Suggestion: moderators should have 2 accounts

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Sarkus

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I have a suggestion (although it may have been raised before):

Moderators to have two accounts: one exclusively for moderating duties, and one for when they're simply posting as a member.
E.g. "Joe_Bloggs" and "Joe_Bloggs_(M)".

This would help so that we know when the person is acting in their official capacity rather than just as any other member, but also so that we, the undeserving masses, can click "ignore" on them should we grow tired of their trolling (and/or other behaviour we might deem as dishonest), should they ever stoop to engage in such, the same way we can currently do with non-moderators.


Thoughts?
 
Wouldn't there be simple English phrases that mods can use to achieve the same thing? E.g. speaking for myself or taking off the mod hat or something like that. As for a mod actually trolling, that's a more serious problem that having dual accounts wouldn't fix. Make it worse, possibly. And the ignore part is easily done with a scrolling index finger or thumb.
 
Sarkus said: This would help so that we know when the person is acting in their official capacity rather than just as any other member, but also so that we, the undeserving masses, can click "ignore" on them should we grow tired of their trolling (and/or other behaviour we might deem as dishonest), should they ever stoop to engage in such, the same way we can currently do with non-moderators.
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Makes total sense to me, assuming a certain moderator would ever have anything interesting to say to me besides just trolling and flaming me and threatening me with infractions. :)
 
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I'm not sure if it was on this forum or somewhere else, but I thought that mods on SF used to post using a different font/color and would ''announce'' that they were about to ''moderate,'' in a particular thread that had gone off the rails.

I think that the challenge with two accounts for the moderator, is pretending not to be the moderator while posting under the username. Kind of like a cop who is off duty isn't going to just stand idly by, watching crimes take place all around him/her, and do nothing. So, even ''off duty'' mods might have a hard time not moderating when they see infractions and violations on the forum. In other words, two accounts wouldn't serve much of a purpose, in the end.
 
geordief said:
Let any mod be forbidden from moderating in a thread they have participated in to any degree.
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That would be tricky. Say a mod is contributing then becomes aware of a blatant infraction?
I think it's ok to have state that as a result of an infraction the, mod hat will come out.
 
Pinball1970 said:
That would be tricky. Say a mod is contributing then becomes aware of a blatant infraction?
I think it's ok to have state that as a result of an infraction the, mod hat will come out.
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In that circumstance the mod can report it to the other mods but cannot have a say in any decision.

I think I have seen this procedure followed elsewhere.

Certainly on this site (no names mentioned) it would provide a distance btw any mod and members who feel historic grievances against them while allowing the mods to post in any thread they wanted to without feeling like they need to question their own motives.
 
wegs said:
I think that the challenge with two accounts for the moderator, is pretending not to be the moderator while posting under the username.
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Yeah. That's worse in a way. Someone attacks "JoeScience" and gets a warning from "ModeratorJ" - and doesn't see (or understand) the connection. That would seem to be worse than getting the warning from JoeScience.
 
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