Do you feel there should be a standard set of forum guidelines governing how & when r

[Alabama Blaze]

Do you feel there should be a standard set of forum guidelines governing how & when r

I'll warn people upfront. This is a controversial topic. Hopefully we can have a mature and meaningful conversation. I tired posting this thread on the other review board but they weren't interested in having this conversation. I have more faith in Fred Zed. I thought I would come here instead.

I've spent some time posting on ECCIE in Texas and on several punter forums over the past few months. I noticed how they rarely shutdown any review threads. They only close review threads when clients are attacking SP's or clients are attacking other clients.

I have to complement Fred Zed and the mods on PERB/TERB/MERB. You guys understand the importance of not mico managing reviews for reasons of integrity.

We regularly see positive reviews with nary a comment or reply getting closed on the other Alberta review board on a regular basis. This actually does more harm to an SP's reputation since the discussion moves into the shadows where things no longer be moderated.

Issues caused by closing threads too soon:

• Guys don't feel they can post accurate or honest reviews. You can't trust the reviews on websites that do this.
  
• SP's can't defend themselves from false accusations
  
• The conversation moves into the background where SP's have their reputations marred with false information
  
• Encourages White Knights to spam future threads on SP's they feel will receive special protection from the mods
  
• Only certain SP's have their review threads closed on a regular basis. The mods are letting personal feelings get in the way of treating everyone fairly under the forum rules. There's a definite bias there.

The punter boards in the UK set-up forum guidelines to govern how and when a review can be opened or closed. They do this to ensure the staff is being consistent in how they manage reviews on punter boards.

Do you feel there should be a standard set of forum guidelines governing how & when reviews are opened and closed on Canadian review forums?

 

[westwoody]

Guys don't feel they can post accurate or honest reviews.

I pretty much say whatever I want and nobody bothers me about it.

SP's can't defend themselves from false accusations

Problem with defending themselves is threads turn into he said/she said bickering that makes neither side look good. If some guy posts a bullshit review it is usually other more knowledgable posters who straighten him out.

The conversation moves into the background where SP's have their reputations marred with false information

Are you suggesting PM's should be monitored? No thanks. Probably a lot less stuff goes on in PM's than you think.

Encourages White Knights to spam future threads on SP's they feel will receive special protection from the mods

Don't see this happening.

Only certain SP's have their review threads closed on a regular basis. The mods are letting personal feelings get in the way of treating everyone fairly under the forum rules. There's a definite bias there.

Some SP's are trouble and need to be closely monitored. As in everything there are always a few who spoil things for everyone else.

Do you feel there should be a standard set of forum guidelines

There are always trolls who manipulate the rules, any moderation involves a judgement and discretion more than firm and set-in-stone regulations.

 

[Alabama Blaze]

I pretty much say whatever I want and nobody bothers me about it.



Problem with defending themselves is threads turn into he said/she said bickering that makes neither side look good. If some guy posts a bullshit review it is usually other more knowledgable posters who straighten him out.



Are you suggesting PM's should be monitored? No thanks. Probably a lot less stuff goes on in PM's than you think.



Don't see this happening.



Some SP's are trouble and need to be closely monitored. As in everything there are always a few who spoil things for everyone else.



There are always trolls who manipulate the rules, any moderation involves a judgement and discretion more than firm and set-in-stone regulations.

No, no one should ever monitor PM's. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe the regulations under the Canadian privacy act don't permit webmasters to install plugins that monitor PM's.

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com...-reading-a-users-privates-messages-on-a-forum

I was taking about the gossip that starts to spread when people see mods shutting down reviews instantaneously to protect SP's.

 

[Alabama Blaze]

It appears I had to many characters for the post title. It should read,

Do you feel there should be a standard set of forum guidelines governing how & when reviews should be closed?

 

[westwoody]

I was taking about the gossip that starts to spread when people see mods shutting down reviews instantaneously to protect SP's.

I see reviews get shut down because the reviewer is a troll or known liar.
There are also guys who have personal grudges against certain SP's. We had a couple in the Winnipeg section who were outright lunatic stalkers.

How do you know how much gossip spreads if it is in PMs? I don't see people talking about that in PMs ever.

 

[Alabama Blaze]

I don't think It's ever been as huge of an issue on Fred's forums. Don't get me wrong, I've had my reviews attacked on PERB in the past by SP's with fake handles. Generally speaking, I rarely see a review getting closed very often on PERB.

You had that trash posted by Chistian Bale a few years ago but no one paid attention to them. I've been looking for other resources outside of review boards these days. I just don't find them as useful as they were back in the day when Trawler was posting.