>>IMO, the good moderator is the one that does not need to make interventions all the time.
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>That's one way of describing a good moderator. Another one is:
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>The good moderator is the one that makes a mild intervention in time.
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>It's my hunch that things always get out of control here due to the fact that moderation has always been entirely absent here.


Peter,

You read Michel's message quite differently than I did. What I heard was him being completely fed up with what has been going on in Chatter and all the complaints to him about it. Why would he want to set up a formal structure to police it? So he could give more of his attention to a section he has lost patience with already? We are all adults and are capable of policing ourselves. I thought the "or else" part of his message was also very clear. It's up to us to fix things, not Michel.