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Originally Posted by nekokami
Tompe, both the content and the tone of the Conservatory area were the cause of complaints to the moderators. As you probably all know, there is a "report post" button on each post. Reporting a post results in adding the post to a queue and sending email to the entire moderation team. Many of the posts reported are spam, and are simply dealt with by the first moderator who has a chance. When a dispute arises between members, however, and a post is reported, the moderation team discusses the situation and decides what action to take, if any.
In the Conservatory, not only were a number of threads started with what appeared to be deliberately provocative topics, but the tone seemed to become angry much more quickly than in other areas of MR (even compared to copyright or DRM threads). You wrote, "the Conservatory seemed just like a standard discussion place." However, one of the comments we've received consistently about MR is that it is not just a standard discussion place. People find the tone here unusually civil and friendly. I feel safe in saying that the moderation team considers that maintaining this atmosphere of civility and friendliness is a priority. It does not mean that people cannot disagree with one another here. But we would like to be a cut above the usual internet forum in which flame wars seem to be a daily or hourly occurrence.
You wrote, "And if you discuss certain topics you will get polarized opinions and sometimes bad arguments but so what?" My response: why should we even discuss those topics here, unless they relate to ebooks? I understand building community with the light-hearted banter in the lounge, but these controversial topics don't bring people together, they drive them apart. Doesn't the internet already provide enough places where that can happen?
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Point taken. I probably have a too idealistic view of what you can get to work. In a perfect world you should be able to keep the tone in the rest of the forum even if you have on forum were certain types of discussions are allowed but maybe it is impossible in practice.
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1 - One can't subscribe to a subset of the lounge, e.g. only specific prefixes, for notification purposes
2 - One can't choose to select or exclude specific prefixes in the "new posts" view
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I actually found a good solution to this. I know have two buttons in one of the row in firefox and they are "MR no lounge" and "MobileRead" so if I fell reading in the lounge also I press "MobileRead" and if not I press the other button. I was surprised that I liked how this works.
The thing I am missing now is marking a whole thread as read. The only way I have found is to go to the last post in the thread but that is to much work.