ƒëmmë ƒatalë wrote:I'm sure there are plenty of forum users that have admin/ mod experience on other forums .. after all there are heaps on sgw alliance forums alone.
I know I for one have admin'd and modded on quiet a few of them over the years.
I can match that as well. I have been an admin, mod, super mod, junior admin, on a few websites with active user-groups of 3k+ (log on at least once every 24 hrs and post).
I was with 2 other admins, 1 J admin, 1 super mod and 10 mods, clearing crap all the time, in fact each mod would on average execute 100 mod actions within their first day, that being a ban, infraction, moving of a thread etc.
So in one day here there are about 90 active topics, give or take 10. So for the benefit of the doubt lets say 100 active topics, and lets say each topic is a heated argument so within the bickering I could safely say there are 7 DIFFERENT posters. So that leaves 700 'active' users on this forum, too many for reality imo but ok I'll roll with that for now ( take note there are 295 active topics within the past 7 days, so that's an average of 42 a day).
Now lets look at the user-groups, you have
24 MODS (mod infused power),
4 forum ADMINS ,
4 GLOBAL MODS, all running an active user-base of 700 people
So how about you trim some fat firstly before you say there wouldn't be enough 'experienced people' to be mods. It would be much better if you just let mods mod across the whole board, accept a few sections such as feedback.
Nonetheless, interchanging admins/GM's every year, or periodically, isn't a large problem, the game has been alive for 6 years so that would have been 28 admins so far, if they were doing a somewhat decent job i don't see why they could perform another term either.
I have no doubt there are quite a few people with enough experience to be a mod, not that it takes a lot of skill to be one. Which some of you act like it does. You follow governed rules, if you shine above others you will be later promoted, you slip up, you're removed. Is that not what GM's are for anyway among other things? You might as well do your job, slightly more often.
Perhaps if the game ever does get back on its feet there would be more users to choose from. Maybe there is quite a few new people still coming in and they just don't want to come on the forum, no doubt most alliance HC's have encountered members like that.
Anyway I assume this thread sprouted from the other which sprouted from another which eventually was set off from the global announcement, and how the admins were accused of heavy bias? Pretty sure no one cared about the mods or GM's, even though it skewed and eventually took that path. Kill the puppeteer and his puppets die to.
Jedi~Tank wrote:Mods- rotational but in long increments say 6 month minimum, Mods that have no funtion or purpose to be mods meaning constructive for the overall community should not be mods. Each Mod position should be made known and their functions fully disclosed and when the positions are filled there is no need for any rogue mod to be on the staff. Keep it simple.
+1. Accept mods shouldn't have a time limit, if they're done they're done, if they still perform solid after a year then props to them. Perhaps a review after 6 months instead.
E.M.P wrote:I may well be underestimating the amount of people capable to do the job though.
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quite, although you're not to blame for why you thought that.