Admins and moderators

[Mervi]

I've been the only administrator and moderator of this forum since the beginning, and even though we're not exactly high-traffic or infested with problematic users (thank you everyone for playing so nicely! ) I've often thought that a moderator or two could be a good thing to have for those days when I'm too busy to visit. An unexpected real life situation has now limited my "hanging around online" time considerably, hence I've asked Farseer to join the ranks & she has agreed. Please welcome our very first forum moderator, Farseer!

The moderator status means having the control of tools such as
- editing, deleting, splitting, merging and moving topics and posts
- editing calendar events and forum announcements
- warning, editing and banning users

So from now on, when you report a message as spam or start a new thread in the off-topic room, chances are that Farseer notices it before me and acts on it. You can also ask her to move or delete something or ask for help. Private messages are usually the best way to do that, as such requests tend to get lost in normal forum conversations. The things that only an admin (= me) can do are opening new rooms, fixing the layout, upgrading the forum script etc. The sort of stuff that usually doesn't require quick response. We're also living in completely different time zones, so even when things in my life return to a more normal state, this means we'll be covering more forum activity time zone-wise. If everything works well, I might consider adding another mod to the team from either American continent so we can theoretically cover the whole globe.