I truly wish the mods would have a rule that every pinned post must be verified beyond one reference from a single questionable source. This is out of hand.
I have suggested (and recommended) in the past that a Sticky protocol be developed for the mods to be able to apply and follow.
The mods are ALL volunteers, and they do a pretty good - not to mention crucial - job, but I get the feeling that by and large, there is no single unified approach to Stickying applied across the whole mod team. And if there is, there are certainly some weird outliers. Some of the stuff that gets stickied.... Sheesh.
Having a protocol in place would surely help. Mods could more easily refer to such when doing stickies. Here, by protocol, I mean what would essentially be a formally compiled set of guidelines for screening and evaluating the Stickyness of posts, designed for practical application.
I would like to see the formulation of such a protocol undertaken as a community project, by which I mean, a post or series of posts where the board could offer their suggestions, opinions and ideas for such a protocol (including ideas of what stickied posts should conform to or how they should be evaluated for 'stickworthiness') and then a team could even draft them up for submission for the mod team to then discuss and decide on or if they wish to adopt them as a formal protocol.
I think such would help to a) engaging the community in taking more ownership of the board by way of supporting the mod team, and b) make things easier for the mod team, by not requiring them to do all the hard work for something that is not direct modding, but rather is administrative or organizational conceptualization, and c) help to improve overall board quality if applied.
After almost quarter of a century on the Net and involvement in a significant number of long-lasting and successful internet communities, I hold fast to the conviction that the optimum foundation for long-term success and longevity of a net community (either forum, mailing list, board or group) is the relationship between the mod team (or owners) and the community that engages in that forum/board/list/group.
I truly wish the mods would have a rule that every pinned post must be verified beyond one reference from a single questionable source. This is out of hand.
It's a very good idea.
I have suggested (and recommended) in the past that a Sticky protocol be developed for the mods to be able to apply and follow.
The mods are ALL volunteers, and they do a pretty good - not to mention crucial - job, but I get the feeling that by and large, there is no single unified approach to Stickying applied across the whole mod team. And if there is, there are certainly some weird outliers. Some of the stuff that gets stickied.... Sheesh.
Having a protocol in place would surely help. Mods could more easily refer to such when doing stickies. Here, by protocol, I mean what would essentially be a formally compiled set of guidelines for screening and evaluating the Stickyness of posts, designed for practical application.
I would like to see the formulation of such a protocol undertaken as a community project, by which I mean, a post or series of posts where the board could offer their suggestions, opinions and ideas for such a protocol (including ideas of what stickied posts should conform to or how they should be evaluated for 'stickworthiness') and then a team could even draft them up for submission for the mod team to then discuss and decide on or if they wish to adopt them as a formal protocol.
I think such would help to a) engaging the community in taking more ownership of the board by way of supporting the mod team, and b) make things easier for the mod team, by not requiring them to do all the hard work for something that is not direct modding, but rather is administrative or organizational conceptualization, and c) help to improve overall board quality if applied.
After almost quarter of a century on the Net and involvement in a significant number of long-lasting and successful internet communities, I hold fast to the conviction that the optimum foundation for long-term success and longevity of a net community (either forum, mailing list, board or group) is the relationship between the mod team (or owners) and the community that engages in that forum/board/list/group.
Idealistic, but there it is.
u/propertyofUniverse
u/fatality
u/lonewulf
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