this is frustrating for you, and that some people will be uncomfortable with this degree vagueness for the sake of latitude, for several good reasons, but we cannot have a perfect model that will please literally everyone, and when there is a choice between limiting discussion for the sake of clarity or expanding discussion at the cost of clarity, I tend to lean towards more discussion.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
aviel wrote:Then why not combine everything into one big forum? That way you never have to look in multiple fora. You can just ignore what doesn't interest you.
aviel wrote:Kate wrote:My feelings on this forum have always been, if you can roll out of bed in the morning, throw on your bathrobe, grab a cup of coffee and sleepily shuffle to the door, pick up a newspaper, plop it on the table, and open it up to your news section of choice and find this story there and you wish to have a quality discussion about it, this is where it belongs. Is it the Sports section? Is it celebrity news? Is it politics? Business? I will make the exception for the Sunday funnies and say that probably doesn't belong here, but why should someone's love of Israeli politics outweigh someone else's love of the Redskins or golf or Chris Pratt's fancy new hairdo, if it is news?
Tess has explicitly stated that sports is for General Discussion and not CAaSS, so this cannot be the standard. People are free to discuss all those topics in the appropriate forum.Does that mean we have no standards here? I don't think so.
Right now it does, because moderators admittedly do not know what those standards are. If the decisions are going to be vastly different from one moderator to another, then we need specific policies.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
aviel wrote:I definitely need some rest, but have been unable to so far.
Tesseracts wrote:aviel wrote:I definitely need some rest, but have been unable to so far.
It's... Not because of this issue, is it?
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
DamianaRaven wrote:It might help to walk away from the computer and take a very warm shower with the lights off.
Darkness and light are cues your body uses to regulate the hormone melatonin.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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