*bump*

Many people are saying that we need more moderators to sort out things here in Talk. I spend a lot time here so why not.

I can help moving silently threads in "noisy" forums like General or N900 that actually belong to other forums like Community or Development.

I have no intention of going for a more visible moderator role, not to awake those concerns about Nokians moderating the forum etc etc.

qgil: use a different username for moderation, maybe "The Masked Moderator!"

I have to say that, after six months, I think being a moderator of Alternatives sucks pretty badly.

There is almost no traffic, and no opportunities to help moderating, but yet I have the title "Moderator" on my signature and so people say, "How can a Moderator act so badly?!"

This is why I say "silently". Moving and merging threads, that's all I'll aim for.

I'm currently moderating Brainstorm but have also volunteered to expand that to Community at large. No word from Reggie yet if that's acceptable.

I agree that we need more mods - even if only on a temporary basis. If Quim is willing to do that, I'm sure it would be a huge help.

Right now we have an influx of people many of whom are just jumping in with their questions where-ever they land from google, and it's a bit messy. There's also a bit of aggressive fan-boyism and anti-fan-boyism which could use some gentle pushing.

I love how moderation is done round here, though. Please don't change it. I spent 8 years as mod and intermittent admin (they rotated the post) at a place which used the 'warning/infraction/ban' system vBulletin offers. As a result they had a rulebook longer than the EU constitution and a dedicated forum for arguing board lawsuits (though we did manage to neuter that by making people take any dispute up with the individual mod before they went to the bopocorn gallery.) By comparison the simple 'nuke it if it doesn't belong but otherwise hands off' approach is really refreshing. Mods move theads, merge threads, lift posts out if a thread develops two discussions... all silently and smoothly.

Huge, huge thanks to the mods who are keeping this place so good and easy to navigate in these busy times!

Reggie, any thoughts?

Done. Sorry for the delay.

your title currently reads "Super Moderator", that's quite visible IMO

True. Whenever someone finds this is a problem I will resign again. There is so much to do that it's not worth discussing.

PS: thanks Reggie.

Super moderator in vBulletin is a mod in all fora, I think. Probably just what we need you to be.