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Who would you like to see as the second Mod of WE? (Hoping Sprig lets it happen.)

Chaos
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Raethe
5 (33.3%)
One of SE's monkeys.
1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: November 24, 2008, 08:40:32 AM

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Mod Voting!
« on: November 19, 2008, 08:40:32 AM »
Alright. Assuming we're allowed to pick our Lord Ruler... I mean Moderator, who would you folks rather have? Any new nominations can be added as they come up.

The poll is open for five days, and anyone who votes may alter their vote until that time. At 12:39 MST, next Sunday, the vote will close.
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 08:50:14 AM »
Avalon, is it possible to edit in another person if they get nominated? The nomination process moved rather quickly, and while I thought that only Raethe and I have been brought up for the moderator position, it wouldn't be right to leave anyone out of the process.

(Also, to reiterate what I said in the Rules of Reading Excuses topic: No flaming, because both Raethe and I are a little ambivalent on the subject of who gets picked; we'd go for whoever gets picked. It's no big deal)
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 08:51:28 AM »
Yes, I can add new people in, and extend the deadline.

NOTE: SE is Saint Elhers, I put it up as a joke... now reconsidering that attempt...
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 09:06:17 AM »
I'm a bit confused on the abbreviations used I'm afraid. I have no idea what to make of SE. I'm assuming WE is writing excuses though.
Anyway, I think it would be a good idea if we have someone who is participating to be able to mod this section. Who that person should be doesn't really matter for me.

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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2008, 09:19:48 AM »
SE is the abbreviation for SaintEhlers, an administrator on TWG. The monkeys were more of an inside joke than anything, since SE's current name is "The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers". He's the Master of Monkeys, apparently.
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2008, 10:10:07 AM »
I see.
Thanks for the explanation and sorry for killing the joke  ;D

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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2008, 02:40:57 PM »
Forgive my ignorance of all things forum, but is it possible to have co-moderators? I only suggest this sine I know Raethe is a student with limited time (get back to your studies! *WHIP*), and I'm sure others have "lives" outside of this. Co-moderators could catch more problems that one over-strained one. Just an idea.

Oh, and since I'll take the blame for naming this forum, I might as well jump on the grenade and volunteer to be a moderator (preferring a 'co-' prefix with that).
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2008, 05:30:34 PM »
Forgive my ignorance of all things forum, but is it possible to have co-moderators? I only suggest this sine I know Raethe is a student with limited time (get back to your studies! *WHIP*), and I'm sure others have "lives" outside of this. Co-moderators could catch more problems that one over-strained one. Just an idea.

Oh, and since I'll take the blame for naming this forum, I might as well jump on the grenade and volunteer to be a moderator (preferring a 'co-' prefix with that).

I really don't know about that. That's the discretion of the administrators, I guess.
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2008, 06:53:11 PM »
Ow!

But Karl, I don't WANT to! :(

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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2008, 09:02:42 PM »
Well, Fell is already the Mod over this board, the idea now is to get someone a little more diligent than him here for when it all goes up in flames Dec 1.

We might be able to get co-mods thought, that'd be awesome.
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2008, 12:11:05 AM »
I can make as many of you into mods as I want, though what I want is still very up in the air. Raethe and Chaos both seem fairly active, so I could mod them both, but do they want it? Would they do it? You're the tribal council here, and I'm just the divine hand that makes dreams into reality. Choose your leader(s), have Avalon send me a single, official message (for lo, he is my chosen messenger), and I will make it happen.
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2008, 12:17:55 AM »
I knew I liked Dan...he used a Survivor reference! Clearly the best show on TV!  That aside, I say both should do it.  Then one can pick up the slack if the other is unable to moderate.  There is my two cents.

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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2008, 12:24:07 AM »
Doesn't really matter to me who ends up getting picked, or even if someone is chosen at all. I just thank that a lot of you are spending large amounts of time posting in this forum that would be BETTER SPENT WRITING!!! *lets a loose a pack 'o dogs* Now back ta work all o' ya!
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2008, 01:48:07 AM »
Just what would a Mod do in RE?

What are the responsibilities?
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Re: Mod Voting!
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2008, 02:10:01 AM »
Well, it seems we're well on our way to actually getting our writing group organized, so it seems to me that the mod's responsibilities will mostly be housekeeping stuff - pinning threads that need to be pinned, editing threads that need to be edited, that sort of thing. We're a level-headed bunch, we don't need a lot of p0licing.

Raethe would be happy to be a mod, or to be one of the mods. She would not be at all bothered if she wasn't a mod, either, since she's sure whoever's picked will do a good job.

Actually, having two mods might not be a bad idea.  Might make things a bit more efficient, since we're all busy people.