Thread: Moderators

It appears to me that we have a new class of moderator: Senior Moderator. Weren't some of them just recently Super Moderators? To work up the ladder now, will we start with Freshman (person) Moderator, then advance to Sophmore Moderator before becoming a Senior Moderator? And once fully matriculated, to what do they graduate?

How about something more uniform, like a lieutenant moderator, a captain moderator, and then (drum roll) major moderator?

Ok, major pain will go now.

There is a reason for everything. The site has seen recent reorganization and the duties of the mgmt team has changed. Some of the changes will slowly become more apparent to the members however certain classifications have been changed to better reflect the reorganization.

Uh huh. Ok then.

In this specific case, we decided to replace 'super' with 'senior' to better reflect the relation to plain old 'moderator'. That has more to do with how we work internally as a team than how we interact with the community.

You'll also notice that some people now have 'developer' tags. It means that those people do not perform mod duties, but instead work on the site itself (configuration, coding, design and graphics, maintenance, etc).

Bruno,

Thanks for the explanation, it helped sweep away some of the obfuscation. I had assumed that the old super moderators were given special abilities to solve the big, the unique, the critical, the urgent. This gave me solace, thinking that were I flummoxed by some dread shaving issue or piqued by some area of concern here on the forum I could turn to a super moderator for the fix. Now we have senior moderators and I have to admit that new description does not imbue the holder of the title with the same, maybe phantom, but strength nonetheless, as the former title had.

Senior implies that the person so described has been around a while - has whiskers, so to speak. I guess that's certainly in keeping with the general discussion here, so this is good.

But I do miss the mental image of the well lathered guy wearing a red bib emblazoned with a large gold "S", grasping a knot of finest badger in one hand and shining 1/2 hollow blade in the other, a 3" latigo strop clipped to his belt and flapping in the wind. And now we've got a guy with gray stubble.

Change is good

Originally Posted by Bruce

Bruno,
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I have to admit that new description does not imbue the holder of the title with the same, maybe phantom, but strength nonetheless, as the former title had.

If it is any help, you can still think of me as a benign dictator who can squash you like a gnat and remove your 1600 posts and the traces of your very existence from our databases if you incurr my wrath
I will also keep my supergrover avatar for the time being.

And since you don't know what I look like, you can add the mental image of an all powerful person sitting in an armback chair, hidden in the shadows, swirling some very old and expensive booze in a cystal glass and contemplating his plans for taking over the world.

I mean I generally try to avoid people thinking about me like that, but if it makes you feel better ...

It has been pointed out to me that I didn't help the confusion by having a title that said admin and forum fixer, which would be considered site maintenance and development, and my badge said senior moderator while I was also doing non senior mod things.

To clear up the confusion I decided to just remove my supermod group membership and reveal my true colors.

Sadly, my true color happens to be hotpink, as this was the color I assigned to the administrator group as a prank on Dave. I could change this of course, but since Dave wore this color like a man despite some initial misgivings, I cannot do any less and follow his lead.

I love it. Oh, and yes...