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Quote from gmst:

+1 to above.

People should be allowed the rights to self-moderate their own forums.

Instead of private invite-only forums - everyone should have "read-access" to everything posted on ET, but thread starter should be given the right to moderate his own forum by taking away "write-access" from the people who create trouble on his thread. To be able to bar anyone from being given write-access on a particular thread, thread starter must gain some kind of acceptability from other readers. My suggestion is follows:

Implement following small little box that will be present on top of each thread. The box will have the space for thread starter to propose the name of the miscreant from whom he wants to take-away the "write-access" for this particular thread. People should be able to vote in favor Vs against the proposal.

vote to ban "this guy" from this thread - kind of small window on top of each thread. I will say if 75% or more people vote to ban the guy, the thread starter should have the ability to ban the guy. Minimum number of votes required should be at least 10, this will ensure that just 3 guys don't collude together to ban a person from a particular thread.

Threads like "Characteristics of a Successful Trader" are very useful thread for majority of people. If some miscreant will start making trouble, hordes of silent majority will come and vote to ban this person and so the problem that EricP faced will be alleviated.
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+1 to thread starter being able to moderate their own threads.
 
Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
 
Quote from Baron:

Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
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Super!

That is exactly the right way to do it - as a limited experiment at first to work out the wrinkles.

I can think of various aspects, such as

- should the thread starter be required to declare at thread-start time the moderation criteria he will use from a set of choices (relevancy only, relevance and quality of posts, or arbitrary)?

- should a thread-starter be able to add self-moderation after the thread is going or only at thread start time?

But any self-moderation approach is good to start with and such fine point issues will become obvious with time.
 
Quote from Baron:

Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
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Awesome.
 
Quote from Baron:

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

Let me know your feedback.
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The obvious existing forum to do the test would be the Journals forum.
 
Probably a fairly effective way to downgrade the site's standing. Will see!

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Quote from Baron:

Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
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Whilst I agree the journals forum is where the owner has the most right to moderate, if you really want to put the idea to the test, do it in the TA forum.

We will then see how fairly self-moderation works in a provocative environment, whether people will distinguish between healthy debate and nuisance posts.

If that forum does not turn into People's Daily, then it just might work.
 
Quote from Baron:

Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
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Awesome. MANY THANKS.
Journals forum will be a great forum to start this.

With time, you can decide - that you want to keep this self-moderation feature in some forums, whereas you want to not allow for self-moderation in other forums. A mix-and-match approach might work best.
 
Quote from Baron:

Ok, this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create the ability for thread starters to moderate their own threads, but initially, it will only be in a single forum. That forum may be a new forum or one that currently exists.... I haven't decided yet.

That way, the forum will serve as a sandbox to test out the concept, and if it works good, it will be implemented in the other forums. If it crashes and burns, it won't be a big deal anyway since it won't have affected the majority of the site.

Let me know your feedback.
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Excellent, brother Baron.
I think this will drive more posters to ET.
I'd like to see this started in the Trading or Tech Analysis forums.
Magna does a good job watching out for the Journals forum, already.

Or, alternatively, as per your suggestion, maybe just start a completely separate "Self-Moderated" forum with threads pertaining to anything trading related.
I can envision such a forum with much greater civility and where people can browse thru various trading topics and choose which to follow.

On another front, I think you should make a special forum where only people who registered before the year 2000 get to post.:p :D :p
 
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