This is your introduction about yourself---. Being a 'professional and a mod---if this is how you do it---what do you expect from others!
Even if I wrote my actual job description, 99.9% of people on this forum still wouldn't know what I actually do.
But I did update my Occupation
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I'm sure it's hard on you guys to moderate stuff when some senior member decides to troll.
Senior, elite and titled members are banned permanently only under the most extreme of circumstances. They really have to do something wholly offensive, inappropriate or abusive to earn that distinction.
We know what situation you're referencing and all I'm willing to say is that we deal with it when necessary. But banning senior trolls or members prone to offensive behavior is something that needs to be done. If they create another ID and attempt to continue their behavior, we'll deal with that too. We have a lot of patience and can outlast even the most habitual troublemaker.
MoDs and Admins should stop showing partiality
Everyone has their bias, their interest, their stance and their views. We try to remain as impartial as possible, but all people fall into the trap eventually.
The best we can do is take a step back, look at a post or problem and ask "does this violate the forum's rules"? Not look at the member's nationality or flags, or their post history, just take the issue on a case-by-case basis.
I try to take this approach when dealing with other members as a mod, but I too have my own views and will express them when appropriate or when I deem them necessary.
We try our best, but sometimes even we act with partiality.
I have moderated 5-6 forums and member of many other forums. I have never received an infraction from anywhere in life despite making 100,000? posts combined in past 16 years.
Same here. I moderate 3 forums, and one picture archive, and am a member of a few more and have made thousands of posts between them and not once have I received an infraction.
I troll, but try to do so in the appropriate places like the Member's Club section. I like to troll and joke around with people
. It helps lighten my mood. But I also avoid being rude, offensive or insulting and know what limits I can and cannot cross.
Honestly, it's not that hard to avoid infractions. Just be nice and be on-topic. Troll where appropriate and provide quality discourse - helping to further a discussion in a positive and fruitful manner goes a long way to endearing one's self to me. I respect quality.
Easy enough I should think.
Moderators must be neutral- example for South Asia it could be non-Asian etc
I advocate for this approach, but it's more difficult to implement since non-regional mods might not be versed enough in the regional dynamics - culture, religion, politics, economics, mannerisms and so forth.
I mod the Americas and Europe & Russia sections. I'm a European and have never lived anywhere other then Norway, but I travel frequently to the Americas for work and around European countries. While neither are homogeneous, I'm familiar enough with the nuances of the Americas - Central, South and North - and Europe that I can understand their viewpoints, behaviors and cultural differences and assess a situation with this in mind. By and large, while they have their unique cultural differences, the 3 continents share many central tenets and values.
I am less familiar with East, South or Central Asia and Africa and the Middle-east and would be a completely inappropriate mod given my lack of understanding of their unique behaviors and traits.
While having a non-regional mod can help with bias during moderation - would you trust a Norwegian to mod a Norwegian section fairly(?) - it's also important to have people that understand the region, hence a Turk for the Turkish section, an Iranian for the Iranian section, a European for the European section and so forth.
We understand the dynamics of our specific regions better then an outsider would and that affords us an insight that other mods or nationalities might not have.
