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Originally Posted by tore
With a PM, you send a message to that user. With a moderation notice like that, you send a message to the whole community.
I don't think it matters so much that you wouldn't like it because I don't think you'd do anything that would warrant such moderation. Neither do I think it's a punishment's requirement that you would like it done to you before it's a valid strategy. I wouldn't like to be publicly moderated either or to go to prison for that matter. That doesn't mean I can't see the value of these things as consequences for rulebreaking.
If people on these forums are aware of the consequences for breaking rules, but choose to break them anyways, then I generally don't feel sorry for them when they suffer those consequences. Getting moderated in public is not such a gruesome punishment for namecalling in public. In my opinion, the punishment fits the crime.
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I also think it would be effective; people would soon learn not to do it. Which of course would be the point of doing it this way in the first place.  |
Nope I disagree with this. There are members that are usually well behaved that slip up sometimes in the heat in the moment. I do not think it would be effective to pubically state their post has been moderated. Another reason is I feel like it's the whole freedom of speech thing, if you mess it up yes you get a warning (or infraction depending on what has happened), but having your post edited would not be fair. I also believe that other members will see 'moderator has edited this text' and wonder what actually was there to warrent an edit and possibly create another thread like this to go on and on for 15 pages.
As far as I'm concerned, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Are we able to actually move on now? I'd like to think we are on the same page after discussing it for 12 pages.