Amnesty Day III - everyone has zero warnings! :)

[CaDan]

Before I joined staff, I was against the usernotes for fear of abuse. Now that I have joined staff I can see that I was mistaken. Often these usernotes benefited the member, and I had yet to see one that was used for gossip or any of the other complaint. This is just speaking of the very few that I did see...

Perhaps if usernotes were implemented again but members would be able to request to see their own?

Staff is going to keep records no matter what--even if it is just in their memories.

It seems to me to make sense that the records should be kept in some sort of orderly way. To keep the records orderly, I would suggest that each of the notes be stamped with the Staff member who created it and the date it was created. No anonymous notes--if someone makes a note, they have to be responsible for it.

 

[Letalis]

Staff is going to keep records no matter what--even if it is just in their memories.

Well, the thing about this is often the usernotes were for staff as a whole.

As an example, if someone's signature was iffy (though deemed to be acceptable), and different staff teams were receiving reports about it, a mod might create a usernote saying that the signature was allowed.

It seems to me to make sense that the records should be kept in some sort of orderly way. To keep the records orderly, I would suggest that each of the notes be stamped with the Staff member who created it and the date it was created. No anonymous notes--if someone makes a note, they have to be responsible for it.

Sounds very reasonable...

 

[Breaking Babylon]

Staff is going to keep records no matter what--even if it is just in their memories.

It seems to me to make sense that the records should be kept in some sort of orderly way. To keep the records orderly, I would suggest that each of the notes be stamped with the Staff member who created it and the date it was created. No anonymous notes--if someone makes a note, they have to be responsible for it.

Sounds very reasonable...

I agree with this.

 

[Henaynei]

as a former staff member I'd like to also suggest the following:
that the note contain the link to the staff discussion/post that is deemed the definitive decision and that post/discussion contain the text and/or context of the sig or avatar or whatever is at issue - so that a staff member needing to verify that what they see is the same as what was permitted or disallowed by said decision...

notes that would only say "so and so decided that this is ok," but without reference to the documentation would be nearly worthless and will not clear up much confusion as sigs and avatars and such are easily changed, thus what is is not necessarily what was... and therefore may or may not be germane or allowed

 

[Erwin]

The usernotes removed already did have the author of each note. In any case, I won't be adding it back unless staff and/or members feel it is required.