Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5225143-20140820212109/@comment-5510093-20140822010258

Agent Spy wrote: Drew1200 wrote: I'm very reluctant to support this. First of all, I feel as if it violates our policy. I know it's under the administrator policy, and this is for moderators, but our policy does say that "It should only happen when a user continually breaks our policy, and refuses to stop."

Secondly, I see no good reason for this. In fact, cleaning up the list is the only reason I see at all. I fail to understand why it's a problem to have inactive moderators, and I feel that it's unfair to a moderator to force them to go back through the entire RfR process simply because they were inactive for a couple months.

With that being said, I am only reluctant, not entirely opposed. I do see the benefit of not having to worry about moderators going inactive for a long period of time, and then returning, having changed significantly while they were gone. It's very often that a user will leave the wiki being well respected and in agreement with our policy, only to return a year later and be a completely different person, disagreeing with our policy, and constantly being on the verge of stirring up trouble. My point here is basically that people's views do often change during the age range where most of us are at. Removing their rights for inactivity would really just be an excuse to remove their rights for very different motives. I see your point.

Cleaning up the list is a good reason for this to pass, as a common reason for opposes on RfCMs is having too many Chat Moderators. Also, it would be pretty difficult to be declared inactive, since it only happens if we can't get any response from the person, they haven't made a blog post or thread about being inactive, and they haven't been active for 2 months. We can always extend the period before they are considered inactive. Oh, and I support. (If that wasn't clear. ) What if "there's too many mods already" is just our politest way of saying that we really don't want the user as a CM?