Discussion about reforming/replacing the current modding system. Part 1 – Genesis

[anon40790172]

@Al_Kafir

In the beginning………there was Happybeing, the Genesis Mod….

This is not correct. @david (not Irvine) started this forum. It was just one person who thought it would be a great idea to start a forum. He had experience as a moderator on another forum. Already in April he asked the community who wanted to be an “Admin” because he was busy. As you can see, @ioptio offered her help at that time already (and she now is an Admin).

A number of people raised their hand and even some folks from Maidsafe offered to help out. There was another topic about which categories were needed on the forum. And David Irvine and others joined the discussion and reached consensus. This is how communities work, they swarm together and get things done.

When @David was too busy with other things (Oct '14) he asked for other people to take care of the forum. @frabrunelle offered to do this and invested a lot of time in this forum so we all have a place to talk SAFE. @happybeing also offered to be a “backup admin” as he was already a Mod next to @frabrunelle. It’s explained here in this topic. At that time, it was a personal owned forum created by one person. David Irvine offered to let Maidsafe pay for all the costs and he was very happy with how the forum was run at that time. So here you have it, the Safenetwork was the idea, some volunteers liked it so much that they’ve put a lot of time and energy in the Forum as Mods and Admin’s. There was full consensus from both the community and Maidsafe who started to pay for the forum.

After that period the Forum kept growing and growing. More mods were needed to keep the topics organized, remove spam, etc. Some active members on the forum were asked to become mods, others just offered their help. It’s really like your local voluntary organisation where people step up to help out. In the Forum Updates we always informed everybody about the new members to our team.

David Irvine (remember, Maidsafe still pays all the bills) jumped in a number of times to react on how the forum was doing.

From September 2014

@dirvine

For this forum I completely think you mods have it right and allow a lot of leeway which says a lot about you as a team. It must be hard to allow personally repulsive views, but important to be able to. Thanks mods I think you do a great job and I hope you continue to.

From September 2014

@dirvine

This post is bang on the mark and perfectly timed. Just watch this space I suspect some posts already, they can be spotted to an extent. I think this is a hugely difficult effort to keep the forum as it has been so far. I think we have some great mods though so we may stand a great change. Thanks again Chris.

From November 2015

@dirvine

I for one cannot thank the mods enough so far and having come through slashdot/reddit/bitcointalk even I fully understand how these things can get killed and I am also acutely aware there are folk employed to kill such places. Lets all be stronger than that, I am pretty sure we are and as communities evolve then who knows, we may have the first forum that breaks through.

So stop attacking 1 single volunteer by accusing him of having full rights to do whatever he want with the forum. You know that’s far from facts (as we’ve explained several times). This forum is run in full consensus with a number of volunteers, the community and Maidsafe.