Moderator Announcement

[Non Nobis]

Thank you Penelope for the fine job you did; I am sorry to see you go.
I will pray that Kaese finds some more help here as this place keeps growing, it will need supervision.

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I remember some time ago, that I suggested to you, Michael, that you would be an excellent moderator (which I still think). You said that you did not have enough time.
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I was thinking the same thing before I saw your post.  But maybe he would be too easy going. 

[Hannelore]

Thank you Penelope for the fine job you did; I am sorry to see you go.
I will pray that Kaese finds some more help here as this place keeps growing, it will need supervision.

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I remember some time ago, that I suggested to you, Michael, that you would be an excellent moderator (which I still think). You said that you did not have enough time.
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I was thinking the same thing before I saw your post.  But maybe he would be too easy going. 

But he's so level-headed.

[Carleendiane]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

[Michael Wilson]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

I'm good at making coffee; keeping people in line, not so much.

[Carleendiane]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

I'm good at making coffee; keeping people in line, not so much.

You really don't know how your good humor and disposition can neutralize a dicey conversation. You can't change my mind Michael Wilson. Besides if your nice temperament doesn't do it your good coffee will

[Michael Wilson]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

I'm good at making coffee; keeping people in line, not so much.

You really don't know how your good humor and disposition can neutralize a dicey conversation. You can't change my mind Michael Wilson. Besides if your nice temperament doesn't do it your good coffee will

My own choice for moderator would be Gardener, but he is under a self imposed ban. He has the brains, the niceness and the toughness. Greg would be another one.

[Carleendiane]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

I'm good at making coffee; keeping people in line, not so much.

You really don't know how your good humor and disposition can neutralize a dicey conversation. You can't change my mind Michael Wilson. Besides if your nice temperament doesn't do it your good coffee will

My own choice for moderator would be Gardener, but he is under a self imposed ban. He has the brains, the niceness and the toughness. Greg would be another one.

I see. You make coffee though. They do not have your skills. Yes Gardener is all you say. He is a gentleman. Greg is a wee bit of an instigater, but good color for the forum. No, as far as I can see, you'd be my pic, besides as you stated, Gardener is on self imposed ban, unless, Kaese.....can woo him back? Maybe.

[Clarence Creedwater]

It goes without saying that you would have to spend a great deal of time READING constantly, and comprehend well enough what you read so that when it is time to moderate, it is done fairly.

That's not exactly how it works. This forum is a hobby for the mods just as it is for ordinary posters, so we'd often end up primarily just reading the threads that interest us (and moderating anything we saw as it came up) and relying on the aid of others to call our attention to issues we had not yet seen. It's also the case that most of us would only have time to devote to moderating the forum in the evenings, after work or after the kids went to bed. When there were many mods, we tended to have slightly different areas of interest, so between the four or five of us, most threads were seen by at least one mod's eyes. That hasn't been the case for a while, so PMs and "report to moderator" have been the best tools people could use to direct our attention to potential trouble or even to easy fixes like messed up BBCode. We also kept an eye out for troll-like behavior and spam accounts. Those issues are usually pretty obvious and could be handled with relative quickness once we became aware of them.

I am talking about what is objectively proper moderating.

[OCLittleFlower]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

Coffee is for closers.

[PerEvangelicaDicta]

Michael Wilson. He'll get the coffee going in the morning. He has skills. And a pleasant even temper to boot.

I'm good at making coffee; keeping people in line, not so much.

You really don't know how your good humor and disposition can neutralize a dicey conversation. You can't change my mind Michael Wilson. Besides if your nice temperament doesn't do it your good coffee will

My own choice for moderator would be Gardener, but he is under a self imposed ban. He has the brains, the niceness and the toughness. Greg would be another one.

Coming from you, Michael Wilson, high praise indeed.

[Penelope]

I am talking about what is objectively proper moderating.

Yes, yes, of course you were.

[Clarence Creedwater]

I am talking about what is objectively proper moderating.

Yes, yes, of course you were.

Certainly. I couldn't have known how you mishandled it until you let on to us here.

People need to look at how the Church had strict rules about what was published, and the great care that went into it to make sure error was not spread. A web forum is not a gathering of people in a parlor who speak there minds and it doesn't go further than the walls. Today, a web forum is like a stage where everyone has a turn to go to the microphone, and its heard across the country. It's worse than a newspaper, where a paper at least is read once and then discarded. Here it is permanent, and digitally indexed for the whole world upon keyword search in Google. A heavy responsibility. Now you can see why I wrote what I did.

[Miriam_M]

People need to look at how the Church had strict rules about what was published, and the great care that went into it to make sure error was not spread.

For example, lay opinions about a vacant Papal seat.   

[Clarence Creedwater]

People need to look at how the Church had strict rules about what was published, and the great care that went into it to make sure error was not spread.

For example, lay opinions about a vacant Papal seat.   

Good thing that is not an error.   

[Penelope]

I am talking about what is objectively proper moderating.

Yes, yes, of course you were.

Certainly. I couldn't have known how you mishandled it until you let on to us here.

People need to look at how the Church had strict rules about what was published, and the great care that went into it to make sure error was not spread. A web forum is not a gathering of people in a parlor who speak there minds and it doesn't go further than the walls. Today, a web forum is like a stage where everyone has a turn to go to the microphone, and its heard across the country. It's worse than a newspaper, where a paper at least is read once and then discarded. Here it is permanent, and digitally indexed for the whole world upon keyword search in Google. A heavy responsibility. Now you can see why I wrote what I did.

I already regret my decision.