Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-24261123-20150909234802/@comment-25165258-20150910141517

Dr. Livsi wrote: My personal opinion on minimodding is that it's fine under some conditions


 * An admin is not responding/available in due time
 * The user knows what they are doing/saying according to the rules. If they're just rambling the troll to quit, they should be stopped.

Minimodding is not something that come at hand as a rule. It's too variable as there is no downside in a user telling one to follow the rules. It's not only a moderators call to warn somebody, anyone who knows the rules can, and all they are doing is contributing, and warning a user without rights if an admin is not available is better than ignoring the situation, as it may sort things out. Apparently, it's been given a name "minimod" which is, for some reason, looked down on. The only down side is users ganging up on a troll or a rule breaker, but I'm well aware, this is not a huge problem. It's all under good intentions. This also allows an aspiring user to show they can prove to be a good moderator in the future, so stopping minimodding doesnt make much sense Basically this. There's no reason a user shouldn't be allowed to simply ask another to follow the rules if no one else is at that moment or if they know the rules. I myself found it rather hard when I was running for mod to prove I could handle the rights since there was no real way to ever show it on the chat itself. However, like you said, ganging up on a user is another issue entirely and is something that needs to be worked on even within the admin team.