Time to do some change in Life1

[diwana]

Re: Time to do some change in Life1

@Muzna

why does change need to come in the form of mods?
why can’t men contributing to the forum change the atmosphere?

I know you are a senior person on the BB. You may know that a forum does carry general perception regardless what goes on inside a forum.

And that perception does change periodically based on predominant mood of posts by members.

But moderators do have important role to play in directing the thread in proper direction. Members look up to moderators as well. When one see encouraging remarks by a moderator or “Like” at the bottom of a post by a moderator, other members feel a bit intimidated and worry about saying something strong.

Now that may or may not be fine to this level.

Now hear this: When members who’s posts are encouraged by Mods get a little too sure of themselves and end up crossing the line of decency or niceness and start misbehaving/name calling. And Mod (s) look the other way since for them that member is right and other member is wrong.

That is why having a second opinion or at least two strong Mods of two different opinions or even balanced opinion is important.

@Muzna

I don’t know about that. We have male members posting in Life1 just fine.
In fact I find that its those members that make a mockery of the place more often than not.
Serious threads authored by men in Life1 are a rare treat…
While I have no issues with appointing male moderators there, I don’t see any reason why the male membership does not feel welcome to participate without them.

Here I see a bit of contradiction in both of your posts (bold). Maybe you meant in first post that men should be more proactive in bringing serious issues.

Agreed.

Perhaps a good male member as a mod will do that job.

Off topic but along the same line in some ways:
I started liking Poetry forum after muqawwee123 became a mod believe it or not. And that is because he has developed a connection to readers and brings good ideas unlike other respectable Mods who seemed either too secluded or self loving kind. One poster posted, either no response by Mods or poets keep patting their shoulders even on silly poetry. No one from Mods team really brought some good critic to poetry.

Hence Mods CAN change the mood of a forum. I am not criticizing at all. Just a humble suggestion.