Moderator Elections

[Graham Banks]

Sadly, I think the moderators are going to be busy, as there are many opposing points of view, with posters sometimes getting a bit carried away.

Being a moderator is a good way to lose computer chess 'friends' without even trying.
Just look at the good members who've pulled the pin on Talkchess already.

Being a moderator under these circumstances is losing its appeal.

[mclane]

How is the election process going on ?!

[hgm]

It is on hold for as long as a large fraction of the members cannot reliably access the board. Especially when I am amongst those users. I only have a few minutes of access a day, the rest of the time I get the 403 error.

[Graham Banks]

I'm withdrawing from being a moderator candidate.

[phhnguyen]

Sadly, I think the moderators are going to be busy, as there are many opposing points of view, with posters sometimes getting a bit carried away.

Being a moderator is a good way to lose computer chess 'friends' without even trying.
Just look at the good members who've pulled the pin on Talkchess already.

Being a moderator under these circumstances is losing its appeal.

I think we can solve that issue. Instead of having only 3 moderators for all forums, we may have 5 men for each (sub) forum, say, 5 men for only “General topics”, other 5 men for “Programming…”. Thus they don’t need to read much and at a time there may be more than a moderator to read and rule. A moderator may be hard in one forum but could be a normal friend in other ones. They don’t need to pay high prices for doing their duties.

[Madeleine Birchfield]

So when is this moderator election actually going to take place?

[hgm]

Well, I don't know. I thought the 'Forbidden' problem would have been solved, but I still saw recent complaints about this. So apparently it is not. It is for me, though, so I had no reason to pursue it further. Perhaps someone should make an effort to figure out what the current status is, and if that is conducive to having elections.

[ernest]

(from France)
After some months of Forbidden, for the last weeks I usually can access the Forum, but often after some minutes I then get the Forbidden...

[Modern Times]

I've had no problems from the UK for about 2 weeks now, so it seems to be solved for that country.

[mclane]

Can we now do new moderator elections or is the team in charge thinking that the topic fades away ?!