Topic: Banning Members and Asylum Growing Pains (Page 2 of 2)

Sorry if I'm not supposed to be in here, but I'm trolling message boards today. OK, bad choice of words. How about I'm in serious work avoidance mode?

Two questions :

1 : What's a "finglonger" ?

2 : I'm not understand the question about banning (and related admin/mod functions) and why it's a problem. I understand that it's a method of last resort and so it should be, but why the hue and cry over more than one person having the ability to perform those sorts of admin duties?

I participate in several different "flavors" of message boards, most of them related to online gaming (MMOGs), and having multiple moderators is a given. You can't expect one person to handle moderation for a large community of any sort, they would start to find it difficult to maintain impartiality. That's why you have multiples, for checks-and-balances (which I see was the final status made for here). In addition, only having one admin can be a chokepoint if that person isn't available for assorted reasons (which is what happens occasionally on my guild forums).

Granted, gaming forums are a lot more volatile than a graphics forum (except for the dreaded politics boards, which I avoid like the plague), but that shouldn't mean similar standards wouldn't apply.

Once again, sorry if I barge in where I don't belong. I tend to read far more than I post anywhere I am.

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Regarding one,
our search is bloody amazing - look what it turns up in the first place when you search for finglonger.

I never claimed to be bright, now did I?

Thanks for the linkage, TP. I never even thought of doing a board search for the term.

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