LNBS - The People's Mod... term limits?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I think we're pretty transparent when people ask, but I don't see the point in a thread for all that info... I don't know why people would particularly care, and very rarely would there be 100% agreement. It would just open the door to arguments over every little thing and I don't see how it could be productive at all.

As far as "poke the bear moderation"... if someone breaks a clear rule for the first time or it's something they rarely do, they'll get a warning, and then at worse a short ban.

As far as dumping trolls, there's a long list of times when we've been far too lenient, have let people come back multiple times, etc. And if I dumped a long time troll today, the main question they should ask themselves is "why did those idiots keep me around for so long?!"

From my time moderating, two things happen when douchebags are banned...
- They apologize for being a douchebag, come back and possibly start contributing.
- They don't get it and never will get it.

"I had no idea I was being such a douchebag!" is not a thing. If nothing else, how we moderate prevents it from ever being a thing, because you have to be a pretty big douchebag to get banned in the first place.

It seems like thread bans have been much more common lately (and that's a good thing). If someone continually gets banned from threads yet doesn't see any issue with what they're doing, they shouldn't be particularly surprised when they eventually get booted out entirely.