Hello,
I do not care how moderation happens, but I do advocate for some trusted party behind the scenes keeping research records on these things. Such records would raise awareness about the extent to which moderation practices are influencing community membership.
Too often in wiki projects moderation happens without creating any record. Privacy has to be respected, and some offenses and accusations cannot be discussed publicly, but at least I wish the community and public could know how many times secret police actions are happening. Whatever the current practice is, I wish that some information could be passed to the future for longer term planning and reflection.
It would be nice to get regular feedback, perhaps yearly, which said for example, "In 2016 3 community members were blocked. 5 were formally admonished." Behavioral regulation happens in all sorts of wiki places and it worries me that when it happens, the observers have some pressure on them to not discuss it and there is no one keeping track of when this happens. I would feel more comfortable knowing about how often such things occur so that I would know if this is common, uncommon, being used more or less as compared to the past, or whatever the case may be.
No process is ever going to be perfect, and I do not want to pressure any moderators to try to have perfect practice or even more than mediocre practice. But I do think it should be required that if moderation happens, someone ought to centrally note that it happened without any judgement about who moderated who or why. The central notes should be reported back to the community after some time.
yours,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Adrian Raddatz ajraddatz@gmail.com wrote:
Considering how horrible on-wiki dispute resolution can currently be for all involved, I'm OK with keeping this in private here.
Fair enough. My comment was meant to rather point out that we don't have rules of behavior, and we're disputing enforcement first instead. I don't really object to keeping moderation private or semi-private (visible to other moderators).
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