Thread:Hackey5/@comment-27022259-20160530165918

Recently I had to ban a user from chat because of things he did in chat while no moderators are on, and I began thinking to myself: Is there a better way for us to handle this?

I then thought of a bit of an idea, but I think it would be best to run it by you first.

Should punishments be much more harsh if the rule broken was in the absence of moderators?

We cannot enforce chat all the time as things in our personal lives are constantly interfering with our activity here, as it should go without saying that moderators cannot live on the internet. However, I especially hate it when the only evidence we may have access to regarding an incident occuring in chat while no moderators are on, are purely from other people taking screenshots, and even those may be easily faked. Therefore, I hate having to deal with those types of situations because I have to base my moderating actions on a few screenshots. So, I came up with an anti-incentive to prevent these situations from happening. If it is well known that punishments are more dire, regardless of what rule was broken, then it will encourage them not to break the rules and to have fun on the chat as well as making others' experience much better, but as said before, I think your opinion here is what is needed right now.

Another question stems from the lack of establishment of moderating behaviors, specifically how long we, moderators, are able to ban for. I was told that moderators may only ban from chat up to a week, and if need be, run it by administrators and request a bigger ban, but that was never formally addressed to the entire staff. As well as the fact that it can be a long process as well considering administrators in my time zone are...well, almost non-existant. I would be lucky to see Primetime on chat at the same time as me, and we both know of Nusdan's conditions. I don't know about you but speed in management is quite important to me, no matter how urgent it is. Lack of speed is also the cause of the aforementioned situation in the previous paragraph, as it makes the situation way longer than it should. My previous suggestion may hopefully elude further extention of such situations. Thanks.

As a quick side note, you are 6 edits away from 15,000 of them. You got this! hehe 