WebSlave said:
Wow, Alicia! That is WAY too logical of a thought here......
Yeah, like I am going to DRAFT someone to be a moderator, with all those implicit privileges, if they positively do NOT want to do it.......
But I think it would be an eye opening experience for everyone to have sometime or another. How would you like to have yourself and your family get death threats from some of the less savory members who have passed through here? Lots of fun, eh? And I have lost count many moons ago of all the lawsuit threats I have received for my efforts. So I certainly can't understand why anyone WOULDN'T want to be a moderator here....
You're the one that said you would make sure they receive the notices and you would
assign them to be forum moderators, now you're laughing; yeah, OK. If you changed your mind and that's not how it will be, then say that, don't talk about how ridiculous it is for someone to think you would even consider that; those were YOUR words about assigning, not anyone else's. If they're still going to get the notices, that's not much of a choice, is it? No matter how it's sugarcoated, it's still not a choice. They will be made to ignore SPAM of a sort, and then choose not to participate. Muddy water, there.
Pro rata, you whine more than anyone about the site, and it's pretty sad. I like Fauna, and wish it would go back to what it once was, but it and you are a laughing stock of many folks right now (you say you don't care, but you do or you wouldn't still be looking for ways to improve.) Of course it's work, of course people will complain - that's part of it and one would think you would be accustomed to that without complaint by now. If you can't handle it, maybe you ought to get out of the fire and let someone else who is stronger jump in and do right by the site.
I'm not knocking the goal of the new system, the site DOES need more moderators and the rules DO need to be enforced. Shoot, you can ask anyone that knows me, I'm more of a stickler for profanity than most, so I'm all for that. My first post in this thread is the
first time in my history of being online that I've used profanity on a public forum.
I think the way this system came about was too dramatic and needless. There is no more Wild Wild West here, no more Peer points.. the final outcome is simply taking on more moderation and that could have
easily been done by using volunteers that have wanted to help you out before rather than all the discussion and drama your WWW implications created. You create most of the drama on Fauna, yet you're the biggest complainer about that, as well. If you don't want the drama, use your cajones for what they were intended and grab the bull by the horns and just make things happen. That means more moderation, and that's just common sense. You can't do it all by yourself, so you take on help. There are plenty of other sites on the web that prove it's possible, why is it so hard here? You act like you are so poorly mistreated and no one understands the woes you go through for giving so much to the community. (If you think this is tough, run a board for 1000's of chronic pain patients..lol) You DO give a lot - I won't deny that. You used to give more, though, so man up and deal with things as they come. It's what site owners and admin do.
If you need money to keep running the site (and I know you do, I'm not knocking that), consider another paid member level in between $25.00 and $100.00. Maybe $50.00 for somewhere in the middle. I bet you'd get a lot more registrations for $50.00 than you might think, and fifty $50.00 memberships is more valuable than ten $100.00 memberships. $50.00 is a heck of a lot easier to come up with than $100.00 for most folks, too.
