[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Claymores

Here is a quirky site which amuses me - normally moderators are 'invisible' people who only post or interject when things get out of hand - you honestly don't know who they are.

So basically, its back to the same old thing of how mods shouldnt interact with members?

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure it is the popular opinion that members prefer mods to actually interact with them.... And even so, just because members get chosen to be moderators it doesn't make them instantly want to stop chatting and that you know :/

I dont get this whole us and them mentality, it is people like you that are creating the problem here.

[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Vixen

So basically, its back to the same old thing of how mods shouldnt interact with members?

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure it is the popular opinion that members prefer mods to actually interact with them.... And even so, just because members get chosen to be moderators it doesn't make them instantly want to stop chatting and that you know :/

I dont get this whole us and them mentality, it is people like you that are creating the problem here.

I'm not necessarily saying it's wrong - it's just different. The only difficulty I see it that it leads to feelings of bias, which is exaserbated when mods start bringing-in things from offsite.

When mods have particular groupings of pals (and are seen to be engaging-in/leading chatter) within the user group or from MSN, whatever - then (rightly or wrongly) my perception is that they will be unable to act in an objective/value neutral way.

When thre proportion of mods to active users is low this probably ain't even a consideration. When mods start outnumbering users I believe it is.

The site still amuses me no-end probably for these reasons which is why I'm addicted to it.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Claymores

I'm not necessarily saying it's wrong - it's just different. The only difficulty I see it that it leads to feelings of bias, which is exaserbated when mods start bringing-in things from offsite.

Tbf yeah, mods shouldnt bring offsite stuff on here...I agree. But in this case I really dont see a problem, it seems a bit like you are letting your personal feelings about andy get in the way of it all. Its really not that big a deal to get votes in something like this from him, especially as he voted in the first round.

Also, to enhance my earlier point I was sure I had done a poll on this faceless mods thing before and I found it here(also 3 of the mods who voted on it, were not mods at that time )

Some good ideas are brought up in that thread, but in general...only one person who voted had a problem with the mods being members too.