not sure what this accomplishes exactly. historically moderators lost moderatorship for abuse or wanting to quit. a few have been knocked for inactivity but mostly we accept that people come and go. we all have lives and this is a volunteer thing so no one expects anybody to be diligent daily and the reality is there are a lot of tasks for mods to cover and some (like massive spam) are simply better handled by the small admin team

@Gen 👀

is this a request to work as a moderator? (I have no clue if they are adding more, but fwiw the issue is very much a lack of interest from reasonably qualified people, not that they are being overly selective. It’s a role that’s basically entirely manual work with minimal upside)

@Ziddletwix No, not a request

Well if you run into more users who have contributed for long enough to the site to be trusted with sweeping powers AND want to spend their time doing boring clean up, please LMK—usually those are in very short supply!

Until then, I’d expect some latency between when you complain and when someone is available to handle spam.

@Ziddletwix I’d happily do all that. I could have handled all that spam for you. And I could do boring tasks. It could have another tag instead of moderator. I wouldn’t like to be a moderator.

@Jack1 that’s 99% of what a moderator does, so it sounds like you want to be a moderator but don’t like the word/tag? I don’t think it’d be a good idea to give someone mod powers without duly labeling them as a mod. It’s totally fine to not want that, but that’s the crux here. A mod is just someone trustworthy enough to be given the powers to do that boring clean up of the site (and who is willing to do that).

so again I mean this genuinely, if you find other users who are long term active and trustworthy and want to do the work of a mod, please LMK bc those are in short supply. If not, I would not be surprised by the resulting short supply!

@Ziddletwix @deagol @brod @Simon74fe @ChristopherRandles

I don’t talk to them but they all seem long term active and trustworthy just not sure if they’d be interested.

@Jack1 personally i would be happy to endorse any of them to be mods (i have no real input here @Gen would make the call), i agree those would be good picks! (fwiw i'm pretty sure some have been asked before lol, but i could be remembering wrong). most people don't want to do it.

back to the original thread, given that willing mods are in very short supply, it's silly and pointless to remove old mods—there's no finite number of accounts that can be labeled as mods, it can be as many as needed, but people vary in activity. (pat was gone from the site for a long period and then returned and has now resolved the most tickets of any mod, it would have been silly and pointless to remove him).

if you want more mods, i highly encourage nominating people to genzy and convincing them to accept it!