about the wiki

I've been making a few comments there, though very clumsily. It's scary to think of signing even a handle that, as has been said, I want to keep credible, with the notice that anything I say may be changed and misquoted and circulated under my by-line.

moderation tool: editing comment text

On the question of what tools for moderation we should request the blog services such as LJ to set up ... I'd say the main thing would be blog owner access to the text of the posted comments. That would allow the blog owner to disemvowel or put the comment into small text or whatever.

Imo often it would be useful to just plain go in and censor PARTS of a post, such as bleeping out profanity, or taking out one or two senteces of personal insult from a post that is mostly making good points. This sort of pruning would keep whatever is good in the post, and show the poster exactly what was wrong.

module request: Hierarchial, how important is seniority?

Are new posters supposed to work their way up, grovelling and jumping through hoops? To what extent are old posters automatically preferred? Or is each post judged on its own merits?