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Ex0dus
Joined: 26 Sep 2005
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Location: Zarasu, Lithuania
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Since i use a color groups mod, admin and mod colors dont show up like on a default board ^_^
Ive also hacked it so his specific username doesnt show up in any color on the birthday mod either (even though the rest of us do)
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Stitch
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: 11/30/2005, 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Man!! I wish I could get a moderator. I have had a special forum set up for the past 6 months for a mod and I have not had one bite yet. I even have colored text sayin Updated every so often. No one wnats to be a mod and I need the help. 
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Ex0dus
Joined: 26 Sep 2005
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Location: Zarasu, Lithuania
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| Posted: 11/30/2005, 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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I dont know how large your community is, but unless you have previous connections you ususally dont have the luxury of having a good group to pick mods from until you get a few hundred members. Always go quality over quantity and in your case, if noone wants to be a mod, then they likely dont deserve being a mod. Wait for the right people to come up and then ask them privately. Not only does it make it more of an honor (since youre asking them specifically) but it ususlly shows that the position means something (since youre just not throwing it out there)
Just my thoughts on it though,
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Stitch
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| Posted: 11/30/2005, 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Very good points in your post exodus. I have offered it to one person who is very active and a real nice person but he turned it down because I guess he had some ticked off people at another forum he was modding because he had to remove a vulgar post. Thanks for the tips. I am sure someone will come along.
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Teknomancer
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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My forum is very small to employ mods  But in anycase I go by this rule. Only when your forum is SO large with SO many members that one admin cannot moderate it all should a mod be employed. Well atleast that's my take on the matter... good luck anyway with finding mods!
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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Location: Albuquerque, NM USA
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| Posted: 12/1/2005, 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| Teknomancer wrote: |
| My forum is very small to employ mods But in anycase I go by this rule. Only when your forum is SO large with SO many members that one admin cannot moderate it all should a mod be employed. Well atleast that's my take on the matter... good luck anyway with finding mods! |
I don't agree with that approach. Unless you're willing to lurk at the forum constantly, and I mean constantly, why not delegate and let someone else share the watching of the posts?
We've got mods from Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Sao Paolo Brazil, and two from the UK. The UK mods watch the overnight activity into the early morning, I catch the morning and afternoon shifts along with my excellent mod from Texas (who is also on in the evenings off and on), my wife takes the evenings and into the late night. The mods from Ohio, Arizona and Brazil are on at random times throughout the day.
It wasn't planned that way, but that's how it worked out. What we ended up with was practically a round the clock mod presence there 
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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Location: Albuquerque, NM USA
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| Posted: 12/1/2005, 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I would agree that if you see a great person, why not just invite them? Can't hurt. |
Exactly. It doesn't hurt to be overmodded, as long as that doesn't inimidate the membership. All it means is that you have a trusted member who is empowered to watch out for the forum.
It's not like you're staffing a food prep line at McDonald's 
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Ex0dus
Joined: 26 Sep 2005
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Location: Zarasu, Lithuania
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Haha, there is a such thing as being overstaffed, but itll only negatively affect you if youre way overstaffed. I am a part of a staff at a community with roughly 375 users and 3000 posts and theres like 7 moderators and 4 admins. There isnt enough there going on for any of us to really do anything or have a sense of purpose. Thus alot of us have just quite bothering with the whole mess. I guess in the end, if youre overstaffed, itll take care of itself =/
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Capmaster
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Haha, there is a such thing as being overstaffed, but itll only negatively affect you if youre way overstaffed. I am a part of a staff at a community with roughly 375 users and 3000 posts and theres like 7 moderators and 4 admins. There isnt enough there going on for any of us to really do anything or have a sense of purpose. Thus alot of us have just quite bothering with the whole mess. I guess in the end, if youre overstaffed, itll take care of itself =/
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You have to go by activity level and not membership. Many members join and never return, after all.
We have a staff of 8 - myself and 7 mods
212 members
86,237 posts since 2/19/05
5,287 topics
about 300 new posts/day average
The mod staff seems a bit overkill, but since everyone is friends there, nobody minds. And I can sleep very well at night knowing my forum is in good hands.
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