A New Approach to Moderation at Websleuths

[TMich6811]

I appreciate that you’re listening.
I feel this will get out of hand and be far too difficult to moderate.

IMO it’s more about consistency and tone between moderators and threads and less about letting stuff through that goes against websleuths foundations. I’d hate to see what websleuths was founded on changed, personally.

Thank you though, it’s nice to see you trying to solve problems and make people comfy

 

[mlhenn]

Just to throw my two cents in, fwiw.

The reason I became a member of this site is because it's a refuge from the absolute garbage commodity that true crime has become on social media sites. Victim blaming, conspiracy theories, rampant rumors from dubious news sources or individuals, and just flat out meanness is the norm, not the exception, in most Facebook and Reddit true crime discussions. I sincerely appreciate and value the Webslueths ethos. Webslueths is an oasis from the nonsense that much of the internet has become.

I fear that some of the changes being proposed could water down the ingredients that make Webslueths so special to me.


Reed

I totally agree with you on this.
Fact based, victim friendly, the absence of just plain out rudeness is what set Websleuths apart from other sites.

 

[mrjitty]

This allows people to see why a post was flagged. Sometimes if it just gets deleted, they have no idea why because who remembers what you posted yesterday that might have been wrong out of the 54 posts you made?

Although I don't post much anymore, I'd like to second this take from @Ghostwheel and echo this feedback for an important change from @Fraize and team

Something that is extremely frustrating is when complicated posts that took a long time to write got deleted - sometimes simply because the OP was deleted and you get caught up in the cleanup. Then you don't have your original text, or even know what post was deleted, in order to fix the issue.

I understand that in the past, the only tool mods had was a hammer, hence deletion - so as a tech update this at least means a poster can retain the original text to consider amending!

Credit to Fraize for a welcome improvement.

Cheers, 02c etc

 

[iulia]

@Fraize This change is very interesting, I am very curious to see it in action. I have a couple of questions:

1. Will there be an option for users to flag portions of their own posts that contain the rumor/unbacked by MSM information? I am thinking something like the Spoiler button. I think this could save the mods time, instead of reporting your own post.

2. I spend most of my time in the Missing and Unidentified Forum, where I post when cases are removed from NamUs. Sometimes I find unofficial updates on Facebook and really want to share that. I try to tiptoe around it by keeping it vague and saying “IMO”, but most of the time I don’t say anything at all. With the new rule, would I be able to say it upright, without linking to the unapproved FB group or page? How should I handle this situation? The Missing and Unidentified Forum is very much about the resolution of those cases and it’s a bit frustrating not being able to share or find out the outcome if it never makes it to MSM.