Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

Bandoman for Politics Moderator!!!

Originally Posted by CRM114

There are 7 moderators listed for the Politics forum:

VinVega, Dead, heimerSWT, bfrank, nemein, sfsdfd, Venusian

The following moderators have not moderated in quite a long time. Will they be replaced at any point?

sfsdfd last posted in any forum 1/20/2006
bfrank last posted in any forum 7/6/2007
heimerSWT last posted in Politics on 11/10/2006.

That leaves VinVega, Dead, nemein, and Venusian. Of those 4, only one is moderate to liberal. Two are conservatives. I don't know enough about Dead's politics but I'd say he leans to the right as well.

Not to be a dick or anything, but hey.

Originally Posted by X

I think I should remind people that choosing moderators doesn't work through a nomination process by members.

Originally Posted by NCMojo

the "stated conservative" would be wendersfan

Originally Posted by wendersfan

:hscratch:

You've been talking to my wife again, haven't you?

Originally Posted by Bandoman

It wouldn't be too difficult. I would just ban a bunch of people on my first day, that way everyone would be afraid of me and then I would rule with an iron fist. There's nothing like an iron fisting.

Originally Posted by VinVega

As long as you don't ban me. :up:

Originally Posted by Bandoman

No promises.

(But I accept paypal)

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

Packistan

Originally Posted by VinVega

I used to be a lot more liberal until I started reading this board actually (and when I moved out of NYC).

Originally Posted by Kittydreamer

Right. It works through how many naked pictures they send to you? :D

;)

You should make me a mod, X. I know nothing about politics so therefore I would be totally neutral. :up:

Originally Posted by Bandoman

It wouldn't be too difficult. I would just ban a bunch of people on my first day, that way everyone would be afraid of me and then I would rule with an iron fist. There's nothing like an iron fisting.

Originally Posted by CRM114

So no one from the forum is going to even bother to respond to this? Lame.

I guess we will continue on with 3 phantom mods then.

Originally Posted by CRM114

So no one from the forum is going to even bother to respond to this? Lame.

I guess we will continue on with 3 phantom mods then.

Originally Posted by Venusian

It is possible that mods do work on a forum without posting on it

Originally Posted by CRM114

So no one from the forum is going to even bother to respond to this?

Originally Posted by heimerSWT

Lately--for me--I haven't done a lot of in thread warnings or anything like that...especially in politics. But I try to move spam and close threads when necessary. That kind of thing doesn't have a public timestamp, if any.

I try to avoid most of politics because of how bitter people act towards each other. I have lately been lurking around that forum, and things seem to be better from what I can tell...

But, really, the main reason why my name is even in the mod list is because I started as an Other Forum moderator, and since the politics forum is a subforum of that, I am, by default, a moderator of that subforum.

Originally Posted by X

I think I should remind people that choosing moderators doesn't work through a nomination process by members.

Originally Posted by gkleinman-3 years ago

My typical Day.

Get up and check in. The first thing I do almost every day is to check in, see if there are any immediate issues to deal with, emails that need immediate attention or things that need my attention first thing

Then I catch a quick breakfast and make myself a latte (almost always w/ Portland's own Stumptown Coffee).

Then it's back to the site and answering some of the quickie emails that I can clear out of my inbox with a quick response. I typically get 100 or so emails a day which need some sort of response. With all the spam and such it can be as many as 1000 emails or more.

Next up would be the DVD Talk Review database. I go in, check and see if there are reviews which are queued and ready to go out. My goal is to get reviews up as quickly as I can.

Almost every day of the week involves some sort of newsletter. So if it's a Monday I spend between 3 and 4 hours working on pulling everything together for the newsletter. If it's another day of the week I'm making sure we have everything we need to publish whatever newsletter is going out that day.

After the reviews are done, and the urgent emails are addressed I spend some time in the private mod's and dvd talk reviewer's forum areas, make sure anything that needs my attention gets it.Check in with writers/mods as there is always some sort of ongoing discussion.

