Three-Strikes System for Bad Behavior

[burr86]

Re-posting this because the original submitter was deleting comments to the suggestion. (Apologies to anyone who lost their comments when the submitter deleted the original suggestion.)

Title
Three-Strikes System for Bad Behavior

Short, concise description of the ideaset up a panel of arbitrators, and a message-forum-style "report offensive post"

Comments

[qfemale]

Reposting the main-points of my comments:

I don't want to have to worry that somebody might misinterpret my comment each time I comment outside of my journal on something and report me. That's just too much.

Also, if we are in general worried that maintenance in respect to drama/abuse/rudeness of communities isn't good enough, here was my idea for it:

There could be a group that 'certifies' community handling (or a comm or what have you). Kind of like a badge that is given to comms where the maintainers really do take care of the drama/abuse/etc so users have yet another way to decide if they want to join a comm or not.

This might somehow improve community maintaining on some levels.

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Or just piss off a lot of folks.

I know I don't like to join comms where the maintainers aren't doing a good job. And more than once it has been a reason for me to leave.

[adudeabides]

A user-run, voluntary certification system is an interesting idea. I picture it as a BBB for community maintainers/moderators.

[qfemale]

Exactly, like the BBB! ;-p

[adudeabides]

That's a sizable task to tackle, certainly.

[ruakh]

It's an interesting idea, but I don't know how well it would work in practice. I've been a member of cpp for years, and it's been a healthy, fairly drama-free community that entire time, but for most of that time it didn't have any maintainer at all. (I mean, it had one in the LiveJournal technical sense, but the account had been inactive a long time, and its owner had stated his intention never to visit LiveJournal again.) Then, on the flip side, there are other communities that are well maintained, but that are nonetheless dysfunctional and drama-prone, because that's the intent.

[qfemale]

>>It's an interesting idea, but I don't know how well it would work in practice.

Me neither, I - after all - have never done such a thing ;-p

But I'd like to think that the comm I run is drama free and well maintained and there is no intent to cause drama.