Nope. The ones that are active do a great job, and are underappreciated. I just concur with Jedi that they're overloaded.

Neigh!

Ken

 

LOL!!

 

...what just happened?

 

What's the worst that can happen, they ban me?
oh wait, we've already been down that road once...

 

No...they can make you a moderator.

Ken

 

and you are very close to getting some.

 

then you might not understand what flames are

 

my in box isnt exactly filling up with reported posts. except for those ones about 9ks posts

 

isnt that what jedi was saying in the op?

 

Nowhere in my OP did I volunteer, that was not the purpose of this thread.
The reason for my post was to bring attention to an oversight that I felt had been allowed to pass for far too long.

Now, should the Admins feel that I can be a part of this solution then I would be open to having that conversation with them, I would consider the options, and make some form of decision.

 

you are correct about that list. we've been reluctant over the years to de-mod people and add more. we started to correct that with Ash. there are/were a couple otehr on the list and i have to say the mods have been asking for more help and the admins(including myself here) have been dragging our feet with adding more.


some of that is just life- elara had another child and has been busy on the homme front. i've had avery busy year outside of here also with home repairs/vacations and such( Jedi knows about that list i gave him in a message the other day)

The guys in bold i will probably never de-list - Abbid and Polak for contributions they made to the community, gordbrg for stuff behind the scenes as well as in public, Toadman because he was one of the ones that started the forum, was the admin that brought elara and i on board and did all of that while working for a certain company that will remain nameless.....

maybe we should give them some other title....

any way yeah we need more mods. we've been letting allot more stuff go then we used to because in general the forum works pretty well, notwithstanding MM and Brettus, and OD and MM , and etc

gonna have to do something with newbs. i've never really liked the implementation of the 7club but maybe we do need a newb forum so that they have aplace to start threads for a certain number of posts. Admins and mods(and regular members who request to and we trust) can handle the threads and decide to move them to the right place or answer them and give links to the right threads.

 

did i leave out the ??

 

probably need to rethink all of the stickies too. maybe we shoudl have a poll for each section and then only keep the ones that make the cut or something..

 

I can't tell if you're serious about 9k lol. I can't throw any stones at him because he's been a huge help to me and many other locals. That said, I definitely think he has contribute a fair amount of useful information and discussion to these forums, so he's doing quite a bit better than some other members I've seen here, though I wont go into that since that's not the point of this thread.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's an easy way to change the way people report posts. I really only bother reporting spam. I believe the point Jedi was going for, as you seem to have mentioned in your most recent post in the thread, is that we need more active members as moderators. At least that would increase the chances of a mod passing through a thread to clean it up or keep it on track a bit more often.

 

Just testing it out.

 

I happy that some additional attention is being brought to various sections of the board. I admit I like to ruffle feathers from time to time but I also admit I get carried away and I am a bit more touchy about noobs lately so if I get reprimanded, I accept that.

I also spend a lot of time here and I see A LOT of stuff fly under the radar and I just think there needs to be a bit more regulation. But, I also have to remind myself that this board is not a democracy so what I think doesn't really mean jack. I have taken the hint, for now I will just leave the stupid redundant threads alone.

All of your ideas are good ideas Zoom.

 

"Contributor"

 

I agree they should be given another title that is worthy of their commitment and past contributions.
Something like, 'contributor' or 'supporter', would be nice.
Also, some of the newer folks might see the Moderator tag, PM them looking for help and be frustrated that they didn't get a response. By changing their title, you could avoid situations like that.



I'm not a huge fan of the way the 7club does things either. I remember making a bunch of rather random posts just so I could finally post in certain sections.

I think if we have more mods, they can monitor the noobs a bit more and merge / close threads that are super repetitive.
Maybe just restrict their ability to start a thread until they have 5 posts or more?

Not a fan of this to be honest as leaving it up to voting could just complicate things. For the most part I think the majority of the sticky threads are still relevant.

 

Great ideas, Jedi. If this was my neighborhood, you'd be president of the homeowner's association by now.

For the inactive/retired moderators...why not "Moderator emeritus"?

Ken

 

Being a personal friend of his, I can assure you Polak isn't coming back :-)

His `09 M3 takes up far too much of his time.

 

While it hasn't been as much of a problem recently, I know that a decent amount of spam posts show up late at night as well as some of the more useless posts. I can think of a at least a couple recent threads that I would have loved to go through and clean up, including some of my own posts lol.

Exactly what I was thinking. I'd like to consider myself a decent forum member, in terms of proper searching, thread creating, posting etc. When I registered for 7club, I had already been a member here for a long while and I generally knew how to behave on a forum. That said, I ended up going around to find as many threads to post a comment in just so I could post what I wanted. I wouldn't say they were completely useless posts, but it was mostly "nice car" type posts. I think it may do some good, but it could also cause a lot of useless posts from any new members, including "good members".

 

Well, I know I report a bunch of SPAM posts from time to time and they usually take hours or days to disappear.
Useless/repetitive posts will happen, but there doesn't seem to be a mechanism in place to deal with that to begin with.
There sheer amount of sloth on the part of new members (and-not-so new members) is staggering, let alone the wheel re-inventing crowd.
And by re-inventing the wheel, I don't mean simply revisiting a subject.
I mean posting up theorems and speculation (often stating them as fact and without useful data) on subjects where there is already significant study and discussion elsewhere on the forum.
There are so many threads that cycle back to the beginning of an argument over and over again as if the new "contributors" hadn't actually read the thread before posting [sarcasm].

What a real moderator would do is understand the subject matter and edit the thread flows, but that is asking way too much for volunteers with no vested interest in a forum that is already collapsing under its own weight - both in content and, apparently, DB management.

 

cause most people dont know what emeritus means

 

Force Jedi into Admin prostitution. LOL