LOL @ warrior forum

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posted by Jdog:
posted by fm1234:
What I love is the new "members are moderators" feature they kicked in last month ... once the cliques get cemented the whole forum will turn into a crazed orgy of edit warfare, and the entertainment value will skyrocket.
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Why do you doubt it? It has worked sooo well for craigslist.
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Not sure what CL has implemented, but the WF has a snazzy new quasi-Digg like deal where if x number of members with a combined rep of y (with x and y totally unknown to anyone and presumably arbitrary and meaningless) hit the abuse button the thread is nuked. I've already seen it happen to a couple of completely harmless threads over such stupidity as "people not playing nice" and that kind of thing ... it's just a total joke. To paraphrase PJ O'Rourke, giving mod powers to forum members is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.


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I need to amend my above statement -- had a look at the "member modding" thing this morning and it actually is less involved than I thought. As far as I can tell there are no straight answers on the new forum or in the old archive (a couple of intelligent members had questions about the new modding system when it was announced, but they were basically ignored in Allen's big thread about it.)

Ironically I used to groan about the heavy-handed and arbitrary mods there -- it was one of my biggest gripes about WF. Now I kinda miss them ...


Frank
 
Well, any thread that's moderately interesting disappears pretty instantly. Or any thread that mentions this forum. Someone's deleting stuff.

That place pisses me off so much.
 
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