Access to own infraction list
How a forum member can access their own infractions record, and find out when any of them expire?
For example, I have a situation where a forum mod perceived my post to contain a prohibited word, and gave 2 infraction points despite it was the 1st time ever. My subsequent posts were delayed with default message stating they need moderator approval. But the same moderator refused to review and approve any of my subsequent posts despite they did not contain any prohibited content, and I specifically verified it with published forum rules. When I asked the mod, why she failed to review my new posts, she never answered. Instead, she placed me into a penalty box without any notification of new violations or prohibitive conduct claiming my infractions reached 10 (this is bare minimum by rules), and without telling when the penalty expires. I believe it was done to avoid doing her duties in reviewing and approving forum member posts.
I specifically avoid to post the mod forum nickname as it may be viewed unethical, so not prohibited by forum rules as I checked today. But it raises reasonable questions:
- how forum members are protected from moderation abuse as in the above example?
- where forum members can find out what accomplishments placed a certain mod into the privileged moderation sits allowing to suppress other members?
- where a forum member can check her infractions list with expire date of each?
I also suggest the following:
- setup a closed forum for communication of forum members with moderation team. On this forum the members who received a penalty, would be able to file a public appeal for review not only by the admin, but all other mods. This way, if a forum mod abused her privileges, the open discussion would serve a positive discipline role for other mods, and restrain everyone from making frivolousness decisions or falsifying (enhancing) other members record afterwards to justify the abuse. Under current system, only forum admin knows about violations committed by mods, and lack of public exposure leads to more abuse.
Now someone can ask - how its possible for a mod to violate forum rules, or more accurately - how you can possibly have a courage to expose such violation to the public? The answer is - its mandatory for any adjudication process to have a balancing appeal process. Indeed, some judges may violate the law as we all know from media reports, and some even go to jail for criminal conduct. Another known phenomena at times reported by media and public - cases of police brutality and misconduct. This is also decided in open public court hearings instead of being hidden from the public, thus preventing other "rule enforcers" from even bigger privileges abuse. In this case, I simply suggest to limit the exposure to a common discussion among the moderation team, so its limited exposure without causing broader public doubt in the conduct of the forum adjudicators. In any way its better than current completely closed system.
For example, I have a situation where a forum mod perceived my post to contain a prohibited word, and gave 2 infraction points despite it was the 1st time ever. My subsequent posts were delayed with default message stating they need moderator approval. But the same moderator refused to review and approve any of my subsequent posts despite they did not contain any prohibited content, and I specifically verified it with published forum rules. When I asked the mod, why she failed to review my new posts, she never answered. Instead, she placed me into a penalty box without any notification of new violations or prohibitive conduct claiming my infractions reached 10 (this is bare minimum by rules), and without telling when the penalty expires. I believe it was done to avoid doing her duties in reviewing and approving forum member posts.
I specifically avoid to post the mod forum nickname as it may be viewed unethical, so not prohibited by forum rules as I checked today. But it raises reasonable questions:
- how forum members are protected from moderation abuse as in the above example?
- where forum members can find out what accomplishments placed a certain mod into the privileged moderation sits allowing to suppress other members?
- where a forum member can check her infractions list with expire date of each?
I also suggest the following:
- setup a closed forum for communication of forum members with moderation team. On this forum the members who received a penalty, would be able to file a public appeal for review not only by the admin, but all other mods. This way, if a forum mod abused her privileges, the open discussion would serve a positive discipline role for other mods, and restrain everyone from making frivolousness decisions or falsifying (enhancing) other members record afterwards to justify the abuse. Under current system, only forum admin knows about violations committed by mods, and lack of public exposure leads to more abuse.
Now someone can ask - how its possible for a mod to violate forum rules, or more accurately - how you can possibly have a courage to expose such violation to the public? The answer is - its mandatory for any adjudication process to have a balancing appeal process. Indeed, some judges may violate the law as we all know from media reports, and some even go to jail for criminal conduct. Another known phenomena at times reported by media and public - cases of police brutality and misconduct. This is also decided in open public court hearings instead of being hidden from the public, thus preventing other "rule enforcers" from even bigger privileges abuse. In this case, I simply suggest to limit the exposure to a common discussion among the moderation team, so its limited exposure without causing broader public doubt in the conduct of the forum adjudicators. In any way its better than current completely closed system.