“Fundamentally at odds” seems way too strong to me, so I assume that I’m missing something.
What I mean is that on forums there is an expectation that mods will be fair to all sides, and this is in part achieved by the rule of not modding their own threads. If you feel like a mod abused their power (e.g. deleted content that didn’t violate the rules) you can often appeal to the other mods.
On a personal blog such expectations do not exist. If you get modded however unfairly, you just suck it up and move on. Since these expectations are totally opposite, when you mix the two models together on LW it becomes very confusing what one should expect.
It could be that “fundamentally at odds” is worded too strongly though. Let me know what you think given the above.
In practice, Authors utilize their moderation privileges so rarely that there seems to be no difference whatsoever between the user experience in the “full-forum model” vs. the “private spaces” model? Like the difference has never bothered me, or impacted my behavior at all?
Right, but the site admins are trying to encourage people to use it more, so I thought I’d report my own experience of being author-banned, as a warning to them. I also think if they’re not used more, then the author mod powers should just be removed, to fix the above mentioned confusion, which is there regardless of how much the powers are actually used.
Also, the author’s moderation policies are displayed just below the text box every time you post a comment? That seems importantly different than “no indication”, unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
I’m talking specifically about the comment boxes in the Feed section of the front page, which do not have such policies displayed, as of this writing.
What I mean is that on forums there is an expectation that mods will be fair to all sides, and this is in part achieved by the rule of not modding their own threads. If you feel like a mod abused their power (e.g. deleted content that didn’t violate the rules) you can often appeal to the other mods.
On a personal blog such expectations do not exist. If you get modded however unfairly, you just suck it up and move on. Since these expectations are totally opposite, when you mix the two models together on LW it becomes very confusing what one should expect.
It could be that “fundamentally at odds” is worded too strongly though. Let me know what you think given the above.
Right, but the site admins are trying to encourage people to use it more, so I thought I’d report my own experience of being author-banned, as a warning to them. I also think if they’re not used more, then the author mod powers should just be removed, to fix the above mentioned confusion, which is there regardless of how much the powers are actually used.
I’m talking specifically about the comment boxes in the Feed section of the front page, which do not have such policies displayed, as of this writing.
FWIW, this is just a bug (as I think I mentioned somewhere else in the thread).