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Super Moderators+ as Moderators?
10-10-2007, 11:06 PM
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 Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 274 Location: Long Island, New York  
| Super Moderators+ as Moderators? I have a question... I almost always look at the View Forum Leaders page when I go to a new forum for the first time. (vB) And almost more than half the time staff members that moderate all forums (super mods, administrators, etc.) are also listed as normal moderators. And by that I mean they actually are "a moderator of ____ forum" and also listed as a super mod or admin. So I don't really get what this is for? If you do it, why?
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10-10-2007, 11:43 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom 
| I don't know why it would show the admins as moderators of a particular forum..its rather odd. But they do it for mod's because you can give them powers in just them forums.
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10-10-2007, 11:50 PM
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| Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 274 Location: Long Island, New York
| I think you understood me wrong. It is done intentionally. And I'm asking why. Why do people assign super mods and admin as moderators of a specific forum?
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10-11-2007, 02:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,028 Location: Michigan, US   Recent Blog: New Screenshots Released 
| I've often wondered the same thing, theres no point to it. The only thing I can think of is that they want them to have s-mod powers in case no others mods are on but they still have an assigned area.
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10-11-2007, 03:57 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,354 Location: Spring, Texas | Super moderators are also like administrators, yes? | ||||
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10-11-2007, 04:00 AM
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| Title: Apprentice
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10-11-2007, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom
| They probally just have them like it as moelman said, But you get the same moderator powers if you are a mod and a supermod, so its just pointless really, I get you now 
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10-11-2007, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | I don't do this...Don't really know why others do either, but one guess would be so that there are moderators listed on each forum. When you are viewing a forum with moderators, look in the bottom right, and there will be a small box down there that says who the moderators are. This lets the users know exactly who is looking over that particular forum and who to go to if they need anything. Again, I don't really think this is necessary or worth doing...I'm just throwing out one reason that somebody may do this.
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10-19-2007, 10:14 AM
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10-19-2007, 02:44 PM
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Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 483 | As Ryan said, it is because it gives a dedicated name for members to contact if they have issues in that forum. On a larger forum this is useful. I also sometimes list my admins as Moderators for the feedback or announcement forum. We're all forum regulars so know exactly what we're doing (most of the time). A newbie might not be so lucky, so having that little box with a list of people they might contact if they need assistance in a particular forum is a useful additional safe-guard. | ||||
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