I have never moderated anything before but should I wish to, I would not find any of these duties particularly heinous.

~katherine

Perhaps you should also include the adminime @ adogsbreakfastmovie.com email in the list.
~Eagle-eyed Editor

There are a few Squirrels on here that would be perfect as Mods. We should put it to a voting and nominate system. I know Katherine, and Barcardicider would be great as well as a few others. Who there names escape me right now.

I got my application in early this afternoon, but I just wanted to say that this starting list sounds perfectly reasonable to me. A little more guidelines for the forum and some easy to access FAQs would go a long way in paving the road towards a solid future forum experience.

10. Make sure that lists like this one end on an even number ;-)

A man after my own heart

As I said in my application I may be new to dgeek but I have run a community for the past few years. I hope I can be of assistance whether it be as an admin or just some suggestions.

I think it sounds like a really good start for some responsibilities. Overall, they target what a moderator really should be doing when it comes to a forum. And I really like the idea of sending you questions and hot topics so you can keep up to date as well.

As for where dGeek.com is headed, I'd love to see it in with the whole filmmaking/writing side of things. But then, I'm biased considering I'm finishing off my fourth year bachelors in a writing program. Still, if that's the way it goes I'd be more than happy to put my degree to some sort of use if need be. I mean, I'm paying for this education and should probably use it at some point.

I love the idea of voting for the moderator we think best fits for the job. Maybe not as a final descision, but well including our opinios as we all know each other best, don't we?

Alas, I wish I would help, but, as much as dgeek rocks, I'll be at University this fall and I fear that being a moderator would cut into my study time I wish I could help out though; I know I'd be wicked good at it (I've done work like it before.) I know, what with all the fantastic people on the forums, you'll find someone(s) very good at the job. You are a lucky guy to have so many little minions to pick from

Good luck with the geeking out!

~Tori

Good luck to everyone applying,

I hope that my application was adequate - I wish I could have read this before I submitted it because I could have told you that I have been involved in doing almost all of the listed things before.

first off- nice alliteration it the title!! I personally aren't going for it... considering my very long absence from these boards it'd just be wierd- i just wanted to say good list and nice alliteration... but of course i already said that.... good luck to applicants!!

I think those things are quite reasonable, and are issues that many squirrels have been asking to be addressed. Please remember that there is an established community here at dGeek. A few have been around since the site was started. Many of us just have concerns about someone with no knowledge about us being put in charge of the site. Unlike many other forums, people on dGeek have actually gotten to know each other in real life, so we tend to be very open with each other. And there are people already familiar with the community who would be qualified to serve as moderators and administrators; it's not just a popularity thing. So I believe at least one or two of these positions should be filled by someone from the site.

I can do all of that, but I wouldn't pass the psyco test.

- Ron

I'd give it a go. Where do we sign up?

That all seems reasonable to me. I do agree with Ava that some of the long time members of the site should, if they are willing, be involved as moderators. Also, might be worth considering having moderators from different time zones as the site is populated by Squirrels the world over and as used 24/7. That way problems could be caught as soon as possible.

That said, I appreciate you giving us a say in what happens to what is, after all, your site! You are a gem!

i really wonder where ma comments have gone to...

I think #9 is my favourite stipulation. #7 is very sensible, too. And I love how the "Diamond Banking" comment shows just how timely this move is!

That doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary, except for maybe #9.
My wife and I both have both been Mod's before, from chat rooms to messageboards.
Personally I would also suggest a secondary mod.
2 heads are better then one. and twice as often they are checking.

I look forward to being part of this board ... I created an account right before the forums were taken down .. i couldn't log back in using it. So I created this one. Also looks like the 'mail your password' option is not working, it reports 'mail item not created' er, something to that effect.

- Ron

My posts keep disappearing.. What the??

lets see I am tempted to throw my hat in the ring. I have moderated and helped set up 2 boards (using invision free admittedly)

I am currently completely unemployed with time to massively kill, I have various resources for computing stuff.

I just would much rather know that the members of this board would be happy with me moderating than to be plunged directly into it. Therefore I second the idea of voting by the general populace.

*sigh* And it was eloquent too.

The gist of my post was, being a mod for another fairly big fan based site, these are quite reasonable qualities to look for in admins/mods. I would suggest that you have more than one mod and in different time zones so that someone can be accessible 24/7.

