Moderator Performance, V.2, Suggestions/Complaints/Compliments Options

[*Zatanna*]

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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[*Zatanna*]

Actually, I had a PM with the verbal warning ready. Unfortunately my son's school called and my son has a fever. He doesn't have medical coverage right now (I'm sure you don't care about that) and if he gets ill enough and has to be hospitalized. Well, I think you get my point. Obviously the PM was never sent. You can ask around, any recent verbal warning I've given have included that PM (including one I gave to today).

I got back to my computer and closed all the windows thinking it was already sent.

My mistake, I'm aware of that.

Not that it matters, not that anyone cares and I'm well aware that it doesn't address what Anna said at all.

I don't expect it from you, but I'm going to need a few to get things in order domestically before I can really go through both of your replies and give them the time and attention they deserve. Sorry, but my kid is more important at the moment. Regardless of what you think of me, I'm sure you can understand.

I'll talk to Mona about the discrepancy with James' warning. Rules are rules.

I briefly saw the post regarding the spam in MP. Quite frankly, the majority of all posts in MP is nearly spam if you think about all the repetitious "you look great"s and what not. Don't be surprised if you see some threads moved around in the future. Not that MP is one of them, just threads like that in general that have sort of an auto-response component to it.

Edit:
Ok, thing is, Ian stopped. And there were so many of them that my responses weren't necessarily congruent with the timeline in which all of those posts were made. Regardless, he stopped and hasn't been doing it since. That is why his warn level wasn't raised.

The posts in the MP thread? I believe all of the them have been warned before, in fact, I believe that at least one of them fairly recently came back from suspension. This is a wretched excuse but that dang thread moves so fast sometimes that I miss things. I thought that they had stopped after I posted that long post with all of those quotes.

Sean Ho? I WISH I had an answer to give you. All I can say is that it is out of most of our control. You honestly think that the majority of us don't absolutely agree with you that there is way too much leniency where he's concerned? Because we do. It's a brick wall and I'll never fully understand why.

I don't know all the details about the Josh thing, other than it seems to me that there isn't a problem right now.

Really quick I'd also like to add that I feel like you guys are really quick to jump down certain staff members' throats. What I find unfortunate about this is that Mona and I have been here almost more than anyone has been recently. You complain about activity. I may not do things that you agree with, but I'm here and I honestly do try. Many of the mods (as you've complained about) haven't been around much due to vacations, schools, projects, etc. I've been trying to do everything I can to help out around here. I'm not being facetious when I say that it's too bad nothing I do is good enough because all you will concentrate on is the bad where I'm concerned. Something I said was really badly taken to the extreme and unfortunately taken the wrong way and taken out of context. I've re-read what I wrote and I can understand why, it's just unfortunate. What never reached you was the good I said. And there were several compliments I gave where you were concerned. But again, those weren't repeated.

There's nothing I can do at this point but keep trying and keep doing my best. I'm not going anywhere and I'm not going to resign, so you're just going to have to deal with me.

Sorry it's not better for you. I really am.

This post has been edited by Zatanna: Sep 15 2006, 04:22 PM