Not clear. When is a moderator not a moderator
. When does a moderator become a person. Do they remove themselves from the role? Guidelines must be crystal clear and this is not.
No accusations from me, just pertinent questions. The NVO story had many interesting components that maybe you didn’t see.
Anyway, not important right now. Sleep is more important.
Moderation posts are/should be in yellow. I’ll make this on yellow as an example.
Not sure if we’re 100% consistent in making them like this though.
We could write book of law for this forum, but we’re volunteers. The last update to the guidelines took us around 2 weeks. First of all someone needs to propose an update, next all have to read and agree. And then we shoot holes in our new guidelines, what if…blablabla . And then we fix the holes, change the rules again a bit and then finally we’re done. Takes us hours of reading and debating. Not because we don’t agree but because we all ask the What if…? questions.
So if we need to write another bunch of rules for possible conflict-of-interest stuff, that would be quite some work as well. And if we did, I still expect some people to reply in topics saying we miss stuff, or things aren’t clear. Or we’re these awful mods making our own rules that apply to ourselves. We can not satisfy the 100% of all users in a community.
So like I said before, feel free te propose some rules, and let us reply and try to shoot holes in it as we do with our own ideas as well. And then fix them, ask again if people look at it. Maybe it lead us somewhere, maybe not. It’s harder than you think.
Show me where I said it was easy. I don’t think for a minute your job is easy or the task of keeping everyone happy is easy. Maybe the issue is how you determine if an issue really exists. Crafting rules is not hard and there are mountains of examples.
The important thing is that things are clear when it comes to conflicts of interest and I don’t see the wording is clear. Ambiguity is more my take.
And I subscribe to a forum with fewer rules but rules that are broad reaching.
Show the direct rules and come up with something that’s more clear then. I don’t exactly understand what you think is not clear.
@moderators I would like to suggest a modification to this but am unsure of what the message is. How does “on an individual basis” change a moderators role. Can someone explain in other terms what this means.
I don’t care when, this is not crucial.
We are neutral on crowdfunds and or ICOs. And if a mod becomes active for a project as an adviser or something, or as a coder it should be made public, so people know: “Person X is working for that project now”. And if that’s the case, that doesn’t mean that all mods support that project more than any other. It’s just that that person does it on a individual basis.
Ok thanks. There is redundant stuff here causing the confusion. I’ll look through it and submit a suggested change.
Can we keep all ICO threads off the main forum page after a short period to announce? I am getting pretty sick of reading about stuff which isn’t safe net related on the main page, especially when it is used as a platform to peddle FUD or abuse… from either side.