Are the Mods handling these forums as well as they could be? How can we help them?


Let me begin by congratulating the mods on the job they are doing here, as one who has had experience doing the very same job on forums it is a usually a thankless unpaid task that garners no friends in any quarter!

That being said I am of the belief that just deleting posts that are deemed inappropriate is not the best way to handle the rabble rousers who are left free to perform said actions again and again and again.
This is a select few who are well known to the majority but can and do spoil many a decent thread and have indeed caused a number of once regular contributers to go "dark".
My proposal would be for the mods to tally up infractions for inappropriate posts and after a certain points limit is hit then an automatic ban should occur, the severity of which would be decided by the mods based on the manner of the infractions. I have found that if posters know there is a system in place that could limit their freedom to post they usually think twice about said posts and if not , well soon enough they become irrelevant anyway.

I am also accustomed to the mods being well known to other members, not faceless entities although this is not the end of the world just a little odd from my previous background.

What do the Audiogon membership think on this matter?

I sincerely hope the mods do not remove this thread as it is not intended as direct criticism , rather as a tool to help them possibly deal with the increasing problem in a way that the membership would be most comfortable with.
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@geoffkait 
And I would prefer to see that fixed where it starts, having the poster just not do it at all! Rather than waiting for mods to remove which is then too late for some who will have gone off on a tangent already!
And that may be achieved by member timeout possibility...or it might make zero difference at all

Who knows...
As they say...common sense is the least common of all senses
I still think that heading off the silly and irrelevant posts at the pass would be the better way...but of course...I am biased........

Would it not be better to just get to the meat without so much extraneous fat and gristle?

Somebody did mention censorship but it is not something I was reaching for or condone


@uberwaltz, you sound conflicted to me. You want someone to delete silly and irrelevant posts, get to the meat without the fat.....but you don’t condone censorship?

Someone has to determine what is silly and what is irrelevant. What may be irrelevant to one, may be helpful to another.
What may be fat to one, may be meat to another.

Surely you have heard the phrase: "One man’s trash is another man’s treasure".

So whomever is determining what is appropriate for the forums is in essence censoring the forums to suit their own personal values.
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