New mod nominations.
buddha
Regular
Select as many as you see fit.
to fill in the holes left by the way my latest poll is going, I nominate:
Amie, for some tech forum, always there, always something helpful to add.
JosephStalin, PLRC, obvious reasons,
Box, &RandR, For some odd reason I think it's a good fit.
BigHarryDick, Half baked. Trust me, it will work. Need a troll to control the trolls.
GeneralMcBoozer, IFIOTW, He contributes like hell. and he's not a fuckwit.
Buddha, Green Planet, Yes myself, so I can focus my guides on what I am really interested in.
And I know you are thinking, these people are too new. Well some have been around since mid 00's 04,05, on the orginal &T. This forum is still new, so anyone you pick is going to be new. I say pick them now, so when several years from now rolls around we have been here and been mods since the beginning. Not like you can't demod a brother.
to fill in the holes left by the way my latest poll is going, I nominate:
Amie, for some tech forum, always there, always something helpful to add.
JosephStalin, PLRC, obvious reasons,
Box, &RandR, For some odd reason I think it's a good fit.
BigHarryDick, Half baked. Trust me, it will work. Need a troll to control the trolls.
GeneralMcBoozer, IFIOTW, He contributes like hell. and he's not a fuckwit.
Buddha, Green Planet, Yes myself, so I can focus my guides on what I am really interested in.
And I know you are thinking, these people are too new. Well some have been around since mid 00's 04,05, on the orginal &T. This forum is still new, so anyone you pick is going to be new. I say pick them now, so when several years from now rolls around we have been here and been mods since the beginning. Not like you can't demod a brother.
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I think each person needs a separate poll with a yes and no option; that way opposition can be taken into account.
I think it's ok, rather than clutter up the forums with threads. If you don't like em don't vote for them. Obviously someone who only gets a few votes Dfg isn't going to mod. But someone who gets a bunch might have a shot. If you don't like any of them, vote none. I'm sure the none votes will be taken in when/if a new mod is selected from this.
Some of these members may not want to be moderators. J/S is currently a mod at totse2 and requested to be demodded here to do so. I doubt he wants to mod in both communities right now but I'm sure he'd be pleased to see the nomination.
Well, obviously they can all deny modship if they wanted to. I just picked who I thought, with my tiny brain, was best suited to the task.
Number of contributions
Trust
Support from Community.
Each new candidate gets a PM from me and then I ask about the section he wants to mod. Then if he agrees he is modded as a Demi-Mod. A week or maybe two weeks are given to that mod to understand the functions. Then in M&A I add that user name and ask the mods about how well has he performed etc. Once I get an okay from them, they're made a full moderator.
This small step ensures that we get some good mods. This was implemented in Jan 2011 btw.
JosephStalin - PLRC: He has already stepped down as mod here in favor of modding at Totse2 so definitely not.
Box - &RandR Not nearly responsible enough to handle the job. Nor has he made any quality contributions to the site.
BHD - Half Baked: Not nearly responsible enough to handle the job. Nor has he made any quality contributions to the site.
GeneralMcBoozer: - IFIOTW: A solid suer who is active and contributes quality content. He is also active in IRC and would make a fine addtion to the staff IMO.
Buddha - Green Planet: Yes, without question.
DS was modded before the new system was implemented. He remained a Mod because he kept contributing and did his job. He stepped down from modding himself. But in any case we're looking for motivated users willing to contribute.
" I personally wouldn't want to belong to a forum that would have me as a moderator "
ty buddha for recommendation.
I lol'ed
Sqaure root of the OP's cock, in centimetres?
Obviously if one of them got a significant amount of votes it would help. Polls are useless anyways.
And my cock? OVER 9000!!!!!
Not true. Fatty is our democratically elected admin, yet he's currently stuck in HB.
Source?
http://www.totse.info/bbs/showthread.php?t=10229
I Want the source where he was voted in as admin, Not "candidacy" to run for admin.
YES! I support FATTY's candidacy, was the option in the poll.
Not, I vote for Fatty as admin.
He even says it himself.
There is no mention of vote for admin in the whole thing.
So give me another source, or gtfo.
Yup. I can see doing something like this for the unmoderated forums, but with the exception of HB and GP(before buddha got demi-modded), nothing up for grabs has the traffic warranting more than one mod.
There are 7 unmoderated forums. I'm all for keeping everything in check, but let's focus on those ones, shall we?
Sadly, offhand, I have no suggestions for them.
