Coyote Crossing

Moderation

Low-key blog maintenance stuff: I’ve created a new membership type, “Moderator,” which is exactly like being a regular member with one exception: Moderators can edit or close other people’s comments.

I did this because every once in a while there are stray trollish comments that pop up, climate change denialists and right-wingers only looking to start comment fusterclucks. (To be distinguished from right-wingers looking to have actual conversations.) I’m not always around to nuke the trolls, and I know how tempting it can be to respond to people like that. I like the constructive conversations and disagreements we have around here and I suspect some of the rest of you do as well.

If you’re a regular around these parts with a good sense of the difference between honest disagreement and bad-faith trolling, not to mention the difference between actual comments and the new outbreak of individually crafted spam comments, and you wouldn’t mind making the occasional easy single click to send a comment into moderation, lemme know. Moderators will also be able to edit comments to fix broken links and such. Signing up implies no obligation on your part: it’s just a way of giving a few folks the ability to make constructive contributions that they probably already wish they could.

Creek Running North cob-loggers Theriomorph and Kat and Stephanie already have this special power and are welcome to use it if they like. (No obligation, of course.) Space Kitty’s been added to the list of moderators. Two or three more helpful people would be nice.

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Comments

Hehe. Cob-logger.

As opposed to pen-loggers, I suppose.

But not as cool as loggerheads.  Is moderation in the moderation an essential and necessary skill??? Sadly i have neither (or none of the requisite traits), and would just like to be a happy reader/commenter, freely and happily encouraging said moderating moderators to slice and dice my text.

I do frequent Horsesass.org, which has a completely uncensored comment thread.  The intense and vicious trolling, raising near instant ire, does have its place in the scheme of things (just keep it on that one, thanks): an ever constant reminder others do have the right of free speech, no matter how horribly stupid and offensive they try to be.

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