Melkor Unchained wrote:
But to us, they're part of the same process. The only way to separate them would be to prune posts from M/A, which would be confusing and unnecessary. What do we do about posts that contain both? Posting, trimming, and reposting comments from every appeal would get pretty old pretty fast, and people would still probably find ways to complain about deliberation transparency (since, let's face it, the players don't all want the same thing[s] and even these changes may not accommodate them). As volunteers, we have a certain interest in efficiency that I for one am not eager to countermand by trying to fix something that isn't broken.
It would mean changing the way that things are currently done, but what's wrong with asking for additional info from the mod who made the original ruling in the open moderation thread? Basically, limiting the original mod's say to the thread in the open forum?