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Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by Beau » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:10 am

mufcdd wrote:As an ex-Mod and ex-AE, its sad to see all the truthful posts about the Mod system have been DELETED. Speaks volumes.

As for age limit, would never work as people would lie. There are currently several Mods/TMs who have been known to lie/cheat about things so Im sure an age-lie would be no great deal.
That's true, it is easy to lie about your age, there's no way to check if you are really as old as you say you are.

And it would make it more meaningfull to be asked to be a TM/Mod. It would for me anyway. Because it means that help and advice/tips/help offerd, is appriciated, and working. Not that I want to be a TM/Mod, because I feel and know that I'm not experienced enough, and I need to learn more about the hobbie, by reading about the experiences all of you have, and ask things that I'm not sure about, And I do try to help out others whenever I can. But maybe in the future when I would be asked, maybe I would think about it.

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by mufcdd » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:18 pm

As an ex-Mod and ex-AE, its sad to see all the truthful posts about the Mod system have been DELETED. Speaks volumes.

As for age limit, would never work as people would lie. There are currently several Mods/TMs who have been known to lie/cheat about things so Im sure an age-lie would be no great deal.

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by packrat » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:07 pm

khackdrums wrote:
packrat wrote:For one, an age minimum. For me, it would be 30 or older. Of course, that would probably eliminate too many people so I'd settle for 21 or older.
30?! That's a bit unrealistic... An age requirement of 18 would be more practical. Of course, there would be room for exceptions.

Khackdrums :D
While I don't see it as unrealistic, I am realistic enough to know that it won't fly. I'm not so much speaking to an age level per se, but to a level of maturity. Since maturity is extremely difficult to discern, about the only way to attempt to find relatively mature people to fill any open position is to have an age minimum. I don't foresee a need for exceptions. If no one is available that meets the criteria, it most often is better to do without.

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by marokee » Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:11 pm

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Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by legendwithoutaname » Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:28 am

There is a current GM that just pads their count and rarely post anything of value other than Congrats blah..blah

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by khackdrums » Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:57 am

packrat wrote:For one, an age minimum. For me, it would be 30 or older. Of course, that would probably eliminate too many people so I'd settle for 21 or older.
30?! That's a bit unrealistic... An age requirement of 18 would be more practical. Of course, there would be room for exceptions.

Khackdrums :D

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by packrat » Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:54 am

BossC wrote:As for the age thing, you are SUPPOSED to be 13 before you join fanmail, but age doesn't mean maturity, so it is kind of half and half on that one :shock: .

BossC
Boss, that was exactly what I was speaking (or typing) to. Maturity. While I can agree that being 21 years old doesn't guarantee a certain level of maturity over a teenager, it does help a bit on average. That's also part of the reason why I don't like the idea of people asking to be moderators. It's hard to sort out the intentions of the person submitting the request. Most of the young kids look at the "glory" and not the responsibilities. Not all. But most. Okay, so that was me several ice ages ago.

One other thing just occurred to me. This may be a bit off-topic, but I think it ties in somehow. The mods, or even the trainees should be enforcing an obscure thing known as bulletin board etiquette. The one I'm specifically refering to is typing out one's words. We have members here from all over the world who's first language isn't "English-cell-phone-text-speak," and I've seen more than once where they've been tripped up because someone replied in texting shorthand. (Not to mention that it hurts my eyes. But that's another subject for a rainy day.)

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by dfreely » Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:40 am

packrat wrote: --Thirdly, I think that anyone who ASKS to be a moderator should be turned down automatically. It should be by invitation only. If you guys don't already know who amongst the members would make a good moderator, then that is just sad.
Isn't that true. This forum is the only one I know where members can apply to become a moderator, and it obviously just makes things worse.
countrygal23 wrote: For the age minimum, it sounds like to me that kids shouldnt be allowed to be a moderator just because they are young. im 12 and i know ALOT about fan mail and i help people out who are older than me.
While it's nice to have moderators that are knowledgeable and helpful, the job of a moderator is to edit and delete posts as necessary, remove spam, ban members, etc - it's not just simply knowing a lot about something and helping people out.

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by BossC » Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:33 am

packrat wrote: --Thirdly, I think that anyone who ASKS to be a moderator should be turned down automatically. It should be by invitation only. If you guys don't already know who amongst the members would make a good moderator, then that is just sad.
I AGREE!!! BUt that's not how it works, so we had to come up with some rules.

As for the age thing, you are SUPPOSED to be 13 before you join fanmail, but age doesn't mean maturity, so it is kind of half and half on that one :shock: .

BossC

Re: Time Minimum for Moderators

by countrygal23 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:07 am

packrat wrote:As a regular Joe, there are a few things I'd like to see:
--For one, an age minimum. For me, it would be 30 or older. Of course, that would probably eliminate too many people so I'd settle for 21 or older.
--Secondly, one of the qualifications should be the ability to write complete sentences, including punctuation marks and proper capitalization. Spelling errors are okay. The need for Hooked on Phonics isn't.
--Thirdly, I think that anyone who ASKS to be a moderator should be turned down automatically. It should be by invitation only. If you guys don't already know who amongst the members would make a good moderator, then that is just sad.

And no, I don't want to be a moderator. But all in all, I'm glad you finally came up with some parameters. It's a start...
srry. i hope no one is mad at me :cry:

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