Anyway, the tools have been completely redesigned. Here is how it works now:

1) Moderators can move threads between school-related and off-topic at the click of a button (this is unchanged from the previous system).

2) Moderators do "soft deletes" of threads. This means that when a moderator hits the delete button, the thread disappears off the board, but is still stored in the database. If the thread was deleted by mistake, rachmiel and I can restore it by just going into the database.

3) Moderators can no longer edit anyone's posts -- the only people who can do edits are me, rachmiel, and Boondocks (and of course the person who made the post).

4) Instead of editing posts, moderators can now do "soft deletes" of individual posts, meaning that when they hit the delete button the post will disappear from the thread, but can be restored by rachmiel or myself if it was deleted by mistake. Eventually we'll create a feature so mods and the original poster can see the removed posts so that mods can restore the post if the original poster edits out whatever was wrong with it (e.g. removes an outted poster's name).

5) I've created a database that keeps track of every single action a moderator does. So, if a thread or post disappears, we'll know who was responsible. Eventually I'm going to create a special page that only moderators can access so that all moderators can see every change made by all other moderators, with the hope that moderators will self-police themselves based on their actions being known to their peers.

Now, for what's going to be expected of moderators. It's pretty straightforward: moderators will move threads that have been misclassified, get rid of spam, and enforce the anti-outing policy. In other words, routine stuff that needs to get done but rachmiel and I simply can't do ourselves anymore. Anything beyond that routine stuff will have to get approval from me and/or rachmiel depending on the request (most likely rachmiel). If mods remove stuff they shouldn't, just email the contact address with the details and rachmiel or I will restore it.

So, with all that out of the way -- any nominations? Just to be crystal clear, this isn't a popularity contest: if 100 people nominate WhitePride he still won't be made a mod, and if 100 people say to demod NYCFan he'll be a mod if he wishes to remain one. Similarly, there are a few people rachmiel and I are likely going to invite to be mods even if their names don't appear here because we know they are reliable and trust them to do a good job.

Obviously some people are going to be disappointed no matter who gets chosen, but I want to reiterate that this site is not changing any of its policies, but is just delegating some work to reliable people who want to volunteer, and anyone who goes on a power trip and decides to unilaterally create new policies or make exceptions for friends and refuse to stop *will* lose their modship (the whole point of this is to reduce our workload, and my workload isn't going to be reduced much if I have to manually restore dozens of wrongly deleted threads from the database every day).

When mods get selected, their monikers will be posted in a mod thread I'm going to create later today, so there are not going to be any secret or hidden moderators or anything like that. You guys can feel free to use that thread to report threads or posts that are within the mods' jurisdiction.

Feel free to nominate people or to volunteer here. Not sure how many people we're going to take, but at the very least I'd like to gauge interest and get people's feedback on this whole system.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690068)

2. I nominate more feces guy

3. Please, for the love of christ, if you are not going to do anything about aznazn and people who get off on posting the word nigger, and if you're not going to create an ignore poster feature, at least create a third level of filtration so that the utter garbage nonsense spam that 95% of us dont want to see can be excluded. Hence

-school-related

-off-topic

-garbage mode

That way your mods can put all aznazn sewage and all the threads that so cleverly feature the word "nigger" and maybe one or two other selected categories of garbage/spam posting prominently in that third category, no free speech is impinged upon and the rest of us normal folk can get back to enjoying this board.

Just a suggestion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690102)

Plus then there's the issue of pissing off the flamers by moving or deleting their threads and as a result, they go flame- and spam-crazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690338)

Why tiptoe around it when you can just delete it altogether? It's not about censoring the topic (blacks are bashed everywhere on this board no matter what); It's about eliminating that spam of like 50+ nigger threads in one day. All by the same one or two posters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690330)

That racism is going to permeate the board no matter how many threads GTO deletes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690429)

This place has been around for 3 years and GTO has never done this for reasons of free-speech and libertarianism or some bullshit. I guess that's his prerogative. I'm just trying to offer a palatable alternative that might actually improve the content on this board.

As far as intentionally posting spam in non-"garbage" mode, I realize this might be resorted to but 1) the new mods can just send them to the appropriate filter ("garbage") and 2) GTO has said in the past intentionally and maliciously posting nonsense in school-related is grounds for deletion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690453)

a double limit would be even better - 5 per minute, and 10 per 15 minutes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690825)

I'm also not sure I want to be tied to the board any more than I already am, or that I have the energy to take the sort of shit that GTO does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7692206)

I obviously have the time to invest in some board-related stuff (my blog, PPP list, etc.) but those are things that I find independently interesting/useful and it's always nice to know I can just drop them if I get bored.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690742)

once xo becomes a job, it's not ognna be so much fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690759)

I recommend checking out the recent thread on the SullCrom associate for indicators of potential candidates -- these people seem to "get" where the natural line between a fun thread and a bad joke lies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690764)

A Horse Walks Into A Bar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690777)

RAAAAAPE!

GTO! he started it!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7690871)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7691347)

also, define "spam"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7691877)

I disagree with this piece of hagiography. Besides TALC's allegations of anti-semitism, grate has engaged in his fair share of racist and sexist b.s. on the board, and has his own agenda as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7693544)

find a racist post I ever made

but I might have teased some of the ladies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7768310)

Thanks guys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=588130&forum_id=2#7695742)