Without speaking for you, or saying this is your train of thought, this is how a businessman, one of which I am,
MIGHT contemplate the lopsided political balance displayed on the message boards hosted as part of a subscription based web business...
- Notice via my Political Forum (if not realized prior to its existence) that my subscription base is heavily tilted left
- See that my biggest headache is said Political Forum, yet keep it so as to try and contain the headache from infecting other forums
- Recognize that upsetting one side of that political balance would subject my business to much greater subscription loss than the other
From there exist many ways to deal with the headache to protect business, none of which are anything more than guess as to how or if you're handling it this way. I am not saying that you have chosen any of the below, whether perceived right or wrong or good or bad...
Self Serving, Business Directed Options
- direct moderators to come down harder on the minority group
- select moderators who by their nature will come down harder on the minority group without having to be explicitly instructed to do so
- operate with no directive and let the chips fall wherever more of my moderators happen to reside with their leanings
Only you know if you've ever had any of these thoughts or have ever acted on any of them.
