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'Pending moderation tasks'...

Ganesh

13:25 / 31.03.02

Hmm. Despite remaining undecided on the matter, somewhere along the line I seem to have spontaneously morphed into a moderator. Logging in today, I see I have '5 pending moderation tasks'.

Could someone explain this to me, please? Assuming I'm tacitly agreeing to moderate, what do I actually have to do?

(NB Please assume also that I'm technologically incapable and haven't been reading the plethora of new Policy threads with 'Moderation' in their titles.)

Spatula Clarke

13:38 / 31.03.02

Those tasks are probably edits to posts requested by one of the other moderators of your forum or the poster themselves. All you have to do is click on the 'pending moderation tasks' link and check that the changes are okay, then agree or disagree as you see fit.

Tom Coates

19:42 / 31.03.02

Sorry old chap - I made you a moderator in the Policy because I needed someone else to be a moderator in the Policy and I thought it might be sufficiently low-traffic enough to be manageable by you (and in the process get you so excited about the whole thing that you decide you want to moderate something huge and exciting).

Basically if grant or I see something that needs to be changed in the forum we can suggest a moderation action and it needs to be agreed with by a certain number of moderators before it will actually happen... If you don't want to suggest moderation changes then you can just open up your moderation actions and click 'agree' or 'disagree' at the bottom. I think it's pretty self-explanatory...

If you really don't want to do it, then just let me know and I'll make someone else a moderator instead....

Horus lord of force and fire

22:18 / 31.03.02

Or you could just get on with it you bone-idle bastard.

(smilie here)

Wyrd

11:36 / 07.04.02

This may have come up elsewhere, but I haven't seen it so far. Is there any possible way to avoid having to get a moderator to clear edits to one's own posts? I've only just encountered this today, and am pretty surprised that I have to get clearence for an edit to my own post. Surely this will bog down the moderators unnecessarily? Most of the edits I make are stupid things like spelling mistakes or a messed up html tag. It also means there is a lag between when you make the edit and it appears on the board, which grates on my nerves.

Besides this, I've no other complaints about the new board and look, and it's certainly a lot faster!

Trijhaos

11:39 / 07.04.02

Agreeing to another's edit really isn't all that time consuming. It takes maybe 3 or 4 clicks of the mouse, I haven't really counted.

Tom Coates

13:19 / 07.04.02

Wyrd - the reason for the edits isn't to stop people making swift and minor edits to their posts, it's to stop people being able to change whole chunks of their argument (or to completely change the flow of a thread's conversation). Many moderation changes take less than ten minutes to be approved - particularly during week-days - and it's basically just a very brief mechanism designed to stop people doing really really stupid things. As to bogging down moderators - well other than when large-scale changes are made in certain forums (requiring three moderators to agree to the deletion of a thread for example) then very little work is required by moderators at all...

A few people have expressed a certain amount of frustration with this state of affairs, but I really think it's for the best... There are other discussions of this state of affairs in and around Policy though...

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