New Moderators

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 22 Aug 2006 09:33

Dyalan Govender (Dyalander) and Maxime Boucoiran (Max) are the newest additions to the moderating team. Both were voted on unanimously by the rest of the mods/admin. They are both online often, regular posters, stable, mature, and helpful and respectful to other members. Plus they have been members long enough that we know they (hopefully) aren't going up and quit footbag or Modified. It is a perk that they are from countries that are not the USA so the mod team branches out to other countries, but the decision was not based on that- or at least my vote wasn't.

Edit: Changed title to "Moderators" instead of "Mods"

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 22 Aug 2006 18:35

Sweet

They'll both do good jobs.

Texta · Post by **Texta** » 22 Aug 2006 19:55

Great to see the general users get a say in how the place is ran. That's tops.

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 22 Aug 2006 22:20

If anyone has a problem with either of the new mods, please feel free to PM me to discuss it.

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 22 Aug 2006 23:27

I'd like to add that if anyone feels that I've done something i shouldn't have either as a mod or in any of my other posts please feel free to pm me about it too, though I will totally understand if you'd prefer to speak to an impartial third person.

Skippy! · Post by **Skippy!** » 23 Aug 2006 05:14

I'll achieve mod status one day...you'll see!!!!

You'll see!!!!!

HG · Post by HG » 23 Aug 2006 12:41

One thing is for sure in the world today. i will NEVER be a mod.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 23 Aug 2006 12:55

I'd vote Henry.

Zac Jackson · Post by **Zac Jackson** » 23 Aug 2006 22:43

Isilwar wrote:I'd vote Henry.

wooo! me 2

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » 24 Aug 2006 01:00

good idea to call max as a mod, always good having active and experienced people in charge.

Isilwar wrote:I'd vote Henry.

no suprise, this confession fits to your posts.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 24 Aug 2006 12:54

Daniel wrote:
Isilwar wrote:I'd vote Henry.
no suprise, this confession fits to your posts.

waddafxdatmean?

Texta · Post by **Texta** » 24 Aug 2006 16:51

Moxie wrote:If anyone has a problem with either of the new mods, please feel free to PM me to discuss it.

I think the issue is more that the process of selecting mods was done without any kind of consultation by the community and I think that if someone has an issue with the something in the forum it would be much healthier if that could be discussed freely and openly rather than behind closed doors (aka if you have a problem, post it, don't pm it).

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 25 Aug 2006 13:06

I thought Jeremy was around long enough to be sure he wasn't going to up and leave footbag.

and

His posting on .org made it sound like some of the moderators refused to actually deal with the users of the forum, and he quit out of frustration with the other mods and the procedures they prefer to use.

How do we know these new mods weren't hand select to rubber stamp the portions of the moderator agenda that Jeremy disagreed with ?

Another moderator apppointment with no input from the community, sweet.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 27 Aug 2006 16:55

Dyalan wrote:I hope they're not expecting me to just float along and go with some sort of status quo, after all I had already said in previous posts that there needs to be an explicit statment explaining the rules of modified if there are to be any. I hadn't noticed people treating modifed as a resourse rather than a community, and I certainly intend to treat it as the later.

And I think that was only part of the reason Jeremy left.

dyalander · Post by **dyalander** » 27 Aug 2006 17:52

Yeah look, I think its important I learn as much about what mods do and how they do it as a starting point, but i do intend, and have already brought up some issues I think the mods should consider (actually Jeremy brought them up before he left). These sorts of things will take time so please be patient, I will give more details at the appropriate time (and when I have the time to give them).
Also if you really want to know why Jeremy no longer posts here rather than speculate I'd suggest you email him about it. I'm sure he'd happily tell you.
He hasn't left footbag, he's just reduced his commitments, he is still highly involved in organising the Australian scene, and I'm pretty sure he is still stitching bags too, he has just resigned from his place on modified and also from being communications officer for the ifpa.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 27 Aug 2006 17:52

Jamie should be moderator because he is on a big posting spree.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 27 Aug 2006 18:33

Isilwar wrote:Jamie should be moderator because he is on a big posting spree.

It's not my fault I have no life. Wait... awe heck... I'm gonna go play some footbag.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 27 Aug 2006 19:07

It's okay if you post a lot as long as you make worthwhile posts imo (I usually don't follow my own rules).