Backseat moderation?

[JennyorAlice]

Have you ever had any problems with a member backseat moderating on your forum? If so, what action did you take to get them to stop? What made you choose that course of action?

 

[Teg1]

Can't say that I've every had any actual "problems" with backseat moderation. There's been a few instances will a member will specify that they aren't staff and suggest to the user that they read the rules. Honestly, I have no quams with that. It sometimes helps me find posts that need my attention. Though, they could always report the post and I'd get the notification. Otherwise, I've never had a backseat moderation issue.

 

[Thomasss]

This was actually one of the times I hell banned someone. xD

Someone was mini modding (and literally making his own rules for the forum and trying to enforce them) so I had hell banned him so no one could see his ever so stupid posts. Other than that, I haven't had many issues with mini mods.

 

[Reverie]

I don't mind members who try to uphold the community - it does irritate me however if I made the rules clear and they break the rules to tell someone else they broke the rule lol.

Backseat modding can be a good thing, as long as they aren't telling me to change what I decided.

 

[Belthazar]

I had this one dude a while back tell people he was a moderator. All the veteran members knew he wasn't, but the new members didn't know he wasn't a real moderator. I think I actually ended up banning the guy for pretending to be smart. He was really annoying.

 

[The]

I've never personally had a problem with it - but I run a small forum where new members are few. If this were to come up, I suspect the members would point out the error politely and say that a staff member will get to this topic quickly to provide a more definitive answer. At that point, I'll step in.

If my forum were to grow huge (haha, I wish!) then I'd have more of a problem with backseat moderation. There might be a core of good members - but they may well be staff at that point! - so most of the cases would be new or problematic members. Then I'd frown upon it a lot more, start issuing warnings - there's enough work to do on a large forum as it is without these sort of issues.