Thread-specific moderators

[ZeEa5KPul]

The moderation model in the Ukraine War thread has shown some success. The volume of blatant trolling has declined significantly and discussions have been generally more productive. I propose expanding this model to the semiconductor thread with thread-specific moderators selected.

 

[FriedButter]

Does the semiconductor thread really need one? The main reason why Ukraine needed one was due to the sheer activity on some days which puts a damper on the core moderators. Compared to the semi thread which is a lot more mild from a daily basis.

 

[Mohsin77]

there's a semiconductor thread? what's the big fight over there? how much policing do the nerds need?

 

[Overbom]

The semiconductors thread seems to be doing well. Not (a lot of) trolling, discussion is mostly technical, and the conduct of the forum members there is by large, professional.

I don't see a need for a thread-specific moderator there, but if the mods decide to put 1 or 2 extra mods, I have a couple of imo suitable candidates to suggest

 

[weig2000]

We don't need moderators in the semiconductor thread. I do observe there have been a few trolls lately, probably due to increasing US bans. In the past SleepyStudent and its various alts also derailed/flooded the discussions for a short while. Overall, it's manageable.

Semiconductor thread is more technical and people are mostly engaged in technical and professional discussions. Those few who troll or derail the discussions are easily standouts. They can be taken care by the regular moderators occasionally.

 

[56860]

We need this for Chinese economics thread.

 

[xypher]

I don't think thread-specific moderators are needed for "Member's club" subforum, just keep banning @SleepyStudent's alts and it's enough

 

[Fedupwithlies]

I think we need mod intervention with the Semiconductors and maybe the member's club in general. There's too many posts of either random twitter takes and/or blatant propaganda. We shouldn't entertain every nonsensical take from some random just because it was written on a website. Just because someone has a good headshot in their twitter profile doesn't make them reputable.

And yet thats exactly what some well-known posters are posting, without any comment or with the most braindead comments available. In fact that people regularly confuse these posters for sleepystudent should tell you the quality of these posts, and yet somehow these posters get a pass from mods for... what reason? That they created their accounts a couple of years ago instead of last week?

 

[56860]

I don't think thread-specific moderators are needed for "Member's club" subforum, just keep banning @SleepyStudent's alts and it's enough

Problem is mods are sometimes slow to ban and he ends up derailing 8 pages of discussion because people here don't know how to use the ignore button and must respond to every provocation. If he derails even a single page of discussion before getting banned, he's won. The ban must come immediately.

 

[FriedButter]

I think we need mod intervention with the Semiconductors and maybe the member's club in general. There's too many posts of either random twitter takes and/or blatant propaganda. We shouldn't entertain every nonsensical take from some random just because it was written on a website. Just because someone has a good headshot in their twitter profile doesn't make them reputable.

And yet thats exactly what some well-known posters are posting, without any comment or with the most braindead comments available. In fact that people regularly confuse these posters for sleepystudent should tell you the quality of these posts, and yet somehow these posters get a pass from mods for... what reason? That they created their accounts a couple of years ago instead of last week?

Twitter related post can have rules about what should and shouldn’t be allowed. Propaganda on the other hand should remain the same. The main problem when it comes to propaganda is who decides what is propaganda and blatant propaganda. The criteria for such a thing will likely be dependent on the mods themselves rather than any set rules.