But keep in mind a good 5000 of those members do nothing other than look around. Or post a single question. I would not doubt if there is no more than 100 active members here. Even then, no more than half tread on the wild side of the law. And even then, most is reserved for the forum where silliness is allowed.
That's a good point. But even so, I have been noticing an increase in the amount of moderation required from Toady. We can stop the issue before it truly begins (catsplosion reference) with possibly even a single moderator or two (having two allows one to keep the other in check and hence we wouldn't have to rely on Toady to fix any problems they could cause - granted, this'd mean we'd have to pick from two separate forum groups. (That's right, we have distinct groups of users now! We're all grown up!) We don't want Yanlin and WorkerDrone being our only two non-Toady moderators, for example. No offense meant to either of you, but.. yeah.
Despite this, I can see the need for moderators. Although if Toady has issues with them(As moderators are a touchy subject to deal with) we should edge away from this topic unless there is a real glaring problem. So far, many of our problems would be solved by a harsh announcement from the toadster himself.
Right, but as I've touched on, a harsh announcement from the Toadster himself is going to take away time for the Toadster himself to be harshly
announcing DF stuff.
02/19/2009: Updated another 40 or so announcements
Plus, having two moderators, one of whom I suppose could be a VNer, one who's a truly active and helpful person (not unlike myself, I suppose, what with the sticky in DF Modding and the link repository and all, but..) would keep a generally beneficial balance of power.
So, yeah. Two mods - One helpful, one to prevent the helpful one from getting too high on power. On the other side of that, one who's not helpful, one to keep the not-helpful one helpful (lolwut?)
Yay. Rants. We don't really
need moderators
yet, but it
is a subject that we
need to keep in mind for the future.
On another note,
has Toady ever expressed any issues with having moderators?
They're mentioned in passing on the Forum Guidelines (reminds me: I need to add that to my repo) but being that we don't have any..
Except for this
Kurtulmak person, moderator of the original Armok forum. No idea what that's about.
And
Jonathan S. Fox, apparently moderator of the Curses board.
I've never heard/seen anything from either of them, but...
My instincts tell me that, being that we do apparently actually have moderators somewhere on the Bay12 boards already, Toady has no inherent issues with having moderators
at all.
Not to say that he doesn't have any issues with having moderators for his DF boards, though.
We still digress from the topic at hand. (Although I mentioned it in the OP, so not really, but..)
Regular users shouldn't be allowed to have redirection topics for stuff they move. It'll just equal spam later.