Make me a mod or I'm outta here!

[bear]

Had someone show up at my (admittedly very slow) tech help forum to tell me the obvious, it's slow. Went on to volunteer himself for the position of mod so he could help make something of the forum. I respectfully informed him there was nothing to moderate, and he said that it was a "shame to waste a VB license" like this.

While I wanted to say: :fu: I simply explained that moderators, in my opinion, are not hired blindly and are not "hired" for making the forum busy, but more to lead conversations in the right direction and keep order. I asked him to show me how he could help by posting without the moderator title...he refused and left in a snit.

Make me a mod or I won't stay? :booty: :nope:
This doesn't happen much on my board (nothing much does, unfortunately). Does it happen with any frequency on yours? How to deal with it if this happens again? What would you do about it?

[SoftWareRevue]

Does it happen with any frequency on yours? How to deal with it if this happens again? What would you do about it?Such are the complexities of communities. They're all different. :)

Some do in fact "hire moderators" to encourage participation. I don't find anything wrong with that. It's just not what I'd choose to do.

However, given a certain project and direction, I might certainly entertain such a partnership.

I don't think it's common for members to approach administration and demand a moderator status or face losing their participation. If it were to happen in any community I admin, I'd pass (no matter how I felt about that member prior).

But, I'll flip that and say that if someone were to approach me with some ideas for some fledgling communities I have started and volunteered to help moderate and promote it, I'd likely jump at it. It's only the ultimatum thing that would turn me off.

[bear]

If he'd said he'd help as a regular member for a bit, or offered some ideas, I'd have been very interested. Once I said he should post a bit so I could see what he's about, he bailed out (with another disparaging comment) so it sounded to me like he wanted the title only.

The forum certainly needs help to get active, but I have zero time these days. In fact, I have a second one I've put off launching for that same reason. Maybe running forums is not for me? :help:

[Jan]

Yeah it sounds like it was the title that was attractive. If he isn't prepared to prove he is worthy of the position beforehand, then you did right in refusing him.

[D'Godown]

I faced samewhat same thing on 2 of my forums, But they were already mods and i un-Mod them to general members, both happenned to be the leading posters. But amazingly they were treating every other member as slave.

One of the guy was saying as lot of girls "I will screw you" a lot of time, to other female mods too. But I had no other option then to un-Mod them. And both of them, One of the guy made a huge mess and started posting a lot things agains the community and other one left quitely, even without PMing me :D

[Jan]

One of the guy was saying as lot of girls "I will screw you" a lot of time, to other female mods too. But I had no other option then to un-Mod them. And both of them, One of the guy made a huge mess and started posting a lot things agains the community and other one left quitely, even without PMing me :D
Sounds like he shouldn't even be a member, much less a mod :pullhair:

[Martyn]

You don't want people like that on your forum false stop!