The forum review

[AgnesIO]

We don't say the reasons for staff being let go. He wasn't fired, there was an internal process which was made as fair as we could possibly make it and unfortunately thats just how it ended up.

If he wasn't fired, he didn't do anything wrong then?

Is that correct?

[Hecktix]

Having experience doesn't make you any good though.

I don't think my question has been answered yet though - did Dictionaries actually do anything wrong?

I can see the positives and the negatives to this, and will try and make a list of pro's and con's (in my view) later.

I was joking for the first bit.

Having experience is nothing about being good or not, it was said in regards to knowing how the department works and what is needed to cover moderation.

In regards to dictionaries, as James said the process used was fair.

[Josh]

I hope Dictionaires gets a free trial when someone resigns because I think that's ****. Other than that, good update.

[sammy]

Poor Dictionaires! He shouldn't have been fired just because you wanted a certain amount of moderators, no harm in having just one extra really is there lool... I don't really see the difference between moderators and super moderators now either, they seem to be basically the same role now!! :S

Other than that it seems like a good update

[AgnesIO]

Having experience is nothing about being good or not, it was said in regards to knowing how the department works and what is needed to cover moderation.

In regards to dictionaries, as James said the process used was fair.

I was joking about the first bit.

But I can't see how firing someone, just to make it 3+3 is a fair reason?

One extra moderator can't do harm.

[Apple]

I really like the idea of Global Moderators. When I was a moderator I remember often coming across rule breaking posts that I wasn't able to deal with due to them not being in my section. However with this I guess that will never have to be a problem for mods again. So yeh, great update!

[Hecktix]

I was joking about the first bit.

But I can't see how firing someone, just to make it 3+3 is a fair reason?

One extra moderator can't do harm.

The whole idea of the reform is to test a smaller staff team with global permissions, we have reduced the moderation team from 8 to 6 to do this - there are many reasons behind this including that we don't want masses of positions with global moderator powers.

[AgnesIO]

The whole idea of the reform is to test a smaller staff team with global permissions, we have reduced the moderation team from 8 to 6 to do this - there are many reasons behind this including that we don't want masses of positions with global moderator powers.

Dictionaries was trusted. You could have kept him - nobody says you have to hire someone else when they leave though.

[Josh]

I know that there was some sort of choosing thing but I still don't think it's fair to get rid of a moderator (who has been around since 05) just because you want to minimise staff with those powers.

Also, this is going to make the moderator position very coveted (is that a word) and will apps open for like, one job slot?

[Hecktix]

If we keep someone on there's no point in reforming, it defeats the whole point. All moderators agreed to the reform and thought it was a good idea, they accepted the situation and unluckily it didn't work out in Dictionaries favour, this time.