Finalized Amendment To Forum Policy

[Jay Edward (deceased)]

Ladies and gentlemen... Staff, having reviewed what Administration originally put forth and giving it carefull consideration, has decided that from this point forward the following will be official THL Policy:


Staff and Administration acting on behalf of Staff are the only entities that may speak about banning to other members of the forum. Administrators are only answerable to Staff for actions taken and Moderators are answerable only to Administration and Staff for the actions they take.

Administrators will not interfere with the day to day Moderation of the various forums except as deemed necessary.
 
Moderators will take the action necessary to stabilize the situation if they stumble upon a problem in a forum other than their own ONLY if the situation is grossly out of bounds and the forum's Moderator is offline. OTHERWISE, if the situation isn't dire, the visiting Moderator is to send a message to the forum's Moderator AND to at least one Administrator, and let them handle it.  The visiting Moderator should leave a message to the specific Moderator of that forum (with out any advice given) to be dealt with when the forum Moderator comes online.

The Administrators and Staff do not interfere with each other in the exercise of their duties and they support each other's decisions as a rule. Moderators will do the same and will not criticize the actions of other Moderators or 'correct' them.
 
Once a situation has been acted upon by Administration, Moderators will have done their job and will not be expected to participate in the situation UNLESS asked to do so by Administration. The whole point of being selected as a Moderator is that Administration and Staff believe the people asked are self correcting.


Please do not consider this a condemnation but rather a clarification intended to apprise us of the methods by which Staff wishes THL to function.  The manner in which we solve problems directly affects the general membership of the Forum and maintaining the atmosphere that Staff wishes THL to provide to the public is paramount.  Staff has selected ladies and gentlemen that they believe will make a greater than average effort to understand each other and the general membership.

Some folks may come here while still on the prod from a 'bad day' and we must be understanding when dealing with them... giving them the benefit of the doubt to start with.  The same is true amongst ourselves as we are just as human.

Certainly there are circumstances when you must act.  Please take the time to think the problem through and not just react.

[rockinbbar]

well done.

[LLANOJOHN (deceased)]

Sounds like a workable plan of action to me also!
 
Ol' John

[Jay Edward (deceased)]

Please note the 'finalized' version that has been edited into the start of this thread.

[Hunterbug]

Roger Wilco

[LLANOJOHN (deceased)]

Jay,
 
That sounds like a most workable plan to this ol' country boy!
 
John

[buckshot roberts]

me being new to this it sounds like a good plan, ron

[Alboy]

I'm in.

[recoil junky]

Like 'Bug said "Rodger Wilco"

Allen.

Yes I do have a name :grin: