[Angelus]

I'd volunteer. 

[Fury]

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

This. So very much this. I don't ever visit specific boards, I use the "show unread posts since last visit" and pick any topics that look remotely interesting. That is why you name your topics appropriately folks.

Though reading them all is going a little overboard. That is what report to moderator function is for.

[headdie]

sometimes its nice for a moderator to pick up on borderline overly negative comments and act to temper things before threads get to the "official action needs to be taken" stage, at which point you are back to needing board dedicated mods just to keep an eye on things, especially in the more active boards.

[Hades]

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.

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.

This is what I'm talking about, Goober. FreeSpace modding isn't the only forum that needs a moderator. Literally almost every other non-project board has moderators that are either A) inactive, or B) lazy.

And you may not agree, but I think we do need more global mods that do the job of global moderating. I mean, I love people like Flipside and CP to death, but they're hardly active (in the latter's case, MiA) and when they are, don't do that much actual moderating (And apologies to either of you or other global mods that may or may not fall into this criteria, I mean no offense.)

[General Battuta]

I nominate Hades for mod of all the forums.

[headdie]

I nominate Hades for mod of all the forums.

run!!!!

[Goober5000]

This is what I'm talking about, Goober. FreeSpace modding isn't the only forum that needs a moderator. Literally almost every other non-project board has moderators that are either A) inactive, or B) lazy.

So are you going to propose names, or are you going to complain?

And you may not agree, but I think we do need more global mods that do the job of global moderating. I mean, I love people like Flipside and CP to death, but they're hardly active (in the latter's case, MiA) and when they are, don't do that much actual moderating (And apologies to either of you or other global mods that may or may not fall into this criteria, I mean no offense.)

There are a total of eight global moderators (not counting Announcements).  Most of them are active.


EDIT: I just realized why the signal-to-noise ratio in this thread is so low: this is a thread that really should be in the Site Feedback forum, not Site Support.  So I'm going to close this thread, and those of you who have access to Site Feedback are welcome to post there.


EDIT2: Angelus, if you're serious about volunteering, please PM me.