For a start and from the perspective of a person who works on the behind the scenes. I tend to lean towards the addition of:
The Tool Shed
Homestead Gardening
Homestead Livestock
Why? Because there are enough posts in Misc to warrant it and going through several thousand posts to get them all...
I agree that the animal and garden focus is different than you would find on easy garden or BYH. Although some of us at BYH are VERY SS in our animal practices, even though we have fairly large operations, I still think the forum would benefit from it.
One other thing this system does is make moderators more accountable for actions because what they do is recorded. So no moderator can take action that can't be reviewed. So the real pressure of the system is put on us now.
But here is the problem. You speak about heavy handed not knowing how many of a persons posts had to be deleted because of vulgar and hateful content and how many warnings they had already had.
These are the things we see that the members don't.
For two years on byc I had to put Mr. in front of moderator. Looks like I have to do it here too. Everyone always assumes mods on these forums are female.
Thanks free. It's only very recently I've come back to modding this forum after a very long absence. Not sure that was wise considering what I walked in to. :D
I maintain as I have said privately to quite a few that communication between mods and members needs to open up. And from what I gather...
You just hit the edge of another subject. That is why the new system was put in place. In that way we could track those who chose to continually cause issue and know what action a mod has taken. In that way it is an open system ALL mods can see and have input on as a team. In that way there is...
Personally I want to know who sent the PM free speaks of. If it was a mod it was way out of line and needs to be dealt with.
What I can say is that it was not reported or passed on to the other mods. I hope it is, so that issue can be dealt with.
This is one of the biggest issues as I see it...