The Psychiatric Ward

*is laying down*
So hungry......;_;

My problems are worse than yours. Quit complaining.

what problem do you have?

What do you think would happen if the old way of applying to be Mod for a forum were brought back?

I'm not sure might not be to good since all you needed was a set number of posts and you could apply and get the spot.

All hell would break lose and about 5 people would keep applyin in FG.

well the old way only Rich decided who was mod and who wasn't instead of this whole voting and upper staff process. I'm not sure how well it would do, might turn out to be a mess.

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People who aren't even really active would be able to get spots.

But people would feel more open to getting a staff position on this site, and want to work for it since they know what they have to do. It might bring up activity in a way. You remember my little thing on staff leniency? How it has highs and lows depending on site activity? Well, what if the Mod number were the same?

I just had a random thought. Bring back the old system, but had a bit of a difference. At the end of every month, Rich would copy/paste the applications for the forums into an Smod thread. We would vote on them from there, but try to be a bit more lenient and give more spots away. People wouldn't know there's some order to it all. They would think Rich is the only one giving away spots, when the Smods were actually the ones putting in their opinion to keep some amount of order.

It'd be best to leave it to majority upper staff vote. Like Z said, People who aren't even active will probably get spots. And defeat the whole purpose of the mod clearout.

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Forgoten_Scars said:

But people would feel more open to getting a staff position on this site, and want to work for it since they know what they have to do. It might bring up activity in a way. You remember my little thing on staff leniency? How it has highs and lows depending on site activity? Well, what if the Mod number were the same?

I just had a random thought. Bring back the old system, but had a bit of a difference. At the end of every month, Rich would copy/paste the applications for the forums into an Smod thread. We would vote on them from there, but try to be a bit more lenient and give more spots away. People wouldn't know there's some order to it all. They would think Rich is the only one giving away spots, when the Smods were actually the ones putting in their opinion to keep some amount of order.

That could work. Would that also mean there would be no more shakeups? If not how would that work?

Yeah. No more Mod shakeups. We do away with the whole thing of making application threads. That "Apply to be a Moderator" link comes back. When an application is typed up, it goes off to Rich. They sit in Rich's email for a month, and then at the end of every month, he gathers them up. After getting all the applications for that month, he pastes them in an Smod thread for us to discuss and vote on them secretly. Same thing as there is now, only members would feel more open to becoming Mod.

Now that sounds a bit better of a way. So people don't have to wait every 6 months for a shake up and the Smods still have majority vote. Sounds fair I suppose.


But what about T&C?

T&C wold be a whole 'nother problem. I'd only be able to answer that question after Mark updates it.

Yeah but would the mods of a current forum have to reapply every so often still?

No. We go back to the old simple rules. If you can't make at least 30 posts there in that forum within a month, the site kicks you itself.

So that would cause a problem for people who mainly lurk.

So it's 30 posts in general or posts on the forum you moderate?

The second point rewards effort made. 30 total posts to even get a chance. Doesn't matter a bit how much skill someone has. If they can't keep at least a bare minimum of activity going, their 'punishment' is having to re-write a Mod application every month just to keep that forum.

30 posts in the forum you Mod.

Thats what I thought you meant.