VCCA Home Forums GENERAL DISCUSSION Forum Questions Moderator Listing

Where can the listing of moderators be found? Currently no moderators are listed for the various forums or at least not on my screen.

Moderators are listed near the bottom of the page for that thread.

Like Steve D, I'm not seeing the moderators for a thread or an entire forum anywhere.

Dean

I agree. I have checked many threads and I don't find any moderators listed.

After doing a lot of looking I finally found where the moderators are listed.

Ray I have checked all drop down boxes and buttons and no moderator listing comes up. Please advise whoever needs to know to see if we can get it fixed. This site is like a 220 circuit with one leg out-it is working for only half of the members. I spoke with Peter today and he said that some Email PM's are going out and other Email addresses are being recognized as spam. Maybe the PM/Email problem and screen display issues are related.

Here's an example.....
Click open General Discussions and you should see the Moderators listed as shown in this screen capture.....

Thanks Ken. I see it is listed on the forum header page and not on the bottom of the thread as posted by Ray.

Now you know where to look.

Also notice that the Moderators are noted at their name.

Thanks Ray. Perhaps instructions regarding the "new" site would help some of us less familiar with computers to navigate the site. There seem to be a lot of things on the site that are available IF you know what button or drop down box to access and depending on how you access the site.

Many of the moderators like Chipper, brewster, Ken48, Bill Barker, Chevykid, tonyw, d2d2, John 348/340HP and 32confederate don't have "moderator" listed below their user names.

Hey Skip........

Here's my take on having (or not) the "Moderator" icon showing:
1. There's a box to check when you set up your profile. If we don't check it, "Moderator" doesn't show under our name. So some moderators may choose not to show the icon.
2. In my case, the moderator icon only shows up in the forums assigned to me as a moderator. In the all other forums, I'm just a regular customer.

So its a combination of whether or not the individual wants to show that he/she is a Moderator and if he/she is assigned moderator duties in a particular forum.

Then, of course, there are "regular mods" (green name) and "global mods" (teal name)........I'll let you guess how that works out

For example: I'm not a moderator in this forum, thus no moderator icon under my name. Ray is a global mod, therefore the moderator icon follows him no matter which forum he posts in.

Ya, I figured that most of the moderators did not choose to activate "moderator" in their profile just like some VCCA members on this site didn't activate their VCCA logo either. Anyway, I was clarifying that most of the moderators on this site do not have "moderator" listed under their user name.

Moderator names do not show on my computer there or at the top.

Oddly, sometimes the Moderator designation does show with the name and sometimes not. For example, Ken 48 posted above and the moderator designation is missing. Yet a post he made about the same time in a different thread does show the designation.

(I just notice the same thing occurred with my post here and now I added this info as an edit.)

Another way to know if a person is serving the club as a moderator or other capacity is to note the color key given in the “Who’s Online” Box on the right side of the screen. Names in Red, light Blue and Green correspond with : Administrator, Global Moderator and Moderator.

About 40% on the moderators have not been active for several years. Time for house cleaning in this department.

When I spoke with Peter a couple days ago he said he did purge the list but I still found one has not been here for over two years and another one year. The rest have all been on the site this year though some sparingly and some listing ads or replying to them. Previously there were many more moderators. Now what we need to do is contact the listed moderators when a problem arises and see if we can get some appropriate action.

I'll try answering some of these comments, but the answers are only my uneducated guess......here goes........

Keith-- Moderators names appear at the bottom of the FORUM page as shown in the photo I posted about 8 posts above this one. Mod names do NOT appear on the thread page (like this page). The Moderator icon appears under a moderators user name ONLY if he is an assigned moderator for that particular forum. That's probably clear as mud, but the best I can do. Example: if you look at the bottom of the FORUM page for this thread, you will see that Bill Barker is the Moderator.

Lee-- I think I answered your question to Keith. The Moderator icon appears under a moderators user name ONLY if he is an assigned moderator for that particular forum. You and I aren't assigned Mods in this Forum, therefore no Mod icon under our name.

Gene-- Peter did clean house of a lot of Moderators soon after he took over. He may have missed a few who aren't active, but did take out a lot. He asked ALL moderators to check in with him and express whether or not they wanted to continue as moderator.

Steve D-- See my response to Gene re moderator purging. One problem right now is the lack of email notifications from this site. If someone reports a post as inappropriate I (and probably other mods as well) don't get an email notification about it. Personally I think Peter is busier than a one-armed paperhanger trying to get the bugs worked out of this site and maybe a little bit overwhelmed with it. It's kind of an inconvenience for all of us, but I think given some time it will all work out. In the meantime contact appropriate moderators via personal email or PM if needed.

Hope that helps everyone----

Thanks for taking the time to explain Ken. I went thru all the forum listings and only found 15 moderators though there may be more. Hopefully this will help to direct our questions thru the proper channels for quicker results.

The PM email notification is critical especially when reporting a post as inappropriate....which has been done several times recently regarding several posts. There are a lot of bugs on this site since the new upgrade and changing servers, and a few more issues have shown up recently. These need to be addressed especially the PM notification issue.

While I was a moderator on a couple of forums I only found that by accident and was not informed of my authorities by Bill even when I queried him by PM a year or so prior to the change over. When Peter queried about Moderator willingness which I replied to. I still dont know what authorities I have but there are a few I would like in relation to the newbie sign ins.
Tony

I think Bill had pretty tight control of the site and was aware of most situations that arose and handled the "heavy jobs" himself . While Peter is handling the technical stuff he is not on the site often enough to be aware of some problems unless someone brings it to his attention. I believe the moderators need to have specific responsibilities and the authority necessary to perform those duties.

This site needs to be checked out on a regular basis.....probably at least once a day.


If the moderators don't know what authorities they have then having moderators for specific forums won't help much, especially when there are apparent issues with several members on this site.

Here is the full list of moderators for those that are curious.

This is the cleaned up list. Many of these have not logged in recently.

Peter

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32confederate (# 13) 
36dlc (# 5108) 
37Blue (# 4173) 
AntiqueMechanic (# 14) 
brewster (# 6581) 
CHEVY (# 132) 
ChevyGuru (# 343) 
Chevykid (# 7) 
Chipper (# 3)
d2d2 (# 238) 
Daryl Scott (# 4593) 
Jim Karras (# 4182) 
John 348/340HP (# 33) 
ken48 (# 3947) 
novasscott (# 31) 
Solan (# 5798) 
tonyw (# 869) 
AntiqueMechanic (# 14)
hipper (# 3)
Chevykid (# 7)
Bill Barker (# 2)

Thanks Peter for the list. I only have one question. If they don't log in often and the PM service is not working how will they know what is happening on the forum they are assigned to?

Also, there are several moderators listed that should be deleted since they have not been on this site in a very long time.