[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by tgreer

It certainly appears the staff is trying to put policies into place to make the threads more civil and productive. I haven't seen any staff-hijacked threads lately. While there may be growing pains and missteps, I applaud the effort and will patiently give it a chance. The former issue, the hidden Coders Discussion, still needs to be rectified.

Yes Staff is actively trying to improve things. About hte moderation style, we came from a semi-unmoderated style, the site was ran like a community of friends, and that worked for a very long time.

Like with many growing "organisations" the policies and moderation style stayed the same for a very long time while the community was growing and changing.

One day you wake up and find all is a huge mess, your friendly undermoderating style don't work anymore, so suddenly you must change. I know for sure that we will have many many more discussions before we will have things running smooth again, but for the time being one of the changes must be to take back control of what happens and how. We will probably get complaints from (older?) members who feel that we will be taking away their "freedom of speech", but i am confident that this will be only temporary until everyone is used to the change in climate.

Bottom line is that no matter what direction we will go in the end, the process of changing will always be causing some pain, but you just have to take that pain if you're confident that it will lead to something better in the end.



PS: Lol what was it that i wanted to say?