How highly do you rate the moderators?

[azzaman333]

Don't discuss specific moderator actions, or specific moderators.


On the whole, how well do you think the moderators moderate the forums?
Good is defined as being consistent, fair, unbiased, reasonable and clearly explain the reasoning behind decisions.

 

[Mise]

Some are clearly better than others. I voted average.

 

[Perfection]

With certain exceptions most are pretty damn good. Significantly above average.

 

[Yared]

I voted very good, though I don't go to many forums beside this one.

I have never really felt like I didn't deserve an infraction, or that a person "got away" with something. The moderators have so far been nothing but objective to me.

Ask me in a year.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

It depends on the subforum. The civ3 moderators are awsome !

About the offtopic mods.
Some are nice and give you infractions a lot milder than you deserve and make you feel bad about yourself because you upset them.
Some are fair and give everyone what they deserve.

Unfortunately these 2 categories of mods dont visit OT as much as they used to.

 

[Camikaze]

In all my interaction with moderators, they've been helpful, so I'll go with 'good', simply due to being too non-committal to go with 'very good'. Plus, I don't really go to other forums, so I don't have a yardstick to judge by.

 

[Yared]

u infractions a lot milder than you deserve and make you feel bad about yourself because you upset them.

I know I always get this feeling of dread when I see "You've got a Private Message". I feel ashamed when it's an infraction, and I breath out a sigh of relief when I see that it isn't.

 

[Abaddon]

This thread will be closed. I cannot vote since the quality varies enormously amongst the staff.

 

[Zack]

I know I always get this feeling of dread when I see "You've got a Private Message". I feel ashamed when it's an infraction, and I breath out a sigh of relief when I see that it isn't.

Play mafia and NOTW and you won't feel that anymore, since all your PMs will be about the games!

This thread will be closed. I cannot vote since the quality varies enormously amongst the staff.

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[Yared]

Play mafia and NOTW and you won't feel that anymore, since all your PMs will be about the games!

You just had to take advantage of my emotional grief to market your game, didn't you?

 

[azzaman333]

This thread will be closed. I cannot vote since the quality varies enormously amongst the staff.

It breaks no rules, it should not be closed.

 

[Moss]

It breaks no rules, it should not be closed.

Hmm....

How am I to rate the moderators of CFC without taking into account their actions as moderators? I can't. Otherwise, I would be rating them not as moderators but just as posters or general people.

So my rating of the moderators of this forum is basically the whole of their moderator actions and whether or not I agree or disagree with them or consider them good or bad.

So yes, this thread is a discussion of moderator actions, and not just that, we are rating them as well.

 

[azzaman333]

Hmm....

How am I to rate the moderators of CFC without taking into account their actions as moderators? I can't. Otherwise, I would be rating them not as moderators but just as posters or general people.

So my rating of the moderators of this forum is basically the whole of their moderator actions and whether or not I agree or disagree with them or consider them good or bad.

So yes, this thread is a discussion of moderator actions, and not just that, we are rating them as well.

Stop derailing the thread.

 

[Yared]

If you must, assign values to each moderator, work out an average and then post it here.

 

[Mathilda]

How about you all just stop worrying about whether this allowed or not and let us worry about that
The guidelines in the OP are good though.

 

[Fifty]

Good! There are specific mods who stop it from being "very good", but overall the mods here are certainly quite good.

And I certainly don't define good as "non-strict". IMO Duke was an excellent OT mod, despite being one of the strictest.

The main problem with the mods that aren't great is lack of consistency, either internally (i.e. not even consistent with their own other mod actions) or externally (i.e. not consistent with general OT modding precedent)

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Some mods don't know how to only give 1 point for a minor infraction.

EDIT: Overall, they are good though. I'll vote good.

 

[ainwood]

Stop derailing the thread.

Moderator Action: If you want it to remain open, I suggest you don't make comments like this one.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I rate them the highest because they dont ban me simply cause they dont like me .... Ive run into egoistical moderators at other forums. It seemed like a popularity contest with cliques and Im my own person so they dont like me and they made up some rule I broke to ban me when I did no such thing. They clamed I postid an email from another memebr I did no such thing and anywways the rules were not even written anyweres.

 

[Earthling]

Play mafia and NOTW and you won't feel that anymore, since all your PMs will be about the games!



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I agree with both statements - I rarely received any private messages or any other notifications and so every one I basically was expecting an infraction, very occasionally thankful it was something else, until I joined up with games that cause PMs to be spammed, and now that's not a worry.

Secondly - quality I feel varies a lot. For one, in the specific criteria of the OP, I feel the moderators do an average job. Now, most Internet forums would be rated terrible fwiw, and I think CFC is great, but I have to say this comes from things other than consistent moderation. (of course, simply having great discussion and stories and strategies about a great video is a start.) Then the CFC rules are just incredibly strict (compared to the average Internet) on language, imagery, spam, etc... so many good things about this forum and all its discussions come from the rules themselves. But the mods are not necessarily all very good at enforcing the actual rules consistently or making clear what they are doing.