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Paleface, it came from here:
As far as I know, moderators aren't just meant to be box-tickers - sorting out mistakes, deleting nasty posts; they're meant to be active voices in the forums they mod.
I understood that to mean that if you were a board wide moderator you wouldn't behave in the same way as a forum specific one because you said:
And, you see, as a whole-board moderator, I'd feel bad because I'd spend longer making discussion and topics in, the "Spectacle" fora than in the Temple or the Switchboard.
So I wrote that because, personally, I wouldn't feel bad. I might never actively contribute to Laboratory by creating threads but I would vote to OK a spelling mistake if it came up, and I would be likely to propose or agree a deletion of a double post if it was late at night and there may fewer mods online.
By creating board wide mods I think that what would happen would really benefit the board. It would mean any moderator could moderate for spelling requests or if they saw a double post but mods would also, by nature of being human and therefore having specific interests, automatically frequent the fora they already do and continue to start threads. It's highly unlikely that it would make mods stop starting threads, and could only be good for the board in that, for example, if I modded a post in a fora I didn't always look at I would be more likely to read that post and therefore be more likely to engage with the thread, and thereby the relevant forum.
It even helps when you look at the little things; I read Conversation everyday, but I'm not a mod there. I quite often see things I would propose, but I can't. My reading it wouldn't change, and my contributions wouldn't be affected - I would just be able to request modding for silly things (like double posts) which I don't currently do anything about, since it's silly to add it to the mod request thread.
Modding requests would just go through more quickly, which would be a good thing. Sometimes, if a poster requests a change late at night it doesn't get done till the morning. Every morning before I go to work I log in and I frequently have requests to action which have been standing since midnight the night before. That's frustrating for members, and for mods since it looks fairly rubbish. I have had PM's in the past about unactioned requests.
And I think we are all sensible enough not to agree or disagree a contentious post in a fora we don't frequent. We would just pass it, and leave it for the people who are active and engaged there. Wouldn't we? |
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