Does overly aggressive moderation ruin a forum?

[Im-a-Ridah]

How much moderation is too much?

[Bendy]

I'd say that deleting every single topic as soon as it is posted would be too much.

Outside of that, people tend to vote with their feet. Overly-moderated forums die off, as do under-moderated forums. Which suggests that, like baby bear's porridge, this one is just right.

[FretGrinder]

The amount that stops us from being able to say what we like because it "offends other people"

Funny how a forum can go from being great and then dive bombing to nothing when this kind of moderation is introduced, isn't it?


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[Rogerborg]

Off topic! Fetch the Karma Painstick!

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[P.addy]

Non equal moderation ruins a forum.

Close slagging match against gaming producers.
Keep open a motorcycle dealer bashing thread.

Legit as fuck. Both hurting the dealer/producer yet because its a bike, its kept open. Game was in Geek Zone.. "Get help with IT problems and chat about gaming / tech issues here."

People are getting help with a specific game and chatting about its lack of working.

[chris-red]

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[The Artist]

There should be no moderation apart from:

Off-topic : mod can move it
Personal information posted about someone : mod can delete it

Anything else, let the karma system do its thing. Perhaps when a post gets a black blob it gets hidden or something, not deleted.

[Shinigami]

Ask Hetzer
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[waffles]

I was once a member on a forum that was so finger-waggy that they auto corrected swearwords. Arse/ass was always changed to donkey and anything stronger than that got you a warning from a moderator. Too many warnings and every subsequent post would be proof read by a mod or admin before it could be published. It was a yank forum and I lasted a few months before I got utterly fed up with how it was a "family friendly site" which prevented any sort of free thought or expression as we all had to think about the children....

I didn't read the thread in question much beyond the second page as it seemed to be a lot of copy pasta about how the company involved are a bunch of wankbags with a shit product. Was there anything of value in there beyond that? Or was it a different thread?
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[Fisty]

Yes

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=276925&highlight=banned
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[BenR]

Fiat Forum there's an overly moderated forum I'd love to see that one disappear especially as they're using my guides without my consent.

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[RhynoCZ]

Do we need moderation? Karma ratings pretty much tell us how boring, abusive, unacceptable and so on a thread is.
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[nowhere.elysium]

I'm pretty sure the thread in question had gotten beyond the point of usefulness, though. I get that Hetzer was pissed about the inconsistencies in a product he'd paid for and the developer's crappy response to that, but using one forum to try and Google bomb another forum is just tedious.

Venting your annoyance at a woeful mishandling of a situation is one thing (and it's one that I entirely stand behind - their approach to Hetzer's complaints was pretty crap), but spamming a thread repeatedly with copypasta is annoying and doesn't really achieve much. The thread that was locked only actually comes up in Google results if you specifically search for the negative terms that he used; if you search for the name of the game, his thread doesn't even make the tenth page of Google.

BCF is not over-moderated in my opinion. I don't like active moderation in particular, but I've not seen anything that's particularly gotten on my nerves from the mods in a long time. Blau's banning was one example, but that was down to Korn, and Blau was doing his damnedest to push for it.

Karma works if it's not used as a punishment, or as a circlejerk tool like it was in the locked thread. It is, however, very easy to abuse.
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[Clutchy]

Yes it does ruin a forum, is BCF overly moderated? No
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[thx1138]

The original Rage Against the Machine forum was very lacks when it came to moderation. Until the secret service had it closed down. Allegedly.