Here’s a latest update from the unusual domain that is the Building Forum. At times enlightening, at others infuriating. I feel like a patient on a couch while writing of my attempts to work out a modus operandi for navigating through difficult discussion. I bring you item number three in my experiences, namely a thread [...]
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Forum - not fun
More growing pains on the Building forum. Having decided as a team to give a couple of temporary bans to some troublesome users they are back with a vengeance. I’ve just gone back and re-read the really helpful comments from my post of a couple of weeks ago musing on the ethics of moderating and [...]
Forum rules
I’ve come up with some for the Building site. Some of them are “inspired” by other sites. Not sure about the attempts at humour. here goes:
Forum Rules
“With freedom comes responsibility”
The Building forum is an open online environment for free discussion, debate and collaboration. We like to see it, to quote that bit in Monty Python’s [...]
Forums, moderating and tone
Bit of a navel-gazing post today. I’ve been musing about a couple of things in the past few days: forums and the tone of our sustainable coverage. In the first instance we’re now got the Building forum, launched some months ago, to something of a critical mass. There’s upwards of 350 people on it. I’m [...]