I also had commented that it was quite ironic that this post got spammed.

David, thanks for keeping the board up. We all truly appreciate it.

This is php ... I'm sure you've thought of inserting an image generator or encrypting the site.

You might look at this:
http://php.webmaster-kit.com/

- Ron

This sounds nice. I already noticed one spammer in this post.
Who is "Diamond Banking PLC"?

Not to throw off your clever even-numbered policy, but frankly I think a forum always runs better when pie is served. Can you throw that in there somewhere?

*cry* I can't get my perfectly perfect comments posted! And they were the perfect epitome of a perfect post! (Watch this one show up. That will be perfectly annoying.)

*sigh* I'll take another crack at the original I suppose...

For those who want to stay in touch while the dGeek forum is unavailable, you can go to http://minigeek.geekaddict.net/forum.htm

Let's try the comments again:

Help out “new-letts” and make them feel wanted.

I've only ever seen welcoming from Squirrels. If I hear otherwise, I'm going to gnaw on someone. :p

Come up with some good guidelines for forum usage

There was a thread in the forum at one point, where many of us discussed what good guidelines would be and what would make for good moderators and who they might be. If that can be pulled up it might help. The discussion came up in the wake of the only flaming thread I've ever seen on the forum.

Help me put together an FAQ

Doable. Most of the questions would come directly from the forums. I'm thinking there might be copyright issues. Ah, but the Terms of Usage should take care of that.

Provide me periodically with a list of hot topics or questions so I’m not a
clueless idiot

Were you thinking of having an "Ask David" thread? Or more along the lines of being kept apprised of questions in threads that you might feel you want to respond to?

Help determine where dGeek.com is headed. I would love to find a niche for this
baby, preferably something to do with filmmaking, writing, acting etc.

Geez. Okay, here's the rest...

Help determine where dGeek.com is headed. I would love to find a niche for this
baby, preferably something to do with filmmaking, writing, acting etc.

dgeek.williamdevry.net Just... totally content thievery. :-)

NOT be a psycho on the boards or in correspondence with me...seriously,
this needs to be business-like and not weird!

I have references. Well.. reference. http://williamdevry.net I don't know whether it's a plus or minus, but he's friendly with Paul McG. ;-)

Cheers!
Em

Already sent in my application when you first posted about this on Twitter. But these duties are quite reasonable. Already have my creative juices flowing!

Have fun sifting through the applications, David!~hope yo udon't end up with any psychotic squirrels ...

Mandi

I used to moderate a rather huge board and if we had rules like those....I think life would've been much simpler and the place wouldn't have burned me out so many times!

For those who want to stay in touch while the dGeek forum is unavailable, you can go to http://minigeek.geekaddict.net/forum.htm

Those sound like some pretty good objectives (and thoughts), you have obviously gotten your business head on already. I've put in my ap already but can imagine you are going to be seriously overwhelmed! You'll have to employ yourself a recruitment consultant!

Regarding voting mentioned in the some of the other comments thought it might be worth throwing in that modding very often has the effect of making certain people unhappy. Perhaps a popularity contest isn't exactly the best way to go.

Hope it doesn't give you too much of a headache David!

I've done a fair bit of moderating and wouldn't mind helping out!

While I'm not volunteering, there's a big part of me shouting out loudly in my head that I wouldn't do a very good job, I do have a quick question.

Have you thought about maybe having more than one moderator? I'm a member on a forum that has different moderators for different threads, that way no one gets an overly large task.

Shutting up and going back into my tree.

Dear Mr. Ioson Mark of Banking ID,

Your fail. It's showing.

derisively yours,

shansgrl

You know, Spammers could at LEAST try t ohave decent grammar and make things look legit if they want to try to suck people in ... Otherwise they're just criminally annoying.

There's an idea ... Make it illegal. Charge the people with whatever severely unrealistic amount of money they're claiming is available. I mean come on, $17.200.000.00Million USD?? Seriously? Who in their right mind would even consider this to be a real deal? I say charge these people what they're saying they have and see how many spammers we get ...

