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Originally Posted by Aurora
You make no sense to me, in MY opinion moderation should be about encouraging the community to thrive and grow. As for the running of the forum, without responsibility and contribution you may as well get boo boo back on the mod team as far as I'm concerned.
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That's one aspect of moderation, as I said. perhaps even the main aspect. There is also the control of forum-wide moderation policies, the dealing with higher level changes like the alteration of the forum layout, the banning of spambots (which has been declared by mods as a serious problem), communication with the owners (something which isn't happening at all at the moment, it seems),.... The fact is that only one aspect of moderation, the public face, actually requires the mod to be a healthy contributor. Every other aspect could be done without ever posting in any part of the forum. One doesn't even have to like the forum to be able to do the job, though it does help.
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
1 - Nothing stops them telling us. We are an online discussion forum. The entire point of our existence is to be able to talk to each other. We still have no idea what jay's much touted "job" even is. Not even the mods know. Yac probably does, but he's not telling us.
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That's true, nothing stops them telling us. Except perhaps the fact that they don't deem it necessary on the global scale of things. I agree, I would like to know what they plan and what jayshreddz is here to do, but precedent shows that the owners don't care a single bit what the community here thinks, provided the community continues to attract new hits and thus fills their coffers. That's their choice, and if they are a large company with lots and lots of forums, it may simply be a waste of time and money for them to focus on any one forum. Not agreeing, just sayin'.
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2 - If he was here just to a do a job, and was hired to do so, professional conduct would be a part of that, no? If I hired an employee and they had Jays grammar and attitude towards...everything, I'd be unhappy. Especially if they took that public when their job has nothing to do with anything of that nature. I know people who have been suspended and officially disciplined by their respective employers for less, because their attitudes and statements were bringing the company into disrepute.
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Again, if they cared about whether the forum likes jay, then yeah, they might take attitude into consideration. If however they
don't care (which precedent again suggests) and they just want someone here who they know and trust to influence the forum for their better interests, then whether or not he trashes various genres or has absolutely no taste in music at all doesn't mean squat.
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