Urgent agenda item Re mods

I think it was a good decision to keep the current mods at least to get this site started. I don't think we need an emergency action here, we can let things play out as they were imo.

Eventually, yes. The current kerfuffle will settle by the end of the day imo. Growing pains.

Modding should be more transparent and mods should rotate. Elections are pretty annoying and if we can substitute that with sign-up and rotation it would save a lot of hassle. Mods should be recallable and voting happen when necessary, but if someone is just a mod for a month or so I think there wouldn't be much of that drama.

I agree. As people know, one of the items that the (slow-moving) governance committee has on its agenda is to develop a process by which mods are determined. Maybe direct voting for mods will be recommended but there are certainly other methods such as 100% volunteers, perhaps with one or more "super-mods" to provide continuity and guidance.

All good points. Perhaps we get at least one mod who was not a 22 mod?

First of all figure out how many mods do we need in our current state?

I find it amusing that people think the mods are responsible for what happened today and if we had different mods or a different process things would have been different. I really doubt it. The moderation we have today is the process that has been hammered out by the community. While the people Cuse picked were not voted on, no one voiced strenuous objections to the choice or the process until today. Today is an example of the mod process working.

The current mod process, in it's entirety is this:
Someone reports a post. To my knowledge, no recent actions have taken place without a post having been reported.

This opens a thread in the Admin section of the site that mods have access to. The report lists the post, the message sent when it was reported and gives a place for the mods to discuss it and vote on an action. Usually the vote is no action and nothing is done. When 3 mods have voted for the same action the action is carried out. This morning was an exception to this because I mistakenly interpreted the post to be of a nature that couldn't wait the day or so it would take for a vote to take place so I acted. There are always going to be posts that fall into this category and will be sorted out as we get actual rules. Oh, at the moment there are no actual written down rules.

Once the action is taken it is noted in the Mod Actions thread for comments. Based on the comments in that thread an action will be upheld or overturned, in this case it was overturned and the action was undone.

That's it. Without written rules to fall back on the mods are basing their decisions on experience and their interpretation of what has been talked about in the various threads on what we want this place to be. As we learn what the community wants we change our decisions to try and fit the community spirit with the recognition that we are imperfect vessels and our decisions are at the whim of the community.

What mods can't do is prevent people from reacting to our actions before the process has worked itself out.

Y'all are free to find new mods but I'm not sure what would have changed if other mods had been getting the post reports.

micro is already working his butt off like no one else here.

Thank you for the nomination.  I nominate SenorKeeed.  I'll mod if it's my turn/responsibility and basically all the regs are at least asked to mod if they are willing, but not as a special position.

Nice. I don't think the situation is that dire at this point.

In the mean time, I edited my post...see your nomination.

Well, I got back at you by orphaning your post!!!

Lolol tag you’re it. 

That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works...