[Bangalore-pm] Few more updates

[Shantanu Bhadoria]

here is the description from wikipedia that sums it up better than me :

*The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the
forum who are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the
purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping
the forum clean (neutralizing spam and spambots etc.). Because they have
access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is
common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a
task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general
questions, as well as respond to specific complaints. They also can do
anything to lend a helping hand to a user in need. Moderators themselves may
have ranks: some may be given mod privileges over only a particular topic or
section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access
anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging,
moving, and splitting of posts and threads, locking, renaming, stickying of
threads, banning, suspending, unsuspending, unbanning, warning the members,
or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads. 'Junior Modding',
'Backseat Modding', or 'Forum copping' can refer negatively to the behavior
of ordinary users who take a moderator-like tone in criticizing other
members.

Essentially, it is the duty of the moderator to manage the day-to-day
affairs of a forum or board as it applies to the stream of user
contributions and interactions. The relative effectiveness of this user
management directly impacts the quality of a forum in general, its appeal,
and its usefulness as a community of interrelated users.
*

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Shantanu Bhadoria <
shantanu.bhadoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nah Moderator's don't have to approve each and every posts. They just keep
> a watch on discussions to make sure people stay generally on topic they can
> also lock discussions if it seems like its going too off track. They get to
> edit any posts deemed inappropriate in their sections and in general help in
> giving a more fruitful direction to the discussions. This being a perl
> forum, keeping in the spirit moderation should not be too intrusive, and its
> important not to be too presumptous on whats right and wrong in a discussion
> and be the invisible hand guiding thing. BDFL for your forum if you like the
> term ;)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum#Moderator
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Kiran Kumar <mkirank at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by moderate?, Should each post be approved by the
>> volunteers ?.
>>
>> 2011/1/16 Shantanu Bhadoria <shantanu.bhadoria at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Few more updates from my end on site progress at http://74.53.25.76/Bangalore Perl mongers site.
>>>
>>> *Completed the following tasks this weekend*. (Yee Haww!!)
>>>
>>>    - *Perl - tip/script of the day on home page. *(Recommended by
>>>    Suhas).
>>>    - *RSS feed/Links for bangalore.pm *
>>>    - *Add categories or sections to the forum :* Added a few more
>>>    categories to the forum. So people can start posting real stuff here now.
>>>    However there is still room for a few more categories.(this section will be
>>>    reorganized continuously till some time in the future, till we get a
>>>    consensus from people on a good categorization so pleaseee I beg you to give
>>>    me your feedback haha! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> As a part of the growth I am looking for volunteers to moderate the site
>>> forum. Kiran, would you like to volunteer to moderate/promote Books and
>>> Modules sections of the forum? Abhishek would you ike to own a section?
>>> I am still looking for moderators for other sections so please put in
>>> your name here.
>>> Thank you,
>>> -Shantanu
>>>
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>>
>>
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