What do you think of my moderating?

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This is good.

 

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I think you are fine Fraggle. You have a good attitude, and are willing to do the right thing and work things out. And I think you are very respectful of others...just my two cents.

 

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I think you're doing fine and the Linguistics forum looks good. You have a nice set of relevant stickies and folks are genuinely interested in the material that gets discussed here. I'm sure if your edits were problematic, you'd have heard from someone that was edited.

The Linguistics forum is different than other sub-forums here at SF and demands a different style of moderator. I'm glad you're the guy for the job and it shows that you've put some effort into making it what it is.

 

As for editing people's posts: Perhaps, if the members of SciForums agree — and that's a strong "perhaps" — you could make a set of Linguistics-specific rules where you declare that you reserve the right to edit posts for factual accuracy, grammar, and so on. At least people would explicitly accept your actions in that case, and it would be perfectly ethical.

But my short response is this: I think you shouldn't edit a post at all unless the post breaks the rules of SciForums.

As for the other topics, I'll have to reserve judgement since I've been totally absent lately.

 

You people are insane.

 

You do a great job Fraggle Rocker.
I think you get the balance right between keeping it relevant and dodging rubber bands ( lacka banz).
Linguistics is far from dry and you will be aware that my interest in linguistics is mostly on the fringe where linguistics become colourful/ridiculous/playful.
Your knowledge( in all areas) and research skills are inspiring.
Keep up the good work.

 

Moderating.
No problems with any of you really.
I think that the current setup puts you all in an adversarial position
which could be avoided, but that is up to the site owner.

As regards changing posts, I will always correct a simple typo or spelling mistake if I see it in a message that I'm quoting in a reply. My keyboard constantly leaves letters out, so if I don't spot them I don't mind you filling them back in.
If someone's post was a whole string of mistakes, I would leave it as it stood.

Changing the content of a post is probably not a good idea.
Just add a note at the end, or a follow up post.

re Gustav language.
I can understand what he is saying most of the time.
Need a translator?

Example. Gustav's response to stubbing his toe on the bed-leg would be

Ouch!
Bastard
/must break bedleg

 

Any constructive criticism of the way we mods are working things is always welcome. I, for one, am interested in knowing more about how we could avoid the drama. But I don't wanna derail this thread. Send a PM to James R or Plazma Inferno!.

 

As a linguistics moderator Fraggle, you have your prose and cons.

 

What are those pros and cons?

 

A brilliant idea! An excellent service for the peeps.

You'll probably get mixed emotions on that one from both authors and peeps.

I haven't noticed that but it's probably something to avoid nonetheless.

Somebody slap his peepee.

Do you serve Cappuccino too?

 

You are a bad bad boy!

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He gets it right every noun then.

But whats with the discrimination thing?
One minute he's proverb then he's anti-semantic!

He has a bad attitude to platitudes then he's all abjectly objecting to adjectives.

Sometimes he's like the bloody I.R.S but instead of making collects in tax, he corrects syntax! Yer a bastard Fraggle!

Once I told him he was a mean cruciverbalist and I got nothing from him but cross words ( for weeks).

He's not always the right person for the job but when grammar needs a hand to cross the road, he's the man u script.

 

FR one thing you may want to watch out for is embarising and alianating members. I hate my spelling, i know i cant spell (make writing asignments rather difficalt) but it would be more frustrating for someone to come along behind me and draw atention to all the spelling mestakes like a teacher in primary school

 

I find peeps that point out my mistakes as only being helpful to make me see what I need to do to make my writing skills better. I do get sloppy at times and forget to use the "spell checker" here but that is no excuse and I'm learning that. Just want to say thank you to anyone who wants to help me learn what I am doing wrong so that I will improve my ways, not repeat the bad ones.

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Sorry for "ressurrecting" this old topic, but as I've been browsing the forum, maybe it's interesting to give my 2 cents:

As a videogame fan (even being almost 30 y.o. now), I've grown up playing my Master System / Mega Drive in my spare time. Everytime, when a cart was inserted into the slot, I read the text "produced by or under license of Sega enterprises". Years and years reading that.

I'm teaching some people in a reading course where I work and today, writing a phrase (in Portuguese, of course), I wrote "LicenSa" instead of "Licença".

So, if I make mistakes in my own native language, no problem in correcting me in English.

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cheers

 

I don't get why you would waste time correcting other members typos. I don't think you should correct them. I think you should leave the posts how they typed them.

I proof read my sons assignments sometimes and correct his spelling errors. He is 11 though, these are adults. If they can't spell or that is the way they talk, I don't think you should be editing their posts.