Originally Posted by tore

Aaaight, cool and thanks for the heads up!



Being a moderator is not a privilege. It's a job and a mod's job is basically to be forum police and keep law and order. Using the in-built infractions system in a consistent way is the best way to do that (imo) and so it should really be part of the job description.

Making unpopular decisions is also part of the job and when there's no clear precedent, unpopular decisions are always on you. For a recent example of this, see how Urban was recently called out for how he handled the Spill Your Guts Thread.

My suggestion makes the job simple by establishing precedent. If user breaks the rule by doing X, there's a clear precedent for how to deal with X. When the system of moderation is bigger than any one mod, it actually protects moderators by taking responsibility away from them (it's just a job), enabling them to enforce what would otherwise be tough decisions.

Mods would be motivated, I hope, by a realization that this way actually works and because they believe that keeping "law and order" is good for musicbanter.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.