Mod Post: Calling All Moderators

[changewillcome.livejournal.com]

I know this seems early but I wanted to:

1) Get a tally of moderators to know who is going to be doing Holiday Wishes this year or leaving so we'll know if we're going to need to look for any new mods to help out.

2) Bring the idea to the "table" so to speak of opening Holiday Wishes up officially this year on the first of November. I know that seems early (since in the past things really start to pick up right after Thanksgiving) but last year we had a few members suggest that it would be nice to have more time to accomplish wish granting, especially in the case of people that ask for hand-made gifts like scarves, etc.

Other additional notes: This year's new layout for the community is up already and as vaguely discussed last year the sister community holiday_thanks is up (layout to be finished soon).

Comments

[ulrica-81.livejournal.com]

hmm, i suppose this isn't decided yet.. but at least when it comes to what i'll be wishing for, yarn for example, it's hard to just say i want this brand & this color - cause i really wouldn't want 30 skeins of the same kind :p i'd rather just wish for yarn & that anything goes. same for example magazines - i don't want more than one of each, you know. would that not be ok?

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

I agree with you there -- asking for "yarn" and "magazines" is fine, but I'm thinking about people who list their first wish as "music" and then go on to list five or ten individual CDs under that first wish. If they want to ask for 10 individual CDs, fine, but that's 10 different wishes. Do you know what I mean?

[ulrica-81.livejournal.com]

oh ok, then i understand. i just didn't think of that people would do like that :/ would it be ok to list preferences under a wish, such as for instance what type of magazines i'd prefer (and maybe say that i don't want certain types, as well) but that i can still take whatever?

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

As long as you aren't asking for a number of specific issues, I think that's okay.

[ulrica-81.livejournal.com]

ok, i wasn't going to do that anyway :)

[changewillcome.livejournal.com]

I agree with this to some extent; if they want to ask for 10 different CDs they should ask for each one as a single wish; however in the case of people asking for something like a mix CD they could be allowed to list examples of different artists they like? Or what about the case of people asking for music of a specific genre?

It's kind of a sticky problem - where do we draw the line of what counts as multiple wishes and what counts as simply listing examples? We'd have to find some sort of definite way of deciding how to separate the two. It's also a question of if it will be worth the trouble trying to get people to follow the little details when we've had people have trouble just following the "10 wishes only" criteria.

The categories thing can be annoying, but it also seems that people granting wishes are pretty good at picking and choosing what wishes they grant; it seems like the very "gimmie gimmie" posts have gotten passed over quite a bit in the last couple years of Holiday Wishes. I guess it kind of comes down to how much we want to weed things down and how much we want to leave up to people granting to decide for themselves who to grant for or not.

[ulrica-81.livejournal.com]

i agree with you, not that i'm a mod or anything.. esp about people being able to decide for themselves what wishes to grant or not. i wouldn't grant a wish for people who are all about receiving, at least not as my first choice.

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

Love opening up Nov 1 -- would also be up for moderating if you need some help. I've done some of that before in game communities, so I'm familiar with the general drill.

Twilight

[changewillcome.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's pretty much the same as with game moderation; whenever a post comes up for approval a mod simply needs to be certain the post fits within criteria (which we've started discussing above) and then approving or denying, and making a note of why a post is denied if it is. It looks like we're going to be ironing out details over the next few days about posts and then we'll hopefully have set guidelines for approving that we can all follow.

I'm cool with adding you as a mod, so I'll add you within the next couple of days unless any other mods have any objection.

And on a completely unrelated note, I saw in your userinfo that you're into letterboxing - awesome! I just learned about that couple months ago. I haven't done it yet but as soon as the weather clears up I'm hopefully going after one or two of the ones local to me.

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

Excellent -- I'll plan to start paying attention to this discussion then :>.

As for Letterboxing -- yea, a great way to scratch that "hunt for treasure" itch so many of us have while spending time in the Great Outdoors :>.

[misssims82.livejournal.com]

I really like the idea of opening up earlier. Maybe that's because I work in retail and the holidays started weeeeeks ago? lol

[neonrose5.livejournal.com]

If I have a question for the moderators - who do I send it to?

[(Anonymous)]

You can reach one of us, at least, at eruantale @ livejournal.com

(That's me, not logged in because I'm at work.)

[neonrose5.livejournal.com]

Okie - ty..

[changewillcome.livejournal.com]

Feel free to email me at angelforlife @ livejournal.com

[ulrica-81.livejournal.com]

i would appreciate if you opened up early - the sooner the better :) as you wrote, some gifts take a while to finish & if you send internationally as i'm likely to be doing, the postal service isn't super-quick around x-mas, either.

[glowing-dragon.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I second that. Open up after Halloween.

Good idea.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

I may not be a mod, but I'm sure it's okay if I put in my two cents, yeah?

I much like the idea of starting on Nov. 1st. It seems like a wise thing to do, given that this community has so many members. Seems to me that it would give more people more time to scan through the lists and grant more wishes.

[vayshedruvon.livejournal.com]

Glee! I am excited :D

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

earlier is good :)

[gi-janearng.livejournal.com]

Hi, just joined this community a couple of months ago. Sounds really fun!

If no one minds me posting a question: I saw on the userinfo page that you list your wishes here and we're supposed to do it in our LJ too. What's the point of doing it in our LJ if no one on our f-list is involved in this community? I don't have a problem with doing it, if that's the rules, just felt it was sort of repetative. Thanks!

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

You can post it wherever you want, you don't HAVE to post it on your own LJ unless you want to. You could always post a link to the community so that your friends could see what it's about though.

Actually, linking might be better. I think that we'll consider a new rule about only posting once, that way all comments can go on one entry so things aren't duplicated...

[outoftime.livejournal.com]

First of all, I would like to say thank you to you guys for creating this community - it's been wonderful.

Also, if you would like some extra help with moderating, I would be happy to help. My moderating is mostly in icontest communities, but I would love to be part of such a good cause.