Since I am on the site every day (give or take) I am pretty well versed with most of the threads and definitely most of the important threads. I think directing traffic and making sure there isn't redundancy is the best way for me to use my time. If there is a large expansion of users then this will be even more needed than it currently is.

You can always tell when a forum is well moderated by how it flows and how you can always find the conversation thread you need.

This forum has done really well with a minimum of moderation, that's probably a testament to the intelligence level of the average Tablet user

What Roger S has done is started 401 discussions about NIT/Maemo topics.

It might be interesting to calculate not just posts per day but the ratio of threads started to posts. After all, starting a topic is pro-active not reactive and says something about contributing to a forum rather than just policing it or chiming in on what someone else has said.

(Well, maemo.org only shows Roger S as having begun 118 threads, but as he is — to put it politely — more interested in his writing than anyone else is, he happens to have a copy of each post he made asking a question or offering an opinion or sharing a fact where no one else had, and 401 threads have indeed begun with him piping up first.)

And as a, well, disproportionate number of his sentiments have been prominently placed at itT, perhaps Roger S feels conflicted about having more than his share in the say of things and treads lightly upon on our new community commons.

Though as for that, I expect Roger S would get more than his toes wet if he weren't still looking for work. He's the plunging type I imagine.

I asked for moderator access back in March.

I will make a more formal request: I would like to be given moderator access to the Alternatives forum.

Wow that's weird; I post in one thread, and it is whisked over to another...

That's also another thing moderators can do to keep threads on topic. You were asking for moderator permissions and we had this thread so...

Summarizing, this is a proposal for Reggie to consider:

Andrew Flegg (Jaffa)
Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles)
Kees Jongenburger (keesj)
Alan Bruce (qole)

Tim Samoff (timsamoff) is already SuperModerator.

proposed as super-moderators (all fora).

penguinbait proposed himself as moderator of Alternatives

TrueJournals proposed to moderate Development and Applications

mobiledivide proposed to become moderator but he hasn' show a specific interest for one forum.

I would like to propose myself as a moderator in the Talk Section of the site and the Alternative Section. I am a round everyday and I'm very involved with the community. I also help out with Mer with everything I can. I might not know as much as some people but I consider my self a very advanced user, I am active on all parts of the community including Forums, lists, and IRC. I feel my knowledge of vbulletin in both past moderating other forums and in theme design would help me be a good moderator.

If made a mod, my only interest is jumping on outright spam when I see it first. It's enough of a job shepherding maemo.org sprint meetings without trying to manage threads here too ...and I'd hate to feed into the conspiracy theories with having so much power ;-)

Jaffa has a point; council members (and Quim) as super moderators can theoretically change things as they see fit and eliminate dissenting opinions at will. What if a troublemaker starts claiming that the moderators are deleting or modifying his posts? Even if not true, it will create a storm of controversy.

By the way, is there a timeline for the granting of moderator status?

Correct me if I'm wrong... but I believe edits made by moderators will still show the little "edited by..." banner at the bottom of the posts. So, there's no way to claim this if it's not true. Deleting posts.... I'm not so sure what could be done about that one :/