Thread: Should manav be made into a moderator?

Umm. Thank you all, that you love me so much, and, want me to stay out of herculian and burdensome task of being a moderator.

Isn't that the nature of all men in the history of the world? I find it interesting that something that has been repeated time and time again in this world's history is now being discussed on a message board in the context of people wanting to be mods.

People who desire to be the heads of governments usually also do so because they want power. There are some who don't. There are some who are good leaders of the people. But in most of the world's history the people at the head of the governments have been people searching for power.

"We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion."

I think the scope of your examples are much different than that of a message board, and the responsibilities have much more serious repercussionss if mishandled.

manav, would you like to be Myanmar's next Senior General?

Those are your new rules, "moderator" manav?

Originally Posted by manav

Not rules, but that's what I would do myself, if this was a forum created by me. Take them as suggestions/checklist/tips/guidelines.

I will add more to the list.

That would go to show how little you know about being a moderator.

Originally Posted by manav

- 30 day inactivity, and the thread should be locked

Bumping a thread is generally seen as a bad thing, but there are legitimate reasons to bump a topic too. Busted rule.

- remove casual discussions out of some serious topics

That is a very vague topic. Perhaps you care to elaborate?

- threads in general discussion will be deleted after, say, they get 6 months old

The stupidest suggestion I've heard ever. There's a reason topics aren't deleted. Because people can search, find and digest the information inside.

- posts in general discussions will not add to the total posts count

A post count shows how many posts you've done. If it doesn't count some posts from a forum, it wouldn't be accurate, would it?
Disabling post counts is an extreme thing that should be done carefully, especially in "special" forums such as places where trash gets moved.

- users inactive for more than 6 months will be deleted

And what is the point of this? People register so they can use the board's features, which may otherwise be unavailable. Plus many do read, but not reply, so this would be another grave mistake.

- remove all animated avatars (my favorite)

And so you are being unfair to everyone. There's nothing wrong with animated avatars and they can be quite nice. As a moderator, you can instead warn people if they use inappropriate animated avatars.

- signatures should not be longer than 100 characters.

And limit the amount of useful information they can put in their signatures? That's extreme. Put a reasonable amount and warn users if their signature is too long.

- no pics allowed for signatures

Another unfair and poor suggestion. Signature pictures can lively up a forum, especially when they look nice. You are doing more harm than good, I would say.
Limit it to 1 picture and put a height/width restriction, but don't remove it altogether.

>- 30 day inactivity, and the thread should be locked
I've been on forums where this was implemented. It was terribly annoying.

>- remove casual discussions out of some serious topics
Define "remove". Do you mean delete or move into a casual thread? Either way it breaks the flow of conversation and potentially removes valuable information.

>- threads in general discussion will be deleted after, say, they get 6 months old
Just because you don't go back and read old threads doesn't mean other people don't.

>- posts in general discussions will not add to the total posts count
One can post useless garbage in other forums as well. I don't really see this rule/guideline buying you anything.

>- users inactive for more than 6 months will be deleted
That's a fantastic way to lose your members. I've been known to take breaks, and if I came back to find my account deleted, I would be none too happy.

>- remove all animated avatars (my favorite)
Animated avatars within reason are fine, IMO.

>- signatures should not be longer than 100 characters.
I'd rather have a rule that specifies guidelines for creating a signature. That way you don't limit good people and still have justification for dealing with people who abuse the feature.

>- no pics allowed for signatures
See above.