Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20190629005012/@comment-5956954-20190630051817

"Get more active moderators or any moderators for CC forums. Do these forums actually have moderators? I almost never see any CC admins on them."

From my experience so far, it's mainly because there's little that requires further intervention than report&remove, and most of the activity is from administrative tasks like blocking or cleaning. Dramas are usually settled between the first parties in a reasonable time, and questions are usually:


 * on staff or moderator walls or blogs, so I leave them alone most of the time since they can handle it themself through notifications or emails
 * about technical features of Fandom, which I'm not perfectly knowledegable of (i.e. coding skills)
 * of issues on other wikis, to which the same response is on the help pages, staff advice blogs, or 'via special:contact' (as there's no other way that is more efficient and doesn't eat days, weeks, or long hours trying to resolve cross-wiki issues myself). They would be quickly referred to by others, megating the need for my opinion.
 * of issues that generally resolve in a reasonable timeframe, so necessary intervention is infrequent (say a wall gets heated and lasts like that for more than around 5 comments; it usually calms down before then, so I leave it alone)
 * of topics that I don't have questions for. The new staff blogs about MediaWiki, for example, give me no questions. I just trust in what they will do, correcting some misconceptions or rumors that are said by others. I otherwise have no questions and understand the process
 * answered by other users in a similar way that I would. Fandyllic answered well for the status of Spotlights, since I personally have no clue (only Fandom, supposedly). I would come on to correct things if errors exist, but I don't see those most of the time. If a question hasn't been answered, I usually try to form an answer to bump its activity in some way.

If staff were to look for more moderators, I can also suggest a pointer towards the more tech-savvy ones that can answer code questions relatively quickly and accurately. Perhaps, they can be a bit more active out of necessity. I personally look forward to more posts about mediating disputes, since that takes advantage of my desire to investigate things.