Quote from Maenad;952504:
If time is an issue, hire more moderators. I see tons of responsible and mature people that wouldn't abuse their powers(I'll even go as far to say that when Hannah became a mod, I was like "Whaaaaaat.") that aren't mods.
I brought this up before with the staff, and honestly, we have enough staff at the present time. School's started, so as observed, the forums are a lot less active than they were during the summer when more staff probably is needed.
There is nothing stopping you from hiring additional people to be section-specific moderators.
Except that we tried having section-specific mods before. That never worked out for two reasons: Now that there are people patrolling specific sections, the super moderators tend to get a little relaxed, because there's now someone "dedicated" to that section, thus leaving just the regular mods doing a lot of the work. Once havoc starts breaking out, and the only people who can do anything are people who don't have any power outside of their section, then it still becomes a waiting game until someone that does have the power needed shows up. And eventually it just came to a point that we needed more active supermods, so we promoted the regular mods, and then the cycle continues. We've done this numerous times, and I highly doubt it will change the next time it happens.
And then there's the other point where we have seen several instances where the regular mods were shown nothing but disrespect, because their jobs were nothing but tattling to the supermods about somebody breaking the rules, but not having any real power themselves (since one mod many ages back abused his power and went on infracting/removing everything he thought was wrong, leaving the regular mods to only have the power to warn and merge posts pretty much), so they became the primary targets for most of the members to release their anger on. It's not fair for them to face those burdens, just because they're stuck in some limbo.
There is nothing stopping you from assigning various people with the task of minor moderation - reporting posts that need action taken as well as giving warnings.
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There is nothing stopping you from having only 2 administrators(From what I see).
You mean aside from how the site doesn't need more than 2 admins? Admins aren't supposed to be out on the streets, stopping crime. It's their job to make the rules that the site has to follow, as well as making sure that their moderators are doing their jobs. The only reason that I was doing that was because I was practically, at one point, the only active staff member, meaning that I was acting as both admin and moderator. A simpler analogy is that admins are managers: they just have to make sure that their employees are working. They can help out their employees if they so choose, but doing their employees' work isn't their top priority. So having more than two admins (including Chise) isn't really necessary.
There is nothing stopping you guys from putting two people that constantly clash together on eachother's ignore list.
I told you this before, but there is. Staff members can't go into your private profile (yes, your private one, meaning things like PMs, password and other things like that) and edit things around, and even then, only admins can mess around with your public profile. Ignore lists are one of the things in your private profile, meaning that the only person who can put someone on your ignore list is
you, the user. The staff should have to be babysitters and put you in timeout because you can't play nicely. You should be mature enough to do things yourself once in a while. [s]Though technically, Chise can do it, but he doesn't put the person on one other person's ignore list, he puts them on the global ignore list, so everyone ignores them. And of course, since the site is changing forum software, to one where there isn't a global ignore list, this point is null[/s]
There is nothing stopping you from hiring more staff, which we obviously need.
Again, at the current point in time, there really isn't a need for more staff members, since forum activity is down considerably compared to summer when many of the problems were occurring. Because of the loss of activity, reporting should be more crucial than having more staff members. There aren't fights that are occurring constantly anymore, so there's no need for the staff to be as vigilant as before, so going "Oh, that's not good behavior" and then clicking the little triangle with the exclamation mark will help the staff much more than if there were 50 staff members, ensuring that there's at least one online at any time, and then hoping that they caught that remark.
If you don't know which members you should hire, hold a public application and run tests.
Of all the methods I've seen, having the staff nominate who they think would be good staff members is a lot better than having public applications. With staff nominations, then that let's the admins review each nominee to see how their behavior is, and their actions to see if they're worthy to be on the staff. It also ensures that the members are acting like they always do right up until the time of selection. With the public applications, you got people putting on good airs so that they can try to suck up to the staff, and then once they become staff members, they slip right back to how they were normally.