Molly, I agree...an odd number and discussion.
On Sep 17, 10:50 am, Molly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
