Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5546913-20160704061212/@comment-4423426-20160704185348

This has been an issue for a while, that I've held off addressing until now because I feared the backlash, but I've always pinpointed it to users who have asked for promotions, then as soon as they get it they dissapear  or decrease activity severely. I've never  really understood this. No one is asking you to moderate 24/7 but if you get a promotion, at least make a point to stay around for after the fact before you dissapear. I unfortunately have to say I am referring to JTF and Destiny. I held off bringing this up for a long time, because I get it-- I get that no one wants to moderate 24/7, or they have irl things to do. I'm like that as well. In fact I spend half the day gaming, then I log on at night time or when I feel like it, but it just looks really bad when users do all the right things to get promoted, then as soon as they get it they just stop going on chat as much as they did. In JTF's case, he was on every single night before he got promoted. In fact, I'm a little dissapointed because that was probably the strongest reason I considered him, and now I barely even see him on chat that much. If you have important irl things like school tell us otherwise you make yourself look really bad when you've literally just asked for a promotion, but then do the complete opposite of what you were promoted for. This isn't a new thing either. Ages ago-- like 2 years ago Otis decreased going on chat after being promoted to chat mod, and  I've rarely seen him use his rights, and yet despite that he's been mod for a number of years now. I don't think the solution is to promote new admins/mods. I think the solution is that we need the current admins/mods to be more active on chat. I've done the best I can but College got in the way and I kind of jepaoradized that for the Wiki, so yeah-- I totally get it if you have irl obligations, but why make a thread on it when you know you're going to busy, and why would you halt doing everything you were considered for, the moment you get promoted? It shouldn't be surprising that the people themselves don't seem to notice this, or prevent it, but it is, and it's worrying. For example, if we promoted more people after this thread,  it may turn out the same way. Nothing against JTF and Destiny, but it's something that needs to be brought up now that this thread's been made. The verdict is that the problem is admin/mods not being active enough. Not the number of them active. Funnily enough, right when I get a summer holiday from College, I start actually going to sleep at earlier times, but pretty soon I'll be staying up late at night like usual, so I'll be around at those times too.