I have a different issue, actually, and that's with the fact that the mods are tracking people who post "at the end of the month".
Not "on the 30th/31st, in the wee final hours of the night, trying to make AC". But "the end of the month".
I take issue with this because this system does not reward activity. This system says "making two private posts in the beginning of the month, and never actually tagging anywhere, is more valid than having a post on the 29th". It is one thing to track activity of people who are clearly just trying to eke by. It is a whole other ballgame to literally invalidate days of the month.
A post made on the 29th should not be less valid than one made on the 9th or the 19th. A post on the 1st, where no tags were replied to, should not be more valid than a post on the 30th, where the post count hits 75 before noon.
This is a legitimate issue, especially because there don't seem to be very many checks really in place for that system? I know that I once received an email about this for Lana Kane. The first month being counted against me was the month where she was introed. She was introed on the 22nd, and actually has a second post for the month as well, on the 31st. The second month, her first post was on the 16th, and her second was on the 28th. The third month was a legitimate slip in activity, because I started a new job that month, but she still had two posts -- it didn't matter that it was the first time there was actually a problem. I was on some watchlist because I had the gall to make posts after some arbitrary date.
I think this is actually creating more work for the mods than it is of solving any activity problems. It's fine to keep a list of who posts only in the final hours of the month, but isn't it more important to monitor the upkeep of posts? Why is it that a private post early in the month is worth more than an active post at the end of the same month? Why does the latter necessitate someone being "watched"? If anything, shouldn't we be tracking people who make one line, private posts? That seems like more of an activity issue to me.
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Not "on the 30th/31st, in the wee final hours of the night, trying to make AC". But "the end of the month".
I take issue with this because this system does not reward activity. This system says "making two private posts in the beginning of the month, and never actually tagging anywhere, is more valid than having a post on the 29th". It is one thing to track activity of people who are clearly just trying to eke by. It is a whole other ballgame to literally invalidate days of the month.
A post made on the 29th should not be less valid than one made on the 9th or the 19th. A post on the 1st, where no tags were replied to, should not be more valid than a post on the 30th, where the post count hits 75 before noon.
This is a legitimate issue, especially because there don't seem to be very many checks really in place for that system? I know that I once received an email about this for Lana Kane. The first month being counted against me was the month where she was introed. She was introed on the 22nd, and actually has a second post for the month as well, on the 31st. The second month, her first post was on the 16th, and her second was on the 28th. The third month was a legitimate slip in activity, because I started a new job that month, but she still had two posts -- it didn't matter that it was the first time there was actually a problem. I was on some watchlist because I had the gall to make posts after some arbitrary date.
I think this is actually creating more work for the mods than it is of solving any activity problems. It's fine to keep a list of who posts only in the final hours of the month, but isn't it more important to monitor the upkeep of posts? Why is it that a private post early in the month is worth more than an active post at the end of the same month? Why does the latter necessitate someone being "watched"? If anything, shouldn't we be tracking people who make one line, private posts? That seems like more of an activity issue to me.