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over a year ago
Rated by the question asker is not. Why would I even rate my own self? That is absurd and would be unfair to all! "
Not sure if I understood the above comment correctly, and please, let me know if I misunderstood. But I think this was set up so the person who asks the question, has the opportunity to rate any Aunt who has answered their question. It's not a perfect system because sometimes people don't like the answers they read, from a certain Aunt/s , no matter how 'right' that answer may be. So the poster will give it a poor rating. If they read what they want to hear, they will give a certains Aunt/s answer a high rating.
Since I started out here in 2005, I have found there has always been the nutjobs that use this site, in the wrong way. The good quality folks with real life issues, get turned off by this stuff,. Sadly, as this site widens it's user base and becomes more popular as it has the past year, we are always going to get a lot of 'crazies' who's 'questions and answers 'slip through and get on the site. So we have to keep those nuts at bay. So I say...speak up AUnts and keep Andrew informed. Be the watchdogs. The 'forum' section is particularily vulnerable. So one has to really watch that section of the site. That is where a lot of these nut cases advertising their porn sites, for sex partners, dating, webcam sex, cybersex , blah, blah. When we see this kind of stuff, I know that Andrew likes to know. He has his own life and he not at the computer 24/7...so I'm sure he'll agree when I say, he doesn't catch everything that comes into the site. Although he has made huge efforts to use anti-spam and security programs, some junk still slips through onto the forums. I think if more of us Aunts helped by alerting him, he'd certainly appreciate that.
About the main site, I can relate to Waterloo's concerns. and I think she brings up some really great thoughts and issues. I am one of many moderators on this site, and I think the concerns she has are important for all of the moderators, here at DearCupid to consider and think about.
Moderating is a big job and we do have a specific code/criteria to follow. But sometimes perhaps, when us volunteer mods are under pressure to get those questions and answers out on the site, maybe we are not reading them as closely, as we should be. I do think, we need to start really, really reading content more closely, viewing the ages of the posters and very carefully, use our most heightened level of common sense and if something looks fishy, or seems to bizarre to be truthful,-I suggest just tossing it into basket 13.
Now, on the other side of the coin, I do also need to say, that there is a vast incredible 'amount of obscenties, filth and garbage questions and answers, that DO NOT get near the site and is rejected, daily. Sheesh! You have to have an 'iron stomach and a strong duisposition' to read what some sick people will say. It can be very disturbing.
But please understand too...we are volunteers mods, doing this in our spare time...we do make mistakes. Some of us do this job from our homes where there are kids, pets, spouses, constant noise and many distractions behind us, that can cause our focus to be off. I know --it's happened to me a few times. I learned from that. After that, I decided I would do 'moderating' when I was well rested up and 'not' distracted by my own life, (my quiet time) But generally, judging by the bad stuff that gets rejected, I want to give my fellow mods, huge kudos, for doing a tremendously good job! It's not easy reading that crap that many of those many, many nutjobs send in.
Posted on 26 February 2008 @ 20:2 (London time) - permalink
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