Timeline for Make moderator messages anonymous
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| S Aug 23, 2016 at 14:22 | history | notice removed | user50049 | ||
| S Aug 23, 2016 at 14:22 | history | unlocked | CommunityBot | ||
| S Aug 22, 2016 at 20:59 | history | notice added | user50049 | Comments only | |
| S Aug 22, 2016 at 20:59 | history | locked | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | gerrit | Militarised and other riot police are routinely masked, so are police involved in high-profile raids such as against organised crime. The police example is an extreme one, but actually one where police officers are anonymous, and of course if there is systemic excessive police violence, we certainly should hold the entire police force responsible. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 16:47 | history | migrated | from meta.stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 22, 2016 at 15:54 | comment | added | nvoigt | Even policemen gunning down innocent people are not publicly identifiable by a simple Google search. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 15:33 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn | @Peter Mortensen: Stack Exchange Community Manager. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | What is a "CM"? | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 9:31 | comment | added | Pekka | What a load of nonsense, especially given that moderators work for no pay and even the paid members of the team enjoy anonymity when communicating with users. If Stack Overflow had any of the issues a real-world police force has - most notably a tendency to be overprotective of their own members, to the point of covering up crimes committed by them - there might be a tiny shred of merit to this. But I've seen nothing in that direction, ever, in seven years here. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 4:48 | comment | added | Magisch | I disagree with this (see my answer). Our moderators' decisions are up to public scrutiny at any time at all, and even in cases where you have no way of knowing who did it they generally come forward and explain themselfes. We elected these people in large part because they're sensible and not prone to abuse. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 4:34 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn | @Makoto: To be fair, some children grew up being abused by their parents for the smallest transgressions and they end up with the notion that they're really the same thing. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 2:29 | comment | added | Makoto | Don't conflate taking responsibility for something with opening oneself to any form of abuse that any other party may see fit. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 2:00 | comment | added | Rizier123 | Getting attacked and stalked on other (social media) sites just because as a moderator here you suspended someone is an absolute NO NO! And hiding the name in mod messages would be a reasonable solution. I mean all moderator will still see who wrote it and each mod is still responsible for their actions. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 1:59 | comment | added | Flexo - Save the data dump | In my experience in most countries police officers only get named when they choose to be or their actions get questioned and are investigated, until then they typically have a badge with a number and rank/precinct information. I don't see how that would be any different here. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 1:57 | comment | added | user229044 | I'm not a police officer, and I don't have a gun, and a 7 days suspension doesn't warrant the same level of accountability as shooting somebody. That said, this doesn't lessen a moderators accountability! I tried to address this in my question: Moderators and the CM team can still see who issued mod messages and suspensions. The same avenues still exist for users to escalate an issue. The only thing I feel anonymous mod messages would prevent is a moderator being single out, outside the site, for harassment and abuse. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 1:55 | history | answered | user202362 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |