Now that I have time to think about more than just names, I'm going to Comment More. Hope that's ok XD
First off: I'd volunteer to help mod if you need me? The next month may not be great for me since it's dissertation crunch time, but after that I should be fine time-wise.
I could also do an icon (and potentially a banner if anyone knows what size one would need to be) - I'm not great with graphics so if anyone else is and wants to they should take priority, but otherwise I'm up for it. (And obviously if anyone has suggestions for what they'd like on them I would be all ears!)
I think having membership unmoderated and then suspending/banning members if necessary is the best way to go about it - but we'd probably need as comprehensive a list of offences as possible beforehand, I think, just so there's something to point to and say "this is what you did wrong". I imagine it would probably tie in quite heavily to the safe-space policy.
What else did I want to say? Oh yes - security. I'm not entirely sure how security works over here so forgive my ignorance, but I think the best option would be a situation where some posts were members-only and some were public (with the poster getting to choose to share them or not, and with Open Threads being private). The main reason I think there should be the option for some public posts is mostly for the sake of newbies. In my experience, I find that some people coming to a place where everything is locked for members only can end up feeling excluded before they've even joined - it can give a community a sort of insular feeling, and it means they can't get a feel for what sort of place a community is before deciding if they want to join it. Having a few posts public would probably help (though with commenting locked for members only, ideally - is that possible?)
And goodness, sorry for rambling. Feel free to ignore anything!
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Date: 2011-07-30 11:54 pm (UTC)First off: I'd volunteer to help mod if you need me? The next month may not be great for me since it's dissertation crunch time, but after that I should be fine time-wise.
I could also do an icon (and potentially a banner if anyone knows what size one would need to be) - I'm not great with graphics so if anyone else is and wants to they should take priority, but otherwise I'm up for it. (And obviously if anyone has suggestions for what they'd like on them I would be all ears!)
I think having membership unmoderated and then suspending/banning members if necessary is the best way to go about it - but we'd probably need as comprehensive a list of offences as possible beforehand, I think, just so there's something to point to and say "this is what you did wrong". I imagine it would probably tie in quite heavily to the safe-space policy.
What else did I want to say? Oh yes - security. I'm not entirely sure how security works over here so forgive my ignorance, but I think the best option would be a situation where some posts were members-only and some were public (with the poster getting to choose to share them or not, and with Open Threads being private). The main reason I think there should be the option for some public posts is mostly for the sake of newbies. In my experience, I find that some people coming to a place where everything is locked for members only can end up feeling excluded before they've even joined - it can give a community a sort of insular feeling, and it means they can't get a feel for what sort of place a community is before deciding if they want to join it. Having a few posts public would probably help (though with commenting locked for members only, ideally - is that possible?)
And goodness, sorry for rambling. Feel free to ignore anything!