Timeline for Chat - a plea for moderation
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| Dec 15, 2011 at 19:13 | comment | added | voretaq7 | (2/2) Frankly chat regulars have offended both ourselves and new users before, and we've traditionally handled it ourselves (apologies and understanding all around, and what I feel are generally good results). Things definitely got out of hand this morning, but at least in my opinion "justice" wasn't served - two people were wrong, and only one got walloped (granted the one who "should have known better" and "had the cooler head", but I still think we as a community could have handled that better...) | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 19:11 | comment | added | voretaq7 | Also Specifically re: the "snarky comments" about flagging, @MarkM hit the nail on the head. Chat flagging calls people into rooms with no context and asks them to judge the goings-on, with their only option being "ignore it" or a chat time-out (rather than say, rational discussion of any real or perceived offense). I feel that we as chat regulars are right to take some level of offense at that: To me it's as if SF mods went onto English.SE and mod-hammered questions they felt were controversial. (1/2 -- Continued) | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | studiohack | +1, I agree. It is a mess. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 19:06 | comment | added | voretaq7 | Not to make light of the fact that some may take varying degrees of offense to the contents of SF Chat, but the fact is sysadmins do (at least in my experience) have a different culture. We see the business side of the net all day, and we enjoy cutting loose with slightly twisted memes & jokes at the expense of our expen$ive vendors. I think if anyone in chat actually spoke up and said "not cool guys, that's offensive" (and what offended them actually DID cross a line) they'd get an instant apology. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 19:04 | comment | added | MDMarra |
"and non-regulars not "respecting the room's culture"." I assume that you're referring to my comments, so I'll reply. I was talking about a specific incident involving a diamond from a different SE putting one of our regulars in a chat time-out without knowing the whole situation and letting the user that actually started the whole shebang go untouched. That is unacceptable to us. If you are going to give someone a chatban at least know enough about the room and history to give it to the right person.
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| Dec 15, 2011 at 18:36 | history | answered | Michael Mrozek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |