Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-35687627-20190105114109

209.50.52.75 wrote: Endercat TM wrote: LanaDelReyLove wrote: Hey kids, Brick (Former Admin) here. Community Central chat is hard to manage. But you can't blame the moderators. As volunteers, we only come in when we have time, and sometimes none of us can be on. As for ban reasons, there have been times when everyone knows why the person was banned, and all people do in chat is talk about it, creating drama. It's a rule not to talk about why someone is banned in chat, and most of the time people do not listen. All the admods discuss at length about banning, even kicking! It's not easy being the bad guys! But, we keep a record, and if the person banned wants to know why or appeal it, go to S:C. But you have heard all that, my perspective is that as a former admod, we all can do better to create a well inclusive Community Central, (and chat!) but we have to all work together, and we all have to respect the decisions Staff makes for it (even if we don't agree.) Thanks for listening!!

-Brick I understand that you guys can't be patrolling CC 24/7 (which is not what we ask for), but there have been admods who could be more active, per se. In my opinion, if you are ready to accept the roll as an admod, you must be available when needed. If you can't be active, then there really is no point in staying admod.

But I am happy, needless to say, about the effort crew puts into CC, but there is a lot of room for improvement, and some stuff are quite concerning.

I would argue that there are too many of them and they're too active. The less of them, the better. The less VSTF, the less moderators, the less admins and the less staff, the better imho. The less active the hierarchy of power is, the less it will tend towards corruption. As much admods we have, most of them are inactive. I could name a few who join chat, yet spend their time AFK or simply not participating. I also don't see a lot of admin edits. So, I would argue that we don't have enough admods, as most are quite inactive, and/or not fit for their job. Simply changing a chat mod to discussion mod won't do much. Most of the admods are active on their own wikis.

Having a few more admods wouldn't hurt, but ones that would be fit for the job. Simply promoting friends of current admods won't do much, because said friends might not be fit for the job. I am not sure this is true, but it seems that admods tend to recommend promoting their friends instead of recommending other users. Again, I am not sure this is true, but it seems so.