Quote from: Quickseller on July 12, 2018, 05:12:41 AM

Quote from: Flying Hellfish on July 12, 2018, 04:06:36 AM

I have been told by an extremely reliable source (I can't reveal the source but he's red, has two horns and a long pointy tail) that digaran is a sure bet for our next global moderator where he will make thousands upon thousands of dollars a day and sit high on a perch right next to theymos!!!

Hey this was supposed to be kept confidential! Not cool....your inability to keep secrets has been noted.

Don't worry. This just stays between me and my alts. No one will know about it. Cool

Quote from: TheQuin on July 12, 2018, 07:00:24 AM

How many boards only have a global mod assigned to them?

I've noticed since the new reports page is available that when I report a newbie that all moderators can deal with the report is usually handled very quickly but when I report a Jr. Member or above it often takes many hours or sometimes even a couple of days to get handled. That's what I'm basing my opinion that the global mods are overworked on.

I would say a few boards are managed by Global mods(Bitcoin Discussion, Marketplace).

Does rank really make a difference here when it comes to reporting? I can only see this happening, when newbies are required to be nuked(which all staff can do), and normal can't ban Jr. Members and above.

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 12, 2018, 10:59:09 AM

I don't think new mods need to be found to replace everyone that leaves or are removed, but Rickbig was made a Global a few months back and he probably covers both their workload as he's very active in moderating. As I've been saying for years though, workload should be distributed around better. There's been no dedicated mod of big boards like Bitcoin Discussion for years and that certainly could do with it's own one. The alt coin section is getting swamped now and mprep was always overloaded as it's a huge board, but now that section is getting worse since he become a Global and doesn't have enough time to dedicate to it.

I am thinking, if there is inadequate distribution of workload which seems to be the case, how about running a poll to vote for new staff members?

The boards that do need staff are: Economics,Trading Discussion, Bitcoin Discussion, and the whole Alternate Cryptocurrencies section.

Remove the global mods and Cyrus from all the boards they are managing alone, and put someone/s else to handle the board. That way, global mods would be able to work much smoothly. Because having their own board/s to manage, and handling other boards and issuing bans and handling PMs is a fucking pain in the ass.

I do know that theymos has trust issues on who he has to hire for staff, but there are users who actually care about this forum, and there isn't much to lose for both sides(theymos, and the staff he hires). Why not just hire some volunteers and see how things work out. Then make those volunteers a permanent staff. Just like the internships. Change needs to happen, or things would continue going awry.

Quote from: Talk merit on July 12, 2018, 11:22:11 AM

If new mods are not being appointed, then posting restrictions will need to be applied to new and junior members. Some members have suggested the creation of 'mod bots', and maybe they could be created to handle newbie and junior reporrts.

Restrictions are not required at the moment. And there are bots handled by mods,they just don't work anymore. That seemed to be the case for achow101's bot, don't know about Mindless Electron.

If there are sufficient mods, there would be no requirement for restrictions. Money is not the problem here. Trust is. Theymos said about the trust issue thing in December, its 7 months already.