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Originally Posted by tore
Something I thought of earlier that doesn't really appeal to me but which might appeal to someone would be to make a moderator account(s) for rule enforcement, a bit like the MB Love Machine. That would make moderators anonymous, or at least The Executioner (and crew?) who infracts people (I know it sounds draconian, but also a bit metal and they wore hoods).
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^ The exact same idea occurred to me, but I didn't want to confuse the issue of this thread by mentioning it here. As you've brought it up though, tore, I'd like to say this :-
i) just so everyone's clear, it's an idea that's not necessarily linked to the infractions-system proposal.
ii) if it sounds sinister, or open to abuse, let's remember that the mods are a small band of trusted members. They could probably nip in the bud any maverick mod using it to conceal some particular vendetta.
iii) the only extra work for mods would be to log in under two seperate accounts
iv) mods could have fun like the rest of us, but they wouldn't feel such a conflict of loyalties when it was time to do some infracting. There might be a natural increase in disciplinary actions, but these needn't be tied to a more rigid rule system - they could still be done to the old system as advocated by Freebase.
v) individual mods wouldn't have to endlessly defend their decisions, even when posting as members rather than mods - which might be why Urban, for instance, got fed up.
How it would work in practice:
Janszoon logs in as a member and posts one of his trademark "
" posts. He then logs in again as
Mr.A.Mod and infracts himself for short posting. Next, he just has to log out and consult a good psychiatrist. Simple.
If mods- or members- were at all interested in the idea, I wouldn't oppose it.