minor questions

[smc]

Originally Posted by franalexes

I have two things to ask.
I notice when I do a Google search of my name, it brings me to this Transladyboy website. Does that work for anyone else here?

Secondly, a member suggested we vote on the mod's. Should we have a popular vote on the moderators? Like who does the best job? has the best personality? who are you the most friendly with?
Now girls only,,,,Who would you want to come over for dinner? Who would you have stay over night?

I am responding in my personal, NOT MODERATOR, capacity. The views below are views I would have in ANY forum organized in the way TLB is organized.

I think voting on the moderators of a Forum is a very bad idea, for two reasons (in no particular order, and I am sure I could think of others).

First, it assumes that members of the site, which is privately owned with membership a privilege and not a right, can decide for the private site owner what is most important in a moderator. For instance, members may think that the rule that allows only three pictures from a given copyrighted set of photos to be posted should not be enforced. The site owner has this rule for a very specific person related to his financial investment in the site. Should members really decide how this rule is enforced?

In other words, to use franalexes' words, what a member might think is the "best job" may not be what the site owner thinks is the best job.

Second, the overwhelming majority (and I do mean overwhelming, upwards of 98%) of members here have never posted, even once. This is true even of people who joined several years ago and continue to visit the site. How likely are these people to vote? I would submit that it is very unlikely. The voters will be those who are the most active participants. Therefore, the vote will not necessarily reflect the will of the membership. One might argue that those who care will vote, but I know from receiving PMs (in my moderator capacity) from many, many members who have never posted that this is not necessarily the case.

3. The ability of a handful of members to sway a vote such as you propose would be difficult to avoid, both technologically and through personal communication. Do you want an election if fairness cannot be guaranteed? I would hope that every person would say no to that, but since it is likely that this suggestion comes from someone who has a particular interest in voting out a particular moderator -- let's be honest about it -- I am afraid that won't be forthcoming.

As for your other question, if you have a unique enough user name on this site you will find links in Google to your name and TLB threads. That goes for everyone on the site. A user name such as mine will come up, too, but the likelihood of a search on "smc" yielding a TLB link in Google even in the first dozens of pages is very low.