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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