Retirement for mods ?

[pagalguy]

While many of our moderators have helped bring the community upto this point, we are now thinking that we should also have a mod retirement setup in place.

People who have been extremely active once a while are now nowhere to be seen. This may be due to various committments and its absolutely fair that people move on. But shouldn't we also have a setup in place that allows them to move on to the other work they do ?

Say a mod who is inactive for 3 - 6 months, should be retired?
Should a mod ever be retired?

What are your thoughts on this?

[aspire]

Originally Posted by pagalguy

While many of our moderators have helped bring the community upto this point, we are now thinking that we should also have a mod retirement setup in place.

People who have been extremely active once a while are now nowhere to be seen. This may be due to various committments and its absolutely fair that people move on. But shouldn't we also have a setup in place that allows them to move on to the other work they do ?

Say a mod who is inactive for 3 - 6 months, should be retired?
Should a mod ever be retired?

What are your thoughts on this?

very true , apart from anil , and monil I hardly see anyone else ...

tahakshat and chandoo , sometimes turn up

[pranav10]

Hey Allwin,
I would beg to disagree here.
I believe a PG member who is made a MOD is because of the respect and assistance he provides to the community ie PG.com
Thus if someone is not active now which is highly possible it would be unfair to remove him from Modding post as that would be a slap on the face saying "u not active so go back to being a normal member here"
Until and unless there is a restriction on the total number of MODs i think we shud let our old members remain Mods for old times sake as they are the pillars of PG and have helped take it to where it is now...
Just my views

[pagalguy]

Originally Posted by pranav10

Hey Allwin,
I would beg to disagree here.
I believe a PG member who is made a MOD is because of the respect and assistance he provides to the community ie PG.com
Thus if someone is not active now which is highly possible it would be unfair to remove him from Modding post as that would be a slap on the face saying "u not active so go back to being a normal member here"
Until and unless there is a restriction on the total number of MODs i think we shud let our old members remain Mods for old times sake as they are the pillars of PG and have helped take it to where it is now...
Just my views

Agreed. I did think up of that. But give it some time and we will be racking up newer mods and the concern comes in. May be mods can be moved into advisory roles.

At no point I see them going back to regular members because each of them has slogged to get us here. Sorry I didn't clearly mention this in the intial post. But I just want a sense of what you guys think the mods can best do if they are not in a position to be regular on PG?

[Eagle_Eye]

Absolutely true... And the responsibilities should be given to ppl (like me) who are online all day and keep checking what is happening all the time.... Nothing against the mods, just that they also need to move on in life!

I ofcourse agree with the part of them not going back to become normal members... They should be retired gracefully and perhaps given some higher roles...

[pagalguy]

Originally Posted by Eagle_Eye

Absolutely true... And the responsibilities should be given to ppl (like me) who are online all day and keep checking what is happening all the time.... Nothing against the mods, just that they also need to move on in life!

Astute humility I see

[aspire]

Originally Posted by pagalguy

Agreed. I did think up of that. But give it some time and we will be racking up newer mods and the concern comes in. May be mods can be moved into advisory roles.

At no point I see them going back to regular members because each of them has slogged to get us here. Sorry I didn't clearly mention this in the intial post. But I just want a sense of what you guys think the mods can best do if they are not in a position to be regular on PG?

Yes thats what i was also thinking of , give these mods a hall fo fame sort of thing , to show how much we all value the time and effort they have put in ..

regards

[theginsoakedboy]

Originally Posted by pagalguy

Agreed. I did think up of that. But give it some time and we will be racking up newer mods and the concern comes in. May be mods can be moved into advisory roles.

At no point I see them going back to regular members because each of them has slogged to get us here. Sorry I didn't clearly mention this in the intial post. But I just want a sense of what you guys think the mods can best do if they are not in a position to be regular on PG?

Some kind of a "Senator" status would be good.

[Eagle_Eye]

Originally Posted by aspire

Yes thats what i was also thinking of , give these mods a hall fo fame sort of thing , to show how much we all value the time and effort they have put in ..

regards

Hall of Fame is a great Idea.. The mods can be asked if they can continue or not and if they themselves feel they cannot be regulars, well then move them up to the HALL OF INSANITY! they can always come back whenever they have time and post.. After all everyone here at PG aspires to be in the HALL of INSANITY!

[capricious]

also, one unsolicited suggestion, there must be a "feedback on moderator" thread, where we can post our views if we feel something is unjust... and that thread should not be locked