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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well, i said it as an option, not a nessesity.

if more 'mods' are needed, specialty forum mods could be picked. they would only have power over one forum. they're workload would be a lot lighter, and they wouln't be as powerful as the other mods.



and, well, you see. users have been warned and threatened against using the report button. so it's not used that much.

there needs to be a button to flag a post or thread for a mod.

This post has been edited by sadolakced acid: Apr 10 2005, 01:14 PM

people get warned for hitting the report butotn cuz there is nothing to report they just click it for no reason... and report is for more bigger stuff then closing topics..

you can use the report button when theres actually something to report, just dont try to post through it

but what if two members are having a bashfest? neither one would report.

that would be their fault and both of them would get warned..

the only reason we're all GRR STOP PRESSING THE REPORT BUTTON is cause 90% of the reports are people who think the report button means reply. the reports go as PMs to ALL of us, and sometimes people don't seem to get that it DOESN'T mean reply and we get 5-10 PMs in our boxes that don't pertain to anything.

it's annoying. we're not discouraging the use of the report button, but only use it for things that actually need to be reported.

yes!

like a little red 'needs closing' flag next to a thread, and a blue one for 'needs moving'

i like that idea

how could that be implemented? you know there will be some idiot member who'll just flag everything for fun.

whats your point? someone else should. why would they?

remember when i was a mod, and i wrote this?

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18871

back then there was a lot of mod bashing going on. nowadays, not so much.

anyways...

i do think that some of the skins as of late have been... really...subpar... i know the admins have always been kinda blah about rejecting skins.. they were like that when i was a mod too... but cmon.. some people are letting skins be accepted that seriously look like shit.

i think sometimes the mods can be excessively analytical, or will sometimes drag things out for way too long so they can "plan" every aspect of it. for instance, the Xanga of the Year awards... it took the mods two months into the new year just to figure out how things should proceed. they're taking it way too seriously, in my opinion. xanga of the year is just like xanga of the month. the only difference is, it's not days of the month.... it's months of the year. they worried too much about the technicalities, like... extending it till january of this year, because it would then make 12 months, instead of just using the 11 months that we did XOM last year. it's xanga of THE YEAR 2005. not xanga of the first 12 months of cb. after that, they were quarreling over whether the contest should be based on the skins that originally won in their months, or if it should be judged on the current skins on the winners' xangas.

they failed to realize that not everyone saves their old skins.

but it's in the past, and afterall, i won, so we can move on... but that wasnt the only time theyve been like this.

another example is how they wanted to close/unpin the Advice Abby threads, because abby hadnt been updating for two weeks. it's like these mods have the need to control every aspect of cb, and i dont know if that's just a result of how the admins took away some of the mod privelages (which i wont state here for the sake of discretion), so the mods are just trying to gain control of SOMETHING, even if it's the smallest thing like Advice Abby....

Abby is a person like everyone else. she has a life. just because she hasnt been around in two weeks, is no reason to get all uppity about it. why dont you just close all threads in the lounge that arent posted in for two weeks, if you're really going to act this way?

now theres been an issue over how much I, as a member, know about the inner workings of cB. people on the staff have been really paranoid, and especially the admins. (and no.. no ones telling me about this, but i know this through the pms between me and two of the admins that they've been wondering how i know certain things.)

it's like.. ok.. .they just forgot i used to be a mod, and was THERE when most of things began to unfold. i was the one who SUGGESTED some of these things... so OBVIOUSLY i know about it.

i think a lot of the mods and admins these days are just a bit neurotic.

i havent the faintest idea how ot do it. i dont know computers. i imagine that a 'flag' icon could appear, in the same way that 'edit' and 'report' do, or similarly.

as for idiot members, ban their IP. thats kinda the point of the threat. that you actuallly carry it through on occasion

Well..I don't think we've ever like banned anyones I.P...but thats a good idea with the Red Flag thing..if that works, I don't know =/

Oh, I feel so unspecial. Nobody cares to respond to my paragraphs.
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yeah sorry. I'll get right on that. I haven't been here.

i should be a mod for entertainment or fashion forum... who are the mods there anyways?

^People Staff moderate everything in the community center.

i think the performance is good.

Hell no. & Elba answered your question already.

Yeah, because it's too hard to click the report button.

haha noo it isnt your fault we need new blogger staff anyways.. it makes me seem interested for blogger staff... your doing good! haha

she answered my question.. after i asked it... and yes i should you just a hater.. i am probably the most active head in entertainment and fashon and the most knowledgable head there too

You're too cocky.

Because you mods are always bitching about how we use the report button for minor things, and I hardly think a thread that should be closed merits as a major issue.

please no arguing... and yea people should just click the report button if there are too many bashers/spammers.. but cloing a topic just send 1 mod a pm to close it...

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and i think Basick would make a good ass people staff!

^x2 I, for one, have never complained about a report that actually contains something that needs to be fixed. I've received reports about topics that need to be closed before, and I don't see the problem with them. Don't assume we all feel the same way.

And besides, the report page doesn't say anything about the problem having to be big or important. Anything that goes against the Community Guidelines, basically, can be reported.

The only time mods get pissed off at reports is when people give us REPLIES to a topic or just irrelevant reports.

thank you!! you can be my campaign manager.. basick for peoples staff in 2005!
lol call me cocky but am i supposed to be so unintellegent that im not allowed to state my opinions at the risk of being arrogant?