This is not a democracy. This is Trap17. Critisizing a moderator who contributes as much to the community as templest does (even though I don't always agree with him) will not be tolerated by me. Other moderators are free to take their own stand on that view. You have got no idea what templest and myself (especially templest) are required to do. I spend hours each day crawling through all the posts that have been submitted, trying to filter out the junk so that people like you don't have to put up with it. And there is no pay or any other rewards involved. I don't even have hosting here. If you are ever made moderator, I hope you get as much flack as templest does about your work.

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what should someone do to be a moderator??

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I am a moderator four times over, each of which a least three times as large as this forums is. And never was I flamed in the course of three years, because I take great care how I moderate.

So if somebody doesn't put up with the way you handle things, you're going to gag him/her? That's totally Nazi if you ask me. There are limits of what we can put into words within this forum, yes, but no rule exist that we can't criticize anybody.

Look, I'm not questioning templest or any other mod and his/their contribution and effort. I know how it feels. Even if I'm not a mod here, I try to help out in small ways coz I know how the system works. But the fact that you won't take criticsm just because of what you're doing, that's totally absurd. Even Admin take criticsm, even after all the things he provided.

 

 

 

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I'm not 'gagging' anyone. If I were to be doing that, I would have deleted this thread, which would be pure idiocy or as you say, 'Nazism'.

I am not saying you can't criticize templest. I am in no position to be orderring anyone around at these forums; I am saying that I will not stand for the criticism of someone who helps out around here like templest does.

My initial statement was:

I do not remember saying at any point that you will not put forth any criticism. I said that I would not support it, and that I suggest that you don't do it.


No offense, but I can't help laughing at this.

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Ok, then its settled

Well, each of the four forums I help moderate have members that ran into at least a thousand. The largest being a Star Trek-related forum with some 3000 registered members (although, of course, not all of them posts regularly which I should be thankful for ). The smallest is a boring "adult" forum my cousin runs that's sooo boring you'd be surprised why it got 1247 members and growing.

Anyways out of topic...

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Is that alot for a web forum?

What if you are a moderator in a forum which currently has 183567 users. Im not one of them but i think its a tough job

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Let me emphasize, "3,000" is the number of registered users. A good many of them no longer post, or post very seldom. That forum have been running continously for almost 6 years I think so number isn't that surprising.



I have yet to see a forum that exceeded the 10,000 mark. But even if a forum has only a hundred members, moderating is still a tough job. Ideally the moderator-to-member ratio should be 1:40, but here we have four plus admin so that makes the ratio 1:89, which is from a moderator's point of view, barely acceptable.

For a forum that size, even if theoritical, it would require hundreds of moderators just to sift through all the post. Consider this, even if only a quarter of the members post each day that's still 4600 posts. Estimating that a Mod takes about a minute to read a post, that'll take 70 hours! Almost three days just to sift through a day's posts, and that assumes that you don't eat, sleep, or even pee. And remember people tend to post more than once a day. And Mods have to make up replys and warnings and other stuff that'll take time too. That's how tough being a Moderator can be.

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