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D3AD ST4R- Moderators need more capacity to do things or otherwise a secondary co-admin with equal or slightly less powers should be appointedI was going to place this in my 'bias' section but I remember Hank himself told me that despite his status as co-admin, he can't actually do much with the powers. With my knowledge of code being limited I can still say confidently that I think the fix to this would tke about 2 minutes of copying code from one place to the other. I understand that Mahz is still busy, but I don't find it unreasonable to expect small changes like these to occur in a timely manner instead of being left waiting for five months for a new role (co admin) only to have it result in no real changes.
Hank as Co-Admin has changed things on a Moderator level. All the functionality the position could use may not be there yet, but from a point of view you don't have access to there have been changes.
- Actually reporting people to the Moderators as needed in order to make the website feel less "lawless".I have no way to check this aside from actually just saying 'maybe????' I feel like nothing still gets reported so this may as well be a non-reached goal but I'll cut some slack here.
Things get reported, both on Discord and the Guild itself. I've actually noticed an increase in reported incidents.
- The most pressing problem with the site is the lack of updates from the site or Mahz.This was fixed for approximately one-to-two (maybe 3) months before Mahz disappeared again. Those who do not use discord are unaware of why. None of the moderators decided 'lets post a public statement about it for him so nobody wonders where he is.' We're back to square one.
Mahz was seen just the other day, but aside from that: this has long been a community complaint. Site staff does the best we can with the hand we're dealt, but personally I don't see this one doing a turn-around change any time soon. I knew it was an issue before I became a Mod the first time, and having seen it from both the viewpoint of community concerned RPer and Moderator, it's always an issue. This is the nature of the way he built the Guild.
Moderators are too inactive ]You have 7 mods. 2 have been AWOL for more than 3 days, 2 have their online status hidden, one is a moderator lifted up from section-moderator who has made his entire persona revolve around being 'the lazy mod' that doesn't do anything. I understand having a personal life but is it an unreasonable expectation that we can at least be aware of the moderators' activity or otherwise have moderators that log in at least once a day? Adding to that, it is hard to sell activity to me if there are posts/suggestions in Mahz update thread that go unanswered for almost a full week. Somewhere during that time, one moderator has to have been online, has to have had the time to reply with atleast a message that recognizes or acknowledges the suggestion. The mods are active on discord but due to what I can only presume to be personal reasons seem to not be able to find the time to reply within the hour in most cases, even if they are online.
The entire moderator team is fairly active. Again you don't have access to that point of view, but I do, and I've seen all of them recently active and doing something. Two have been preoccupied with IRL, but that's life and the rest of us have handled picking up the slack just fine. (And we've still heard from them recently even busy as they've been IRL--one even handled an issue before I could get to it the other day.)
We're even pro-active: even before complaints about the Contests sub-forum, I was asking Aria about it behind closed doors.
And, seriously, as part of your incentive to recruit more active mods, you bring back Kangaroo, who left because he didn't have time, and then continues to not have time despite saying he does? I really don't get this decision. I would love to have it explained to me. Maybe there's a very rational reason.
It's possible there's more to this story than most people, including yourself, know. That is really Kangaroo's business, at the end of the day. The group of people who know were happy to have him back though. I don't expect the people that feel entitled to knowing more to be content with that, but there is a rational reason for it all, yes.
/ Moderators need to be present in the community more
/ New faces in the moderators are desired if not downright required
Already responded regarding the others. There's no "situation between us." At least not on my end. The last time I tried to reach out and be adult about it, the effort was screencapped and used to harass me on both the Guild and Discord. Safe to say this situation is one-sided. I've fielded complaints about you rather recently, and decided there was nothing to them, so I dismissed it. I've got no personal vendetta against anyone.
/ Communication skills of the community itself.
The last time I had a private talk with you, you came across hostile and more interested in throwing salt than discussing the issue at hand. (An issue which you dedicated a single sentence to.)
/ Actually reporting people to the Moderators as needed in order to make the website feel less "lawless".
I've yet to see anything reported not get at least a response to. Prehaps you could offer concrete details of reports with nothing given in response?
/ Nobody reads the rules and even if they do, there is no enforcement anyway so why follow them?
Mahz decided we didn't need different versions of the rules stickied, and he's stated multiple times he thinks the fastest way to get people to not pay attention to something is to sticky it. I can't recall which of us actually removed them. Some of them were even posted by accounts we don't have access to. So if many in the Guild feel that would help, we could copy/paste the site rules into a sticky for each section. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone make a suggestion of this since the new rules went up, I will point out, so maybe we haven't met the "many" part yet.
/ Moderators appear uncommitted and seem 'okay' with how things are now even if the community disagrees and has stated they are not satisfied.
We care, and act when possible: like when I went to Aria regarding Contests. I never used Contests. Even back in the day when Jorick would try to talk me into putting in a submission, it was just never my thing, but I always loved that he enjoyed them. I still cared enough about the community to go to Aria about the section's current state, even though I personally never used it.
The majority of this is nothing new. We've had these issues in the past, as I stated in the above. Some people stayed and continued on with the Guild, some people went elsewhere and created new homes on other sites. We want improvements, we want resolutions to issues, we always know we work at the speed of Mahz and just try to keep the site functioning in accordance with site rules in the meantime. It's not perfect.
