Mod Appreciation Thread

[Chkadii]

I just wanted to extend my thanks to the moderators and administrators for keeping these forums clean, friendly, and informed. We do notice, and appreciate, the hard work that goes into the maintenance of this community.

I want to recognize Pit specifically; he's a new mod and seems to be off to a great start!

[Minjo]

Ditto.


Minjo
1.0 genetic stripe (Kanubis Ihmotep)
0.0.1 normal (Miss Snakey Balla Masquerade aka Balla)
3.0 cats ( DK, Todor, Max)

[DooLittle]

The mods and admins do a great job, and are awesome! Keep up the good work. I love this place.

[Mike41793]

I thought about this after Judy introduced Pit and MarkS the other day, but haven't got around to asking or making a thread about it: would it be possible to make a thread that explains a little more in depth exactly what the mods do? I'm genuinely curious. I've always wondered if they all have assigned forums or sub forums to moderate or if they have certain times they have to be on the forums? Also, do they view threads differently than we would on our screens? Can they do their jobs mobile-y on tapatalk or a smartphone, or do they have to be on the computer? How many hours a week do they have to be on to moderate? Those were the questions that immediately came to mind. I'm not asking pit or mark to really respond since they're still noobs but if someone else made a thread about it, i bet it would be good info for a lot of people to know to appreciate their work more.

EDIT: Judy, you're never busy with anything, you could take some time to make this for lil ol' me.

[PitOnTheProwl]

It is a secret cult of green tights that lurks in the shadows. LoL

[Mike41793]

Oh. Well if we aren't allowed to know, thats fine too i guess. I was just curious.

[MrLang]

I think a lot of it is QA on what gets posted here to make sure people don't break the rules.

EDIT

and they do a great job of it

[mackynz]

I thought about this after Judy introduced Pit and MarkS the other day, but haven't got around to asking or making a thread about it: would it be possible to make a thread that explains a little more in depth exactly what the mods do? I'm genuinely curious. I've always wondered if they all have assigned forums or sub forums to moderate or if they have certain times they have to be on the forums? Also, do they view threads differently than we would on our screens? Can they do their jobs mobile-y on tapatalk or a smartphone, or do they have to be on the computer? How many hours a week do they have to be on to moderate? Those were the questions that immediately came to mind. I'm not asking pit or mark to really respond since they're still noobs but if someone else made a thread about it, i bet it would be good info for a lot of people to know to appreciate their work more.

EDIT: Judy, you're never busy with anything, you could take some time to make this for lil ol' me.

I would assume they have to be active for a certain amount each day/week. And if it's like other forums they would see pages differently as they have more tools and options available to them. I would suppose that if they can load the site from a mobile device then it should work.

I'm just guessing though, maybe a green or red Power Ranger will swing by to enlighten us.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Oh. Well if we aren't allowed to know, thats fine too i guess. I was just curious.

That makes the both of us LOL........................ I'm still learning all the rules

[Neal]

Well on some forums they have local mods(certain sections, like say they'd be in charge of just things under Site General, or Ball Pythons). Then they have Global Mods or Super Mods which are in charge of all the sections. I think Super Mod is just renamed from Global Mod, or it may have a bit more authority over things(it's been awhile since I ran forums).

Basically they enforce the rules. Make sure that people aren't causing trouble, or harassing members stuff like that. They can edit threads, delete posts, merge posts, move posts and ban. Depending on how the admins set everything up they have different ways they can ban like: user, IP and what not. Then they have different ban lengths which they can do all except maybe permanent ban because that would be the decision of the admins. The mods & admins are going to have different versions of cpanel, due to the admins being able to make major changes, and it's a long list of things they could do.

That's basically everything in a nut shell. Though it goes far more in detail then that, because I haven't even mentioned the infraction system, what's logged and so on.

So they enforce the rules, and try to keep everything clean.