I seriously do not believe that this board needs 3-5 moderators. The traffic is not high enough to necessiate that number.

Find someone reasonable, low profile, without any issues, and PM them. Finding a Mod shouldn't involve a popularity contest between board members.

Norman wrote:

I seriously do not believe that this board needs 3-5 moderators. The traffic is not high enough to necessiate that number.

Find someone reasonable, low profile, without any issues, and PM them. Finding a Mod shouldn't involve a popularity contest between board members.

Three if you prefer.

Sigh, I have suggested two options here:

* ONE MOD
* 2-3  mods than can work together via the reports interface. Presumably "voting" together for closing a topic is less of a bother for frequent poster, and opens up the role to more people.

You said one of the potential problems was deleting a first post deletes a thread. Is there a function in admin tools to lock a post from further edits? So a Mod/Admin edits a conflicting first post, blanks it for example, and locks it from further edits from original poster.

I just want to add my two cents to the discussion. The truth of the matter is, everybody can be a moderator, though it is a good choice to appoint someone who knows the forum and the members. An active moderator, who is participating in discussions, is a plus imho. They are who people are turning to when a question arises, for changing topics, etc. On the other hand they could be a little biased towards others whom they got to know over the years. You get to know people over the years, and when they are a little aggressive, or getting carried away a little in a heated discussion, they would be likely to get away with it. Which speaks for 新米 or less active members, because they are not so emotionally involved in this whole forum-thing, but still capable to fulfill the functions asked from them. 

2 to 3 moderators are a good choice from my point of view. The forum is chock-full of useful information that needs to be collected, centralized, and being brought into order. Which would be a nice side job for those moderators, besides the usual business of moderating forum-posts, handling complaints, answering questions and such. Which, if I got Fabrice right, isn't that much work because hardly anyone complains about anything around here. So, whoever it is going to be, I am sure they will make a great job. And if I were to suggest some people for the post as 守護天使 then CarolCG, puddingcat, nadiatims, and maybe, just maybe mezpub because he is a Kiwi. Which qualifies him the most, Kiwis are friendly creatures by nature, or so I've heard. ^^ And if it's not one of them getting assigned, then not.

Nagareboshi wrote:

2 to 3 moderators are a good choice from my point of view. The forum is chock-full of useful information that needs to be collected, centralized, and being brought into order. Which would be a nice side job for those moderators, besides the usual business of moderating forum-posts, handling complaints, answering questions and such.

I don't really know what you & jettyke have in mind. It doesn't make sense to have a zillion stickies for this stuff. The role of the moderator is to simply deal with the occasional ban, illegal stuff, complaints, and people just ignoring general rules or what not. I suppose moving threads into proper sub forums might also be a good duty too.

If you want to centralize information, there is or could be a wiki for that. (I know one existed prior to this but I think it might have been managed by nest0r?) If no one likes the wiki idea then start your own mega info thread to centralize the information. Moderators shouldn't be tasked with that.

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vix86 wrote:

If you want to centralize information, there is or could be a wiki for that. (I know one existed prior to this but I think it might have been managed by nest0r?) If no one likes the wiki idea then start your own mega info thread to centralize the information. Moderators shouldn't be tasked with that.

This one?

Ok I dunno why I make this so complicated. I'll create a new thread for applications and all comments should be posted HERE.

No, you don't need to read all posts. The main responsibility is to answer to the reports. And if you want I can put an email of your choice on the reports mailing. You could setup a simple filter for those in your email client.

Usually before a topic turns into flames you'll get a report because of some aggressive comment, then you can keep an eye on it, and eventually decide to close the topic. But typically those will be reported at some point, so you don't need to read everything.

I would not be for Zgarbas as a moderator as she called me a liar and refused to justify it on one thread. Personally I would love to see someone with awesome Japanese - Ydtt standard - as a mod. I obviously don't mind Fabrice policing his own site, but if "one of us" were to become a moderator I would be more respectful if this person had awesome Japanese.

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Josh has shown himself to be a real person with at first misunderstood purposes. He did get off on a wrong start simply because what he first posted did have the original signs of someone fake, but I think he has proven himself to have reasonable credibility that you would expect online, which certainly doesn't have to be much anyways.

I think whoever becomes the eventual moderator(s) need to be kind and unlikely to lose their cool without finding out some things ahead of time. They should be able to talk to people fighting with each other and see if they can make a solution.

Zgarbas just said what seemed true. Now, zgarbas would like anyone else that takes the job become responsible to do the tasks like they're supposed to.

Since enough people have already applied, I've decided I don't want to do it . I spend too much time here already and I think if I felt I had to come here it would be a disaster.

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I vote for Zgarbas and nohika.
I mainly give back to this community by answering members' questions, and I've noticed them answering questions as well. ^-^ They both seem to be very helpful and kind.

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