For far too long ME has had in effect only one active moderator. While I’m acquainted with and accept being the lightening rod to help keep ME from being A vs C, gabby points out something that is missing.
For quite a while there we had 5 moderators. This kept a fairly good balance of views going and made it easy to discuss posts and vote on issues. For much of the time, we were all active. Then, a couple mods started having to focus elsewhere and left decisions to us and eventually removed themselves from ME. Not long thereafter, Chris abandoned ME for other pursuits and I continue to wish him well. He has posted less than 70 times in the last 18 months and only 13 times this entire year with no posts for more than a third of a year. Molly drops in on occasion with less than 40 posts since the end of last year. (10 months) Now I know that posting alone doesn’t mean how ‘active’ a group member is. However, part of a moderator’s job is to daily check moderated messages…most of which are spam of one type or another…the senders of which are banned. On occasion, as a check to see who was ‘here’, I would let these moderated messages pile up in the queue. I would read them to see how important they were and then not delete those that were junk. A couple of times they would stay in the queue for well over a week with no deletion. Eventually, I would get rid of them seeing that no one else was doing it. Since Chris is out of the picture (and has said he wants to stay out of the picture), I think it is past time to add new moderators to ME. Normally I would nominate some and see what happened; however, the top two in my book, Neil (Archytas) and Francis have declined so many times in the past I hesitate to bring up the responsibility to them again. Instead, I will ask for volunteers. Those who are willing to follow the threads here, step in where needed and determine the appropriate action for filtered (moderated) posts are asked to step forward now. As is obvious, it is not all fun but is a necessary function. Any takers?
