Moderator Performance, v.1 Options

[shadowfax]

(Looks like the old thread is gone because I've searched all over and can't find it or it's just not coming up in the search.)

If you have any suggestions, compliments or complaints about the staff members, this is the place to do it.

Prevent yourself from bashing anyone because that doesn't get anywhere useful.

[pandora]

sandra should quit or be removed from the staff. she has no valid reasons for staying around and already knows she sucks as a mod.

[VaeVictis]

*Reads first post*

*Reads second post*

*Raises eyebrows*

[Insurmountable]

^lol that really made me laugh.


Anyway I think the staff is doing good right now. A little questionable would be Sandra and Jane and their activity.

But other than that people are doing pretty good. I'd have to say staff is closer too

[arcanum]

Sandra, Jane, and Mark... all questionable. Though, Mark.. not too much, I guess.
Mona and Holly are doing magnificent!

[Insurmountable]

^I've seen him in the admin cp lately

Thank you Kara

[Elba]

^lol that really made me laugh.
Anyway I think the staff is doing good right now. A little questionable would be Sandra and Jane and their activity.

But other than that people are doing pretty good. I'd have to say staff is closer too

Agreed.

[kryogenix]

Everyone involved in reviving the forums has done a stunning job so far. Kudos.

[Sandraaa]

sandra should quit or be removed from the staff. she has no valid reasons for staying around and already knows she sucks as a mod.

Yeah, you'd love that to happen, won't you twin.

[pandora]

wow, that rumor is old news, sandra. try to keep up here. someone on this forum has already met her, so i hardly think going after that sucker-punch is going to do much but embarrass yourself.

anyway, im not bashing sandra. this is mod.perf. and shes already admitted that she shouldn't be on staff. her excuse for not leaving is that 4 people have quit and she doesnt want to get grouped up with the rest of them. who cares? just quit.


edit://
so now she states her reason for not leaving is to spite me.

gj.

[Sandraaa]

JESUS f**k. Stop stop stop. Trish, I don't care if you faked the story or not. I simply called you twin COS you said you were a twin. It's like saying 'hunnie' or 'darling'. I only used 'twin' at you in that way once and I don't intend on doing it again.
I was completely innocent this time.

I apologize if I offended you or anything.

f**k. Everyone is taking everything out of context today. Even at school!!

Edit// not to spite you but to prove to you that I am capable of not sucking.

Maaann ...

I'm sweating.

[pandora]

sandra, just wondering, have i called you any names? have i actually been really harrassing you? no. i'm questions your capability to do a job. you're not exactly proving me wrong. you're not even really defending yourself. you're just arguing with me. that's not really helping your case.

[Tung]

On the other hand, I think Mona and Holly are doing a wonderful job keeping the forums intact.

[Sandraaa]

I am not defending myself. I agree with you completely. I never said I was super active or I made this life changing improvement on cB.

I assume everything. And I hope you'll finally see that I can do better.

[Tung]

If you agree with Trish, that you are a bad staff member, just quit then. You don't want to quit because you don't want to go down in cB history as part of the famous fab four mods who quit? That is a really stupid reason imo. You aren't doing anyone any good by staying on the staff. There are many others here, that qaulify, and would do 10 times better than you.

[Sandraaa]

Wow Tung. That was deep. The reason you gave wasn't my reason at all. Get informed.

[Tung]

Please inform me then.

[Sandraaa]

Tung, I was practically never online and wasn't very much out there, I know. And I apologize. All you should know is that I am going to fix it.

[Tung]

Well I'm glad you are trying to do a better job now. I would hope that. I just don't remember you ever doing anything around the forums, but if you are going to fix that, thats great!

[Sandraaa]

Yay. Positive feedback!!

[pandora]

i'm willing to let you try and redeem yourself, but perhaps a better approach on the subject would have been asking for a second chance, instead of making this a conflict between me and you.

anyway, i think i'll wait a couple weeks before i retouch this subject

[Insurmountable]

I'm really happy to hear that Trish Considering her computer and stuff have not been working and shes able to borrow her dads laptop; shes showing something right there to try to the length to get on createblog and help out


*waits for Josh's reply*

[Sandraaa]

i'm willing to let you try and redeem yourself, but perhaps a better approach on the subject would have been asking for a second chance, instead of making this a conflict between me and you.

anyway, i think i'll wait a couple weeks before i retouch this subject

Correct. Could you guys please give me a second chance?

EDIT// Wow Josh. I truly appreciate that. BUT (there's always a but) I accept everyone's critique and I'd rather improve than quit.

