Just to clarify, Orn, I do read most, just not responding much. I stopped intervening at Chris' suggestion as it fit his model for the group. I suggest an odd number of moderators, and a discussion before banning.
On Sep 17, 12:52 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
