Idea for forum:

[TearValerin]

Volunteer moderators; after the community is established, SE should look for prime candidates to assist in keeping the peace amongst the boards. Look for examples of posters who assist the community, display their opinions without being detrimental/offensive, and just overall present a good example to the rest of the community. They can be monitored by the company to make sure they aren't abusing power, and/or harassing people. My idea would be:

-Give them the ability to lock, move, or delete threads that are inappropriate, or antagonistic
-Let them warn posters when their posts are becoming offensive to the point they will recieve punitive action from the main staff.
-Be arbitrators between company and playerbase for getting ideas acrossed in an orderly fashion
-Other ideas the company might have them do errandwise that I havent thought of.

[Auredant]

Volunteer moderators; after the community is established, SE should look for prime candidates to assist in keeping the peace amongst the boards. Look for examples of posters who assist the community, display their opinions without being detrimental/offensive, and just overall present a good example to the rest of the community. They can be monitored by the company to make sure they aren't abusing power, and/or harassing people. My idea would be:

-Give them the ability to lock, move, or delete threads that are inappropriate, or antagonistic
-Let them warn posters when their posts are becoming offensive to the point they will recieve punitive action from the main staff.
-Be arbitrators between company and playerbase for getting ideas acrossed in an orderly fashion
-Other ideas the company might have them do errandwise that I havent thought of.

If the company can moniter the people then they can monitor the threads. Not a terrible idea but it would soooo get abused. The only way it even remotely works is banning the moderator from participating in the discussion.

[TearValerin]

If the company can moniter the people then they can monitor the threads. Not a terrible idea but it would soooo get abused. The only way it even remotely works is banning the moderator from participating in the discussion.

How would it be abused? It's a common practice amongst free MMO forums, I see no reason why we could not have them. Especially when you think about it, I'm pretty sure SE has their hands full with projects/events outside of FF currently, they could probably use all the help they can get.

[Auredant]

How would it be abused? It's a common practice amongst free MMO forums, I see no reason why we could not have them. Especially when you think about it, I'm pretty sure SE has their hands full with projects/events outside of FF currently, they could probably use all the help they can get.

Many of these degenerate before the first page is done...and if the moderator is participating then he's not actually being objective. I think it would cause more problems than it solves sorry to say.

[Vinc]

Many of these degenerate before the first page is done...and if the moderator is participating then he's not actually being objective. I think it would cause more problems than it solves sorry to say.

I agree with this. No thanks to volunteer mods, unless it's Isladar.

[TearValerin]

Many of these degenerate before the first page is done...and if the moderator is participating then he's not actually being objective. I think it would cause more problems than it solves sorry to say.

It is easy to display an opinion without subjective bias, if a moderator touches base with the community in a way that that does not make the company look bad, how is it detrimental? It does not cause problems unless the moderator does not follow the boundary between work and play. I can direct you to a number of popular MMO forums where the moderators are all volunteer basis, and regulate things with a firm grasp of knowing as to where they stand between a player and a company representative.

[Alkalinehoe]

I nominate myself.

[Auredant]

It is easy to display an opinion without subjective bias, if a moderator touches base with the community in a way that that does not make the company look bad, how is it detrimental? It does not cause problems unless the moderator does not follow the boundary between work and play. I can direct you to a number of popular MMO forums where the moderators are all volunteer basis, and regulate things with a firm grasp of knowing as to where they stand between a player and a company representative.

Maybe I'm jaded because i see so much flaming/trolling going on. It's just my 2 cents but why would SE want a flood of complaints that this mod deleted my post or this mod banned me. That's where I think it would create more work for them.

[TearValerin]

Quite frankly, I think we need someone active and in good standing with the company to keep an eye on the boards. The huge number of ridiculous spam, repeat, and troll threads could be caught earlier and be merged and or locked/deleted like they belong. Keeping boards in orderly conduct should be a priority, but not at the cost of the company, since it's already taking cuts just so we can play. I really don't think people are that childish as to throw a fit that their thread got deleted, and volunteer moderators NEVER have the ability to deliver punitive action.

[Anon]

Too many bleeding hearts. Wouldn't work. If you want user moderated threads head on over to alla and ah. ki's another winner as well. You've always got bg as well. Those are community based website with user mods right? If that's what you want you can get it there.