Forum moderation policy idea: No overly combative debating

[Dukc]

On Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 10:14:29 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> On Monday, 29 April 2024 at 14:46:28 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>
>> What do you think?
>
> Additionally, there are other "weird" circumstances from a 
> moderator perspective where valuable community members make 
> acid remarks while making a very strong technical point.

I don't think we should be afraid to moderate someone having a 
strong technical viewpoint. It's enough that we make it clear the 
technical viewpoint is welcome as long as they care a bit about 
how they wrap it.

>
> If I were to decide anything, I would let the community decide 
> what is acceptable and what not. How would I do that? I would 
> essentially migrate the forum to a platform that is more 
> powerful that can simply let users flag certain parts of a 
> comment that are "too combative". If a certain threshold is met 
> (for example, 10 people have flagged a portion of a comment), 
> then that part of the post will be automatically moderated. I 
> would rather go this path, then have someone (which most likely 
> will be Mike) individually decide whether to moderate someone 
> or not.

That's a good idea. Mike is a good moderator but one human is 
always fallible. Then again, such a migration project depends on 
finding a champion to do it.