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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[*Azarel*]

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.

What I was trying to point out with Ian and the two/three in MP was that they didn't receive an actual verbal warning, but rather a warning of an impending verbal warning if they didn't stop; why didn't they just receive actual verbal warnings? And yes, I know that Seon Ho has been brought up before multiple times by multiple people and that staff agrees, but he's still here as the resident forum troll. *cough* :x And I had already PMed Mona about the Josh issue.

We complain about the activity of mods that are inactive, obviously; the reason we don't differentiate between those mods is because those who are inactive are pretty obvious. Yes, I get that the mods we(I) complain about are inactive because of various reasons, but in the mod hiring thread, wasn't it stated (oh, and I know it was, so ignore the rhetoric here) that cB wants dedicated members as staff? I understand that moderators may need breaks once in a while, but.. sometimes those (school/hw/vacation) are just excuses.

I mean, Kathleen (before she was demodded) had just started school and just gotten a new job, but she still made the effort to spend at least fifteen or so minutes on cB, doing as much as she could, and it clear that she was trying. Also, Keira (sorry to bring you into this, I need another example) was active on cB during the most difficult time of her life. And even you, Rebecca, are on cB when there are real life issues you need to deal with. I'm not saying that moderators should neglect non-cB obligations in order to be good moderators; it's just that they willingly signed on to be moderators, so they should be doing their jobs.

Compare the situation to.. say.. a TA. In both cases, you're not getting paid, but you've signed up to perform some sort of duty or something or another. (Wow, I am so good at explaining things. XD) If an TA neglects their duties (to grade papers, photocopy stuff, help out the teacher, whatever), no matter what the reason, they would be given a bad grade as a TA, right (er, at my high school it was a class)? But once in a while, if the TA asked to not do anything for the teacher that period because they needed to study for a test, it would be acceptable because it wasn't often that it happened. Technically, a mod (imo) should have something like that going along. Most of the time, they should be actively participating and performing moderator actions if they take a break once in a while for a few days at a time, but return, continuing with the active modding and such, it should be no problem. However, the mods(I) we were(was) complaining (and in one case, still am) about did no such active modding.. (I know, not exactly the best analogy, but it gets my point across.) I've been rambling on about that for entirely too long. >_>;

Anyway, the good was relayed to me, but not until after the fact of the matter (and it wasn't by the guilty, either, but rather the other [unfairly] accused who actually had nothing to do with the whole situation). After all, there's that one pesky rule, isn't there, hm?

I wish I could have communicated better with James earlier, but this afternoon is a blur. As I mentioned in my response, I'll talk to Mona about it. But I did warn him (even though there's another element that wasn't done) and he told me to "f*ck myself." Now while that's amusing, he knew what he was doing.

I'm not saying James's behavior didn't warrant the actual warning; I was using his situation in comparison to the other two situations where (as I've already stated before) the members didn't receive real verbal warnings.

And on a(n almost) completely different note, I haven't seen Reili around lately; is she on break?

*wheeze* Sorry that was so long.