Moderation standards for XC Passes subforum?
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:21 pm
I've noticed a lot of conversational chatter on posts in there, either people asking questions about an area or "kudos" comments that stick around for months/years. The forum guidelines clearly state that "the posts in this forum should be information/data only".
This is interesting to me personally,as I had a post deleted a while back there within hours with snarky comments. Not coincidentally that's when I stopped contributing regularly to the forum.
What warranted such a vigorous response? See the Vennacher Col post I made and include some more information that served as a bit of warning about how KSR defines Class 2 (basically anything without exposure afaik regardless of mode of movement). The explicit bit about it not being a guidebook is new, but I did clearly state it was a fiction novel that had a small section in it about a backpacking trip and it seemed clearly derived from KSR's personal experience. I assumed my second attempt only survived because it was commented on around an hour later.
https://www.highsierratopix.com/communi ... 49#p172049
I get that HST tries to be "nice", but IMO you should either stick to your guidelines or explicitly loosen them if they're not going to be enforced. One of the responses I got was "Obviously, the intent of that forum is to provide users with essential, elementary information (EEI) only, not muddied up with extraneous content."
There's a lot of non "EEI" content there - IMO adding a secondhand account to a pretty sparse post with images that aren't useful (far off low res images with watermarks on them) counts as valid "additional information" and others thought so as well.
This is interesting to me personally,as I had a post deleted a while back there within hours with snarky comments. Not coincidentally that's when I stopped contributing regularly to the forum.
What warranted such a vigorous response? See the Vennacher Col post I made and include some more information that served as a bit of warning about how KSR defines Class 2 (basically anything without exposure afaik regardless of mode of movement). The explicit bit about it not being a guidebook is new, but I did clearly state it was a fiction novel that had a small section in it about a backpacking trip and it seemed clearly derived from KSR's personal experience. I assumed my second attempt only survived because it was commented on around an hour later.
https://www.highsierratopix.com/communi ... 49#p172049
I get that HST tries to be "nice", but IMO you should either stick to your guidelines or explicitly loosen them if they're not going to be enforced. One of the responses I got was "Obviously, the intent of that forum is to provide users with essential, elementary information (EEI) only, not muddied up with extraneous content."
There's a lot of non "EEI" content there - IMO adding a secondhand account to a pretty sparse post with images that aren't useful (far off low res images with watermarks on them) counts as valid "additional information" and others thought so as well.