Thank you for taking the time to respond. As already mentioned, forum moderation is truly a difficult job.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:12 amWhen threads cease to be productive and people are just using them to be divisive, or to underhandedly insult one another, or the conversation is simply becoming circular, locking them is a perfectly reasonable response.KeithA wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:47 am It happens a lot in the Zen forum, as well. Moderation is hard, and very time consuming. Vajrayana is the default here. It is what it is. Thread locking is the easiest, so it's the most prevalent. I agree completely that is would be better to remove posts and/or ban specific individuals, but that takes more energy.
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Keith
Making judgement calls about which threads are circling the drain is part of moderation, an important part in fact.
Secondly, here people are complaining about not taking the time to do deal with individual users, but we do that, and people complain about that too.
So, from our end there is no pleasing everyone, and every upset user has their own personal narrative of oppression by the DW mods, not only do the narratives often lack consistency, sometimes the complaints are actually the opposite of other complaints we hear..frequently in fact.
FYI we always let a mod that follows a particular tradition moderate that forum, whenever it is possible.
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Keith