Quote Originally Posted by Weasel Overlord View Post
I think the idea that people would leave for being demodded is a bit silly. The reason I'm here, personally, is to RP. Not being a mod wouldn't change that. If anything, it'd give me LESS work to do in this place, lol. The thing is, people don't seem to be taking into account all the work mods do for their boards. It's not just a case of deleting/moving/closing threads and dealing with spam etc. There's always discussions going on about stuff we can do to increase activity, garner new members and so on.
This goes right to the heart of my earlier post: you don't "NEED" to be a moderator to get involved in discussions on how to increase activity. If the real discussion about this is being kept to the moderator forum, then I don't understand why.

Quote Originally Posted by Heald
I would like to address the point of a mass demodding and just having 4-5 supermods, even though it is an incredibly stupid idea: I primarily only look at Misc. I have an RPG, and I have occasional interests in ASB, Fanfic and Video Games. The only forum I actually look at enough regularly to actually know enough to make informed decisions is Misc. I'm not prepared to go digging through every post in order to see if people are behaving. In fact, that's not even what Supermods are for. Supermods are simply there to back-up regular moderators and have powers to moderate in a forum if that forum's moderator is not online. Their job isn't to sift through every post, like you are implying it should be.
You make it sound as if the rules are so overly complex and vastly different in each forum that it's impossible to learn them all. If that's the case, maybe it's the rules that need changing. The only forum you mentioned that does have very complex rules (and for good reason) is ASB; in this case, I wouldn't expect a supermod to become acquainted with the intricacies of ASB policies, so a normal moderator would be best.

I still don't see how my idea is stupid though. You can easily train somebody up to handle affairs in Fanfic and Video Games in addition to Misc; I'm sure the rules in those forums are not overly complex. Some of the bigger and better forums out there put their supermods to excellent use, which eliminates most of the need to appoint normal mods to each and every forum. The current supermods on TPM, I believe, are not doing anywhere near enough.

Finally, I find it peculiar how nobody has addressed the main point in my earlier post: that promotions are used as temptation to keep the better members from leaving. It's all fine and dandy to nitpick other certain elements of my posts, but try to see it in its entirety, and you'll see what a solid argument I have against moderator numbers.

And yes, I agree with the idea of a talk-shit forum. ^_^;