gee, thanks

[cellio]

I moderate a mailing list, and I'm going to be out of town with poor net access for a while later this month. So yesterday I posted to the list asking for volunteers to be fill-in moderator. I think I even said that it's usually not much work. (The list is a "filter" on an unmoderated list, so you don't even have to deal with rejection messages -- just approve the stuff that's on topic and otherwise appropriate and delete the rest.)

Within hours, a firestorm occurred. Usually the list gets about 5 messages a day; for today alone we're well over 50. Maybe 60 or 70. I lost count. I could check the archives, but I'd probably be depressed. (And I'm talking about the stuff that got through; about a quarter of it hasn't.)

So far I haven't gotten any nibbles to be temporary moderator. Gee, surprised? :-)

(If worse comes to worst the list will just go dark while I'm gone, but maybe this will die down and someone will volunteer.)

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a moderator's work is never done ... or something

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Not too long ago, a call was put out for new mods on the lists I manage -- I had talked to a fellow mod, and we agreed it would be good to get someone in now so that I wouldn't have to deal with the full load immediately after giving birth. On two of the lists, we were contacted by three good people. On the other list, we were contacted by two different people -- one who is the source of perhaps 90% of our flame sessions and another who has a different way of rubbing people the wrong way. We finally recruited someone who is more reasonable, but ... fun fun fun.