Do you have suggestions, complaints, or compliments as to how the moderator staff is performing? Voice your opinions here.

Make this thread helpful for the mods.

Mods are members, also. So member bashing is not allowed, as always. Don't make it a personal vendetta, please. Keep the bashing at 0%, please.

Any moderator has the right to close and unpin this thread at the signs of bashing, pointlessness, and/or any other guideline breaker.

I do hope this works out. I want to stress that this is not the place for personal attacks. If you really have to, keep it in the PM system between you and the mod. This thread is here to help mods work better with members.

So...your thoughts?


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Lol. Historical Threads.

New Version, yay.

Rebecca and Kathleen have both done well recently

I know, I'm a dork.

And thank you. :)

^x1 & 2mmhmm...

only kidding.

i think kathleen, suzzette, dani, and rebecca are doing a great job.

yay a brand new one, I've been waiting for this.

Anyway I think all the new staff are doing pretty well.

Now I'll quit talking in here since its for members mostly.

i like brownsugar. brownsugar does a good job at all time.
yummmmy, brown sugar!
no wonder she's soooo gooood.

I second (or whatever number) that Robbi is doing a fantastic job.

Not to cause shit or anything (LOL, YEAH RIGHT.. anyway, seriously now), but is anyone else severely irked that immediately after she was modded, Radhika has gone on hiatus until the end of the month?

I'm not trying to cause shit either, but, since the most recent modding session is near the end of summer and a lot of people are trying to cram in last minute vacations it happens.

School has started, or is about to, for a few of us and we need to know what our new schedules will be like so we can balance everything out. I know Im going to need a few days or so so I can try to figure it out.



And she's gone until the end of the month? Where does it say that? ( I look in the hiatus threads and didn't see anything...)

It was in the hiatus thread; she must've deleted it.

It really said end of the month? I thought it said like a week or something.

It said until the end of August, but it doesn't matter anymore since.. it's gone. :P

You caught me. I deleted it. :P I had to be gone on the 12th because my sister was having this huge event & I was the MC. But I realized I wasn't going to be as busy as I thought after the event, so I'm back. No need to worry.

Yeah robbi seems to be doing her job well, and she is friendly as well too, not so mean, closes Topics when they need to be, same goes for Brendedn (irockCB) I think he's been doing pretty well too as for the other mods such as Brownsugar, ArjunaCapulong and the others are doing fantastic. keep it up mods

Its my turn.

Basically I have only had a few problems. I don’t know if there is a basic moderator guideline you people follow, but if there is, it either needs to be updated, or actually read. I reported a few “spam” posts, and was told NO, they were not spam. When one, the user that posted the post has only 1 post, and the posts had nothing to do with the topic. It has happend more then one time.

That is all.

proove it ?

I see nothing that is wrong with the current mods at the moment. Keep up the good work.

I don't really need to prove anything. I got what I wanted, they finally deleted it. ( http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...p;#entry2188481 )

Where has Brenden (iRock cB) been lately? :| One post in the past week.

^yea I think hes on vacation

And also, on the subject of activity, I haven't seen Ryan (moorepocket) or Michelle (insomniac) around for a while.. are they (also) on vacation or something?

A lot of mods have been inactive lately..Probably because of vacation and then transition into school..

I'll admit.. I have.. for the past three days. I'M SORRY. I was active today, though!

Just so everyone knows and I dont get singled out..I've started school. And already have oodles and gobbs of homework. I'm only going to get to be on for a little while in the afternoons and then I have to hit the books. =/ Michelle started school too, so, she might be working with that.

I think that during the rest of August and the first couple of weeks of September, mods should be cut a little slack on activity. A lot of them are going into our late years of high school/college and moving back into taking upper-level courses is going to be difficult, and people need to get used to doing a lot of homework so they can better ration out their time.

Thank you, Sammi. Yes, please be patient with moderator activity. They are all doing their best to juggle real life and cB. I'm sure once school gets into gear, they can find a way to schedule more time here. If they can't, they are responsible enough to either make time, take a hiatus or step down if absolutely necessary. In the meantime, like Sammi mentioned, please be patient.

.. Um.. but the two I mentioned have been inactive more than just recently..

Oook. I guess I should have echoed the idea of people wrapping up vacations as well.

Ryan- He doesn't post as much as other mods but I don't think he's completely inactive. He's been posting through the design forums, backstage, submitting layouts, and considering that the Blogger forums are very slow and always posts in them, I'm not as worried about him.

Michelle- She said a few days ago that school just started for her and I guess she needs time to work on that. Before that (and I'm sure you know), she had gone on vacation.

