Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderator@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. A day in the life of a moderator From: knut.s.grimsrud@xxxxxxxxx ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 02:17:18 -0000 From: knut.s.grimsrud@xxxxxxxxx Subject: A day in the life of a moderator There's been a lot of focus on the list lately on the performance of the moderating team, so as an experiment I thought I would keep track of my moderating activities today to give everyone a feel of a typical day and what is involved in moderating the list. The following is a recap of my efforts today -- since this message is somewhat off topic, please send responses or followups directly to the moderating team at "moderator(at)dmcnews.com" I processed 42 messages today. I approved 25 and rejected 17 (this is a slightly better approval rate than I typically experience which is closer to 50/50, but the traffic has been focused well in the last couple days). Of the 25 messages approved, two involved my sending e-mail exchanges with the authors prior to processing the messages. The other 23 were processed normally. Of the 17 messages rejected, 4 were rejected without any comment and the other 13 were rejected with a message explaining the situation to the corresponding authors. In response I received e-mail from several folks which were generally constructive, but I also received a couple messages accusing me of impropriety. I followed up with several of the messages. I'm not particularly fast at moderating and it takes me an average of about 60 seconds to process a message that requires no additional comment (i.e. outright accept or outright reject), and it takes me a little more than twice that long to process messages requiring additional handling such as sending notices to the authors explaining the conditions under which their post was dropped. Additional folloups that usually stem from this probably averages another minute or two. At 60 seconds per simple message and 3 minutes per message needing special handling, the total processing time works out to about 72 minutes (not including the overhead of logging in via my phone line and getting my act together). I logged on and processed messages about a half dozen times today starting with the first thing in the morning while having my breakfast coffee. You might wonder why I spend such energy on behalf of the list. I like to think that providing someone else with some assistance is reward in itself. I also occasionally get a message from someone who has found the list to be a valuable resource and such moments are also very rewarding. But the bottom line is that I enjoy the DeLorean marque and the DMC enthusiast community, and I find it satisfying to think that I may in some way be contributing positively to the owners and enthusiasts out there that have likewise helped me. I'm off duty the rest of this week as I've worked out a split schedule with Dave due to both of us having schedule conflicts over the next few days (another aspect of moderating includes overall coordination to ensure that someone is always at the helm) -- I'll be back next week. Knut (moderator for the first couple days this week) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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