[Spoon]

God damn it if we just had a moderator for this section we could clean up that horrid mess of stickies up top to actually useful things.

I think Droid just volunteered!

Seriously though he has a point. Right now the moderators for modding are Herra and Snail. I don't see Herra doing a lot of moderating and Snail is still kinda M.I.A

[Fury]

Honestly, I think having per-board moderators is kinda pointless in the first place in a community like HL, except for hosted projects. Global moderators would serve much better purpose what with having ability to moderate all public boards. With sufficient number of active global mods, you wouldn't have to worry about a board or two not having enough mods.

[Mongoose]

Hell, any of us current global mods would be able to change the stickies.  I don't really go into Modding much, but I'd be happy to float and de-float a few things if someone lets me know what they want up there.

[General Battuta]

Honestly, I think having per-board moderators is kinda pointless in the first place in a community like HL, except for hosted projects. Global moderators would serve much better purpose what with having ability to moderate all public boards. With sufficient number of active global mods, you wouldn't have to worry about a board or two not having enough mods.

Global mods please put some actually funny threads in classics and pin my campaign guide, tia

[Black Wolf]

I'm back from work tomorrow, I'll look at the stickies then if nobody else has by then.

[Droid803]

Okay well, this is what I think needs to go to make it more clean:
- Subspace Tunnel (seriously, why was this even stickied in the first place, it's a single asset release, I'd put it in FSU because it's just an upgrade of a retail asset even...)
- Shipbuilding Tutorial : there is the TUTORIALS sticky
- Texturing Tutorial : see above
- PCS2 User to User help : move to FS Tools, because that is where all the rest of the PCS2 stuff is
- GIMP thread, MAX Scripts, Skybox threads : group into RESOURCES category

New Stickies:
+ RELEASES - ie. that "Congregate the works of this board!" thread (by bigchunk1 (?))- asset releases
+ RESOURCES - link stuff like tools, skyboxes, the max scripts should be linked here, as well as the old cockpit one-stop-shop thing etc.

so in the end there should be 3, maybe 4 stickies:
Tutorials
Releases
Resources
<maybe that Efficient Model's From Coder's PoV thread>

The idea is to have categories where we can add useful threads to, instead of sticky-ing a random subset of them.

The Tutorials sticky could use a look through and maybe point out the best ones...though that might be hard to judge.

my $0.02

[Spoon]

Vote Droid for mod
He seems to be having the right ideas.

[Rodo]

Anyone asked him if he wants to do it?, he's got the ideas but maybe he doesn't want to be a moderator.

[Goober5000]

Honestly, I think having per-board moderators is kinda pointless in the first place in a community like HL, except for hosted projects.

The reason for having per-board moderators is to have people whose responsibility it is to keep an eye on their assigned board.  Global moderators can't be everywhere all the time, and in any case due to preference and habit they tend to frequent certain boards more than others.

Forum moderation benefits from level-of-detail methodology just as modelling and AI do.

[Hades]

Honestly, I think having per-board moderators is kinda pointless in the first place in a community like HL, except for hosted projects.

The reason for having per-board moderators is to have people whose responsibility it is to keep an eye on their assigned board.  Global moderators can't be everywhere all the time, and in any case due to preference and habit they tend to frequent certain boards more than others.

Forum moderation benefits from level-of-detail methodology just as modelling and AI do.

I'd agree if the board-specific moderators who weren't just project leads for their project forum actually ever did anything. The most I've seen them do would be Nuke, and no one cares about Gen Disc.

Also, Mongoose is apparently a board moderator for FS Gen disc, isn't that a bit redundant since he's a global mod?

[General Battuta]

I have no idea why global mods would frequent a particular forum more than others. Click 'show unread posts', read 'em all

[Goober5000]

I'd agree if the board-specific moderators who weren't just project leads for their project forum actually ever did anything.

Then the solution is to propose new or different board-specific moderators, which is presumably why Spoon started the thread.

Does anyone have any suggestions besides Droid803?

[Mongoose]

Also, Mongoose is apparently a board moderator for FS Gen disc, isn't that a bit redundant since he's a global mod?

It might seem that way, but I was a mod for that folder a year or two before I landed this gig.

[headdie]

Personally I would like to see a Help & Bug Killing subforum for people who want help on how to implement FSO features, how to go about achieving stuff and bug fixing it when it goes horribly wrong.

[mjn.mixael]

you mean like the tech support board?

[Hades]

Does anyone have any suggestions besides Droid803?

Anyone who reads the forums very often, regardless of posting activity would work, also being established and generally trusted with the job as well.

The problem is, there's not really enough people who fit all of those criteria to have one or two people per 'generic' board. I think packing on a few more global moderators would definitely help, though.

[Goober5000]

I'm asking the people who most regularly frequent the FreeSpace Modding forum to nominate someone, or a bunch of someones.  I think they would be in the best position to evaluate candidates.

We don't need more Global Moderators at this time.  We already have several.

[Mongoose]

Okay, made some of the changes that Droid suggested.  If someone puts together those Releases and Resources threads, I can sticky them too.

[Scotty]

What about some of the boards that only have a single specific moderator that hasn't been seen online in ages?

Gaming Discussion immediately comes to mind, what with how Trashman still roams around there, and Inquisitor hasn't been on HLP since late May.

[Droid803]

Okay, made some of the changes that Droid suggested.  If someone puts together those Releases and Resources threads, I can sticky them too.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81355.0
Releases one. Might need to be updated a bit.