Moderation is a little "soppy"

[Matthew]

I don't blame you, I too have a life but I just think there should be more moderators to soak up different time zones.

Yeah you are right though. This will be sorted soon as some people pointed out

[the.games]

I don't blame you, I too have a life but I just think there should be more moderators to soak up different time zones.

Maybe a rota with teams and team leaders?

[Matthew]

Maybe a rota with teams and team leaders?

What do you mean by a rota? Like moderators get times assigned when they have to moderate?

[Samantha]

Maybe a rota with teams and team leaders?

Need more staff for that I think.

[Chris]

Maybe a rota with teams and team leaders?

Sounds interesting. What do you mean by this?

[Tom]

A rota sounds horrible. I'd hate to be told what times I had to moderate?

We can't all be online all the time and there's bound to be times there's none online. But, again, as someone's already said - more moderators could help over come this (especially some international ones perhaps). Personally, now I'm on a long break, I go to sleep late/early and then wake up at about 11/12 so between the hours of 5AM to 11AM I won't be able to moderate

Some of the moderators may also be doing this also? But yeah, it still brings back the point of hiring more moderators.

[Samantha]

A rota sounds horrible. I'd hate to be told what times I had to moderate?

We can't all be online all the time and there's bound to be times there's none online. But, again, as someone's already said - more moderators could help over come this (especially some international ones perhaps). Personally, now I'm on a long break, I go to sleep late/early and then wake up at about 11/12 so between the hours of 5AM to 11AM I won't be able to moderate

Some of the moderators may also be doing this also? But yeah, it still brings back the point of hiring more moderators.

Yeah I agree althoigh it's not always the internatoonal to worry about its during the day sometimes too, thats going back a.bit.when.most were.in school.but more mods are needed.

[Tom]

Yeah I agree althoigh it's not always the internatoonal to worry about its during the day sometimes too, thats going back a.bit.when.most were.in school.but more mods are needed.

That's true. The same thing seems to be repeated: "Get new mods". Perhaps it's a sign?

[Alex3213]

Whilst moderating is an important job for the forum, very much so, it is important to note that this is a voluntary job and there has to be this element of 'fun' inside the job.

From what I can gather, there are several (former) moderators who have a lack of morale - their thoughts, not mine - and I think a rota would only diminish their enjoyment further. I wouldn't stay a day if I got told that I had to be online at 3pm in the General section for 1 hour and then the Habbo section at 8pm for 2 hours, and it's why it won't work. I've always thought that Habbox should be worked around life, so when booking events I always ensured this, but a rota would dedicate a huge amount of fixed time on the forum, I would much prefer to do an equal amount of time but when I please.

[Martin]

Whilst moderating is an important job for the forum, very much so, it is important to note that this is a voluntary job and there has to be this element of 'fun' inside the job.

From what I can gather, there are several (former) moderators who have a lack of morale - their thoughts, not mine - and I think a rota would only diminish their enjoyment further. I wouldn't stay a day if I got told that I had to be online at 3pm in the General section for 1 hour and then the Habbo section at 8pm for 2 hours, and it's why it won't work. I've always thought that Habbox should be worked around life, so when booking events I always ensured this, but a rota would dedicate a huge amount of fixed time on the forum, I would much prefer to do an equal amount of time but when I please.

Totally agree with this, a rota would be silly and I would hate for this to happen. It just would not work for quite a few reasons and I think so long as there are enough moderators in the department, coverage should not be an issue providing they are spread out well and there aren't really THAT many occasions when there are no moderators online. A rota would be over complicated and would make it more of a chore and would be quite difficult to manage since quite often things crop up in the real world which are unavoidable etc. A rota does not sound like the best idea to me, but I can see why it was suggested. Just hire a few more moderators and see how things pan out when there are some changes made. A rota system is really not needed, and the department has functioned perfectly fine in the past without need for one.