Moderating everyone in a controversial thread individually...

...before moderating the thread itself.

Petty?

I remember the "Counting Topic" massacre wherein a mod deleted every post individually rather than the entire topic.

It was not a pretty sight...

What did l miss?

Foppe posted...

What did l miss?

Me thinking out loud (for lack of a better term) about what might happen to me in that freedom of speech topic on the PS5 board if it gets modded for "politics outside CE" and the mod decides everyone who chose to engage needs to be taught a lesson and not just the instigator.

It's certainly a lot more work.

But sometimes it is important to have additonal post in the topic modded to provide context on the topic itself as it isn't uncommon to have bad faith topics made but with innocuous first post.

Oh. Does this have a history? Has it happened already?

Compsognathus posted...

It's certainly a lot more work.

But sometimes it is important to have additonal post in the topic modded to provide context on the topic itself as it isn't uncommon to have bad faith topics made but with innocuous first post.

Yeah but I already get it (at least in my example). The topic was never on strong footing permissibly but I felt what I wanted to post in it was well thought out and worth saying. To delete individual posts for "politics outside CE" before deleting the topic itself for that just comes off as "we made these rules for a reason and these little shits think they're safe by letting the TC take the fall while they freely sling political rhetoric around on GameFAQs, time for a reality check."

Basically a "You should all KNOW better but since you're all complicit by taking advantage of someone else's bad choice to make your own bad choice on top of it then consequences will be issued to everyone. The TC being wrong doesn't make it okay for the rest of you to join in."

Gee, thanks.

People wouldn't accept that role for free if they didn't get enjoyment out of modding. Asking them to delete the thread and not hit every post they can is like asking a fat kid to only eat one slice of pizza.

HylianFox posted...

I remember the "Counting Topic" massacre wherein a mod deleted every post individually rather than the entire topic.

It was not a pretty sight...

I remember a topic on the Guild Wars 2 board where someone asked a super dumb question (can't remember what it was at this point) where the answer was no. As I ended up going to the topic pretty much the second it opened I ended up replying with the simple "no" within the minute of it being up.

This caused a massive glomp onto the topic in which nearly a hundred other people chimed in with some variation of no, before all of them ended up getting modded (mine was the only one left). It was a massacre.

Were you bootlicking Nintendo again?

Reverse of that is thread is fine and makes it to several pages with no issues.
Someone enters thread and slings shit. Multiple people call them out for it and get modded but they don't.