Guild Wars 2

How about having a team of volunteer player based moderators ?

There have been many issues/concerns made now about the power mongering attitude of some moderators. So.. other forums have a number of player based moderators. Maybe we could get the same here.

Now Im not suggesting these Moderators have the full function of the full time guys, nor should they have access to the info that actual moderators get. However they should be able to comment, help and maybe intervene where it is required !

If there are any issues the full time Mods have missed or miss-understood, these player mods could bring the topic in question to their attention or direct it to the attention of the correct person.

Obviously a form of NDA would be required as well as agreeing to to a Code of Conduct. But this could help eleviate some of the bad feeling between player and current moderator team !

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At least these mods don’t outright insult you like on Blizzard’s forums. I’m pretty grateful for what we have now, even if these mods can be overzealous.

Player mods sounds like a good-ish idea, but I fear that by mistake Anet would hire the occasional idiot that doesn’t understand free speech and/or the power to disagree with a statement or action.

Not to mention that some of these volunteer player mods might ban or infract any posts here on the suggestions forum that do not fall in line with their own personal view on how the game should evolve. For instance, pro-mounts mods deleting any posts against the idea of mounts (and vice versa) and so forth. I’ve seen this happen on once-popular The Sims forums where paysite owners and paysite sympathisers banned anti-paysite members for posting an opinion.

Who would end up moderating these volunteer moderators?

uknortherner.2670:

Not to mention that some of these volunteer player mods might ban or infract any posts here on the suggestions forum that do not fall in line with their own personal view on how the game should evolve. For instance, pro-mounts mods deleting any posts against the idea of mounts (and vice versa) and so forth. I’ve seen this happen on once-popular The Sims forums where paysite owners and paysite sympathisers banned anti-paysite members for posting an opinion.

Who would end up moderating these volunteer moderators?

And what would be the point of that? Firstly I already said they would have to confirm to a ‘code of conduct’ secondly, thats hardly a unbiased point of view for a moderator.

All I can suggest is go look round some other game forums, those that have these, work well in conjunction with the normal moderators and it brings a nice balance to the game !

Not going to happen.

More so then not this doesn’t work and ‘code of conduct’ wouldn’t do much unless their account was severely punished for their actions. uknortherner is exactly right when he said “do not fall in line with their own personal view on how the game should evolve.” because there will always be some over zealous player who is willing to be a martyr for his/her own personal direction for a game they like.

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A supervising moderator would moderate these volunteer moderators.
The lack of free speech and the power to disagree might be the current problem (caused by some blatant moderation) that having volunteer moderators might help alleviate.

There are no power-mongering mods on this forum and I have seen no such issues. If anything they are very polite, answer even stupid questions (repeatedly). If you have bad feelings with the moderator team, I very strongly recommend looking in the mirror.

The only problem I have with moderators is that they adhere to american morals which are to some extent detestable for Europeans. The only infraction I disagreed with was discussion of bisexuality in broad non-descriptive strokes. Apparently that’s not okay.

Posts that reflect bad on the company or the product tend to get deleted, happens on all corporate forums.

Yeaahhh… Nty. I prefer Anet monitoring their own forums. They don’t need additional mods (If you think it wouldn’t cause any issues, then you need to rethink). You already agreed to the code of contact when you bought the game. Let the mods do their thing.

I’m not sure that mongering is the right word.

Anyway, it won’t work. Anet would be the ones deciding which players would get the job, and they’d choose those that brownnose the most.

I’ve been on forums where moderators and administrators had their own code of conduct. An effort to prevent power from being abused. It gave a mistreated user something to base a complaint against. Although that rarely happened because the mods there treated people well because of the code of conduct keeping them in line.

Less moderation is needed in my opinion — the types of comments that get infracted as “trolling” I find completely unjustified. On these forums, your opinion only seems to matter if it doesn’t hurt somebody’s feelings.

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