Timeline for Worse than usenet? Our image to prospective new users.
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| Dec 14, 2011 at 12:22 | comment | added | Sven | @pauska: I would restrict this to higher rep users. Getting e.g. 10K rep on SF is hard work, and I believe that everyone beyond that level should have a good understanding how the site works. Many below that level (you, among others) would have this too, but it's an easy criterion already used extensively on the site. But I still think that this global scale between 0 and 20K rep used on all SE sites is fundamentally broken. They need to come up with a scale that is adapted to the activity of a site. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 14:35 | comment | added | pauska | @SvenW: More power to low rep users isnt a great solution. Look at the piles of crap we get migrated from SO from users with high enough rep to close questions.. More community-elected mods however is a great idea. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 17:50 | comment | added | Sven | Also, I am not eager at all to be a mod myself, and I don't think I would be qualified, being short-tempered myself sometimes and not so well versed in the inner workings of the site or integrated into the community, but if no one else better qualified would step forward, I would run in an election, but not before April, as I start a new job in February and move into a new apartment in March, which will leave not enough room for anything else. And again, I am grateful for your work, my posting was not meant personal, and I hope you don't take it that way. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 17:50 | comment | added | Sven | But frankly, before I step into the lions den that is meta.so with a suggestion like that, I would think that you moderators need to tell Jeff etc. that something must change, as it's in their best interest to keep good moderators. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 17:50 | comment | added | Sven | Some ideas beyond electing more or new moderators would be to give more power to normal users. It's stated in the FAQ that there is little difference between high-rep users and mods, but I think this is nonsense, even at 20K rep (which is way too high anyway for our site), we would have no way do deal with flags or have better closing powers. Some suggestions to help with that would be to scale the "close power" of high rep users, counting for two or three votes, and also to show us flags and give us means to do something about them. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 17:49 | comment | added | Sven | Yes, I have the feeling that you moderators are doing an excellent job of moving most of the filth out of the way before we even see it and I am more than grateful for that. I also have the feeling that this job is a lot of work, based on comments by you and others, but of course, I can't see that for myself, lacking the proper privileges :) Your answer makes it clear though that the work is too much for the smallish mod group we currently have and that something should be done about it. | |
| Dec 12, 2011 at 16:32 | history | answered | Chopper3Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |