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My swapping with Sally is only because we discovered we both wanted to mod the others forum. Plus also some of us feel we are not stretched - I could and would certainly like to do more.
I didn’t mean stretched as in struggling to cope, lula, I meant stretched as in the existing mods stretching out in the sun and extending their Amazing And All-Powerful Moderating Authority, which might help to reinforce the impression that moderation on barbelith is run by a core of relatively few people. Is this exercise to do with finding only trustworthy, barbe-active individuals who can vote on mod actions anywhere/lots of places on barbelith, or to do with determining which posters have a definite commitment to doing heavy lifting in particular fora?
I’m still wondering what this ‘I’d like x, y, and z too’ stuff is all about, I guess. Despite Tom’s most recent post to this thread, that doesn’t seem to have been settled, possibly because he says he’s all for people moderating more fora, and “really the fewer the better”. Without the recruitment drive for lots of new mods, I’m not sure that last night’s collecting of extra fora is really improving the situation, and I feel maybe the recruitment drive is the important bit if the inactive mods are now actually going to be counted as ‘inactive’. Even if they’re not being struck off, we seem to be working from the assumption that their absence frees up a certain, limited number of jobs. What was happening last night wasn’t the revolutionary change to moderation that was being proposed on page 1 of this thread (and supported at the time by you, Olula), with voting powers being extended across the board and the voting being spread over a larger sample: Tom’s come out against that idea, so fair enough. But, if anything, it now looks like the moderating powers/responsibilities are on the verge of being concentrated with fewer people than before.
Before *anything* else, I’d rather see any mod vacancies that need filling going to those with *fewer* existing responsibilities, and to new people, rather than to the ones who already mod several fora. I get this whole ‘learning curve’ thing, but if all inactive mods are now replaced by entirely new mods, all forums will still have long-standing mods outnumbering the new and relatively untried mods by six or seven to one, or therabouts.
So, I was feeling kinda weird about some of the posts last night, if the taking on of several extra modding responsibilities is going to prevent several new mods from being introduced. It’s all back-to-front. New mods as a priority, then with the one-for-one swapping around, then remaining gaps can be filled by existing people who want to do more. Surely? |
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