[wp-forums] Editing and Answering.

[Phu]

Suggestions:
 - Moderators should edit his offending posts by replacing the comment with
a '[moderated due to language]'.
 - Podz, can you send him a friendly email pointing out what is and isn't
good form?
   - If he persists after this email, send him a final (and stronger)
reminder (possibly apply 3 strikes rule)

I don't like deleting comments as that breaks the thread of conversation as
well as removes transparency. We should be accountable for our actions and
people should be aware of that.

On 2/27/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The user linked to below is 'liberal' with his language and is
> frequently annoying / offending others with his attitude.
> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/33227
> The forum guidelines say that such posts will be deleted on sight - but...
> - if another user has replied and we remove his comment is makes the
> followup comment look very out of place, and we can't go deleting or
> editing the comments of those people.
> - we are also removing the 'evidence' of his behaviour. I have been
> asked a couple of times recently to remove threads where a poster (the
> one who is asking me) has let loose with some choice phrases. On each
> occasion I have said no.  The threads will drop off the pages eventually
> and we can't have people yelling abuse one night then asking to be made
> blameless the nest day.
> So....
> All I can think of doing is moderating his posts mercilessly and
> constantly. This could make him clean up his act, it could (will) annoy
> him and he may leave (which would be a shame as he does contribute
> positively too) but it will show others that we are watching and we will
> act.
>
> I have no problem with deleting the occasional post which is abusive, or
> even delting the contents but leaving a [Moderated] coment there, but
> when the guidelines were written I certainly didn't anticipate day after
> day rudeness.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> -----------
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/62666?replies=2
> We are getting (I think) many many more posts to which we don't have the
> answer.  As much as I would like coders who watch the hackers list and
> trac and #wordpress and everything else that involes <?php to come into
> the forums and actually answer something, it just isn't going to happen.
> I'm sure I was asking this back in 2004 so it's just the way it is. Make
> your own reasons. So we have many more disgruntled posters. Not their
> fault. The code promises and they cannot make it deliver. But neither
> can we. <rant> It annoys me intensely that many 'hackers' claim
> knowledge of the forums and all the current issues yet we see no posts
> from them or evidence elsewhere that supports it. Here's a clue guys -
> reply ? It would be very much appreciated. </rant>
> So I wrote the above post. It's not new, it's nothing you've not read
> before. Does it warrant sticky status ?
>
> In the coming forum makeover, is there a way that we could incorporate
> more stickies ?
> In some other flavours of forum, you 'land' at a page that has the
> entrances to the forums but sitting atop that are the stickies. That an
> option ? Would that fit with bbPress ? (I suspect not, but I'm trying to
> think of a way that avoids lots of stickies on the front page).
>
> P.
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