Why are a lot of moderators resigning?

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13 Nov 2014, 8:02 pm

This may or may not sound like a stupid question to ask but? Why?
I've noticed this a lot after occasionally logging in and back out and finding that we get new staff every time.
Is there a reason behind it that I missed out?

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13 Nov 2014, 8:25 pm

How many is "a lot"?

Maybe mods quit because they get tired of essentially baby-sitting websites full of complainers, losers, and self-absorbed whiners.

Mneh ... maybe not in our case. I mean, we're all tolerant, successful, and supportive members here on WP, aren't we?

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13 Nov 2014, 11:16 pm

The site here requires a LOT of attention to maintain. It's broken. Until the firm Alex has hired pulls their fingers out and gets some work done, there's no way of fixing it.

We can't all run XenForo.

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13 Nov 2014, 11:29 pm

How many mods are left now (after Book..... has gone?) How are new ones appointed? If there are too few left, the sheer overload on them is bound to lead to burnout. I hope this doesn't happen.

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14 Nov 2014, 1:55 am

because donating your time to a site, doesn't give anything, I guess the moderators weren't happy with doing it for free, or the compensation in nothing but hot pockets.

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and then revolution is coming, and a french revolution, screw the mods, become and outlaw, and burn this site to the ground.

no one wants to be on a site where the forum mods throw around their power and bully people and then claim themselves to be the victim and ban the user for defending themselves no one wants to touch a garbage site like that. so the users are probably leaving too. the current mods leaving are only a good thing.

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14 Nov 2014, 1:56 am

B19 wrote:

How many mods are left now (after Book..... has gone?) How are new ones appointed? If there are too few left, the sheer overload on them is bound to lead to burnout. I hope this doesn't happen.

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its at the start of that mod attention thread. I've only seen "who_am_I" on too.

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14 Nov 2014, 3:25 am

B19 wrote:

How many mods are left now (after Book..... has gone?) How are new ones appointed? If there are too few left, the sheer overload on them is bound to lead to burnout. I hope this doesn't happen.

My suggestion to the remaining mods is to stay as they are, don't pick up the workload. It's the only way Alex will appoint more. Otherwise he'll see mods here working all the time and assume everything is ok and that the fort is held.

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14 Nov 2014, 3:26 am

A high staff turnover is a cause for concern in any business. As a customer/user I am concerned that the people moderating this site do not have adequate working conditions that accomodate their abilities. I could not do their job, even if i had those skills, I doubt my health would sustain the interpersonal drain.

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14 Nov 2014, 4:52 am

Because they were overworked volunteers who got no support.

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14 Nov 2014, 4:54 am

Fnord wrote:

Yeah, they probably aren't even diagnosed <sarcasm>

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14 Nov 2014, 5:02 am

Amity wrote:

A high staff turnover is a cause for concern in any business. As a customer/user I am concerned that the people moderating this site do not have adequate working conditions that accomodate their abilities. I could not do their job, even if i had those skills, I doubt my health would sustain the interpersonal drain.

I disagree. In some cases it may be a case of not having found the *right* team.

But here, you're right, it's a cause for concern...

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14 Nov 2014, 5:31 am

So, who's left?

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14 Nov 2014, 5:33 am

^ According to the Moderator Attention Thread, these are:

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XFilesGeek

But I thought LabPet was mod too, though? She still has 'moderator' under her name...

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14 Nov 2014, 5:41 am

No, I think she's retired but the label was never removed.

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14 Nov 2014, 5:46 am

Ah, I see. Then it's just three; puddingmouse, Who_Am_I and XFilesGeek

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14 Nov 2014, 6:10 am

I guess the moderators have to pretty much use their time preventing attacks from the outside.
It's pretty much up to us users to police ourselves.

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