[Insurmountable]

As much as I agree with you Josh, theres something else about it. I mean what happens when we have a team of 8 or more other people and their all working hard on the website then one person and that one person gets to stay on staff and get recognized more than just a normal member because their on staff.

I have to say when I'm doing something to keep my "status" and someone else isn't doing their end of the deal. I bring it up. I don't want to get the shaft for something as simple as this website.

[Sandraaa]

WTF? Call me Sandra. Haha.

[pandora]

i think the real issue is that there may be others more qualified and available for the job. you go through this tiring hiring process and so many qualified people get rejected. and then one person who did get hired is no where to be found.

[Insurmountable]

^Yep exactly.

As its been brought up before; look at the last hiring we had. It was like a big waste of time o_O I think only like 3 people stayed from the last hiring?

woah 3 people stayed out of the 12 that were hired!

[*Steven*]

well, 3 of us had good reason to go :D

[Sandraaa]

I still stick to forcing you guys back on. Your main problem is gone!!

[Insurmountable]

haha I agree, you guys all did Everyone else I think it was activity that was the biggest issue. School coming up and so many of us in AP courses and its a huge work load.

^haha yea seriously, I would love them back on staff :D

[Insurmountable]

Fine, I suppose. You do have a very valid point Josh, but as I said. Everyone likes equality and to be able to see everyone. Activity is something that is looked at because when they were hired in the hiring sessions they agree to being active, and if they didn't have time for createblog then they didn't need to put in a application.

[Sandraaa]

But sometimes, you don't know if you're going to be inactive or not. That's the problem. It can happen to anyone but then again, it should be fixed.

[pandora]

i dont think theres any point in continuing on about this. im willing to give sandra a break if everyone else is - assuming that she's actually going to try and do better.

[Insurmountable]

Yes thats why we have two absent threads on the forums, one backstage and one in the lounge. o_O which reminds me I need to re-make that..

Anyway I agree with Trish, below me Anyone has anything further about what I was talking about feel free to PM me

[Sandraaa]

O_o. I did give a reason Josh.

[clarity]

Shouldn't there be a list of all current moderators?

Also I'd like to say Holly and Mona have been doing a very good job. For Holly, She's been extremely active and she is contributing a lot. For Mona, She's been doing a great job on getting the forums back to normal.

For the rest of the staff, to be honest I haven't really seen any activity from the rest of the staff. Just seems to be Holly and Mona.

[*Steven*]

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...t&p=2736653

[superstitious]

So, I haven't been here in a while and just came back. o.O

*scratches head and segues to Mod Performance*

I'm not sure what's been going on, but based on the perception I have from reading through the forums a bit, Holly has been doing a really good job here.

[arcanum]

^ Rebsss!!

I'm glad to be seeing more of Diana and Sandra!

[Sandraaa]

OMG. REBECCAAAAAA!!!!

[Insurmountable]

" off staff till kid's in middleschool...o.O" I see you red the cB blast stuff

thank you Rebs, how have you been?

[Tung]

Quick question. Who is undesi red?

[Insurmountable]

^ Who? Link?

[Sandraaa]

@ Tung, I've been wondering too!! I just saw Steven post something with Undesi(red).

[Insurmountable]

oh, didn't they put that on Mike's picture in the VIP lounge like last week?

[The-Mach-Hare]

It's Mike.

[superstitious]

" off staff till kid's in middleschool...o.O" I see you red the cB blast stuff

thank you Rebs, how have you been?

LOL... I actually missed it, but heard enough about it. ;)

Hi Kara, Sandra =) Things are fantastic. :D

Oh and to do something productive-y, Mona and Jusun are awesome for restoring this place!

[IVIike]

oh, didn't they put that on Mike's picture in the VIP lounge like last week?

yes

[Elba]

I think all of you are doing great

[YourSuperior]

^Me too!

[clarity]

Um yeah, so like wheres Jane (Moderator)? I haven't seen any of her lately... same with Rachael (digitalfragrance).

[*Steven*]

Rachael goes away for extended periods and does very little while shes not absent, then gets mad at others when they critique her. She then makes up excuses or accuses others of stupid things like hating her etc. Rachael =/= good staff member.

[sadolakced acid]

that's hot.

[Tung]

what does this have to do with moderator performances? oh that's right.

[sadolakced acid]

that's beside the point.

it's a hot picture, i felt a need to let people know that.

[Tung]

Hayley Williams > Avril Lavinge

[sadolakced acid]

okay, now you're off topic.

crack addict != hot.

