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“Is something wrong?” Yes: Too much moderation
What to do?
From my perspective, the moderators should do less. A lot less. The site is fine. It attracts a reasonable amount of quality questions and answers. The next time someone posts an off-topic ...
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We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas
I believe changes to scores in policy metas should be observed as reflecting the ongoing, developing will of the community. Leaving these metas open and unlocked is useful for gauging that will, and I ...
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Proposal to reboot our forum list
Curate, update, and consolidate existing list into one article
What I always intended for that list was to consolidate all of what it had collected into a single large post with a more natural ...
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"Is something wrong?" Yes: Pervasive ad hominem and judgmental behaviors
I wrote a long response to this, and I might post it later, but it needs a lot of editing before I'm ready to post it.
However, as I wrote it, I really started to think about what's actionable in ...
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“Is something wrong?” Yes: Too much moderation
I'm going to play the other side of much recent meta-action for a moment:
We tapped three of our most-active users to moderate. So all of their actions now carry a diamond.
I don't think we want to ...
nitsua60Mod
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What is the process for establishing and maintaining policies?
Answering the individual questions
Note that these "answers" are informal and reflect what I have seen occur in the past with these types of situations; they do not reflect what has always ...
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Checking in: do we need any updates to our Citation Expectations Q&A?
There is room for subjective, experience-based answers to objective mechanics questions. Sometimes, they are necessary.
There is one particular section of the citation guidance that I think could be ...
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“Is something wrong?” Yes: Too much moderation
Policing questions before a community gets to see them, discouraging questions in comments by deleting them and jumping in before the automatic chat function kicks in.
So my gripe is when a mod ...
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“Is something wrong?” Yes: Too much moderation
Overall SE Norms
So here's the deal - I think that this impression is caused by a mix of not really having visibility into what actually caused a given instance of moderator intervention (frequently ...
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Accepted
Would it be helpful to have a Question Workshop thread?
I don't think we workshop questions often enough to warrant a dedicated thread
The advantage to having a question workshop thread as I see it is if it is already done a lot and you need to condense it ...
Someone_EvilMod
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How shall we frame our upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy?
Once a re-re-revisit is posted, lock it for a week.
This lets people draft up answers and prevents things like Fastest Gun In The West. It means that there will be an exact time at which the question ...
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"Is something wrong?" Yes: Pervasive ad hominem and judgmental behaviors
This is endemic to the online community, and it's about sending and receiving messages in the text based format.
I made an error in an answer very early on as I was taking notes. I then went about ...
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What's next for the issues raised in the community check in?
If you want to address a specific point from the check-in, you would open a Meta discussion on that specific point. With an eye towards what would be different about your new Meta if one exists on ...
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How shall we frame our upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy?
Wait an arbitrary (at least a month) amount of time until a clear winner emerges
Obviously, having voting end after a day or two is nonsense. Some people, who are active community members and have ...
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How to show the most recent community consensus in meta?
They’re not really duplicates.
Just looking at the two question posts, the “revisit” is a terrible candidate for the Q part of “FAQ”: it’s long and detailed and not asking the direct question the FAQ ...
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We need to talk about late votes to “policy” metas
On second thought... is this important?
Don’t Guess the System is almost certainly due for a revisit regardless, and not only is it the only example of this that we have—it’s also just about the only ...
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What is the time/protocol for enacting a meta decision?
There's no hard line on this
Whether a meta discussion is mature enough to have achieved consensus is a judgement call. And a big part of that judgement call is gonna be the scope of the proposed ...
Someone_EvilMod
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Which metas should we draw more attention to by featuring?
FAQ Index for RPGSE
We have an FAQ! It's full of questions tagged faq! It links to a couple-dozen excellent metas that cover a lot of situations users ask questions about!
nitsua60Mod
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Why is there an RPG.SE Meta question listed as an upcoming event?
It was a hack
You'll find this covered in that question (and in the comments below), but to reiterate;
We decided that the Revisit should be locked for a week before allowing answers. The decision to ...
Someone_EvilMod
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How does one propose policy?
There isn't a formal process beyond just proposing it. Meta is the place for “users to communicate with each other about Role-playing Games Stack Exchange (asking questions about how the websites work,...
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Proposal to reboot our forum list
Deprecate the forum list and start a new one
Arguments for this course of action are presented in the question, I won't repeat them here. Here are the concrete steps I would take:
Create a new forum ...
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How shall we frame our upcoming revisit of the Don't Guess the System Policy?
How shall we frame our upcoming revisit...?
With an eye toward the actual stakes.
Frankly, which way we end up going with DGtS isn't a huge matter for site health. Montagues argue that one way of ...
nitsua60Mod
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Why is my meta rep briefly different from my normal rep?
The reputation on Meta is only updated once an hour.
See for example
My “Meta” rep on Photo.SE differs from my main rep on MSE. The highest answer links to "What is Meta?" in the Help Center, which ...
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What is on topic for Role-playing Meta Stack Exchange
Meta is for questions about the site itself
In the Help Centre we have the article What is "meta"? How does it work?. (It's in the “Our model” list, visible if you click “View more”. It starts:
...
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Can and how should we advertise community games on meta?
No
Meta is specifically for discussing site operations, it's not a main site where the rules don't apply. It's counterintuitive except for site insiders that anything besides site business would be ...
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What's the actual process around [faq-proposal]s?
There is no formal process.
Something gets put on meta and if someone thinks it'd possibly be meaningful enough to be in the FAQ, it gets tagged with [faq-proposal] either at first or later on via ...
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Where's the FAQ? I can't seem to find it
FAQ Index for Role-playing Games Stack Exchange is our local (meta.rpg.se) FAQ. (It's basically an organized list of all the meta questions tagged faq.)
Here's the rpg.se Help Center: https://rpg....
nitsua60Mod
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Should we lock community check-in posts on Meta once we open a new one?
There’s another tool that you can use to determine what voting happened when: the timeline. (It’s that circular button under the downvote button.) For example, you can see that the answer “It feels ...
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What's next for the issues raised in the community check in?
I started writing a comment and then found it got too long.
I'll bow and take blame for it going somewhat unsaid and ambiguous, but I (subconsciously) assumed that most of the ongoing process is ...
Someone_EvilMod
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