Firstly, I would like to ask you guys to keep what I am about to say between us. I don't think the messageboard needs any more drama at the moment!
Following a discussion I had with with Admin yesterday, I came up with a scheme that I feel might be 'workable' to begin to resolve some of the negative issues that have been going on recently. Mostly due to the actions of a small number of Juniors (and others), who have now mostly been banned. However, I am aware that the "non-moderating" members of the board are still asking why we have so many Junior Mods?
So in order to address this, I firstly I added up the numbers of our whole moderation team on the board, and discovered that we currently have 2 admins, 7 global moderators (you guys!), 35 full Moderators (including some who are CP), and 74 Junior Moderators (frightening!)
What I am proposing is a method where we can make the juniors more "accountable", and I thought it would be a good idea to pair up Juniors with either our current Global Moderators, or with the Globals and the full Moderators.
My idea behind this is that one full moderator will then be responsible for say, 2 Juniors. Or if we keep it to just Global Mods then it would be one Global to each 10 Juniors, which I don't think would be workable.
To progress this further, I thought about putting each full Moderator under the care of a Global, which means you guys would have 5 full Moderators each responsible to you, and in turn each of those moderators would have 2 Juniors responsible to them.
My idea is that it would create a hierarchy meaning everybody was answerable to somebody. Then if things went bad at one level there would always be somebody else to go to. Ultimately it would mean if things went as far a Global or Admin becoming involved, then their word would be law - no arguments, and it would allow Admin to get on with administating the boards, rather than trying to sort out silly disputes!
Admin has asked me to set up a vote for this, so please indicate your choice above. Sorry if I have gone on a bit (lot!), but I just want things to be better on here for all of us.
Cheers,
Ian
I have to say that I agree with everyone in voting for Option 3. I think having 10 Junior Moderators to look after is a bit too much, and it would be easier to work three or four full moderators. That way everything is distributed evenly.
updated 3/16/2025
