policy question!

hey, so is post moderation the policy in tchgb? because i just went to reply to someone in a thread there, and appear to be on moderation, which has not been the case previously. now, i'm not on here super often, so maybe i missed a mention of it being how things are done there now, because it wasn't communicated to me in any other way. here's to hoping we can sort this quickly and cleanly!

 

That honestly seems like a thing that should have been announced in a thread, unless I missed it? If I missed it, my bad. (no blame or anything like that I'm just a little confused)

 

It okay!
~* The more you know *~

 

thanks for getting back to me! i appreciate it. it was a bit concerning to be hit with out of nowhere.

 

Whether it's Policy or "how things are done (or aren't done)," an announcement of "Thing Changed, here's how" would still be appreciated for future stuff like this

 

Maybe you should consider trying a little organization. Just enough to prevent the entire mod team from just ~forgetting~ to announce a major change in the way an entire subforum is moderated.

 

yes. as someone who has some fairly extensive past trauma shit re: people in authority censoring what i can and cannot say, having postmodding on in a thread of mine with no prior indication or way to tell if it was happening to anyone else was pretty stressful! and while the mod team's certainly not responsible for dealing with my trauma responses, announcing whatever you would most enjoy calling 'policy' before it happens would be a pretty cool thing to aim for, in the future.

 

Idea: don't forget to announce major procedure changes that could be upsetting to people before you implement them

 

we're not paying any of their salaries and it doesn't seem like they're getting salaries anyway so maybe we can assume some good faith and standard human error?

 

Telling someone who just apologized "have you tried not making mistakes?" - not even sort of helpful.

 

A suggestion: in the future, not implementing the thing until after it has been announced. Not “implementing it and then resolving to maybe announce it later.” Announce the thing as proposed policy first, then announce that it is now actual policy, and THEN go about implementing it.

 

I feel like, but can't actually recall exactly and therefore admit to [citation needed], there have been and will be cases where a decision needs to be made and implemented rather quickly in response to an urgent issue, and then becomes "policy" via not being rolled back once said issue becomes less urgent. And this can happen either by simply forgetting to rollback an emergency measure, or because the mods find it to be a policy that should have been implemented anyway, and they just had all forgotten or not noticed in the heat of the moment that nobody actually told the rest of the forum that it would be policy going forward.
Not to say that "announce before implementation" isn't a good policy in itself. It's a great policy. It is one of the best policies that I was under the impression the mods had in place already. It should be encouraged by everyone, because this is not the best place for surprises. But there will come times when implementation is on a strict schedule, either because of the problem that the thing being implemented addresses or just because of how other scheduling issues happen to interact, and policy announcements might get lost in the administrative cracks.

As always, I have no good solutions.


However, I will suggest that a mention of the policy change show up in TCHGB as well. I don't know if all people read through the meta forum as much as some of us here do, and this seems like the kind of information that should be disseminated at the point of impact rather than requiring folks to come all the way over here.