Joe, My experience has been that it doesn't hurt to have more than one moderator so long as the rules are fairly simple. We can cover for one another when unexpected events happen, among other things. Group owner needs to set the rules, such as they are, and let them be known. I'm willing if you need or want the help. I own a couple of groups, and moderate on a couple more, mostly metalworking, or metalworking related. I prefer to keep the discussion mostly metalworking related (or 3D printing, on a group where that's part of the focus). I try to keep the politics pretty light, though I'm not perfect at that myself, and mostly go for polite, and helpful. Ain't perfect at that, either, unfortunately, but I try. I am retired, 65yo, getting to be kind of fat. I'm not a machinist, but I am taking a class. Have been for over 5? years, very part-time. I have been doing metalworking of one sort and another for at least 55? years. My GI Joe had a steel sword, spear & arrow points on his weapons, among other things. I've done a bit of jewelry work, some armouring, including wearing it to fight with sword and shield, a tiny bit of amateur gunsmithing, and I've made and modified tools and toys, and such like. When it comes to wood, I'm more a wood butcher than anything else. A bit of computer & electronics work and play, and been some sort of maintenance mechanic for about a quarter of my adult life. High-performance fighter jets, automobiles, and industrial laundry equipment, among other things. I read a lot, and remember at least some of what I read, and my google-fu is fair to middling, so I can even find the info again sometimes.?
Bill in OKC
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butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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On Friday, December 11, 2020, 05:39:39 PM CST, Joseph Melhorn <toyman@...> wrote:
Bill in OKC, I did have another individual step up and I¡¯ve elevated him to Moderator. His name is Mike and I¡¯ll let him chime in if he chooses to do so. Are you interested in becoming a Moderator? If so, let me know. In the meantime, I poked around a bit (dangerous thing to do, at least for me) and discovered that there was no restriction on the size of photos that could be uploaded. I took the liberty of setting a 1024 x 1024 size temporarily. We still need to address the elephant in the room, namely, do we need to poll the members (over 4,000) to see if enough donations can be collected to cover the $220.00 fee to upgrade the group or do we want it to remain ¡°free¡±? If the group wishes to remain ¡°free¡±, there¡¯s going to have to be some serious ¡°weeding¡± to do to the photos section, to reduce the size. I¡¯m open to suggestions or solutions. Regards, Joe Melhorn Sahuarita, AZ? 85629 ?
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