[stephinika]

Okay guys, thats enough now, c'mon. =p Yes, they're great pictures but not here.

[clarity]

http://myspace-498.vo.llnwd.net/01190/89/42/1190552498_l.jpg

Hayley Williams > Avril Lavinge

Hayley's eyes look creepy and disturbed.


BTW- When a mod is given feedback (particularly about activity) what happens if they are not here to respond?

[superstitious]

BTW- When a mod is given feedback (particularly about activity) what happens if they are not here to respond?

Historically there's been several times when a mod hasn't responded or has responded but basically biting back, so-to-speak.

I think it depends on whether or not the person giving feedback wants a response. Part of the debate of this thread was whether or not people felt comfortable giving feedback, for fear of staff lashback. It seems though that the current staff isn't like that so hopefully people will continue to feel comfortable giving feedback here.

I think if it's a specific feedback someone wants a response to, they could PM the staff member directly. Although staff really should be looking at this thread on a regular basis (and should at least acknowledge the feedback). I remember coming here first or second after logging on.

[clarity]

^ Yeah, when I was on staff and I'd see a new post here I'd check instantly. I just want to know where are these staff members, why haven't i seen them around at all, and how are they gonna take care of the situation.

[superstitious]

^ Yeah, when I was on staff and I'd see a new post here I'd check instantly. I just want to know where are these staff members, why haven't i seen them around at all, and how are they gonna take care of the situation.

Best thing is to be direct and point people out specifically. That way if they don't at least acknowledge feedback here, Mona and/or Holly can maybe have a little word or something.

[monster]

Best thing is to be direct and point people out specifically. That way if they don't at least acknowledge feedback here, Mona and/or Holly can maybe have a little word or something.

hello.

[*Steven*]

They're not acknowledging it because they're never on.

[superstitious]

hello.

hi there

Steve - or they're there but not doing anything.

[clarity]

Best thing is to be direct and point people out specifically. That way if they don't at least acknowledge feedback here, Mona and/or Holly can maybe have a little word or something.

....

Um yeah, so like wheres Jane (Moderator)? I haven't seen any of her lately... same with Rachael (digitalfragrance).

[shadowfax]

Have a little word in here or direct contact with the staff member in question?

When's lately? Jane's here but she just hasn't been posting as much. She knows about her inactivity and she said she will work on it. So I'd give her another week. I spoke to her exactly a week ago (and other staff members have acknowledged it too) and I usually monitor someone for 2 weeks.

[digitalfragrance]

I'm here - I've been here... I've been posting... and been in the queue I'm sorry you haven't seen me, but, I'm here

and I'm sick

[*Steven*]

I'm here - I've been here... I've been posting... and been in the queue I'm sorry you haven't seen me, but, I'm here

and I'm sick

QQ

[Tung]

I'm here - I've been here... I've been posting... and been in the queue I'm sorry you haven't seen me, but, I'm here

and I'm sick

And when you are here, what do you do? Close topics? Thats all i ever see you do. Even SinfullySweet helps out more in the design section than you. If you aren't going to do your job well enough, I think you should step down, and let others who are more well deserve, take your place. Kthxbai.

[LoveToMySilas]

Um yeah, so like wheres Jane (Moderator)? I haven't seen any of her lately... same with Rachael (digitalfragrance).

sorry about that. I'm right here!

[Tung]

sorry about that. I'm right here!

That's right. It doesn't matter if Jane goes inactive. She's hot, and that's all that matters.

[superstitious]

Have a little word in here or direct contact with the staff member in question?

LOL I was in mom mode ("have a little word"). Basically PM them to see what's up or point out that they have some feedback here. XD That's all I meant. =)

[Insurmountable]

I love that "mom mode" XD


Anyway I think anyone that gets positive or negative critique should at least post so people know that they actually acknowledge their post, ya know? I mean if it is negative I think at times Staff members can feel a little taken back from it all and don't want to reply instantly because sometimes people get upset, so give them a few days before any posts I would suggest

[clarity]

hm.... alrighty.

[Insurmountable]

Did I miss anything? I mean I haven't been here for the last day so I mean all that I really got was whether or not someone should post if they got a little critique?

[clarity]

No my point really is that the staff (except you [Holly] and Mona) haven't really been active. Some of em` I haven't seen at all until today, once I brought it up.

[karmakiller]

I've tried to be here, but I won't be here for a few days because I'm going to Iowa. I posed Backstage yesterday about it.

[*Steven*]

Kudos to Dee for taking criticism and badgering and maintaining a calm attitude.

