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[prog]

Well, the moderator of davis_square just put the community on approved-posts-only lockdown after a few people offered criticism of her management style. She also deleted several people's comments, and is presently declaring to be close to deleting the community altogether. I consider this behavior a breach of the social contract inherent in any moderated message board's user/admin relationship, and reason enough to just drop the joint and move on elsewhere.

However, it is a useful and friendly LJ-community -- much (more reliable / less idiotic) than, say, b0st0n -- and I wouldn't want to lose it, nor see it splinter off into wee fragments. Any suggestions from the crossover portion of my f-list on how to follow up on this?

Update: daerr just pointed out that davissquare now seems to exist, created by komos, whom I don't know. I don't know if this person took part in the meta-discussion on the first community since that all got blown away... any insight?

Comments

Re: useless suggestion

[cthulhia]

For instance, it's perfectly ok that on Dec. 5, someone posted an ad for tours whose proceeds go to benefit the somerville arts council.

hey, that was me.

I suspect I made the cut (heh) because the entire post was very short. A lot of the posts that get cut will include a enormous_pointless_poster.gif, or people who include copious details are already posted elsewhere. Referring to the URL rather than posting the full details was likely understood to be like unto an LJ cut.

something to consider while moderating your community. (o:

Re: useless suggestion

[komos.livejournal.com]

I've no issue with the post per se. It's just a clear illustration of how the 'all ads must be behind a cut' rule is inconsistently applied.

I rather like hauntmeister's suggestion for ads and images. It's unambiguous and easily policed. Frankly, I'd like to see as little moderation as possible, and preferably limited to when someone is being actively disruptive to the community.