[insert a profuse amount of cursing and inappropriate name-calling here]

Mandi

I love the idea that you're willing to keep this going, that you have a direction in mind and, of course, that you remembered the most important item: Lists always ending in an even number. *g* I think that are tons of us who could help and you can expect about a gazillion (is that an even number?) hats to be tossed into the ring. Here's mine *g* (It's a fedora, btw):

Mailing lists and communities I created and moderate/moderated:

1. On Yahoo, I have a mailing list called SGtoCascade, a discussion group for fans of Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1 and The Sentinel.

On Live Journal, I have:

2. A charity community called GMFORMOONRIDGE (I run an online auction each year for the Moonridge Animal Park) at: http://gmfor-moonridge.livejournal.com/

3. A community called PicSpam2009 that encourages folks to get out at least once a week to enjoy their city via photography at:
http://community.livejournal.com/picspamyou_2009/

4. I used to moderate a community called SGtoCascadeIcons (but let's face it - there are tons of them so I let that one go)

5. I have my own Fiction only Community on LJ and, to ensure that I end up with an even number *g*

6. I have a blog for my struggling business of photo restorations at: http://www.msphotofixonline.com/

I designed all of them, am a strong believer in FAQ that have 10 rules/questions/answers or less (and always end with an even number), and am home all day with plenty of time. I also used to have to come up with questions for guests at summer conferences just in case the audience went dumb on us *g* (this was when I was working as a general manager for 3rd largest whatever).

Hi David,

Thank you so much for working on the forum! You're such a sweetie to do so. And I love the blue, so nice and soothing.
Good luck with the mod pick(s). I have to agree with Muffin that it shouldn't be a popularity vote. I've no doubt you are savvy enough to do what's best for your site.

David,

Great list of responsibilities. I think most everyone on dGeek does #1...we have a very welcoming crew. The more Squirrels the merrier. An official welcome would be nice too.

#2 - #6 are spot on as far as I can see...many on dGeek have expressed a desire for a moderator(s) to handle those things.

I agree with the above posters that said maybe there should be 2 or more moderators. The forum has gotten quite big and it would take one person a really long time to go through old threads and organize and archive (or delete?) threads that have been dead for awhile. And then for them to welcome newbies, moderate current threads etc...it would be a monumental task. Also if you have some in different time zones they would be able to moderate pretty much 24/7. And, 2 heads ARE better than one(as someone said)...in fact 3, 4 or 5 could really help each other decide how to organize things, or how someone breaking the rules should be handled. And, that would cover some time zones too. We have a lot of Squirrels in the US/Canada, UK/Europe(sorry to lump you all together) and Australia/NZ. So maybe 2 in US/Canada, 2 in UK/Europe and 1 in Australia/NZ that would cover most of the time zones around the clock.

#7 & #8 would really help you move forward with the main pages(non-forum pages) of dGeek. It's your baby so it should be all about the Hewlett. It would be nice to have a page covering your upcoming work(things you've finished that haven't aired)...things you are thinking about/working on(Design of the Dead etc) and ADB should get it's own page in my opinion. ;o) If you had some help with that it would let you worry about your career and take the pressure of managing the day to day work of a website off your back. While still allowing you as much control as you had time for.

#9 Psycho's. We've had a few on dGeek and dealt with them pretty well so far. But you definitely would have to vet the people you would have working for you. If they don't work out and are not being professional you can always let them go. I guess no one likes to think about having to do that though. If you give them rules they need to abide by to keep their modding 'job' hopefully if you pick carefully it won't be a problem.

#10 I have no problem with this...lol. I love evenses too. Although I am partial to the number 7 which is odd. (in more ways than one) ;o)

I wish you luck in wading through all the emails. I submitted a quick one before I took off on vacation today. Now I'm thinking it was very quick and off the cuff and not very professional. ( Maybe when I have more time I will send another? Although I hate to give you another email to wade through.

Sincerely,
Kimberly

The list of ten sounds great!

And I'm all about making lists even numbered or I'll settle for multiples of 5. I'm much like Monk in that way.

As for showering, I was told my computer has a smell filter. It works well because I can't tell who's showered or not.

As many other squirrels have brought up, I think voting on moderators would be good and also having more than one moderator would be wise.

Trish

Yes, moderators sounds like an excellent idea especially since you seem to have quite enough irons in the fire. I like the voting idea and I agree that it should be someone that has been on the forum for awhile and knows the atmosphere and won't go all "I RULE" on everyone.