I have a title for one already:
“Your digital invested powers - abusing them means you don’t have them”
Recently, I’ve seen a niche for a digital boom era info-social book. Lately, a social digital awareness movement can be observed outlining the changes in our digital connected society looking at the way we communicate.
A book to prepare forum staff, for example. Administrator, moderators, on how to handle the power they receive. I’ve seen cases where this power can be too much for some.
True story. There was another forum I frequented. And there were some established users there making the forum successful. A moderator asked something in a forum, DEMANDING.
One of the more knowledgeable established users told him it’s just not possible. That green mod simply didn’t understand, it didn’t had the proper training for it, so he took the advice as a personal offense. He started grilling the particular established user, using abject language and behavior and abusing his power to ultimately ban the user that didn’t comply with his absurd wish.
The administrator of the forum didn’t took any action against the mod’s bad behavior, even more, supported this behavior.
That lead to a chain reaction among a number of highly contributing users to leave the forum, of course, all being banned for expressing their support for the user that told the mod that, by just being a mod, that’s not grounds in real life to get anything he wishes. But his behavior lead to the death of a forum.
Putting the lid on situations occurring in your forum doesn’t mean you solve them, it means you just hide them.
TRUE STORY!
For those interested, I can PM the link for that forum, where the whole discussion is still there to be read.