too many moderators?

Ann,

That thought has been running through my mind as well. Most of the regular participants are all mods.

I’m flattered as well but I know enough about me to know I’m very laid back, I doubt I’d be good at calling someone out. I’m fairly spineless that way. Sure, I’d jump in for the terrible things but… well just ask DW. She’ll tell you all about my lack of disciplining skills. I could do the IP sniffing homework but I’m pretty lame with busting out the paddle.

The one thing, I’d severely miss the second level interactions that occur on the Board Discussion forum.

Now I have to flip over to contradiction mode. The greens and the reds are visible to all visitors and I think that’s part of the point. The more mods there are the more diversity people see through the interactions that we have. In some ways our posts become examples of the mission of staylds but in another way we are showing that it’s okay to have a difference of opinion. We just need more difference in opinion.

There. Fence successfully straddled.

I’ll admit that I have thought about this, too. It does sometimes seem that all the comments are red or green names. On the other hand, that may not be a bad thing – we were asked because we epitomize the mission of StayLDS (at least that’s what I like to think). I actually expected cwald to bring that up over on NOM – there are so many mods here. He didn’t, of course, because his vendetta is against Ray. So I think I fall in the camp of it’s a good thing. I’m not sure the lurkers see the colors, and since we don’t moderate all that much I don’t think most casual users notice, either. I’m not sure our job as green names is so much to be the heavy hitters, I think it’s more to help direct the conversations – and quite frankly I think each of us do that pretty well.

Interesting thoughts. Interesting as well that it was on a lot of our minds.

I actually expected cwald to bring that up over on NOM – there are so many mods here. He didn’t, of course, because his vendetta is against Ray.

I noticed that over at NOM cwald shifted his focus away from Ray and started directing his comments towards the “mods.” Mods plural. Sure he’d drop hints here and there that it was mostly Ray (sorry Ray) but over time he started complaining about the mods, not one specific individual. I see that as a good thing. There’s no need for one individual to bear the brunt of this, keep him guessing.

Besides I think we might still be one person short of a minyan.

Your feeble attempt at the Jedi mind trick is not going to get me to go look at that thread! (Remember, it only works on the weak minded – which is perhaps why it works for cwald so well over there. Did I just type that out loud?)

Personally, I like that we have a lot of mods, and I wouldn’t change a thing. It takes some of the pressure off, and several of the old timer mods have had to step back due to other commitments. I would just say let’s hold on for 2-3 months and see where we land.

if we feel we should reduce the mod group…I think you should consider asking me to relinquish mod access before Ann or mom3 or HG.

You guys will have to pry the power out of my cold, lifeless hands.

Okay, that was exactly where I didn’t want the conversation to go. Heber and hawkgrrrl, I think we really need you.