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

Molly, I agree...an odd number and discussion.

On Sep 17, 10:50 am, Molly <mollyb...@gmail.com> 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.
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> On Sep 17, 12:52 am, ornamentalmind <ornsmindseyes...@yahoo.com>
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> >  Molly drops in on occasion with less than 40 posts since the end of
> > last year. (10 months)
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > As is obvious, it is not all fun but is a necessary function. Any
> > takers?