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Posting these suggestions here upon Vijay Sir's direction as he asked all those making suggestions for IF's functioning or address issues to make a topic in this section. The following are mine, if other members have their own too, please share them all here so that the Moderators, DT's and Admins can keep a track of them in one place.
These were all thought of keeping in mind the dire need to curb hate & abuse, cyber bullying & harassment, stalking & defamation, fan wars, etc incidents. I understand these will probably be difficult to implement as there'll be programming, networks, technical and other challenges involved but I'll suggest them anyway,
- Password protected threads for Invites Only Chat Clubs. Stalking incidents are on a rise off late which not all the time leads to correct or genuine reporting (as people tend to report for their own agendas) which in turn leads to warnings or shut downs of CC. Takes away from discussions despite it being a platform for the same.
- Hide/unhide & block/unblock features for topics or posts one may or may not want to see in the forums.
- Option that enables a topic maker to shut it down temporarily incase the discussion goes haywire and moderators are unavailable around the time. Topics can then be reviewed or closed permanently if required once a Moderator checks it.
- Reducing the workload on moderators (as its a job without any monetary benefits) by employing more admins from your team to handle serious issues (technical or otherwise) that may require immediate attention. Also, since you happen to be the only admin around and members may want to reach out directly to an authority at the upper level in your absence or unavailability.
- For a greater degree of fairness and effectivenes in the moderation system, when a member is applying to be a moderator, he/she can be asked to choose between the two positions. Either be a moderator or a member but not both at the same time.
- I'd also like to bring to your notice the same issue everyone here seem to be bringing up; Moderation. I'm sure you must be aware of it but since a couple of months (or more), many forums have no active DT's. Now, I very well understand that moderation is a no easy feat as you're required to put in a lot of time, energy and work into something that fetches you practically no returns.
But I have to admit that since this platform does have such a system, ensuring that at least a handful of moderators are around or at least respond back within 2 days isn't asking for too much. I do personally think that getting rid of the moderation system altogether and let one's own sense of good judgement and conduct prevail would perhaps make everyone's life easier but then I also get that it'd bring down this site's reputation, credibility, reliability and functioning a notch down. Only after multiple requests and complaints was the issues I was pitching reports about was dealt with. While I'm indeed thankful for that, I think we'd all agree that timely action in such cases is of utmost importance.
- Also, I'm not aware if there already is one but could there be a topic opened that keeps a tab on the active moderators that members can check upon when in need of any assistance or to lodge reports/complaints if they're still unresolved after a period of time?
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