No Bill, feel free to answer or give input to any post you like. Many topics are or end being open debate. Lots of times there is more than one way to do something and hearing different options is a good thing IMO.
Moderators have certain responsibilities and privileges. They have prov en themselves over time most often. Others may be a mod. because they need the privileges while working on certain projects. We have got to have the best group of Mods. on the web. The reasons you think we have too many is proof positive. Don't think for a minute they don't have much to do. There just so good at it you never see what all they do.
Another reason we have what you think is a lot is because the web never sleeps. Having mods in different time zones helps a lot more than you may think. How much spam have you seen here? Believe me, there is a reason for this. We were getting hit all the time a while back. We took some measures and pretty much got rid of it all together. I told the mods to set the front of the house on fire and kill everything that came out the back
. Boy did they ever!When we were getting hit so much most useres never saw it then either. Average time of spam living here was less than 2 minutes.
That to me is very impressive. Very rarely did we even get a notice from a member. 17 mods out of nearly 11,000 members I don't think is too bad. Another re son I think it seems that way to you is that lots of them are here nearly ail the time. They are a very dedicated group. Hats off to them for the work they do. We also have a great group of members too. This helps lessen the load as well but that is not by accident either. If someone is being rude or ugly to other members our Mods. will nip that in the bud too. Differences in opinion is fine but being rude is not tolerated here. They are very good at distinguishing the difference. Sometimes they have to agree to disagree and being big enough to do that tells me a lot about our Mods. Our mods I think are more than most. Think of them as big brothers. They aren't always right. You wont always agree. They may get mad at you and you at them. Even if they aren't happy with you there not going to let anyone pick on you. Can't have too many of those.
Brett