Say hello to the new moderating team

TinkerBell · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:33

Yewen said:
Certainly no advantages to it, just nice to be able to help members out with issues and keep the forums clean from spam and rubbish.

Giving back to the community is the advantage :confused:

Ripper · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:34

Yewen said:
You do it to 'give back' to the community in a way.

Certainly no advantages to it, just nice to be able to help members out with issues and keep the forums clean from spam and rubbish.

Fair enough, good luck

Joe42 · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:34

15 mods and 22,000 members, with 800 online at peak times. I can't help but wonder if 15 is enough?

Zip · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:34

TinkerBell said:
Giving back to the community is the advantage

And you can ban who you dont like and remove posts you dont like

p4radox · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:35

There are some forums where I never see a mod post, I thought that was where the UBs came in useful. The mods are going to have to cover a lot more threads now. Unless there is some kind of incentive scheme for hitting the RTM button.

TinkerBell · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:35

Zip said:
And you can ban who you dont like and remove posts you dont like

Burnsy2023 · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:36

JRS said:
Why? In the grand scheme of things, why on Earth does it actually matter why it was done?

Good question. I would say as someone who spends a lot of time here like so many other people, it does become a place that you care about. The fact that Spie felt it necessary to make a change means there was an issue with the old Mod team. The fact that this has changed means that it is likely to change the moderation, even if this happens to be in a very subtle manner. This in turn affects all of us on the forums and for a fairly close community that we are and this has implications.

Burnsy

SideWinder · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:37

Joe42 said:
15 mods and 22,000 members, with 800 online at peak times. I can't help but wonder if 15 is enough?

Because not all of those 800 or so are posting at the same time? 15 is perfectly fine.

starscream · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:37

p4radox said:
There are some forums where I never see a mod post, I thought that was where the UBs came in useful. The mods are going to have to cover a lot more threads now. Unless there is some kind of incentive scheme for hitting the RTM button.

I admin one of the largest UK forums as a part time job to supliment my income. I have under 200 posts though. Most moderation does not involve public posting.

Pebbles · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:38

So it was a convoluted way of cutting the faces that dont fit and voices that dont conform to the 'code of conduct'. Bravo.

ChoÞÞer · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:40

good team

Gilly · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:41

Pebbles said:
So it was a convoluted way of cutting the faces that dont fit and voices that dont conform to the 'code of conduct'. Bravo.

Convoluted?

People were invited to re-apply. Some chose not to

Burnsy2023 · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:41

starscream said:
I admin one of the largest UK forums as a part time job to supliment my income. I have under 200 posts though. Most moderation does not involve public posting.

That's what is different about here, Dons need to be part of the community and a faceless mod wouldn't be able to be effective 'outside of the box'.

Burnsy

Edit: It'd be interesting to see what this Code of Conduct actually says.

A2Z · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:41

starscream said:
I admin one of the largest UK forums as a part time job to supliment my income. I have under 200 posts though. Most moderation does not involve public posting.

you get paid to admin a forum? how many hours a day do you spend 'admining' it? and how much do you get paid?

Gaygle · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:41

Pebbles said:
So it was a convoluted way of cutting the faces that dont fit and voices that dont conform to the 'code of conduct'. Bravo.

I don't think we'll know any real reasons behind the reshuffle. At least not in the near future.

Seems a bit strange though, but n/m. We shall see.

Joe42 · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:42

SideWinder said:
Because not all of those 800 or so are posting at the same time? 15 is perfectly fine.

Thats still an awfull lot of user's posts to moderate.
I think its putting too much pressure on the mods to be moderating all the time. And i'm concerned the gd might become a mess again in the holidays. But i suppose we'll see.

Whats the difference between a commissario and a don?

A2Z · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:43

Joe42 said:
Whats the difference between a commissario and a don?

com is admin, don is moderator

nutcase · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:43

A public thanks for their efforts for everyone who's "lost" their job for whatever reason. I dread to think how much work it is to moderate a forum of this size! The one I mod on is dead compared to ocuk

I'm sure the slimmed down team will cope just fine

Right, enough **** licking, to the pub

SideWinder · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:44

Joe42 said:
Thats still an awfull lot of user's posts to moderate.
I think its putting too much pressure on the mods to be moderating all the time. And i'm concerned the gd might become a mess again in the holidays. But i suppose we'll see.

Disagree. There hasn't always been the same number of moderators and over the year/s, there have been an increased number. Not everyone swears and "misbehaves" so to speak. I very rarely see posts that are against the rules. This is because the current work are effective enough.

iCraig · 20 Dec 2006 at 18:44

Gilly said:
People were invited to re-apply.

But we know that they wouldn't be accepted, otherwise there would be no point of this entire exercise. You don't fire an employee and then tell them, if you re-apply you might get your job back. You either want them on your team or you don't.

Saying they could re-apply just sounds like a way to soften the blow to me.