Moderators powers and duties

[LambtonParticipant @lambton]

What are the duties and powers of the various moderators for this forum?

[LambtonParticipant @lambton]

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

It varies from moderator to moderator but there are no laid down rules

First off any newbie posting has to have his post approved to weed the spam out so it means checking the forum quite often and either approving or deleting as the case may be.

We also have the option to edit posts. I personally don't bother with this unless is a basic spelling mistake in the heading as we can change these but the OP can't.

Then it's more about policing the forum. Neil obviously has more permissions than others being an employee of MTM. Jason can lock posts, I can't. Probably an oversight when the account was set up.

One important thing though is moderators only have one presence on the board so when Jason for example posts about his engines he's doing that personally, not as a moderator. Many people seem to overlook the fact that we wear two hats and have and are entitled to a personal opinion.

[Diane CarneyModerator @dianecarney30678]

Posted by Lambton on 20/12/2015 11:10:23:

What are the duties and powers of the various moderators for this forum?

Why do you ask, can I ask?

Diane

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

A few duties I can think of:

Approving first posts as JS says to weed out spam etc

Dealing with any posts that are reported by somebody clicking teh little red flag under a post

Deleting doubel posts which are quite common

Tidying up links that have been incorrectly posted, embedding Youtube links, correcting photobucket image links, etc

Making sure you are all behaving yourselves

Keeping an eye on the classifieds to stop them being abused but traders etc

Editing thread headings so they better describe the thread

Moving wrongly placed posts or moving threads to the correct topic

I'm sure there are more.

As for Powers

We can lock a thread

Delete a post or whole thread

Discipline members – issue warnings or ban

But we can't predict the lotto numbers

 

 

Edited By JasonB on 20/12/2015 13:16:51

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

A couple of things not mentioned before are, from time to time, protecting forum members from the consequences of ill-considered postings and much more frequently helping out members who have locked themselves out of their accounts.

Neil

[LambtonParticipant @lambton]

John, Jason and Neil,

Many thanks for your detailed and lucid explanations which are much appreciated.

Diane,

I asked simply because I did not know the answer. Now I do I am perfectly happy.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by JasonB on 20/12/2015 13:12:11:

Approving first posts as JS says

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Discipline members – issue warnings or ban

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Have you ever had to discipline JS. ?

Nick

[paul 1950Participant @paul1950]

you can ban me if you want

[Diane CarneyModerator @dianecarney30678]

Posted by Lambton on 20/12/2015 16:32:03:

Diane,

I asked simply because I did not know the answer. Now I do I am perfectly happy.

I love it when people are perfectly happy. Thank you

Diane

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by paul 1950 on 20/12/2015 21:17:29:

you can ban me if you want

We prefer a discrete message if someone is infringing the rules without being aware of it.

Neil

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

Regarding the matter of banning/suspending a member.

1. Is that member informed of the ban and the reason why?
2. Is there an avenue of appeal regarding the matter?

* Danny M *

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Yes and Yes in 99% of cases. Basically 3 strikes and you are out.

[Vic MillsParticipant @vicmills53857]

how do I contact a moderator to give me access to contact details of a seller in the classified. I am interested in the lubricators that are for sale.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hello Vic,

We have had several advertisers who have been contacted by scammers in response to their classified ads.

The only simple way we have of helping ensure that people replying to ads are bona fide is to require them to have made a small number of postings on the forum. First posting take a little while to moderate, plus ether is a bit of a time delay.

Scammers who know little or nothing of model engineering are unlikely to be able to make a meaningful contribution to the forum, so we hope it will put them off.

Sorry for the inconvenience, however we feel this is the best way of stopping this abuse of the classifieds.

Neil

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

Hi chaps, Just while all are looking I have noticed a strange occurrence — when typing a post if I press return the curser goes to the top of the post and not to the next line, I then have to click on the correct position to continue typing.

A similar thing happens when adding a link — it goes to the top of the post.

Any ideas ? John

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Are you using an Apple device, John?

I don't know the details, but it seems we just have to live with this behaviour.

MichaelG.

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Hi John

It is as Michael says – I am "Apple Man" ( iMac, iPad and iPod !) – I was converted by all my kids constant chime of " For goodness sake Dad – get yourself an Apple"

It's worth putting up with the little eccentricities of the hardware for a quiet life! (What is more the design IS good and it all seems to work both individually and together)

Norman

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

An example of a site with insufficient moderation is the Stirling——Forum, it has been completely knocked over three times by invasion from(the last time) China.

Ian S C

[Brian WoodParticipant @brianwood45127]

Posted by JohnF on 04/08/2016 20:20:36:

Hi chaps, Just while all are looking I have noticed a strange occurrence — when typing a post if I press return the curser goes to the top of the post and not to the next line, I then have to click on the correct position to continue typing.

A similar thing happens when adding a link — it goes to the top of the post.

Any ideas ? John

I have just this trouble, it seems to be concurrent with switching to Microsoft Edge. Even more inconvenient is that I can no longer attach any of the material in my albums to support answers to questions raised in forum correspondence. All I can do now is tell them to look instead.

Regards Brian

PS To overcome the odd effect both John and I have observed, I find that typing material as normal can then be paragraphed by using the return key in between the sentences after completion, rather than during the composition of it as was normal beforehand

 

Edited By Brian Wood on 05/08/2016 12:14:19

Edited By Brian Wood on 05/08/2016 12:14:57

[Diane CarneyModerator @dianecarney30678]

A suggestion (and i've no idea whether it works) – try 'Shift-Return' instead of just 'Return'.

Diane

[Brian WoodParticipant @brianwood45127]

Posted by Diane Carney on 05/08/2016 12:25:00:

A suggestion (and i've no idea whether it works) – try 'Shift-Return' instead of just 'Return'.

Diane

Hello Diana,

Yes, that works just fine, thank you. Can you fix the other problem as well?!!

Brian

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

It's because Apple decided not to follow convention in terms of how newline and carriage return characters are handled.

Also Edge follows Internet Explorer tradition by not following accepted standards for web pages. Hunt around and it has a 'compatibility view' setting somewhere. Microsoft's tacit admission that they don't do web like everyone else.

Unfortunately apple browsers don't have a similar feature – presumably they consider incompatibility as proof the rest of the world has got it wrong

Neil

[VicParticipant @vic]

Posted by JohnF on 04/08/2016 20:20:36:

Hi chaps, Just while all are looking I have noticed a strange occurrence — when typing a post if I press return the curser goes to the top of the post and not to the next line, I then have to click on the correct position to continue typing.

A similar thing happens when adding a link — it goes to the top of the post.

Any ideas ? John

I can't help but have to say it only happens on this forum. I have to say that the software this forum runs on is the weirdest I've ever come across, God knows where they got it from but it's the most user unfriendly forum software you're ever likely to use apart from Yahoo groups.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 05/08/2016 14:37:51:

It's because Apple decided not to follow convention in terms of how newline and carriage return characters are handled.

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It's because Apple decided not to follow Microsoft's convention in terms of how newline and carriage return characters are handled.

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