The forum review

[Jamesy]

Could I point out only one moderator is online at the moment?

I am not accusing the moderators of not being online enough - because that would be really, really unfair.

But surely you need enough moderators - you are expecting each moderator to be online for four hours a day moderating? Voluntarily?

I didn't mention this in the announcement as it wasn't something that affected the public, but all moderators now have access to post reports. So while they are all expected to browse the forums - post reports should be more efficient - thus the reduction to 3 + 3.

[The Don]

I would've thought we would have had more moderators than this. 6 to cover the entire forum? I'd imagine it would be closer to 8-10 that would be needed as like someone else said, when staff are posted away it just gets harder for the remaining few. Also, I think Super Moderators should be able to correct changes that moderators make as Super Moderators have been here much longer and can help out when a new moderator makes a mistake rather than the forum managment getting loads of pm's aswell as having to deal with their own issues, It will take much longer to correct those mistakes and put unnecessary pressure on managment...

However I like most of the updates.

[AgnesIO]

Recursion was in my last set of trialists, Dictionaries wasn't so they weren't hired at the same time! I think these changes will work very well, 6 moderators with global permissions should mean a forum of this size in it's current climate can be moderated effectively, obviously the numbers were larger before as we had individual moderators in individual forums - now everybody is everywhere.

I do not feel it is my job to shoot this idea down, so I am giving it a chance, although I personally don't think six moderators is enough - especially when we get to peak times (half term in the UK atm) and nine in the evening.

I still think, unless Dictionaries actually did something wrong, firing him - without need to reduce the moderation departments side - is a mistake.

[Grig]

This does put pressure, I do agree as you are not minimizing any forums, but radically working on a reduced mod team compared to a few months ago.

[Inseriousity.]

I think it's a good update and I loled at jamesy finally getting his favourite colour back. The whole trouble I had when I was a moderator was being confined to one section, which makes logs difficult if everyone's misbehaving somewhere else so yeah that's pretty good. although I agree that firing someone for something out of their control is a bit of a slap in the face (if that is the full story).

[luce]

yeah i tyhink they are good and needed changes, hopefully other departments will see fit to also merge or reduce staff or something along those lines because some thing needs to be done in a way of reorganizing habbox!

[AgnesIO]

Recursion was in my last set of trialists, Dictionaries wasn't so they weren't hired at the same time! I think these changes will work very well, 6 moderators with global permissions should mean a forum of this size in it's current climate can be moderated effectively, obviously the numbers were larger before as we had individual moderators in individual forums - now everybody is everywhere.

Dom, one online is enough online, there are also several administrators so if anything happened it would be easily covered.

I will see! As I have said, I am willing to give it a chance, before I get my gun out and shoot it down. That will happen tomorrow :L

I think it's a good update and I loled at jamesy finally getting his favourite colour back. The whole trouble I had when I was a moderator was being confined to one section, which makes logs difficult if everyone's misbehaving somewhere else so yeah that's pretty good. although I agree that firing someone for something out of their control is a bit of a slap in the face (if that is the full story).

Lol - I thought removing that colour was stupid anyway - if stuff didn't like it, nothing stopped them buying vip :L

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I do see the reasoning that all moderators seeing post reports is a good idea. I have found in the past, that relying on section moderators to actually be online is not a great idea. As I have said, you cannot expect voluntary staff to be online 24/7, so I can see the positives out of 'The Forum Review'!

Do we get sunday updates today - they are always a good read - when it isn't simply 'Rule Z374 has been reworded'

[Hecktix]

James, Matt, Sarah and myself have much moderation experience here at Habbox and we sat down for a long time and discussed numbers, if moderator statistics are compared to posting statistics, the efforts of moderation have not decreased in the 18 months I've been involved with the moderation of the forum. When we were in climates similar to this, for example March 2010, the forum could easily have been maintained to an acceptable standard by the four super moderators.

3 Super Moderators and 3 Global Moderators are ideal numbers as within these 6 individuals we have people who can cover different times of the day, in theory now all moderators are Global - one moderator online at any one time accompanied by an Administrator is enough to deal with a situation which would need dealing with immediately, all other rule breaking will be dealt with within 24 hours as we have always thrived to achieve.

I am confident this will improve the moderation of the forum as the 3 global moderators should get into their roles a lot more, moderating the whole forum is very different to moderating an individual section and it's a lot more exciting.

[AgnesIO]

James, Matt, Sarah and myself have much moderation experience here at Habbox and we sat down for a long time and discussed numbers, if moderator statistics are compared to posting statistics, the efforts of moderation have not decreased in the 18 months I've been involved with the moderation of the forum. When we were in climates similar to this, for example March 2010, the forum could easily have been maintained to an acceptable standard by the four super moderators.

3 Super Moderators and 3 Global Moderators are ideal numbers as within these 6 individuals we have people who can cover different times of the day, in theory now all moderators are Global - one moderator online at any one time accompanied by an Administrator is enough to deal with a situation which would need dealing with immediately, all other rule breaking will be dealt with within 24 hours as we have always thrived to achieve.

I am confident this will improve the moderation of the forum as the 3 global moderators should get into their roles a lot more, moderating the whole forum is very different to moderating an individual section and it's a lot more exciting.

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.

[Jamesy]

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.