Who are the freakin moderators?

[MarkD]

I see they added a new one today!

[uscharalph]

I see they added a new one today!

Congratulations Jeff! All that campaigning paid off. LOL!!!

[genphreak]

I see they added a new one today!

Yes it will continue unabated until someone starts treating our illness. As I said earlier, I applaud Jeff's decision to rev this up a bit, it threatens the board as we all hang aorund the main index so when it gets too polluted with n00bs asking what has all been covered and needing training on all the little things most of us have to learn the hard-way, the good people will stop reading, or at least miss things (happening now) which will destroy the very value we all cherish so much and know this board provides. Some members will just get bored and that is the downward road to a slow death.

This is why action must be taken

Short term- Mods, we need good mods (an election is not necessary, the Ed will have a good idea as to who- and can mail people he thinks might be able to exercise the responsibility to carry out the task) and leave it up to them. I might warn you all he will probably want to establish some rules governing how mods will act...

But long term, the board needs resources. Every BMW related site someone builds provides resources, but these are individual efforts. We need to build a community site that everyone can contribute and that will become a beacon of Bimmerness from this 2005 on. Everything else (BMWE34.net included) will only last for so long.... we need somehting maintained by the community that will go on forever.

For that matter, what if Ed dropped off the planet? Who would look after the board? Our only hope would be that a friend would save the day and sort it all out before the whole community disappears. There are risks with building such great resources, they are not all just disaster related. They easily outgrow themselves without good planning and people move on.

I've no idea if the all singing, all dancing, new improved Jeff would be a good mod. There is a lot to doing it that he may not realise, even within this community... but perhaps he should be given a go. I just know I wouldn't make a good mod.

Jeff sure has a point on this issue and I commend it.

Thanks also to Gayle for trying to distill the need, which we must surely do to get the right outcome. Thanks also to those librarians ('mods') that have spent all their time cataloging posts into the archives, I've done 2 searches and have been hella impressed so far!

That is thankless, behind the scenes work that you guys can notch up as being a truly GREAT contribution to the board.

They should all get a FREE sticker Jeff

'bimmer.info- Vote 1 for Jeff B'

Nick