Moderator Performance, V.1, Suggestions/Complaints/Compliments Options

[DaTru KataLYST]

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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[*Azarel*]

I think we have way too many mods, and many of them inactive. I can't really say anything for staff outside of people staff since I only hang out in the community center, but it seems that many of them glaze over on some topics for a while, leaving them open to either continual spamming or bashing.

For example, at this very instant while I'm typing this (it might be closed by the time I'm done), there is a thread in the lounge. The starburst one that's a repeat. I counted four mods (capable of closing/merging it) online when it was first posted. Now I count seven mods online capable of closing it. And it's been open for over half an hour.

edit1 nvm, it got closed. But you get the idea.</end edit>

As I was saying on inactive staff members, I know that y'all are human and I know that createBlog isn't your entire life, but in my mind, you made a commitment to createBlog when you accepted the position so long breaks just for the hell of it aren't really what I had in mind as commitment. Okay, so maybe you don't leave just because you feel like it. If you leave for a long time, I really think at least the community deserves to know that you'll be gone.

Also, there are staff members who aren't inactive, but just lurk on the site. I really don't want to name any, but I think we can all guess who they are. Sure, they're still around, they're not inactive, but they don't contribute to the site anymore, they don't post, and they rarely, if ever, happen to even execute any moderating actions. When they do though, we, the community, neither know nor see who closed/merged/moved/whatever the topic since the lurking mod doesn't post, thus causing the misconception in our head of an inactive mod.

edit2 Oh yeah, and also, just another thought, lately, some threads have been unneccessarily closed (imo). But I guess that's over. Whatever.