Who moderates the moderators? If it appears that a moderator is not performing his/her tasks appropiately (that is, biased banning of posters, locking or removal of threads, etc).
Does Arnold get out the whip and chair?
Not me, I am only an egg (i.e. an admin newbie.) I guess that the senior people like TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven, Lynn Bodoni etc… would confer with the other moderators and Ed Zotti and tell the offending staff member “shape up or ship out.”
I supect they have their coffee cup taken away from them until they behave themselves.
It’s not a situation that has arisen in a long, long time, thankfully. But basically, Ed is in charge of all the staff affairs. Heh.
So, Ed, who’s doin’ who? C’mon, give us the dirt.
Mr. Blue Sky, I like to think of their board heirarchy like this:
Ed
Administrator
Moderator
User
Newbie
Guest
Suspended
Banned
Dead
You forgot the cherubim and the seraphim, handy.
You also left out Unca Cecil, handy. Surely the Perfect Master merits a spot on the list?
He’s on the list. Look again.
Everyone who got this raise your hands!
MEE!!!
You guys are scrooges. Read the column that was posted yesterday. Cecil is real.
“Read the column that was posted yesterday. Cecil is real.”
Yes, but since you can see that I used “Ed” then I must believe in Ed.
This comes from long research into the use of the trademark.
Stay tuned! After the break, handy will also prove that the moon landings were a hoax, and he will reveal the Fraud That Is The Easterbunny.
I know moderators get some special forums that we don’t where they discuss whipping & chaining users, but I wonder if Administrators have such a forum where they discuss moderators?
Don’t forget the mechanical arms that come out of the sides of our computers and serve hors d’oeuvres and chilled aperitifs as we’re locking and moving threads and fixing coding.
I doubt it. It could be done, given the vBB capabilities – over on the Pizza Parlor we have one forum locked so that nobody, staff or not, can see it (long and sad story, not worth going into here). For a while, only a few of us who had Admin. privileges could see a moribund forum where the Founding Fathers of the board discussed and debated what their agreement on “board theology” was gonna be.
But in the rare event that a moderator gets too feisty and needs to be taken in hand, my assumption is that the Admins. would exchange e-mails and come to a consensus on how to handle it. Some of us old-timers can recall a tragic incident when exactly that was probably done.
Considering who some of the dead are, I would put them above guest.
So that explains why Robot Arm is posting here these days!!
It would make my year to think the mods were ever discussing me. Maybe I should get a little ornery over the next four days.
Hey! Uncle Beer! Your barbecue ribs are OVERLY DRY! Everyone’s too polite to tell you! But they are DRY, DRY I TELL YOU! And you, Arnold? Your shoes don’t match your outfit! TubaDiva? Euphoniums kick the asses of tubas! That’s right, you heard me! And Manhattan? Your bonds are JUNK!
I’m, um, not very good at this, am I?