I was actually wondering (out of pure curiosity), is there a possibility for adding more numbers to the mod/admin team?

I was going to ask the same thing. Maybe some of us could take over the mundane things like reorgqanizing nations for torunies or clearly needed pause for tournie replacements.

Really, 3 people is all that's needed to keep things under control. With me, figle and ava, everything was fine. When ava and I were both free, everything was OK, but with just one it quickly gets out of hand.

@Draug

The issue is that atm, there are only 3 permission levels: member, mod, admin. So, anyone we make a mod needs to be able to use all the mod powers appropriately.

Yeah. I figured you all had an idea of someone you could trust to temporarily grant them the powers. And no, I don't mean me.

I'd imagine that 3 mods is plenty sufficient. But as you mentioned, there are times like this when 3 mods aren't available. I'd imagine the problem now is either:
1) There are not players who frequent the site who are trustworthy <-- I'm curious how you would determine this, or...
2) There is a new problem introduced with there being too many mods <-- I don't really see a reasoning behind this, but my judgment means nothing.

Draugnar for head mod!
</sarcasm>

Draug is on here enough, you should make him a mod HAHA

The Situation:
As someone who developed and ran my own MUD for 7 years (god, I hate how that shows my age): too many mods is a bad thing. Each mod/admin/whatever brings in their own personal experiences, biases, and opinions. This means the one situation can be handled in many different ways, so you have an issue with interpretations of rulings and issues and inconsistency. This is why in most sports they try to make the rules black and white instead of interpretation, but you STILL see rulings in each game get argued to the nth degree (from elementary school sports to professional).

And when it gets stressful, it is hard to determine how someone will handle it when you only communicate via technology instead of in person or at least over a phone. Someone 'cracking' or two mods fighting can cause damage that ruins the entire game/site/whatever.

Remember the Spiderman quote (with a twist): "With [mod] power comes great responsibility." Some people can handle power, some cannot. To be able to pick people that can handle it with great success? Good luck. We've been trying to do that with leaders on this world for centuries, and corruption still happens, even in modern times (see dictatorships, corrupt governments, etc...)!!

How I dealt with it on my own mod was you were a mod once you were given permission to use one command... and I only gave read-only commands to new mods, and everything was logged for new mods (and write-action commands were logged, regardless of who you were). Backups were regular, etc...
So only through time was I able to determine who was up to snuff and who started fights and who cracked, etc... I gave commands out as they were needed and could revoke and recover any problems easily. There isn't a setup like that here (yet), so it's got to be a gut call by kestas.

There is a logging system for moderator actions. Whether moderator power can be revoked is a different issue on which I have no insight.

I accept this position with hesitation and I promise, when this crisis is over, to step down and return these powers to the people. I love the Dip-public and it pains me to see it in such disarray.

I say this 100% kidding... @ dragnaur ... Wasn't Rome built on speeches like that?

No, that was the galactic empire in Star Wars...

wow abgemacht and ava the only mods?
I never realised that till now.
It feels very strange that I feel friendly to the mods of the site.
Normally I should throw curses and swear to them like I usually do in any other forum.

+1 Draugnar for mod president.

Smiley +1 for getting the rather loose reference to Attack of the Clones.

How come there are only three mods? I was under the impression that The Ghostmaker was a mod too. And doesn't Kestas technically have the powers of a mod?

There are only two *active* mods. There are like 15 total, I believe.

Well, clearly a few people need to have their mod status withdrawn, if they are not helping with the work of the mods, and we need one or two new mods.

I volunteer.

We have been unmodding people who aren't active, so we don't have nearly 15.

We do have a short list (I believe) of potential mods. I'll be talking to Kestas about it this week. ATM, though, things are too hectic to just add another mod.

An extra mod or two, at least on a provisional basis, looks to have a lot of public support. The current mods are doing a great job, even at the times like now when they are stretched, but it strikes me that as things stand all it would take is for one mod to have a family crisis (or win the lottery and bugger off round the world) and things could get rather sticky very quickly.

'Twill be interesting to see what happens :)

(Is 'twill a real world? I rather like it :) )

I suggest someone a little more even-tempered and mentally consistent than Fag-Naur. No vegetarian lesbians either. Their blood sugar fluctuates like crazy and that, along with the ever present misandry(hatred issues), disqualifies them.

'squidge was/is fantastic at the duties.

ava is an unbelievably shitty sportsman with zero judgment, and a petulant child, to boot.

TGM is a good kid. His contributions cannot be overlooked.

abgie and orathaic are both ultra-snotty. abgie has promise, if he matures.

It's a volunteer job, I suppose, so you take what you can get.

The mods NEED to stay off of the Forum.

Maple: Why do you call him Fag-Naur? Do you know he is gay? Is it a bad thing if he is? Are you a homophobe? As an ally, I object, not to the name, but the insinuation that it is a bad thing to be gay.

mapleleaf your posts are really funny.
+1 for the laughter.
What would you think if I became a candidate for a mod position?

@mapleleaf
Lol, "abgie has promice, if he matures."??? Speaking of maturity... try maturing a little before judging others as you, clearly, exhibit very... errr... clouded perceptions.
Also you're quite the prejudiced person. "Fag-naur"?? "vegetarian lesbians"??
What's wrong with being that way?

*Promise. not promice...

Situation +1.

Folks, if you don't respond to him, he gets pissy and goes away for at least a little while. Please quit feeding this particular troll.

0/10, maple. Poor effort.

I don't think we're really feeding him. (Situation and I) Hellalt is, kind of, because he's encouraging him. But my response was serious, and as long as you're serious, you're not feeding him.