Rachael, however, only seems to show up when something negative is being said about her, and when she shows up she's very defensive and seems very closed to criticism. Also as Tung has said, there are others who are much more helpful, and they aren't even hired to do that. Rachael should shape up or ship out.

[digitalfragrance]

I don't think my post was defensive...
oh well! If it sounds that way, I'll work on it

[rnicron]

I wouldn't exactly call it defensive, but the post with 15 smilies make it seem like you're trying to play it off, and also make it seem like you're oblivious to what you're doing. It seems like you don't think you're doing anything wrong, but you're trying to be "nice", even though you could care less about the feedback.

[digitalfragrance]

Ok, guess I'll limit the smilies. Just making sure I come off as positive.

[*Steven*]

[digitalfragrance]

^ haha Steven you just made my day

[superstitious]

LOL regarding smilies. I remember Suzzete saying something like she used smilies to make sure that she wasn't misinterpreted when certain folks were taking things the wrong way.

There's just more power and respect in what you say than what you think you may convey by add some emotes.

[brooklyneast05]

There's just more power and respect in what you say than what you think you may convey by add some emotes.

yea agreed, and also in what u do
if u just come here and do the job that u signed up for, then u don't have to even mess with all this being accused of being defensive, putting too many smilies or bla bla bla whatever. otherwise just step down and let others who have time to do the job do it. that's my opinion at least, not just to rachael but any staff member in general who's criticized for not being active enough.

most of us are in school, ect. if ur busy ur busy, that's understandable. i don't get the point though in keeping a staff position and putting that much more stuff on ur shoulders to mess with if u really don't have time for it. it just seems like it would be better for everyone involved in those people would just step down.

so yeah, i agree with steven i suppose, shape up or ship out.

[pandora]

i add smilies to be sarcastic. a lot of people do, because theyre so ridiculous. i think people should keep that in mind. not everyone is being nice when theyre using the smilies.

on a side note,
there are a lot of things that design staff can do that regular members cant really see. if theyre in the queue all day, you can only see that by going through every new layout/graphic/script to see who approved it. so telling them that all they do is close topics when they know that theyve been active elsewhere, is a bit unneccessary.

[stephinika]

^^
I have to agree on that one. They are design staff after all. *shrug* But thats just my 2 cents.


And as for the smilies, I agree on sometimes they are a good little additive just to make sure things don't get across in the wrong way, as long as they aren't overdone.

[*Steven*]

[hypnotique]

No my point really is that the staff (except you [Holly] and Mona) haven't really been active. Some of em` I haven't seen at all until today, once I brought it up.

Diana has been around

[clarity]

^ Oh Yes and my sexy dahling Diana has been around.

[Sandraaa]

Sooo ... Sandra has been around and is currently fixing computer issue. Anyway, if I wasn't that active this week, it's because I've got exams. Next week is hols so I'd definitely be on more.

[IVIike]

OK I'm just going to put my 2 cents in... as trish previously said most of DS work in behind the scenes so if you really want to see their full activity check the # of layouts graphics scripts ect. they have moderated. In my opinion the last two days Rachael was been doing an awesome job she is constantly in the queue and her activity has been up. Hopefully this won't just be a two day thing.

[*Steven*]

Hopefully not. I might add, I was on staff guys. Because I was on staff I should be respected. I know how things go down on staff. I was once myspacepeople staff. I know how staff works. I was on staff, don't forget that I was on staff.


Regardless of my compulsive need to tell y'all about how I was on staff, Rachael's activity is a recent thing to the best of my knowledge. She was questioned plenty backstage as well, and I remember she didn't seem to be too active in the queue. This may be in part because of Holly and Mike completely owning it up, but who knows.

[Insurmountable]

lol how did you write myspace instead of people first? o_O

But yea I mean Rachael has stepped it up recently if she keeps up that will be great I haven't really been that active this week to be honest, I've been busy here and there and Josh is coming next week and I don't know if I'm stressed or whats going on with me but any who the admin cp doesn't work on my desktop computer so I have to use my laptop, in which I didn't have my laptop til yesterday night. So yep, sorry.

So this week Mike and Rachael have been doing a great job. Haven't really seen Mark Could just be me but who knows?

[Tung]

Mark's usually on like late at night. When the forums dead, and no one's on.

[*Steven*]

lol how did you write myspace instead of people first? o_O

Spencer knows why.

[Sandraaa]

I THINK I KNOW WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[rnicron]

Spencer knows why.

LMAO YES!

[Insurmountable]

why can't I know why?