This isn’t really a blog posting so don’t get too excited...it’s more of a stream of conscious thing (my excuse for not reading it over for grammar, punctuation, spelling or self indulgence)...Kerouac would have used toilet paper...I’m going with bits.

I’ve had such an incredible response to my dGeek moderator/administrator plea (and for that I owe you all a big, wet, sloppy kiss...yes, even you!) that I started thinking...I know, be afraid!

Firstly, I should confess that I had NO idea that moderators were such an issue for people.  Some people want moderators who use the forum on a regular basis - others think that a non-forum user would have a better perspective.  The most disturbing trend that I’ve seen came from a suprising number of people who once loved the dGeek forums but have left because of the way they have evolved thanks to my moderator free approach.  I really don’t like the idea of telling people what they can or can’t talk about on a forum that I’ve established, but with spam being such an issue I’ve now had to rethink that.  Anyway, a suprising number of people felt that the dGeek forums changed and lost their way.  They have left them, hoping to return.  They feel that my cries for moderating help may be just what they’ve been waiting for.  I hope that they are correct!

As an aside...the administrator position (which is the job I want!) is almost inconsequential to most, despite the dGodlike power they would wield.  How bizzare is that!?  Sorry, I just found that interesting.

I’ve been reading...I lie...listening to the audiobook of Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing (others worth a "read" despite being a bit "self help" and self serving are The E-Myth Revisited and The 4-Hour Work Week) on my iPhone...did I mention that I have a new 3G iphone that I love AND a blackberry that I loved first?  I must have...I do love them both!  I digress...crowdsourcing reminded me of what happened with A Dog’s Breakfast.  You took an interest, you made posters, you promoted the film, you posted on other websites, you got me in trouble on digg.com...oh the fun we had!  So I started to consider how we could do this with dGeek?  This is not a rhetorical question, add your comments below...or even better...I’ll start a topic in the forum!

What if we give everyone who wants a moderator position, a forum to moderate?  That way they can run things the way they want and see if people respond to it.  The more people they attract the more popular the forum and the more dGeeks we bring into the fold.  I don’t think that something like this should be too difficult (always means I’m about to kill a lot of time on something!) I’ll just ask who wants a forum and let them at it!

I then went even further and wondered if we could even have different “sites” within dGeek that people could use to pursue and promote their own dGeek?  Just brainstorming here, but I like the idea of everyone getting a say, everyone having an active part in the process...does this make me a hippy?

Alright...too tired to continue...too tired to continue in public anyway...and too embarrassed by my lack of spelling and coherence!

Think about it and post about it! I want to hear everything and anything you’ve got.   We really do have something here at dGeek.com, we just need to figure out what it is, what we want it to be and what we're going to do with it...getting there will be nothing but fun!

Cheers,

D!