Re: AGA List Moderator

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

Hi Dennis,

Actually, you are the first person to respond!

I was a section leader on Compuserve's Fishnet for years before the APD came
along.  In those days, the plant section alone often saw 50-70 messages a
day!  As section leaders, while we were certainly welcome to participate in
any discussion we wanted to, we were NOT expected to answer everyone's
questions.  We certainly tried to welcome new people.  Besides that we kept
an eye out for questions that didn't get answered by anyone else.  If we
knew someone who was likely to be able to answer the question, we'd forward
it to that person.  If not, we'd just answer with something like, "Very good
question, unfortunately, I don't know the answer.  Hopefully someone else
will pipe up who has some information."  We did NOT have to go tracking down
answers unless it was something we were personally interested in. (of course
it was a lot harder to find the answers to many of these questions in the
early days!<g>)  And again, if there was a management question, we'd forward
that to the appropriate person.

I think the most important thing for the members' list is to keep things
rolling and keep enthusiasm up.  Maybe seed the list with occasional
discussions about TAG article, or things that at are NOT standard APD
fodder.  And probably most important, I think we should make sure that
newbies feel comfortable and valued... something that isn't always the case
on the APD.

If you're willing to take the job on, I think it would be wonderful.  It was
your fresh enthusiasm that sort of got us off the ground here, it only seems
right that you should be the first members list moderator!

Karen

Karen A. Randall
krandall@rdrcpa.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: "dilvish" <dilvish@pacbell.net>
To: <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: AGA List Moderator


> Hi, Karen.
>
> No one responded to the list volunteering as moderator, so I hope you got
> some private responses. If not, though, I'll volunteer on a temporary
basis.
> I have years of experience moderating and managing online forums, but am
> quite a novice when it comes to plants and aquaria. I can surely make
> everyone welcomed and dig up answers when no one on the list replies - as
I
> did for the guy with the umbrella plants. Moderation is more knowing when
> you need to step in and when to see that an exchange of views was made and
> everyone is moving on. I notice many on the AGA list are also on the APD;
so
> I can't imagine any problems in that area.
>
> However, I am by no means knowledgeable enough about the topics to feel
> comfortable about being named a moderator.  Maybe if you think of it as a
> temporary 'baby-sitter' until one of our experts can spare the time.. The
> best moderator is one who can keep the list active and attract people to
use
> it by their posts.  I'm not quite up to that level for this list yet. But
no
> doubt you already got some excellent volunteers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis
>

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