Guys, I'm really sorry I haven't been posting or active. Yesterday was my first day of high school () and I needed to get everything together. I'm almost done with that now, and hopefully, I can devote a certain amount of time to cB while still juggling other activities.

I don't think you should apologize for not being on here because of your frist day of school. Mostly everyone on this site is going to school or is really close to starting their first day, and I'm sure they won't be online that day either.

School should be more important then createblog, don't let createblog take over your life.

Theres other people I have more concerns with then people that are only inactive because of school starting.

Thanks, Holly.
But again, I'll do my best to keep up on the site.

I'm really impressed with a lot of the moderators here. Most are super-active in the community, and very friendly.

Mona, well done. You're too cool.

Props for Mona and Kara

Mona - I really like how you've been more and more active in the feedback/resources forums. <33
Kara - I'm glad you're coming back more to the Myspace Forumss.

Yah things with school have been crazy for everyone, i'm sure

Cheers for cb staff activeness!

I don't have anyone specific to name, but I think that unless you plan to be active and post on CB everyday, you should not be a mod. If you know that you're going to have so and so things to do regularly (many classes, lots of homework, extra curriculars, long work hours, etc) STEP DOWN. You only make the mod team look worse. Of course, it's not your fault that you have so many things to do, but don't be a mod if you don't have time for it. Don't blame your inactivity as a mod on work, because if you know that you have lots of work to do, you should not be a mod.

That's what I think. :X

Mona and Kristina are doing the best i think keep up the good work!

I respect your opinion and to an extent, I agree. If you honestly know before you are hired that you will not be able to be active here, don't accept the position. Being a moderator means much more than just having a certain title.

Having said that, I do not believe that if one misses a day (or two) that they should step down. We all have unexpected cirumstances and will occasionally miss a day. I think that the most important attribute of a moderator is effort. Activeness shows that you are making an effort. That's not to say that if you do not see moderators closing, moving, editing, etc all the time that they are not doing their job. Sometimes being a good moderator means keeping up with the forum, responding to posts (with some substance) and contributing to the community in general. Yes, the same could be said for any good member of cB, but it is even more important to do so as a staff member.

Also, the idea of taking a "hiatus" is not one that should be always looked down upon. If we have a good staff member here that needs to go on vacation, needs to work on a research project (as examples), we should be patient with them. This happens in real life job situations and people are not fired or do not quit their jobs because of this. However, when these things happen in excess and is not communicated, people *are* fired and people do resign. So grain of salt here, if someone is repeatedly taking a break, yes, they should step down.

^Eh but if everyone that is to busy with school pretty soon that will be all the mods and almost all the people that are just memebers of createblog. I just started school and missed the first week pretty much of this honor class and had a ton of work to catch up on in that class. Its the only one that I'm really behind in. And yesterday I was sick again, or well I've been sick of the past 2 weeks almost now.


I hope no one was talking about me, I'm normally really active but school starts and when you use to be homeschooled and then swith to public school its a real hassle trying to get everything into place.

^x2 I meant it to refer to those who are continually absent, or only post once in a while, not those who miss a day or two.

ok. i mentioned this backstage, but.. i'm trying to figure out if i have time to be a mod or not. if i realize that i can't, then i'll step down. but i want to give it a shot. it's going to be hard for a while, what with 4 hours of hw a night, 4 AP classes, band concerts, and starting tomorrow, 2-hr long musical rehearsals, as well as insomnia (*giggles*), i just can't be all that active on cB. but ive been here, behind the scenes, accepting and rejecting layouts.

Michelle, you're awesome - I'm sure you can do it. And sticking with behind the scenes stuff is fine - someone has to do it, after all.

PS - I love your sig

I couldn't of said that any better.
If everyone could understand this, that would be great.

WTF, WHY IS THE RED FONT SO BIG !??! WE'RE NOT SO BLIND!





really, what kind of judgement is that?

^ Most people wouldnt even stop to read it if it wasnt like that..
Maybe it could be sized down a little, but it just needs to catch peoples attention.

Steven, sometimes it is ok NOT to be totally banal.

Meh, I'm with julia on the activity issue.

YESSSIR ! The 1st post is quite long to scroll.

oh well ;]

Don't mind if I pin this. It'll be easier to find. I reduced the font size in the first post so that you can actually read what is written. =P

Well, I convinced my mom to let me stay on cB longer on weeknights because I have a job to do and school is calming down. Oh, and I was on vacation Anna. Thanks for the feedback though. :D

As for the activity of everyone, it has gone down for those of us in school and people who have jobs but I think it's getting better. I myself have been a lot more active this week as everything with school is in order.