How to tell when a Mod is being a Mod

[val2525]

Hi all. It's come to our attention that folks aren't always sure when the mods are posting as mods, and when they're just posting as John Q Public. As in, when we get frustrated about a topic and express our frustration. Are we telling another member to chill as a fellow member (which means it's open for discussion), or as a mod (which could mean we'll pink slap you if you don't watch it). To us 3, we're posting as members when we do that. But *we* don't see ourselves as others do, and members pointed this out. It's a valid point.

So....assorted members (not just the 3 Muskateers) talked about it and we have a solution that we'd like to try.


From here out, if the mods feel they need to post in a mod capacity, the post will be in red.

If you see a post in normal font (like this), it's just us being a regular member. And if you disagree with something we post as a normal member, feel free to disagree. We don't mind. We won't retaliate. We won't use mod superpowers to kick you off the board.  And it might just make us shut up and listen.   We post as regular members and we have to play by the same rules as anyone else.


And for what it's worth, one of us alone can't kick someone off, or even ban them. We discuss it and have to be in agreement.


So please - don't fear the mods posting as a regular forum member, 'K?

/PSA

[denise15601]

Are you 3 the Mod Squad?

[val2525]

That was a short-lived ID that was being used to start a daily business chat thread. Assorted posters used it to start the topic

[denise15601]

Oh sorry! I thought that I just thought of that.

[val2525]

LOL! And I'm sorry I didn't get the joke! Duh! I really did think you were referring to the Mod Squad ID on the member list. Oops!

[denise15601]

You can delete my posts since you were trying to be serious and I was just goofing around.

I bow to thee, oh Mod.