I don't know. This might be out of line, but I think something needs to be said.
You guys should really have a larger mod team. Especially for apps and stuff. I know you guys all have a lot on your plates and you probably don't want to hear from an anon about this, but, I also know as a player it's really frustrating to wait a week for apps, and then have the weekend pass. And I'm kind of sick and tired of hearing "we're getting to it, we're getting to it."
Not to sound rude but this is a big game and it kinda seems like you're playing favorites by having such a tiny mod team when you all seem to know each other really well. Also, this may be a personal problem, but I was always afraid to approach anyone on the mod team because it kinda felt like it was the "in" group and I was the "out" group until just recently
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Thank you for your input. I know I've been largely failing as the applications moderator for a month or two now due to real life circumstances; I understand it's hard to wait and I've asked for patience but I can see that it's running thin all over the board. I feel inclined to apologize for not keeping up as well as I should have.
I can guarantee that there are no favorites. We work well together because we respect each other. We actually have a lot of disagreements that you don't see because we don't want you feel like there is any sustainable conflict between us - there isn't. We just aren't afraid to say what we feel around each other. Publicized, that might come off as attacking or possibly holding grudges, etc, when it's not true
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People can actually take any of their problems to any of the mods or modpoles. If the one they get isn't the one that deals with a certain subject, that mod can always take it to the team and the one(s) who are responsible for that subject can then handle it.
As for how many people it takes to make a decision, one of the reasons we have the team we do is so that everyone can handle certain things, i.e. Norry handles events and apps, Idgie handles lists, etc. Those things are our responsibility, and unless it's something that actually needs all hands involved, like a large policy change, we make decisions on those things ourselves. It's not really a case of too many cooks will spoil the broth, because in general, only one or two members of the team are working on a duty at a time.
With the apps thingtainted_flowersJune 20 2009, 20:48:00 UTC
As I've said elsewhere, I don't really app much so my view of this might be a little skewed or whatever.
But it seems like getting apps done on time is something that's fairly important to people and so they tend to get tetchy and start poking at the mods and such. So I guess, my idea would be maybe change the app days from specific days (Wednesday and Saturday, I think?) to perhaps just a general "apps are done on the weekend". Because it's easier to notice when specific days are missed, but a general weekend period would give the mods three days and more time to figure out schedules and times to get them done. Obviously by cutting out a midweek period, there would be more apps to deal with so it might not be helpful idea at all. I don't really know exactly how many apps we get per week.
Re: With the apps thingcarnalityJune 20 2009, 20:50:51 UTC
I... really like this idea! I considered it but was afraid people would take that as me flaking out sob so I never pursued it but it's honestly a really good idea so when I dont get to them on sat specifically, I can definitely get them done on sunday or monday.
thank you so much for this suggestion, I really want to pursue just changing it to a friday - sun or sat - monday time period if people are behind this ;_; ♥
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You guys should really have a larger mod team. Especially for apps and stuff. I know you guys all have a lot on your plates and you probably don't want to hear from an anon about this, but, I also know as a player it's really frustrating to wait a week for apps, and then have the weekend pass. And I'm kind of sick and tired of hearing "we're getting to it, we're getting to it."
Not to sound rude but this is a big game and it kinda seems like you're playing favorites by having such a tiny mod team when you all seem to know each other really well. Also, this may be a personal problem, but I was always afraid to approach anyone on the mod team because it kinda felt like it was the "in" group and I was the "out" group until just recently ( ... )
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I can guarantee that there are no favorites. We work well together because we respect each other. We actually have a lot of disagreements that you don't see because we don't want you feel like there is any sustainable conflict between us - there isn't. We just aren't afraid to say what we feel around each other. Publicized, that might come off as attacking or possibly holding grudges, etc, when it's not true ( ... )
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As for how many people it takes to make a decision, one of the reasons we have the team we do is so that everyone can handle certain things, i.e. Norry handles events and apps, Idgie handles lists, etc. Those things are our responsibility, and unless it's something that actually needs all hands involved, like a large policy change, we make decisions on those things ourselves. It's not really a case of too many cooks will spoil the broth, because in general, only one or two members of the team are working on a duty at a time.
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But it seems like getting apps done on time is something that's fairly important to people and so they tend to get tetchy and start poking at the mods and such. So I guess, my idea would be maybe change the app days from specific days (Wednesday and Saturday, I think?) to perhaps just a general "apps are done on the weekend". Because it's easier to notice when specific days are missed, but a general weekend period would give the mods three days and more time to figure out schedules and times to get them done. Obviously by cutting out a midweek period, there would be more apps to deal with so it might not be helpful idea at all. I don't really know exactly how many apps we get per week.
J-Just my two cents.
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thank you so much for this suggestion, I really want to pursue just changing it to a friday - sun or sat - monday time period if people are behind this ;_; ♥
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/worthless two cents here
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