- all registered members are moderators
- they can choose to resign as a moderator and become a regular
We have close to 3000 active members, usually around 100 at any given time are around browsing the forums.
We are in no danger of having too many mods, even if every forum had two mods, including sub forums.
I do think with the slightly limited traffic we are having right now, we should spread the mods a bit for now. Like 4-6 forums each. Until the traffic picks up. Pretty much cover all the forums with regular mods.
lulz
And how many members have you referred to this site through means of advertising or promotion?
This site has, what, 3 supermods? Totse went for years with single forums almost as big as this entire site without any supermods.
As for the rest... there's little if anything up for grabs that currently warrants having any mods. If, after the best part of a year, a forum only has a hundred or so threads in it that usually suggests even spammers, trolls and assorted shitheads* can't be bothered with it.
So it's not like the current supermods are being overworked; get them to oversee the empty (almost literally, lol) forums until the need for a specific mod materializes.
* The only reason you need mods in the first place.
You're doing a good job Dfg, really. Ignore these fucks.
Everything is going great, The majority of posts being made are of quality, very few trolls, very little spam. Now we need to work on getting the numbers up and retaining older members.
Also can I get some kind of access or whatever to fuck with that newsletter plug in?
I'm assuming to you're at least partially responding to me so...
You have a bad habit of making strawmen; I said nothing about bossing or control users. Unless of course you don't want your mods to verbally sit on bad trolling, spammers and disruptive shitheads. Then again you banned Spec' and DaGuru for these apparent reasons, which... brings me back to strawmen; you and your staff are bossing 'bad' users so don't waste time denying it.
So not much of an incentive then.
As a general rule of thumb a user's output decreases over time as they get sucked up into the process of moderation, or bullshit politics (they can become the same thing eventually). Active users are active users - leave them be. You haven't experienced that on this site yet because you haven't got enough highly active members to fill a kitchen with, let alone a popular website. Your policy of placing emphasis on mods making sections more lively will increasingly start to show cracks when... if... this site does become more lively.
Once again I advise you against giving people positions based on how prolific they are, however much you may feel this is an affront to your own personal posting habits. Just because that's what you do as a poster doesn't mean that's what you should be doing as an admin. Otherwise you'll continue promoting sycophants...
...who'll happily suck your cock and mindlessly flame anyone who makes a salient point against management strategy, that they're not willing (capable?) to engage with as an adult. Although I guess they will make lots and lots of threads (11!!!1!1!!!).
And we've already discussed the error in promoting inexperienced kids, however prolific, haven't we?
You know, he can't please everyone, and everyone has a different opinion on how this place should be ran. We still have a shit load more freedom here to say and do wat we want, than anywhere else on the internet. If you aren't happy with it leave. it's that simple. You have said your piece, and I'm sure Dfg will take it into consideration.
Physician heal thyself.
In any case at what point have I stated that I'm unhappy with the fact that there's too much freedom of speech, as your statement implies? Oh, nvm... Dfg has just modded someone who plays the game the same way he does.
That aside your opinion on this matter is rendered near worthless given that your pending modship gives you motive to be highly biased, especially seeing as you suggested you be modded.
Nothing like rewarding the hand that's about to feed you.
My "piece"?
And if I have the audacity to continue saying it because I think it is still relevant, as no one has refuted it, will I suffer the same fate as Spectral and DaGuru? If I do I'm sure it'll be in the name of freedom of speech, of course.
I do respond to your posts and read them whenever I am checking some thread. I am just the best with I have. The cycle of moderators usually goes on in the background. I just made the process a bit transparent in order to make things simpler.
I will not deny that totse has its share of problematic users it would be awesome if there were more motivated users but the way I see it giving someone moderation power just makes their job easier. They can make more threads get more access to features which will aid them in making quality threads. Sure some mods will go wild with power but that can't be helped.
I know people lose motivation to post after a certain time but if you keep pushing users who want to help back it will only make matters worse. I don't care about yes man mods. I just care about the users and the community.
If someone comes to me and says that I am willing to help you in this and that, I am not going to send him away. The community is new and this point I am more contribution driven.
Sure we will see some major problems here and there and few lose bolts and few major loopholes in the system [DG and Spectral] but with time we will fix them.
I personally didn't like taking DG and Spectral out but we just weren't ready for them. I am still learning like the rest of us, I can see what bad choices we made in the past. But that doesn't mean we're going to do them again. That's the thing about this place, if I screw up I will admit it and I will try to avoid it in future.
Again, we're dealing with different personalities here. You just can't predict them. Feel free to call me out whenever you want