I must make Crumhorn a prophet: I must decline. I thank everyone who has such a high opinion of me; obviously, you all need to get to know me better. Alas, in the last seven months I have taken on a very serious family problem, one that threatens to take me away from this board permanently. Many of you may have noticed that my posting has dropped drastically; the main cause has been this family problem.

I would like to support Kevin, Sam, PircAlert, and ChessOutpost. I agree with GCube that four mods are better than three, and I think these four would do a fine job. I would also like to see SachBinger and GCube stay on as Mods Emeritus.

Thanks a lot for this, GC, and for your further comments which I have not quoted. I think the approach you and other moderators have taken is sensible, and my only major issue is that I would feel much happier with a short list of official board rules. I guess that's up to Mig, in the end.

Petro: Yeah, pretty much. That's what is commonly done on large forums. c.f. forumserver.twoplustwo.com

There are lots of common sense choices for mods without re-electing old bitter burnt out mods.

Sam should be first choice. He should have got it last time except Mig mistakenly thought he was a new poster.

And I also vote for South Coast Kevin as mod.

Lots of others would be good too and I don't have reservations about any whose names are still standing (e.g. PircAlert, COP, etc).

I think it could be good if either a mod from the curent regime (TGC) stayed as mod emeritus, or if one from the former regime did - I am talking about wellnamed, who expressed interest in being a moderator emeritus the last time, but didn't get to be one. But other than those two people, I do agree that there are so many people who didn't get a chance yet that it doesn't make sense to re-elect the old and bitter mods.


Agreed.

My other nominees are either MIA (niceforkinmove) or have declined (Krish and Guy Kerr, though maybe Guy Kerr will change his mind, given that it is not a requirement to read the threads one doesn't normally read). Hopefully niceforkinmove will show up soon. He always seems to be on a little break from posting here whenever moderators are rotated. Meanwihle, I'd like to back a few more people: South Coast Kevin, Ringlord, and FirebrandX would all do a good job, I think.

Yes, a current or former mod should be onboard. Crumhorn was most helpful when I started. Wellnamed is a good choice too if both TGC and SB didn't want to stay on...for that matter, he's a good choice period.

Yes, I want to join Ken and Russianbear's very recent endorsements here in my saying that I also think that Sam is an *excellent* choice for Moderator!


Chess Fan

In that case, I'd like to recommend that after the rotation, all the mods (or at least the "Senior" Mod) be "promoted" to Global Mods.

Ok, a lot of good candidates have been proposed now. SCK has kinds sorta accepted ("I'm not saying no"), and there have been gracious declines by Guy Kerr, Krish and Ed.

Could the nominees who are willing to take a mod position please say so in this thread? As soon as we have two or (preferably) three candidates I'll notify Mig (probably in the Help Forum, as he doesn't seem to read his PMs).

Thanks all.

I'll change my 'I'm not saying no' to a 'Yes, I'll stand for election'. Be gentle with me though!