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?
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