Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 14:57:39 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 15:27:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 25, 2000 at 13:53:37, KarinsDad wrote: > >>Last summer, there was a whole bunch of moderator questions for the nominees. >> >>I hardly see any now. >> >>Is nobody interested or are the moderation stances sufficient? >> >>If anyone has questions, now is the time to ask. > >I have sincere respect for each and every person who is running for moderator. >Any and all of them will do a very good job. Most of them have been posting for >years. What questions will I need to ask them? The ones I don't know as well >come across as very level headed. I read their posts and moderation stances and >find that all are sensible, and logical. > >If there were some other sort of nominees, I think a pile of questions would be >in order. And as it is, I don't see that it hurts. But I don't think it is >terribly necessary in this case. Some people may want to know which are the >most "hard-liners" and which are the most "liberal" and (I think) that is >probably the only issue that needs to be addressed. > >All of them are exceedingly competent. Some of the questions I asked happened during the last moderators run of power, some agreed with how they handled things, some did not. So just about all my questions have happened. But asking them does help to show what people are really thinking about there job and those that are pretenders :-) I go for asking questions on issues that have happened in the past, or a tricky one that might. One good one I think was the email spam one I asked. I did get this from a fellow member, it was handled in a way that was acceptable. But again this kind of thing one nominee said they never thought of, and it did happen, so it made a good question, and a very tricky one. Plus, even though some may have posted on here for years, does not mean that they would be great at handling moderation issues. I have seen some look like cracking when they get half the forum attacking them how they moderated a certain issue. Questions and how they answer, go to clear up the greats from the not so greats. As I think Bruce mentioned, a couple of nominee, wrote very little in there speeches about why they want to be moderators and what their philosphy would be
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