There was never a claim made that we currently have a perfect solution, I stated that we did our best for the amount of resources available to us now and that we look to improve on the system going forward. There is going to be failures and tough decisions made, there is no getting around this, I think it's important however that we engage with the community to hear out what our members have to say. Not every decision we make will be popular, everyone has their own preferences and while one change will be popular with one group of people it may not be popular with another.
It wasn't our intention to create functionality that is going to make a moderator's life harder, it is just another side effect based on the choices we made years ago. We do realize that changes need to be made to correct this glaring problem, but we also need to think everything through and not rush into it. Everything we have created thus far has been done while weighing out all the possible options, we wanted to improve on the concept but at the same time make the right choices for the scalability of our platform. There are reasons to everything we do, every function we create, every rule we write. We will make mistakes along the way, but we will always reconsider and change our views if the right reasons present themselves for doing so.
On a side note, what does this mean about language learning tribes like /t/languagecafe? Are we still allowed to have those?
This is one of topics hot on the dev discussion plate. At this moment we have done nothing to limit these tribes in their content creation or visibility. Once we have discussed this topic at length we will update our literature and rules, I will post an update in /t/blog with more information in the near future.
Alright. I guess its just a matter of waiting. I hope you don't take this as me saying anything bad about the admin team as a whole. I completely understand the choices you all have to make. This is just me expressing my opinion on the huge downsides of one of the choices. I really appreciate the admin team's openness to talk with the community about its issues and ideas and not just sweeping our opinions under the rug. It's very refreshing.
There was never a claim made that we currently have a perfect solution, I stated that we did our best for the amount of resources available to us now and that we look to improve on the system going forward. There is going to be failures and tough decisions made, there is no getting around this, I think it's important however that we engage with the community to hear out what our members have to say. Not every decision we make will be popular, everyone has their own preferences and while one change will be popular with one group of people it may not be popular with another.
It wasn't our intention to create functionality that is going to make a moderator's life harder, it is just another side effect based on the choices we made years ago. We do realize that changes need to be made to correct this glaring problem, but we also need to think everything through and not rush into it. Everything we have created thus far has been done while weighing out all the possible options, we wanted to improve on the concept but at the same time make the right choices for the scalability of our platform. There are reasons to everything we do, every function we create, every rule we write. We will make mistakes along the way, but we will always reconsider and change our views if the right reasons present themselves for doing so.
This is one of topics hot on the dev discussion plate. At this moment we have done nothing to limit these tribes in their content creation or visibility. Once we have discussed this topic at length we will update our literature and rules, I will post an update in /t/blog with more information in the near future.
Alright. I guess its just a matter of waiting. I hope you don't take this as me saying anything bad about the admin team as a whole. I completely understand the choices you all have to make. This is just me expressing my opinion on the huge downsides of one of the choices. I really appreciate the admin team's openness to talk with the community about its issues and ideas and not just sweeping our opinions under the rug. It's very refreshing.