Actually this requirement raised my curiosity, what constitutes good curation of a thread on ASR that one 'owns'?
I guess when one starts a thread, if it is me, I kind of think, "let it roll", except for reporting obvious personal attacks. But now I'm thinking, should the owner be more controlling than that? Should he or she, for example:-
Most of the above is observed in the breach by owners of ASR threads, AFAICT.
- Constantly monitor posts for adherence to the original topic, and ask the mods to move or delete any drift?
- Answer every question raised?
- Debate every on-topic issue?
- Ask mods to delete posts that are repetitious of earlier parts of the thread? (streamlining)
- Ask mods to help control debates, eg by cutting short persistent arguing of a point? (this would be rather tricky, as some posters might simply be persistently correcting wrong posts by others who won't stop)
- Tell mods to close the thread when he or she has heard enough?
- Tell mods to delete the whole thread when not happy with the direction it took?
I'm genuinely curation-ious! After all, one assumes that mods and members would all be happier if thread owners were doing a good job of curating their threads, and in a way that makes the mods and Amir happy.
cheers
How does the owner of a thread have any more influence than any other member on how it progresses. He has no way to control what other members post in reply to it.
How am I able to "curate" a thread I started?
See AudioNaut’s thread for my initial response. Thanks!