# Public moderation logs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-moderation-logs/20035>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [13 Setembro , 2014 18:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-moderation-logs/20035 "2014-09-13T18:11:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [15 Setembro , 2014 06:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-moderation-logs/20035/2 "2014-09-15T06:49:15Z")

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Not entirely sure this is a healthy idea for some of the reasons covered here

[http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/feedback-on-moderated-posts/41085/5](http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/feedback-on-moderated-posts/41085/5) (lounge topic so limited access, quoted here in entirety)

> One of the places I did a tour as a mod has a very transparent process, with all users able to see which posts of there were deleted and why. The majority of deletions were bycatch. Sometimes it’s necessary to stomp on stray embers to prevent more fires from breaking out.

> And TBH, I’m not convinced that a relaxed-but-dictatorial style is a bad thing.

> Giving deletion reasons and dealing with the fall-out from those reasons takes a huge amount of time and effort for little reward, it needs a greater number of mod-staff, which in turn encourages an us v. them attitude, along with needing almost constant recruitment due to mod burn-out. And this is even before you start having to actually write rules to keep all the mod team on the same sheet.

> And you don’t end up with page after page of “Post Deleted - because Reasons”

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