[EricH]

Originally Posted by ollien

Probably a stupid question: why are mods limited to certain boards? Just today, Greg Needel mentioned that he sees the posts, but can't do anything about it because he's not on the Rumor Mill board. I feel like unrestricting it would cut down on the spam quite a bit.

Different mods have different skill sets, if you will, as well as different interests. So rather than having every mod have full access to all the subforums, different mods work different subforums (or rather, different sets of subforums). It's a classic management trick: if you need someone with X skill, make sure that you've got at least Y (3-4) people with that skill, AND make sure that everybody in the relevant group has some Z number of skills. That way, you're covered.

Problem is, usually there's 1-5 mods on at any one time, but there's something like 30 subforums. And some mods only cover one or two subforums, while others cover a lot more.


If I was Brandon, I might think about conducting a moderator survey to see if anybody wanted to expand their coverage into some of the less-moderated subforums, or if a couple of moderators needed to be added.