Next up is updating the front of the site. Depending on when it is during the week it can be a quick thing or something much more indepth. I tend to spend a lot of time picking out the notable DVDs and deciding what to feature on the site.

After that's all underway I typically spend time on the phone with studios and pr agencies. Following up on DVDs we've requested, scheduling interviews for the site, looking at giveaways as well as working on my monthly TV segment (with Electronic Press Kits)

Midway throught this I tend to take some time to pack up DVDs to go out to our writers. DVD Talk has 35 people who write for the site and we get a TON of DVDs (both adult and mainstream) in. I pack up the DVDs and make sure they go out to the right people, sometimes this can be a 1-2 hour process to get everything together.

Often I'm checking in with the Feedback forum, some days I just need to respond to a question or comment, but others involve dealing with a problem or issue (like pop-up madness).

Invariably I find that it's almost 1:00 and I haven't had lunch. So I tend to take a quick break to catch a bite, see my kids (I have a home office).

Then it's back up to work, typically responding to a number of emails, trying to keep the number of unresponded down to a sane level (which is almost impossiable). I spend time interacting with advertisers. Sending out proposals for advertising on the site, loading new banners in for existing advertisers as well as chase some of them down to get the ads in time for the publication we need to send out.

After lunch I am often making calls to prospective advertisers, ad sales calls and emails take up a huge amount of my afternoon. Some days I use this time to work on editorial planning or talk to one of our writers or columnists. I'll often have an extended conversation with one of the PR firms we work with or studio reps about something that's going on or be getting info on future titles.

In the early afternoon we get several deliveries of DVDs, so I unpack them, log them into our system and then get the rest of the DVDs ready to go out to our reviewers in the mail.

Depending on what time of the month it is I might hunker down and do book keeping work, or deal with invoicing, collections, and other financial fun stuff. I'll also work on some of the long term projects that need attention (redesigns, technical issues, rss, researching the next forum version, videogametalk, etc).

Sometimes I'm on the phone with writers from other media (newspapers, radio, TV) talking about DVD, giving quotes or just helping out with a story.

Then email's piled up again and I spend some time clearing it out. More often than not there's a problem thread or user that needs some attention on the forum or someone's instant messaging me about one thing or another.

When I have a chance I go in and try to update our coming soon release list, and I tend to spend some time in the afternoon's working on getting columns published online and loading things into our outgoing email server for our newsletter.

Typically that takes me up to Dinner, when I take a break, spend time with my family and catch up on life.

Then almost always I'm back online finishing up the email in the day. Getting reports out to advertisers if needed, sending off any last min proposals or things I've commited to having by the end of the day.

I often spend time in the early evening catching up on the sites I read, I'll spend time doing some research (for technical issues, stuff to add to the site, or new trends like rss as well as advertising technology solutions). I stop to tuck the kids in bed and will typically go and take a break.

If it's getting close to when I do TV this is the time I'll watch one of the 4 title's we're featuring. If not then I might catch a DVD of something I know needs to go out the next day for review. If on a lucky day there's nothing I have to watch I fire up my Tivo and catch up on the shows I follow or pop in a DVD and watch something for fun.

Then it's back online for one last check in, answer feedback posts like this one, check in with the mods and reviewers forum, approve any reviews that are queued up and call it a day.

Some days are insane, I often feel like there's a lot more to do than my ability to do it, but I do what I can to get everything done that I've committed to. It's a lot of hard work, but I absolutely love it.

- G

Originally Posted by NCMojo

You guessed right about JasonF -- I think he'd make an excellent mod.

Originally Posted by das Monkey

Geez. I'd hate to see your idea of punishment.

das

Originally Posted by benedict

ooking through the various posts that you have made in this thread, admittedly as someone who rarely enters Politics, I am having some difficulty in seeing just what it is you are getting at that hasn't been addressed somewhere amongst the posts that have been made in response.