Oh yes I remember I voted for her. 
I didn’t know if she stepped down or what since I haven’t seen her. I do know last time we talked she was extremely busy with life as we all get from time to time.
Especially with kids.
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I have a friend who moderates a forum for people who are interested in foraging for and identifying mushrooms!
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Who knew such a thing existed 
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There’s a forum for literally everything. And they all have mods.
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Do they have a forum for support on how to moderate forums?
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Quick google search brought up a few options 
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Fwiw, @thajokernl goes to NA and I would imagine would be in 100% agreement with your sentiments.
Regardless, a good explainer and I imagine it will not be the last time the explanation is made 
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Don’t worry Tomi we all know you’re a devil worshipper 
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When did i realise i was God?
Well, one day while I was praying to God I suddenly realised I was talking to myself…
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One can determine who our moderaters are by viewing the groups link.
Tomi. This thread has 0 to do with AA or religion. Did you bother to read any of it?
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By the way, in my experience with other forums, TS has been the best experience for me ever. Drama is unavoidable on places like these. But the drama that I experience is NOTHING compared with what I had to deal with on other forums.
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I don’t know why that didn’t show as a new post for me. Funny I try to create a thread to see if we can make improvements to the forum and all it does is turn in to an AA and religion debate.
@SassyRocks can you please lock this topic? Thanks.
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Do you seriously want me to lock it? You didn’t use the new Aybee approved sarcasm font so I am not sure.
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It’s just sinking in to another debate thread and I’m not going to go flag people who are off topic. Keep it open in case people still want to talk about the solution.
Derailment void?
In all fairness, the other moderators paid their dues for sure. They deserve a break every now and again. They are both excellent and fair moderators and good people.
I really feel like if there were 8 or 10 mods then more people would be less hesitant to accept nomination. 8 or 10 active mods. Then people could still go about their lives and not have to put overall priority on being here and could still engage in their own recovery while on here. They could still just be people.
I’m in several Discord communities and Twitch communities. There are almost always 2 or 3 mods present during a livestream, not including the streamer themselves. These streams don’t have more than 50 people in them at most times, and a lot more often, less. As far as Discord, most of them have 2 or 3 mods for roughly 250 posters.
If there was less pressure on what being a mod entails I’m sure we could have more active, quality mods. And the more mods the less pressure.
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I will also add that Csun is having some internet connectivity issues, and is not actually MIA.
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We are overlooking a major issue here.
Adding more mods can’t cure, fix, or deal with good old fashioned alcoholism and addict behavior. That is often our biggest problem here.
When a newcomer comes on and flames out because they want to get sober, but they won’t do that? Some of us believe in the school of hard knocks and to some one hurting, it comes off as attacking. Some need that. Some don’t. When they don’t it is tossing a flame on a big gas soaked brush pile.
Other times some of us come to the board with untreated alcoholism and addict behavior. How is a mod supposed to react to that? Counseling? Banhammer?
It isn’t as easy as other forums to see where the lines are and how to deal with things unless you go to a zero tolerance policy to where the mods don’t make any judgment calls. That doesn’t feel right to me given what we are trying to do here. Or maybe that just hits my sensitive nature of not trying to help those in need.
Idk how the flag sitch works. I understand that they can be misused in instances. For instance in the flame out of the newcomer. Not sure whether of someone flags this post and I am cleared by the mods, whether it counts against me.
For me, the untreated alcoholic and addict behavior here reminds me why I need to be vigilant in working on and fighting for my emotional sobriety.
Just a couple thoughts.
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