More moderators here than users??

[Moksha]

I've never been active on a board where the mods didn't post regularly. In fact, it's a little surprising to me that Heather posts so rarely.

Don't most mods post often on their respective boards?

Elphaba

I know of one board where the posters are given a new name after undergoing some sort of moderation ceremony involving goat leggings. However, depending on which day of the week it is, they have to share the name of some pagan Greek gods and the same creepy avatar.

Glad LDS.net does not do that.

[pam]

I've never been active on a board where the mods didn't post regularly. In fact, it's a little surprising to me that Heather posts so rarely.

Don't most mods post often on their respective boards?

Elphaba

In Heather's defense, when you are the VP of Technology for a foundation that has 100+ websites, she rarely has time to sit and post on a particular site. She pretty much leaves the running of the site to me and to the other moderators. I'm in constant contact with her to keep her up to date of any issues that might arise.

[MarginOfError]

I've never been active on a board where the mods didn't post regularly. In fact, it's a little surprising to me that Heather posts so rarely.

Don't most mods post often on their respective boards?

Elphaba

I always thought of Heather kind of like Tom from myspace. He's there, but you are never really convinced he's real.

[pam]

Of course the person I've gone to a Christmas party with and sat in meetings with could just be a figment of my imagination. :)

[pam]

Oh, my! Who is THAT?

I would consider giving up my Johnny for him!

Well, maybe not. but still . . . .

Hubba hubba

Elph

What Elphaba? Just one of the hottest guys on the planet. That's Shemar Moore who is currently on Criminal Minds. I first started watching him when he was a regular on The Young and The Restless years and years ago.

[Elphaba]

In Heather's defense, when you are the VP of Technology for a foundation that has 100+ websites, she rarely has time to sit and post on a particular site. She pretty much leaves the running of the site to me and to the other moderators. I'm in constant contact with her to keep her up to date of any issues that might arise.

If I gave the impression I was criticizing her, I didn't mean to. I was surprised, that's all.

Elph

[Elphaba]

What Elphaba? Just one of the hottest guys on the planet. That's Shemar Moore who is currently on Criminal Minds. I first started watching him when he was a regular on The Young and The Restless years and years ago.

I never watch television so I'm always out of the loop when it comes to young actors.

Thanks for telling me who he is. Netflix, here I come.

Elph

[pam]

If I gave the impression I was criticizing her, I didn't mean to. I was surprised, that's all.

Elph

No I didn't get the impression. I just wanted to clarify for anyone else that might read it and get the wrong impression.

[Suzie]

What Elphaba? Just one of the hottest guys on the planet. That's Shemar Moore who is currently on Criminal Minds. I first started watching him when he was a regular on The Young and The Restless years and years ago.

He is very handsome but I think the guy from Prison Break (Wentworth Miller) is wowww!

wentworthmillergorgeousjt0.jpg : Chuva Chienes dot com

(Not sure how to add the pic here)

[pam]

Okay Suzie, let's make a deal. You can have Wentworth, I'll stick with Shemar. That way there is no competition. :)

[Mahone]

I've never been active on a board where the mods didn't post regularly. In fact, it's a little surprising to me that Heather posts so rarely.

Don't most mods post often on their respective boards?

Elphaba

I've been a member of a fair few message boards over the past few years (particularly in my college days; you know how that works, free periods need filling up somehow). I usually tend to find that the successful ones work in a similar hierarchy to this one. There are usually a series of moderators, who do all the subordinate work. These moderators are usually overseen by one or two head moderators that directly see all the issues and complaints that members bring up and respond accordingly, and delegate to the subordinates. These head moderators are overseen by one or two administrators who generally work on the backend of the site, and only tend to make an appearance on the public front end of the forum to make site announcements or deal with major issues.

This is because the moderators and head moderators are sometimes too close/interact too much with the users of the forum to always have their respect, they are often seen simply as other users and people start yelling "power trip" when any moderation action is taken. If an issue gets out of hand, then an administrator makes a rare appearance on the scene to handle the issue themselves. Because their appearance and interaction is so rare, any moderation action taken is usually just accepted by most and the situation is solved.

I don't know if this makes sense to anyone but me, it's just what I've witnessed on other popular forums, which are still online to this day.

[pam]

Makes tremendous sense to me and I'm in total agreement in how you presented it. I wish I could thank you 10X.

[SanctitasDeo]

This post is (honestly) my small attempt to throw the ratio of postings in this thread (and, thus, in the forum) back toward the non-moderators, though I am afraid that it will not help much.

[Maya]

I am ofte all alone here... at least then there is more mods on than, what do you call it? common people???

[Mahone]

I am ofte all alone here... at least then there is more mods on than, what do you call it? common people???

Gahh, I have that song stuck in my head now... thanks

I want to live like common people...

[dorave]

I'm banning all moderators from my threads. Please follow my rules.

Thanks. :)

[Suzie]

I'm banning all moderators from my threads. Please follow my rules.

Thanks. :)

If you had any chance at all from becoming a mod now wellll...you know.

[pam]

dorave

Banned

[prisonchaplain]

He is very handsome but I think the guy from Prison Break

For a half second I thought . . . oh well...sigh...

[pam]

We already know you are hot PC..that goes without saying.

[prisonchaplain]

I would have settled for slightly above tepid...

[Dravin]

We already know you are hot PC..that goes without saying.

I thought the term was on fire?

[pam]

I would have settled for slightly above tepid...

Sheesh, some people are just never happy.

[prisonchaplain]

You misunderstand, Pam...I was beyond ecstatic! :-)

[pam]

I realized that after I posted. :)