( Rules for Anchorites Moderation Policy. Learn It. Love It. Live It.Collapse )
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Happy Book Birthday to The Glass Town Game!
My middle grade fantasy featuring the Brontë children, a talking newspaper stand, twelve wooden soldiers, two sentient suitcases, and Napoleon…
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The Mad Fiction Laboratory on Patreon
We’re excited to announce that Cat is now a Patreon creator, offering you exclusive content and goodies via Patreon’s flexible…
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Traditional Awards Eligibility Post
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August 5 2012, 18:21:25 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 18:33:40 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 18:45:53 UTC 8 years ago
Plus I get to use my Miss Bennet icon. But I might have to make a Thunderdome icon -- currently I use 7-of-9 before Federation interference for trolls. (grin)
Dr. Phil
August 5 2012, 18:59:24 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 19:05:13 UTC 8 years ago
cheers for moderation
August 5 2012, 19:07:29 UTC 8 years ago
My day job is actually moderation, for commercial websites. (And for fun I volunteer my services to help moderate the website for a popular web series.) Moderation can be thankless and exhausting at times. You will wonder if anyone ever bothered to read the guidelines. I highly recommend a notepad of standard text to use when dealing with emails/comments. A line or two about "you've been banned" or "this is unacceptable behavior because REASONS" or whatever works.
You'll think initially that you won't have to type something five hundred times because surely people will see and get it, or eventually people will learn not to do something. But it comes in handy and makes it much more efficient to deal with certain situations. (Like say, waking up to find three hundred comments in a thread about ridiculous drama... oh internets.) Plus, not all your trolls deserve personalized rejection letters. Fuck 'em.
Good luck in this new chapter of internet life.
Re: cheers for moderation
August 5 2012, 19:11:19 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 19:42:41 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 19:52:53 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 20:01:28 UTC 8 years ago
What happens next is that I get a notification that I had a "screened" comment which I can glance at in my LJ-filter inbox - and if necessary I can simply delete right there. If it's a decent comment by someone who just ddoesn't happen to be on a white-list, I'll leave it up. If not, it's just gone. You're right, my journal, my rules.
Good luck.
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August 5 2012, 21:03:59 UTC 8 years ago
This seems the height of reasonableness to me. Best wishes to you as you go forward.
August 5 2012, 21:05:14 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 22:11:37 UTC 8 years ago
Is it okay to repost this as long as I leave a link back to it to attribute it to you? Because this moderation policy is delicious.
August 5 2012, 22:32:27 UTC 8 years ago
August 5 2012, 23:01:12 UTC 8 years ago
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