(alpha) Reinventing Sciforums -1- Choosing New Mods

I DO NOT think Tiassa did anything wrong at all. To say he abused his powers as a mod is fucking ludicrous. I don't mean to ass-kiss here, but really. Baron only ever posts to have a go at people. I have not seen ONE of his posts that was constructive. I think Tiassa was extremely reasonable in that he tolerated Baron's behaviour at all.

 

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Agreed. You know, I waver back and forth, but maybe there's a mod or two that could stand replacing, or a "vacation", maybe.

 

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If there were a large excess of qualified and willing volunteers, term limits may be a good idea.

I don't agree with arbitrary turn over, though.

 

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Actually it's neither. Sciforums is just here and anyone can just walk in and post here.

 

Ben! bad boy. bad bad bad
Don't drag me into her 'poor me' hissy fit.

 

Why do you seem to have it in your head that people can't "have a go at people" on the internet? If baron wants to dedicate his posts to "having a go at people", good on him. I fail to see how that's any less noble a pursuit than chatting about masturbating to death metal.

 

Who is VI to talk about "having a go a people", anyway? She has a linear, highly-predictable posting pattern: Call a member who disagrees with her viewpoints a disease who needs to be liquidated; "hug" a member who inexplicably comes to her defense; shamelessly post about how much she loves porn, despite being a (supposed) female; repeat cycle. Baron and I disagree on practically every issue imaginable, yet I still prefer him to VI any day.

Why is that?


Kadark

 

It's not his fault you don't read enough of his posts.

Here's one: http://sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=2054466&postcount=6

Another: http://sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=2051749&postcount=37

Oh look, an entire thread!: http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=86800

 

so what can be gleaned?
the tard is a crossdresser suffering from lymphedema and excessive marijuana consumption

bye!

 

Bend em all over insert balloon's into bottoms, inflate and watch them all float away with big smiles on their 'faeces'.......??

 

Sam, is that you? Haha.
Excellent point. That's almost exactly what I was thinking (except yours is a bit more detaled).
How do you guys currently go about selecting mods?
Is prior/extensive knowledge of the subject matter of the forum(s) in which they are moderating a prerequisite? Why or why not?

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what you mean by the whole thing.
And how old is 'older members'? Were you talking in our age range (mid/late 30s) or were you talking even older?

I like Av's idea, but as I mention above, you do bring up some valid points.

 

Usually Plazma or a mod starts a thread: Moderator for x forum.

The thread starter outlines which forum needs a mod [like we did for Politics and World Events when it got to be too much work for one person, or Philosophy when it started gathering spiderwebs] and offers his suggestions.

Other mods weigh in with opinions in support or opposition or make other suggestions, repeat until we narrow down the list to one or two. Then Plazma invites them. If they refuse we either abandon it or it gets pushed into the background till it comes up again.

Selection/suggestions are based on who can take how much shit.

Its bad enough having mods who don't see eye to eye. Add some more people into the mix with divided loyalties and it gets more stressful.

 

Thanks for the info.

Yeah I see where you're coming from there.
BUT, the way I see it is that the forum has its rules and guilelines, right?
And as far as I can tell, those rules are site-wide and no one individual forum or sub-forum has its own set of rules...
Well, it would seem that all the mods would have to do is just enforce the rules. The mods wouldn't have to see eye-to-eye with one another, just eye-to-eye with Plazma.
It almost sounds like the mods don't communicate with one another often enough, and also not often enough with Plazma himself.
Why isn't it that simple for this website at the moment?

 

You're welcome.

Where did you get that idea? Each mod has pretty much their own idea of moderation based on what the forum needs e.g. Free Thoughts is more laissez faire than Computer Science or Physics. Politics has more heated debates and requires a cool head and an unbiased outlook. Philosophy is different from Biology but both require a heavy bias in the subject to mod effectively.

Sometimes we communicate too much. e.g. all the fracas over tiassa discussing his proposed actions with the Baron and Avatar objecting to them pre-emptively. If tiassa had just banned the Baron for three days, the topic would never have reached this level of argument. :shrug: