Dear Group Mods

[gesthal000]

Get off your high horse.  Seriously.

I think all Mods of EVERY group should have elections.  With 2-term limits and/or a checks & balances system.  Some groups appear to just have cronies that rival some presidential regimes.  Heck, Bush scares me less than some mods.

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[goddessspiral]

seriously. i like it when they are multiple mods so it's not a dictatorship and you have more than one person to appeal to.

[seekingsartre]

At feminist_rage, we get accused of being "nazis" all the time. But there are like, what? Seven of us? We even make decisions by consensus!

[gesthal000]

Can you please delete or edit the comment since it's full of misinformation and I don't want my posts tainted with misinformation.

[steviesun]

I came over here from polyamory. And I have a couple of things to say to this.

1) As a mod on a couple of other comms I think it can be maddening if someone were to take over something you created, afterall if people don't like the way you run things they can always go elsewhere.

2) As someone who has been kicked off an important comm in their favourite fandom (with no warning and no comment when it was done), I think that having checks and balances is important. But having lived and learnt from being kicked off somewhere, I now leave when I don't like a place.

[gesthal000]

And that's fine. I don't join many communities because I just don't like the limitations and ego trips most mods display. I'm comfortable being the lurker and reading what I find interesting.

I do like debate groups because that's what it's all about and the ones that I've seen and like lurking at seem to have good vibes even when the majority disagree.

[gesthal000]

What I didn't like what was going in polyamory is that I didn't see the post and all the readers have to go on is what the mod deemed was misinformation. I think as such an important topic as that was, it could have been handled differently. Without having a reference point, who is to say who was right? I'm not saying that is the case going on, but without being able to review what was posted, why should I believe the mod was right in what happened and what was said?

[steviesun]

A transcript of some of the apparent misinformation might have been useful. But I can understand that not doing so underlines the point that people should do their own research. It frustrates those of us (definity me included) who find it easier to just read places like the comm to help keep us up to date. And I assume that truckers child was doing their own research. But sometimes living the quiet life means doing as mods say.