Good News,
this is something that has been long overdue for a while and i think it's great that your going through the threads and cleaning up the forums
As for you not being appreciated and people running behind your back to b*tch about you to Sonnelion.
It's not that your not deserved of praise, it's your ability to point out what you do at every crossroads. Did you volunteer to do this job of your own free will or did the cast of members at joe dios hold you to gunpoint and force you to do it continuosly?
I'll try and be as helpful as I can here and not be confrontational.
''I'm one woman doing the job here......I know there's members who don't like or appreciate me or what I do......but I'm doing the best I can with what I've got.''
I appreciate anything a Moderator does. It's long work and must be incredibly annoying for nobody to notice the subtle changes you make to keep the place smooth and running well.
''Yes, I do love how they all go running to you to b*tch about me.......
And yet, I still take my entire Sunday....and time from work during the day.....to ensure this site is maintained and respectable.''
You don't want to turn the thread into a p*ssing match but you just sarcasticly responded to a work colleague by suggesting we all favour Sonnelion over you and don't appreciate you take time out to do it.
This is actually far from the truth. No moderator receives constant praise for what they do, why do you think most of the numeracy count here is prominently members? It's the same every board you go to.. if you wanted praise for work maybe you volunteered to do the wrong job?
I really appreciate you take time out from your days to keep the forum tidy, but to throw it in our face continuously everytime you do something to help us is most probably why people don't respond with praise. This is what you signed up to do when you volunteered or accepted to do when you became a moderator and nobody forced you to accept to do it.
It's not easy, and it certainly doesn't mean people should be able to cuss at you (when I sometimes have) I don't like it one bit, and i've apologised for my past outbursts.
I don't believe any forum online you will get praise for being a moderator. Does this mean people should constantly keep schtum about it? I don't think so, if i've seen a change anywhere on here it's been between the veterans and the moderators.. this place has tons of potential, and you have the responsibility of steering the ship. Moderator status brings about a whole new problem for you, but it's literally just a case of ''knuckling down and getting on with it'' regardless of if your being paid to or not.
My main point is to thank you for all the work you've done over the last 2 years or so, and also to thank you for working on these growing changes. I also think you'll find that if you do exactly as you were asked to do you'd find that most people praise you rather than ''b*tch about you'' behind your back.