[Mind's Eye] Re: A Call For Moderation

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 <ornsmindseyes...@yahoo.com>
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?