moderation

I was sick the last week so my computer wasn't on very much..

But now i'm going to double my activity this week ^^

Last week we talked about moderation. I think moderation is one of the most important keys to success in a community.

I was a member of intertet.be but i left because all the topics were closed from the moment something honest was mentioned.

The ancient users thought they could say anything and the reaction was simply to close the topic. The users didn't agree and started new topics to complain. 

In the end it came to a point that no new topics appeared and everybody shared the same opinion and was complaining about the moderators.

In my community to analyse, i searched for a sort of moderation but i didn't seem to find it right away.

The fact that i can't find who the moderators are on first view is an indication that there's a lot of freedom among the users.

There's a page with restrictions and obligations but i don't know who is checking the content. It's definitely hidden. On the page with the rules they talk about "we" so it's the crew of wzl who decides what is coming online.

On the other hand, at the forum i discovered a ranking system. After each name there's an amount of stars. The maximum is 4 but some names have a big beautiful star. When i checked such a lucky- star owner i read in a comment that he's a moderator. 

On Intertet, moderators joined immediately in discusses and from the moment someone said something a bit off topic or not really friendly, they reacted in red with a warning.

On wzl users tell each other comments aren't appropriate and so moderators don't have to play for policemen all the time. it's more social control and like i see it, it works on wijfzonderlijf.