AHRDF Forum - where do we go from here ?

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Let me remind you all that nothing much will happen until after the end of Dec 2018 and Jan 2019 will see any major changes made.  I have waited a few days to see what posts would appear.

Additional moderators...  Hmmm, yes, well that would undoubtedly help - and it has been contemplated more times than you might believe.  There are a couple of existing users with administrator level permissions already but they are not really super-active visitors to the Forum and they are aware of their access status.

How do you pick new moderators though ?  A show of hands.. then pick people who seem to know what they are doing.. How many posts they have made..  How often they visit the forum..

Tools for your forum staff to give you a helping hand


Using the built-in moderator control panel in MyBB, forum staff can assist with light administration tasks on the forum such as:

• Announcement Management - Moderators can manage forum announcements in the forums they moderate
  
  
• View Moderation Queues - Moderators can view full moderation queues and approve threads, posts and attachments in the forums they moderate
  
  
• View Reported Content - Moderators are able to see a listing of any reported posts in the forums that they moderate and mark them as actioned/read. Super Moderators can see reported reputation and users, too
  
  
• Moderator Logs - Moderators can access past moderation history to view actions taken by other moderators to specific threads or posts
  
  
• Profile Management - Moderators are able to edit portions of user profiles to either change or remove inappropriate content
  
  
• User Banning - Moderators are able to ban users for predefined periods of time
  
  
• View Warning Logs - Moderators can see a history/log of warnings given to a particular user by other forum staff
  
  
• IP Searching - Moderators can search for a specific IP address and return any users or posts that match
  

If you are an active forum user then by all means PM or email me rather than replying to this post.  (If you don't know how to use the PM system then you probably won't make a successful moderator.) Include your phone number so that I can contact you to discuss...

My preference is to keep alternate administrators and moderator users unknown to other general users so posting about it on the forum itself is undesirable.

Moving on:

Culling - could happen but certainly not desirable.

"You seem to be spending much time doing the lot and agonising over stats, content, posting etc." Yes I do. Seeing it is a forum that is visible to the public, my rear end is on the line. It is in my best interest to know what is happening.  Less important with a closed forum when only registered members can see content.

"I am a 'researcher' by inclination" plus "My posts to this forum have been when I have information to provide that I felt was of value. " should really be useful to promulgate ideas that are appearing elsewhere and might help the AR community grow.  The recent swedish licensing change post for instance.. absolutely brilliant info ( https://ahrdf.net/forum/showthread.php?t...67#pid2567 ).  New projects & methods invoke varied thoughts in the readers' minds.  

"I usually check in at least once every day or so, depends how active the forum is. Most times, not much change."  And it doesn't change because no one is posting their new info, ideas, researches etc...  My tag line says it : 
This Forum is only going to be as interesting as the posts it contains. 
If you have a comment or question, post it as it may trigger or answer the query in someone else's mind.


So apart from Sweden and grommets from Bunnings, nothing anywhere has happened in the AR world since last Friday  ????????  It's hard to believe isn't it ?