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Special moderators team user?
16-02-2009 2:24 PM
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I wonder if there is a case for creating a special ModTeam username on these forums which could be used by any one of the moderators for posting items like this, announcing forum elections, starting the election poll. That would mean that in months to come if anyone has moved on you wouldn't be left with moderators posts made by people who are no longer moderators or even as in the case of this moderator's post, people who are not even members of the community.
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16-02-2009 3:44 PM
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At present with a moderator using their own username it can cause confusion with new users and possibly make them the target of personal attacks.
And as Jelv also says, people move on or are no longer mods yet posts by them still state Forum Moderator.
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16-02-2009 4:13 PM
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For example, when a mod goes to create a new topic, they could click "Additional Options" and there would be a checkbox with something like this:
[_] Post topic as moderator.
Then by checking that box, the poster would be shown as "Moderator" although that particular mod's 'user' settings would still be visible, i.e. signature, avatar etc..
By doing this, yes it would require extra work to start with, but is gonna be much more secure than creating a "ModTeam" user account... To avoid the security issue associated with one account (or memory issue with passwords changing every week or so) one "ModTeam" account could be created for each moderator, based on their username (e.g. "ModTeam_chillypenguin") but that would cause additional load on the servers depending on how many mods there are at any one time.
Edit: Forgot to add last paragraph
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16-02-2009 4:27 PM
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16-02-2009 4:43 PM
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Quote from: beautifulways For example, when a mod goes to create a new topic, they could click "Additional Options" and there would be a checkbox :
The additional options that are there now are a standard set of options. To create a "Post topic as Moderator" would require quite a bit of recoding of the software used for the forums.
Having a seperate "Moderator Team" user is by far the simplest option. Then just change the password as and when a moderator leaves.
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16-02-2009 5:29 PM
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Quote from: Devonports To create a "Post topic as Moderator" would require quite a bit of recoding of the software used for the forums.
... and mean that it diverged more from the standard version of SMF with the consequent issues in keeping the software updated when SMF updates are issued.
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16-02-2009 6:16 PM
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16-02-2009 7:50 PM
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing Jelv, the problem that we have with the rules is that the url for that post is ingrained in a lager number of places such as the portal, and in old posts. Which makes it difficult to repost without breaking a lot of things.
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16-02-2009 8:10 PM
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16-02-2009 9:43 PM
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16-02-2009 10:01 PM
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Quote from: chillypenguin There is a `short code` set up that can be used to put `Moderators Note.` on the first line of a post. To indicate that the post is made as a moderator....................................
Barry seems to make use of that on a regular basis.
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16-02-2009 10:40 PM
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16-02-2009 10:50 PM
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16-02-2009 10:53 PM
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16-02-2009 11:05 PM
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Quote from: chillypenguin the problem that we have with the rules is that the url for that post is ingrained in a lager number of places such as the portal, and in old posts. Which makes it difficult to repost without breaking a lot of things.
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