Just wondering (as i have before) what the deal is with the assignment of moderators to threads. This is not meant to be any kind of criticism or demand, just for education processes and to answer the questions i come up with in my head. If prefered one of the whole slew of mods i personally know can answer this i guess, but it just came back to me again today.
I understand that there is a special admin type forum for the mods to access where they chat about the admin of threads - to be watched/close to TOS violation, PM'ing people, warnings, pulling, suspensions etc. but was intruiged by how you guys organise thread watching and such.
I can see there being one of several options here:
1. As a thread is posted, some kind of program decides which mod (of the range that might moderate that forum - listed at bottom of forum) is given responsibility for that thread.
2A. The mods go through the threads in their assigned forums and tag the new threads that they are watching (secretly unknown to those posting)
2B. The mods kind of randomly go through the threads, and some threads might have a couple of mods watching them - would that be bad resourcing?
3. They just read the threads and only really do something if someone reports or they see something wrong (kind of like point 2B i guess).
4. A combination of these or other options i havent guessed at.
Just wondering as sometimes i see mods coming in and just putting calming/warning posts, but if they get drawn in to the discussion i assume they no longer can do the same thread admin on that thread beyond inform another mod of anything going on, or what if they are going to be away for a period and have to reassign?
Just curiosity of the admin of the admin staff here.
I understand that there is a special admin type forum for the mods to access where they chat about the admin of threads - to be watched/close to TOS violation, PM'ing people, warnings, pulling, suspensions etc. but was intruiged by how you guys organise thread watching and such.
I can see there being one of several options here:
1. As a thread is posted, some kind of program decides which mod (of the range that might moderate that forum - listed at bottom of forum) is given responsibility for that thread.
2A. The mods go through the threads in their assigned forums and tag the new threads that they are watching (secretly unknown to those posting)
2B. The mods kind of randomly go through the threads, and some threads might have a couple of mods watching them - would that be bad resourcing?
3. They just read the threads and only really do something if someone reports or they see something wrong (kind of like point 2B i guess).
4. A combination of these or other options i havent guessed at.
Just wondering as sometimes i see mods coming in and just putting calming/warning posts, but if they get drawn in to the discussion i assume they no longer can do the same thread admin on that thread beyond inform another mod of anything going on, or what if they are going to be away for a period and have to reassign?
Just curiosity of the admin of the admin staff here.