Re: Forums/Mods Evaluations
Good thread. :k: Let’s evaluate each point.
Perhaps, it was not the attention spam but guppies (in general) stopped coming over the site? But I agree, about few forums but disagree about few.
First, let us establish the understanding whether or not a MOD is really required to do all that or does the burden lies equally (or more) on participants - the innocent members as well?
I will give you one example: There was a thread opened in Cafe 23rd March 2008 … Sadly, mods had to desert the idea by unsticking it and never bothered to say a word of grivience from their end. The guilty feeling on their side was obvious. People did not show any interest.
What does it tell you? Mods did try to do exactly the things you are suggesting in your point but ultimately who had the bigger say?
Please, do not underestimate the user-participation factor. If they do not want to participate in such, no moderator can “facilitate” any thing.
Time for moderators to re-ecaluate their relations with the actual runner of the site - the guppies.
Why? I saw hinn33 posting and trying to get people in the forum. Simple answer is that people are not participating. It’s not moderators. It’s the people. RKS should not be prone to flooding anyway.
Two mods are not responsible to give brilliant ideas. In fact, none of those mods gave the brilliant idea of “Photoshop Tennis” … What they needed to do was to carry out the idea and facilitate it further. Perhaps giving importance to such ideas more professionally than like any other thread.
It has always been a request forum ever since the audio upload was taken out from here. The only thing it lacks now is participation of guppies with creative ideas and coming up with their own audio scripts. Again, two people can not do anything. You need a team for that. We can not just blame mods for this, but the onus of responsibilty because of having some extra powers (of sticking threads) lie on the two poor souls anyway. It’s ironic but it’s true.
Perhaps, video forum is for posting videos, and then, now we have another extension of it in the form of Tubemedia.
So, the mod is sole responsible for new jokes?
Alas! but he does not get any single help from his fellow mods. At the end of the day, no one wants to see the boring episode of moderators ending up flooding in the forums as seen in cafe very often 
and no appreciation of any mod or admin. The least a mod could do was to stick the thread but I think thread is stuck on top without that anyway.
I do not visit that section that often so do not have anything else to add; however, agreed with what is being said.
agreed. It won’t take forum anywhere if you appear once in a week, flood in it and disappear for next monday, or tuesday or friday.
gotta agree.
I have to disagree with that statment. It’s really insulting to rest of the members. Moderators are also students and they should not have any MIGHTY attitude. They are needed to learn from senior guppies, perhaps from those who have been around here more than them. Moderators are only facilitators and nothing more. I do not buy this teacher analogy. There are far better posters in the forum than the forum moderators.
For example, posters like Psyah, Submission to Peace, Pak-one, USResident etc. are much more articulate and knowledgable than the moderators of Religion forum. Thankyouverymuch.
Exactly. Mods are “facilitators” and that’s that.
good analogy but not true for forums like Cafe. There are guppies who have done the same and perhaps more than mods without having the title of moderators. people come because of their friends and not because of their moderators or because moderator is their friend.
gotta agree there.
no comments - the new forum is on it’s way anyway:)
Done!