Topic: [Request] Theymos we need moderator again in Croatian local board - page 5. (Read 2282 times)

We need some shill accounts for purposes of this topic. Any bump account available to hire?  
Theymos care about our local board, I can tell you that, but he is probably too busy to reply or he doesn't think that we need moderator. Time will tell which one is it.
Are those reports handled and how long "we" waited for that to happen? For example, I reported 2 posts and 1 topic earlier today, one post is handled pretty fast and other two are undhandled(second post is reported later). One 11 days old report remained unhandled and few reports between are marked as good (I believe mods handled it fast enough).

I think it's pretty unrealistic to expect this sort of thing to be solved in just 2-3 days, because if everything depends on one person (and this is the case here) the question is how high or low we are on the priority list. I think this kind of stuff still requires patience and perseverance, and we just need to keep this topic alive for the admin to take action and make the decisive move.

Looks like it's sleeping time in Bitcointalk forum... nobody cares about our local section.
Everyone watching news 

In the last few days we have had several cases of spam, duplicate posts,  posts in the wrong sections etc.
Since we don't have a local moderator to handle this right away, we had to wait a lot longer for another moderator to fix it after we reported it.

@dkbit98

I'm fully supporting your request
The Croatian local board deserves a moderator

Best regards

Is mister Theymos going to honor us with his answer any time soon?
We are eager and ready to make some great changes in our local board 2.0
You can even give us a Trial period, and expect report from us.

I am also asking for support from other DT members to get this thing moving.

Thanks! I'll bribe you with merit later 
Well, from my own perspective I can say that global mods are handling reports just fine, there were few mistakes but mostly nothing which hasn't been handled after, but, on the other hand it is pain to report some posts and probably some users gave up reporting off topic replies and/or automated translations (former requires either translation of both topic and post or content and latter...uhhh). Moderator who understand our language could, for example, merge posts in case of multiposting instead removing them (of course, if second post is not just spam or something) or split some topics if there is interesting and/or informative discussion going on but half thread is off topic.

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What interest me is how many reports remained unhandled between February 2017. and April 2018. and how many posts have been reported and reports remained unhandled after April 2018. till today, if there is any statistic for Croatian local of that kind.

I follow just a few topics on Croatian board and I can't say whether a moderator is needed there.
btw. is it possible that no one is assigned to that position?


regardless of any of the users from this list is a great choice, they all behave very reasonably in the discussion. As I know all are quite active and doing a good job to this forum. Any of these members easy can moderate some of the other boards, not local board only.

Thanks @dkbit98 for starting this!

Considering the fact that our local board is quite active,  and one of the few ones without moderator, we could certainly use one. I am certain that any of the nominees would do the job properly so choosing would be an easy job, now we just have to get one.


It makes sense to be higher ranked one, as it implies being more experienced and knowledgeable regarding ins&outs of the forum, and specific issues. It doesn't necessarily have to be Legendary account created at the early days of forum or something like that to do the job properly, but some experience is needed, imho.

Regarding activity, I think that should be one of the main factors when deciding about moderator. What's the point of having local moderator that will log in every once in a while, delete few posts, move some topics  and then go offline again without interacting with other members of the board?
Contrary to the popular belief, forum moderator is more than some kind of forum police that will just enforce rules and that's about it (or at least it shouldn't be). Beside doing standard "police" job, good moderator will encourage discussion and  point them to certain direction when/if needed, share news&updates, help members (especially new ones) and increase  overall activity of the board through various initiatives.

I've been active on various forums for almost 20 years, and trust me, good moderator can make a huge difference. Especially now when forums in general ain't as popular as they used to be, unfortunately.

dkbit98, thanks for suggesting me as one of the candidates for our local moderator. However, I would point out some important things that do not work in my favor when it comes to this position.

The first is that I only recently activated in local board, so I think from that side it would not be fair to others who have been active for years there. The other thing that doesn't benefit me is that I'm not a DT member and that I have a neutral trust, so I am not a good candidate by admin criteria. Regarding reports, I am only on 700+, with 100% accuracy.

Our member who meets all the criteria to become a moderator would certainly be marlboroza, but I would certainly support Daniel91 as one of the most active members in our local board, which in no case means that you are not a good choice, on the contrary.

In conclusion, I would say that we do not lack candidates, and that we certainly need a moderator because we are one of the most active local communities. I hope Theymos will consider this request, which is just one in a number of ways to give local boards even more incentive for progress and development as essential parts of forum.

All right, fair enough.
I was gonna suggest you anyway.

I will add myself to the list, but I think others can do better job than me



Sure. Thank you for suggestion.

Look at what Theymos said about the nomination of the german mod, maybe that will help you.

I am sure that the 3 names that you are proposing to become potential moderators on your local board are qualified and experienced users and have high rankings. But that is still not enough because the proposal is only your own assumption and does not yet have the support of most users on your local board.

In your local board, I am very sure that there are enough qualified and experienced users to be a moderator including yourself, try making a polling thread by submitting 3-7 names or more (high-quality, experienced, contributing users, not necessarily ranked high but not a newbie) so that your local board user has the right to choose who deserves to be a moderator there and in my opinion this is a good way because the name that gets the most support is what your local board wants most there.

Thanks for this suggestion for the moderator, I fully support it.
We already had an example that moderator who doesn't understand Croatian move topic from Croatian board to other local board,  by mistake.
Thanks for the nomination for moderator and if I get the support from  the local community I am ready to take responsibility and help.
I also think that Marlboza and Lucius are very good candidates and I would like to suggest also Dkbit98 as candidate for moderator.
He is also respected member of our local community.

Must always be active indeed the criteria needed to become a moderator, but for Rank must be high, it is not absolute and can also be selected from Members with a Rank above Member - Lengendary.

The most important thing is the contribution that can be given and useful for forum residents and can control the forum well in order to avoid spam posts and other inappropriate posts.

Can discussion who will be a candidate for modertaor and vote if needed.

The names you mentioned are very active members.

Nobody needs inactive inexperienced newbie moderator, but you can propose Halab mod change in FR board if you want.   

Why are you saying that? Why candidates need to be active and high ranked please? 

Human society made by rules so i believe local community which more than 1k member need a moderator, to put everything under control. Although most of us try to obey rules and acting kindly, there're still shits that need to be removed.
But firsts, did you ask your candidates about are they willing to be a moderator?

Are they 'okay' with being a mod though?

Try to start a thread/poll for a new moderator on your local board and then send the data to theymos. That's how the Indonesian board got the mod (assuming there are multiple candidates and all of them want to be a moderator).