Re: [AGA-mcm] Potential AGAF staff

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

I have known Cavan for a long time. We have traded
plants and met up a few times for trips to "The
Aquarium Center". I don't think he would be a problem
just because he is on APC and Aquabotanic. 

If that is your only concern, I would be happy to call
him and discuss with him what we would like from our
"potential" moderators in our "possible" forum and see
what he says.

That being said, I agree that we don't need to many
moderators just enough.

Regards,

Larry

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

> I sent Ray an email letting him know the situation
> and what we're hoping to 
> do.  He has yet to reply, but I don't think he'll
> say now.
> 
> Ben Belton is an awesome choice!
> 
> 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'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 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.
> 
> 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'm personally for not double-dipping.  There seem
> to be fewer potential 
> problems that way.  Paul K. would seem to me to be
> an exception.  From what 
> I can tell he's at APC because they have a strong
> Crypt group and he pretty 
> much stays to that and the physiology/emersed
> culture sub-forums.
> 
> Overall, I think the moderators should be monitors
> and re-directors and not 
> be expected to maintain activity on the site.  If
> 75% of our membership 
> visits we'll have plenty of expertise and lively
> discussion without having 
> to resort to relying on moderators to keep things
> moving.  Paula would be a 
> great choice.
> 
> 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?  The
> answer?  As my organic chem 
> professor said when asked how many of something to
> add in a reaction... "as 
> many as are needed".  If all of us had mod rights
> and then we added four or 
> five others that should be enough for the whole
> group to cover the site.  We 
> shouldn't be making people mods just because they
> have a lot of aquarium 
> experience and we want them on the site.  If they
> want to talk tanks they'll 
> be there regardless.  I didn't get a chance to see
> them in action in The 
> 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.
> 
> That's all until something else comes up.
> 
> Botanically yours,
> Phil
> 
> 
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