Moderator Reviews. Options

[*Azarel*]

People who want the position for the title. We periodically review our staff performance, and in the past, those who applied for the sake of having a nifty title never did that well...

This comes up in the chat a lot, when we talk about mods that are active and inactive, etc. Last night, we toyed with the idea of having the mods be reviewed every once in a while, after all, that's what Jusun says that you guys do, right? (Cited above.) I don't exactly know how the current staff members are reviewed, whether it be public to the community or not, but I don't think it's happened in a while. I also think that maybe the community should have a say in some of the reviewing, because perhaps the people doing the reviewing aren't that active.

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We have tools for reviewing moderating performance to determine who has and hasn't been active.

I'm not sure if having the community review our mods' performances may be such a great idea because there are actions that our mods perform that you may overlook. For instance, the acceptance/rejection of skins/scripts/tutorials, etc., the regular reviewing and maintenance of our skins database, sharing ideas/suggestions with other moderators about the forums, interacting with members to make them feel welcome, etc. Moderating doesn't only consist of closing/moving/merging topics or posting often. There are many things that go on behind the scenes that regular members will not be aware of.