My message board is just barely a month old and I’m already being driven crazy.
This evening, Smallgod (Arametha on the archive) decided to give my board a pruning. He deleted and moved topics that really needed no attention. In fact, some of my forums barely have 3 topics in them.
I appreciate and realize that he was trying to help, but now I do feel like my toes have been stepped on. No topic on my board is older than 4 weeks and some of the topics he decided were “old” were last replied to on Saturday! If they were 24 hours old when he decided to get rid of them, it wasn’t by much. It wasn’t a mistake, “hmm, I wonder what this button does” type thing. He actually posted that he was pruning to get rid of old posts. What old posts?!
I made everyone moderators just so we could have the Admin and Veteran forums available to talk. I specifically said in the admin area when I created the board that we really didn’t need moderation right now — just watch out for idiots and we’re good. So far, everyone is college-age or older so that kind of moderation isn’t needed.
Yet again I’m questioning whether my choice of making Ara a mod was a good one, since he came out of nowhere to volunteer. But I was impressed with his credentials. English major and all that, plenty of experience writing. He can be pretty cool, but…
it’s no mistake I’ve let him believe I’m married to Jasson. There have been times where his e-mails have creeped me out. I haven’t gone out and lied, but I haven’t corrected him either.
While he’s been almost stellar on the archives, but this makes three times I’ve had to speak to him about his behavior on my message boards since we opened. (Unless you count him damn near flaming one of Bender’s stories, which Benny politely asked me to remove.)
I probably am over-reacting, but I’m tired and PMSing. I’m more than happy to allow my site to be a democracy, but that just goes only so far.