A number of dedicated Realneo users are discouraged by, and therefore discussing ways/means to moderate/eliminate, the recent uptick in incivility on Realneo.
Unfortunately, ad hominem fighting between Realneo users is a temptation some cannot resist. Then the blame game becomes the topic. Reporting new news becomes forgotten as the fight becomes entrenched.
Many reasonable readers don’t want to wade through the animosity crap so they change the channel – leave Realneo for more moderated web sites - which effectively undermines and dilutes the work many civic activists try to accomplish at Realneo.
In the long term it seems that the solution will be to upgrade the Drupal software modules in order to allow each individual user to view or hide every other user – in essence each user will be their own admin. The present (old) Drupal software behind Realneo will not allow this option.
The image above is a screen grab of the present moderation queue as viewable by a Realneo administrator.
An administrator can “unpublish” selected comments without completely blocking the user. Unpublishing comments will require more admin time but may work as means of moderating incivility - a light slap on the wrist.
Maybe the personal fight will then be directed at the administrators! Ha They will love that!
Commercial spam has been unpublished for years by realneo admin.
Realneo users, please provide your thoughts as to whether or not comments - if the comment is an ad hominem attack or provides no community benefit to the thread under discussion - should be unpublished by one of the admins .
Thanks for your input.
best, Jeffb
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