A way to find out which mods are online?

Danceatron

I was just noticing that there's no real way to tell which mods are online, so if someone has an urgent request there's no real way to get quick feedback.
To be fair this is coming from someone who can usually only post at horridly early hours.
My inspiration for this request shall remain nameless, but I was going to PM someone, and didn't know who was best to contact for quick justice.
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Danceatron · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:

Sweet.
I did a Google search for those tags and turned up zilch (guess I'm a noob at google too) Thanks.

As long as I'm here (and just out of curiosity), Why are features like this so unpublicized here? I can understand the postcount one, but what about the rest?
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:35 am Post subject:

You know how on most forums you have the View Online information at the bottom of the forums?

I believe that they took that thing out, as it was wasting bandwidth or generating too many queues.
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sherl0k · Maniac Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002 Location: the internet

Yeah, generates too many queues and slows down the forum-viewing process.
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Tobias Preener · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

Haha I have that link on my favorites.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

the only problem is that i know a few mods that DONT show up on that page

you really aught to make them all be on it when they are on line
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JustJeff · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

Sometimes mods don't want to be bothered and should have the option to be invisible if they want to be.

Tobias Preener · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

Laundry · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject:

I don't recall him saying they didn't have the option.

JustJeff · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

We do have the option. I was responding to EBT's suggestion to force online mods to be visible.

Think back to times when the site was attacked by spammers. Being an invisible mod means you could deal with such things without the attacker(s) knowing where you were.

Laundry · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

We haven't had much spam lately. I can recall one graphic case of it though...

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JustJeff · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

You may feel that way and that's all fine and dandy. But sometimes, we need a break. Now if something major is going on and a mod is on and they are ignoring it, then that's different. If they are browsing the site and don't want to be bothered at the time with a small request, they should be able to as well. We'd like to take a break every now and then.

But... it's never been a requirement for us to be visible if we didn't want to be. And it's surely isn't a requirement to be on AIM because I'm never on AIM.

Black Lab · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject:

Last I remeber, us mods VOLUNTEERED to take these responsibilities. We have every right to not be bothered if nothing serious is going on.

Though, if you want to pay us to be forum monkeys day in and day out, feel free. =D
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Danceatron · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:16 am Post subject:

Personally, I don't see the need for an army of visible mods 24/7 at my disposal. It would be nice, however, to make sure one or two are visible for more âurgentâ matters. If there are more invisible ones floating around in addition, thatâs just gravy.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

the problem beign thought that i rarly find ANY mods online at all period
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

obviously im not suggesting giving out mods aims or emails if they dont want to only that if someone is online and on the forum that they own up to it so that we can contact them becasue if say david is on but i dont know because he keeps hiding his online status then i get to take a crapshoot and PM about a half doze mods that i know are moderatly active instead of getting the one mod that really was on
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