Re: [AGA-mcm] Potential AGAF staff

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Re: some of the names that came up earlier.
> Cavan Allen and Roger Miller are both good choices based
> on their knowledge 
> and experience.  Roger in particular is a good choice
> thanks to his 
> personality and excellent writing skills.  When asked
> previously if he 
> wanted to staff on a different site he said that he only
> wanted to be on one 
> site.  He may change his mind for an AGA site, it
> wouldn't hurt to ask.

I'd say broach the topic with him and sound him out, no
point getting things messy if he's not going to jump. 


> 
> I'm more than a little leery of Cavan though.  Call me
> paranoid, but he's on 
> staff with both Aquabotanic and Aquatic Plant Central. 
> As petty as it may 
> sound/be they're pretty competitive sites and I would be
> hesitant to give 
> someone insight to the internal workings/politics of our
> forum that could be 
> turned around on another site before we had a chance to
> impliment them.

I didn't know that he was on both. I don't mistrust *him*.
We're bound to get foks working on other forums, if we have
a reasonable number of folks at all.


> I think Diana should be given mod status because she's
> AGA staff and all AGA 
> staff should have that status.  Robert may be miffed at
> us "stealing" her 
> but I don't see how we couldn't have an area for "Walstad
> Style" tanks on 
> the site.

Well, let's be sure she wants to do it. She'd be great for
guess which subforum but she might feel like she has her
hands full.

> 
> I guess this is as good a time as any to bring up the
> topic of 
> multi-staffing.  How do we want to deal with folks who
> are staff on other 
> sites, me included.  Do we want to "steal" people or do
> we want to give new 
> folks, or folks who are no longer staffing a site the
> opportunity at AGAF?

I think folks should decide for themselves which forums
they accept positions on and that means someone we might
pick might later join up on other forums. I doubt most
folks will want to be resonsponsible on two diff sites.

Paul's a good ol' boy, no matter how many forums he's on.

 
> Overall, I think the moderators should be monitors and
> re-directors and not 
> be expected to maintain activity on the site.

My opinion, Cheryl's m,om should be the forum Chief
Marshall and Firefighter. If she'll do it.

> I guess that gets to the point of how many moderators do
> we need/want and 
> what traits do we want the mods to have?  

Hey I thought you and Larry were going to figure that out?

> The answer?  As
> my organic chem 
> professor said when asked how many of something to add in
> a reaction... "as 
> many as are needed". 
As Chico said, sometimes you gotta little and thatsa notta
too much . . . 

I'd try to decide on some (sub)forums and then see how many
can be staffed, how the resources cash out. then take
whatever we end up with.

I wouldn't count BoD folks unless they specifically
volunteer for a specific (sub)forum.


Hey, what's the deal anyway? Is it a forum with subforums
or a set of forums with many forums? I don't know what I'm
talking about - what's the singular and what's the plural?


> Day, but George and Karla are a perfect example.  If they
> did a good job of 
> keeping the peace maintaining a discussion on APD and
> will stick to their 
> duties over time then YES they're great choices.  If not,
> then they can 
> contribute best as the experienced aquarists that they
> are.

If GB was active, it would be interesting.



 

> Botanically yours,

Aquabotancially?



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