moderation tool: editing comment text

[bemused_leftist]

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.

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Greets

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Hi there - Just reread your "With the patient, I don't think anything more should be done until it's clear whether he can recover on his own" reply from a little while back ... really liked the way you modulated your language ... authenticity and lucidity trump super-hero fiction every day of the week in my game. (I friended you, ok?)

Things participatory have been my concern since, well, since as a young warrior I had my heart broken. ("Peace keeping"?! We're just supporting /our/ team of villains!) Getting folk to care is one thing ... not minor ... but actualizing it, doing it, making it so, that calls for moments of playfully blissful creativity.

Something we decided very early on with Indymedia: material deemed "offensive" should, rather than becoming the stuff of endless debate, and rather than being deleted, could be moved to one side. Notice that such action could then a) maintain transparency and b) provide basis for the unavoidable discussion.

Know what the big payoff was? Folk cared that we cared. By the substance of our mundane transactions can dignify at once ourselves and others. Now, really, ain't that peachy-keen?!
*grin*

regards
ben aka WillowBear aka Karma Chöpal

p.s. "test"? c'mon ... communicative gesture really counts, and self-deprecation really sux.