Mod request

Austin, you were fine, honestly.

CAAL & Gyac - I didn't know that about the apps, sorry. I don't know much about the techy side of the site at all. It worries me that I'm one of the last mods standing when I only really signed up to help people change thread titles and edit posts. I don't know how any of this shit works!

i support getting emil.y and mods support! i wish that i could step up to it and help myself but i don't think that would be a good idea. but it might be time for some new mods and there are lots of good options

i'm sorry Austin, I should have written xpost before my post so that you knew it wasn't you I was talking to

Also, I use zing 99% of the time and the fp function iirc isn’t picked up on that

Yeah I believe so.

Emily, not your fault, but maybe we should have more for these kinds of purposes?

I test-FP'd a post from Zing on my phone and it worked ok, but same as emil.y I don't know much about the tech side, so I don't know if gyac is having a buggy experience or how to fix it.

I swear this came up before but can’t find any evidence of this claim so maybe it was fixed?! Maybe this was years ago?

Yeah I can FP and Block User from the Zing app— it’s
not obvious, but one has to tap through to the offending post, then tap the the triangle with exclamation point in top right corner

yes that’s correct, there just seemed to be some uncertainty as to whether it actually f’d the p

Hi mods please take my gov name and addy out of this pasted post: International Anthem: S/D

ok

Thanks!

hi, next to last post in what is going on in your musical life

is unnecessary - I had tried to do a start time but I goofed and really there's no need for it so the last two can just go bye-bye, thanks.

ok

Thanks, your modness. A deeply regretted lapse in judgment. I have been kinda haphazard lately due to unforeseen personal turmoil but will strive to be more betterer in future.

ok

mod: are you ok or not ok

https://media.tenor.com/ivll9Fe_0NcAAAAC/danielle-van-de-donk-comme-ci-comme-ca.gif

"Smooth Criminal" intensifies

This thread can be locked when you get a chance--thanks.

I Been Hangin' Around Grain Elevators: The ILM Canadian Pop Music Poll (Nominating/Voting Thread)

ok

It's not urgent, but if a moderator can, maybe you can help me to de-uglify the Canadian Pop Results thread by removing these two posts:

You Could Get Lost Out Here: the ILM Canadian Pop Music Results Thread

You Could Get Lost Out Here: the ILM Canadian Pop Music Results Thread

Thanks.

Got 'em

Great, thanks!

hi i'm bad at tabs on mobile. please delete posts here and here. thank you.

ok

Would a mod please delete the mis-pasted link from this post? commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996

UGH I mean from THIS post: commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996

why is this not working

THIS post I'm sure!!! Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

Removed the link from the post on the NJ thread.

Thank you!

Doctor, mod thyself

doctors must sign an oath to never modify their own body for financial gain...but in this casino, the house always wins

Hello, mods. Please can someone change the title of the Help me with Bollywood thread to "Help me with Bollywood and Indian cinema in general"? Thanks very much.

ok

Thank you.

waving my small flag that says "when a mod edit changes the context of seventeen years of posts it would be good from both an information management and a UX perspective to note the change and date in the first post, as well as respectful to the posters"



(as a completely separate question, iirc there was previously a policy that thread title edit requests ought to come from the OP, no? this specific title change is obv practical and sensible, just asking if that shift in policy was discussed (or I imagined it): imo it's a bad precedent for randos to get mods to change other peoples' posts via a single request)

mod, please change sic's dn to "bae"

“randos”

I usually try to indicate that the change is new - for threads that become RIP threads I'll often add that with the date but I don't think I've ever added a date for anything else, it's more likely to be a parenthetical or a 'now featuring' addition. Honestly, I'm with sic on disliking the change to context of the first posts in a thread, and I'd rather people started new threads if the topic veers off wildly, but I understand why that doesn't always happen. I'll definitely consider adding a moderator comment in either the title or first post from now on.

As for only changing when the original poster requests it, I think that depends on the age of the thread. If it's a new thread then absolutely, but if it's over a decade old and has been used regularly for discussion of an additional topic, I kind of feel like it's fair to change it for search/usability purposes. I was happy to add Only Connect to the University Challenge thread title, for example, because that's where the discussion happens - I have no idea if it was the threadstarter who asked for it but it was definitely for the benefit of the regular users of that thread.

yes, threads adding "[RIP June 2022]" or "[now also featuring Keith Sweat solo material]" is a clear contextual change! - I originally cited RIP additions as a fine precedent but lost the post on zing

(brimstead: not suggesting that trishy is not a poster in fine standing - if I came onto a Roxy thread seventeen years after it started and then asked for and immediately received an alteration to Roxy's words, I would also be a rando in that circ)

so are we adding RIP 2023 to the Does This Dog Look Like David Crosby thread? y or n?

Did the dog die? ;_;

David Crosby did. I want to think the dog is immortal

but seriously -- would it be possible for a mod to add hidden text tags to this post and the subsequent post by the same poster around the content referring to #metoo stuff?

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

I've sent soref an email and hidden the first post with a content note. I'm a bit unsure about the second as it doesn't seem any more explicit in its analysis than treeship's post. Should I hide one, both or neither?

I am definitely in favour of people using the spoiler tags to hide potentially upsetting discussions (though please anyone reading this remember that you have to do new tags for every paragraph!) and I am willing to do it as a mod intervention when people think it's needed, but it can be tricky to know exactly where the lines should be drawn. So yeah, let me know what you reckon about the other posts before I go forward with anything else. I don't want to be seen as punishing soref, but I do want everyone to feel comfortable.

Yeah this is a totally unnecessary request IMO.

I get why the first one might be a bit too upsetting to want to just casually read, which is why I went with the request - it absolutely isn't a condemnation of the post itself but just a note of caution. I personally feel like the second post and several other comments on the same topic don't really hit the level of needing a warning. However, I know my level of comfort isn't the same as everyone else's so I'm open to suggestions.

Also, I'm commenting as myself and not as 'mod' because I want to be open about my thought processes as a moderator here, and as the mod decisions I'm making aren't ones that we have a specific ruleset for I'd appreciate feedback on/criticism of those decisions coming to me rather than the other mods. I don't know if that matters to anyone but me, but that's how I'm thinking about it.