[Matt Q]

Hi Jayne,

I do appreciate that mods can't see everything and that they have a limited amount of time available. I wasn't suggesting everything was left to the mods, but more that it might be better if members referred grievances and accusations of misconduct against other members to the mods rather than trying to sort them out themselves.

I don't mean things like politely pointing out minor infringements or points of information "did you notice that you've posted that poem 6 days after the last one" or "by the way did you know you can't post your first poem until you've posted 15 crits and you've only posted 10", "please can you show the original poem as well as the revision" and so on. I'm more talking about members telling each other off, making accusations of misconduct, of wrongdoing: members standing in judgement over one another. That just doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Lots of potential for ill-will, arguments etc., with no one actually having the power to enforce anything. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there are positives to it too.

In the guidelines it says this:

Problems – Member Conduct

You should raise reminders or complaints, especially ones involving Moderators, in private by PM, not in public on the Forums.

I had always taken this to mean that public confrontation/accusations by members about other member's conduct was to be avoided. Quite possibly I've misunderstood this, or it no longer implies.

All the best,

-Matt