Goonhub
04-16-2020, 05:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-16-2020, 05:44 PM by vampirate. Edited 1 time in total.)
Meant to quote Roomba:
It reminds me of the predicament cops are in. You yell at an admin, turn them in, or put them on blast as an admin... then you're on the outs with one or more, and you need to trust that they'll back you up when the time comes.
From the why we left thread, it seems like a lot who were willing to deescalate were worried about this. I've experienced similar in MUD communities I've adminned.
Things often had to escalate to the point where it finally had to be stopped.
It is part the hazard of any ingroup.
The answer I'd finally come up with on the muds, along with others, was to have a few admins assigned to resolve these issues by proxy. This meaning one or more admins made a complaint to one of a few admins and they'd shut it down or intervene while mentioning this was a requested action by one or more admins. Hurt feelings, but less targeted. This was a different environment though.
The mud's also usually have enforcers whose job it is to be hardasses. Generally people who didn't socialize much. These people, however, would sometimes power trip and have to be removed.
Still, assigning a few hall monitors that rotate isn't the worst idea. Someone watching the watchmen
It reminds me of the predicament cops are in. You yell at an admin, turn them in, or put them on blast as an admin... then you're on the outs with one or more, and you need to trust that they'll back you up when the time comes.
From the why we left thread, it seems like a lot who were willing to deescalate were worried about this. I've experienced similar in MUD communities I've adminned.
Things often had to escalate to the point where it finally had to be stopped.
It is part the hazard of any ingroup.
The answer I'd finally come up with on the muds, along with others, was to have a few admins assigned to resolve these issues by proxy. This meaning one or more admins made a complaint to one of a few admins and they'd shut it down or intervene while mentioning this was a requested action by one or more admins. Hurt feelings, but less targeted. This was a different environment though.
The mud's also usually have enforcers whose job it is to be hardasses. Generally people who didn't socialize much. These people, however, would sometimes power trip and have to be removed.
Still, assigning a few hall monitors that rotate isn't the worst idea. Someone watching the watchmen