Interview

[Party Cannon 876]

I haven't found anything via a search so here it goes:

 

I suggest that there is some topic where administrators and moderators either interview each other or get interviewed (perhaps monthly or biannually) about doing what they do. This could range from sharing funny situations while moderating to technical updates to their personal brony-ness. They are our police and firemen, it would be fun to learn more about them.

 

Another thing that would be fun that is in the same vein is a forum equivalent of a ride-along, where a member can sign up and learn how to do what moderators do.

 

Yep, that's mah suggestion.

 

[NavelColt 22,880]

We've had several interview 'series' go on throughout forum history, that not only deal with staff, but other members as well. Here's one example of a topic interview series. Others have been done in blogs as well. These examples may be unofficial and not staff-run, but they contain pretty much everything you're getting at :3

 

I don't know if an actual staff-run interview series would be worth it, but it's definitely something to think about and flush the specifics out of, to see if it would be.

[Party Cannon 876]

Wow that is pretty much it! Thanks for showing.

 

For the payoff I agree it is a bit of a hassle. I guess to expand on the idea that already exists would be to make it an annual or biannual release, since obviously new questions could be asked and attitudes may change over time. However, @Harmonic Revelations has really shown that they know what they're doing, so it's up to them as they staked the claim first.

 

I don't know for sure how it can be done, but what do you think of the second "ride-along" with a moderator suggestion? This could be done possibly with a moderator showing via a live stream recording program how moderating is done. Obviously only time will tell but I would think more trained moderators the better? That I suppose that segues into a topic in itself about who and how moderators are ordained.

[Zygen 6,066]

Well like CD mentioned, there has been interview series before.

 

That said, you could always make a topic about it yourself I guess. Just have people request interviews or something, won't garentee interviews, but hey.

 

Also you could PM mods and or whoever you want to interview, then post the interview on your topic(Basically how Harmonic did it.)

 

As for letting mods show how they do things, I dunno how complex it is, or how much there is to tell, I assume its probaly just spend extra time in a certain forum section, and just check for anything that needs fixing and stuff. 

 

I dunno how entertaining or complicated it would be. So i dunno if there would be alot to explain, but hey i'm not a mod so idk.