Fandom Wank has now been placed on post moderation due to excessive trolling. A one-liner idiot post where everyone can have some snarky fun in the comments is perhaps mildly tolerated once, repeated offensive attacks is another thing. All posts have now been deleted.

One of the reasons for moderation is that due to the trolling

zorrorojo has removed account creation. There should be no reason that the behavior of a few should spoil it for everyone. (Although there are those who might say the same thing about FW in comparison to fandom.)

Having posts on moderation would stop any sort of trolling like that occuring again and enable accounts to stay open. It might also cause people to be a little more cautious and thoughtful before posting a wank: perhaps taking the time to fully explore it's potential, writing it up clearly or not rushing so much to be the first to get a post up that the original content is removed before any wank actually occurs.

We're taking these steps to stop this type of trolling from occuring again, it doesn't have to be a dramatic change to community. We'll try to unscreen wanks as quickly as we can and keep things running smoothly. In the case of two screened posts reporting the same wank, the mods will pick the one that is more complete.

Thoughts?

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	bubosquared 2004-10-20 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	The thing is, though, how do you define "Cabal"? Because if Cabal = Sikrit Com Members, that's rather arbitrary, I think, especially since the Cabal accusations were brewing before the com was ever created. Yeah, popularity rule isn't something I'm keen on, either, but what's the alternative? :/ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

My supremely complicated solution:

ladybirdsleeps
2004-10-21 06:31 pm UTC (link)

Open a thread in f_w and ask for people to nominate candidates for new mod. Disregard nominations only if the person doesn't want to be mod, is a troll, or is objected to by comm members for some reason (like being a stupid wanker).

Create a private entry in someone's journal. In the comments to that entry (because you can't spoof the times of or edit comments), assign everyone who's in the running a number.

Create a poll entry in f_w. Create a poll for each six candidates, with radio buttons numbered from 1 to 6. Tell f_w members to roll a die to pick a number for each poll. The number who gets the most votes goes to the next round. (In the case of the numbers being the same, create a new comment in the private entry to reassign one of the people a new number.)

Continue this until only x number of new mods is standing. Then unlock the private entry so that the comments with the numbers are visible.

Or ...

... umm ... you could just hire me.

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	Re: My supremely complicated solution: bubosquared 2004-10-21 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	I second this, purely because it's silly and complicated and random. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: My supremely complicated solution: ladybirdsleeps 2004-10-21 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	I want to see it, solely because I want to have a betting pool on how long it will take for someone to accuse the person assigning the numbers of telling everyone how to vote. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2004-10-21 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	"OMG CLEARLY you assigned #3 to your facourite cause EVERYONE's gonna want to vote for #3 cause it's A HOLY NUMBER!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladybirdsleeps 2004-10-21 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	"But that's why you were supposed to roll dice!" "Stop using logic! Logic bad! Rawr!" "Mommy ..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2004-10-21 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I tend to agree with .... whoever it was that pointed out that in the end, the mods probably just can't win. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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