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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Moderator Performance V.1

// Update - Moderator Performance Threads will be 50 pages in length.

[*Azarel*]

What exactly are you wanting our opinion on, Anna?

How warnings and verbal warnings are handled?
On our personal activity or other mods activity issues?

The situation with Jame's warning is in the past now, and Rebecca was dealing with that whole thing.
I'm not entirely sure what you are wanting to discuss.
and yes, I read the entire thread.
It seemed like you were aiming your responses more towards Rebecca and such,
you guys were going back and forth.

Again, what do you want our opinion on.
I'm sure a lot of the mods would be happy to speak up.

We were going back and forth because nobody else would dive in. But since you want to know..

And how is this punishment of coming forward any less leniant than the punishment of not coming forward? To be fair, you started it; I only had good intentions when I posted what you initially attacked. (btw, this is the issue J&A has with you [Mona] at the moment.)

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. >_>;

HI THIS IS ESPECIALLY DIRECTED TOWARD YOU, SINCE YOU WANT TO ASK WHAT I WANT RESPONSE ON, THANKS MUCH. /immature;

< is a bit appalled by the maturity level of certain moderators whose jobs are to lead by example. /semi-random;

[*Kathleen*]

HI THIS IS ESPECIALLY DIRECTED TOWARD YOU, SINCE YOU WANT TO ASK WHAT I WANT RESPONSE ON, THANKS MUCH. /immature;

I realize this is PURELY puerile (yay alliteration), but..
CAN I GET AN AMEN?