If I were the admin/mod of CE...

[The_Big_K]

So, most of you have written essay on topic like "If I were the Prime Minister" .

Let us know what would you do if you were the admin/mod of CE. What changes would you make. What would you do to make CE better. What would you eliminate, add, modify etc.

This thread is only meant for gathering feedback from fellow CEans.

Looking forward to interesting responses!

[shalini_goel14]

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If I would have been given rights equal to Admin/Mods

1. First thing I would do is regular update of CE -Home page rather than forgetting it aside after making its look and feel very good once.

e.g Current home page still shows "KYCEan CB" while in actual currently "KYCEan ES" is going on

2. 90% of the time to remain online so that I could keep a regular check on spammers and people who are in need and sometimes get very bad feedback from the site because they find no one to reply to their questions.

3. I would have made a help document ready just after finishing the set up or creation of this site rather than jumping over the work of enhancing this site and adding more and more functions day by day.

4. I would have not provided facility of "guest login". Reason is I would have preferred those guests to become as members which will ultimately would give me an oppotunity to ban and eliminate "useless" CEans .So for me quantity as well as quality of CEans would have been maintained.

5. I would have created a group of 2-3 people from my collection of good quality CEans to form "CE-Posts Maintenance" team. Their work would be to edit the posts which are having wrong English sentences and usage of sms texts and untolerable fonts usage ..etc.

6. I would have created a simlar to "CE-posts Maintenance" a "CE-Threads Maintenance" team. This team would be given rights to delete and transfer threads to appropriate sections. This team would be given rights to change the title of threads to an appropriate one, even though the owner of the thread has not made a good one.

7. Then I would have created a "CE- Interviewers" team. This will also comprise of 2-3 normal members plus only 2 mods and me. Their job would be to give timely "Small talks" and "KYCEans" . Their work would be monitored by me only weekly or monthly.

8. The work of all my teams would be checked and monitored by me(as Admin) only weekly or monthly. For motivation of my teams, team(or a particular team member) doing its work in best possible way will be awarded suitably.

9. I would have made "Location" as a mandatory field in registration form. I would have provided it as a "Drop down" option. So as to collect the data of CEans count according to regions for eg. majority is in XYZ city or near to that. This would have given me an opportunity to call CEans for meet and make up a public place (ofcourse not a crowdy one) for "CE-House". The purpose of CE-House would have been to call CEans once in a month and provide them with desired materials/equipments required for making real CE-projects. Motivation for those CEans and my efforts would have to become a mandatory part to make some success.

10. Most important , everyone would be given right to express themselves even though it offends anyone. For dealing with situations of "offense", 1-2 people would be made as a part of "CE-Discipline" team. Their work would be to maintain peace by banning people for a month in case they harm CE-peace.Everyone would be given full right to speak anything here.

11. I would create one more team including me as Admin in it. "CE-Cultural" team. The objective of this team would be to arrange timely competitions or contests and start "Happy Birthday" or "Happy new year" etc such wishes type threads and keep a statistic of who completed how many posts and giving congratulations on joining any silver, golden etc club.

12. I would have given titles to CEans based on their work rather than their posts. Those CEans whose whatever posts/threads will get edited by "CE-Posts Maintenance" or "CE-Thread Maintenance" teams will get appropraite deductions in their posts count. Posts/Threads count against any CEans will show only count of good quality posts/threads.

13. I would have given thread owner all rights to modify anyone's post in his/her thread. Even any thread owner will have full right to edit anyone's post in own thread(except Mods & Admins). Even would have right to close it at any point of time.

14. A rating kind of thing will be there against evry thread based on Answered/Unanswered thing. It will be marked appropriately by the person who has asked any query if it is answered . This will give readers of the thread to get an idea of getting solution of the problem.

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[Will keep on adding more and more points....]

PS: I request CE Admin/Mods , to not to take my points personally OK. This is just what I would have done. It is not for pointing out any wrong things in your work. OK. SORRY in advance.

DON'T TAKE MY POINTS SERIOUSLY.

[durga]

1. Firstly I will filter out the users who are inactive, to asses the actual hold of CE.
2. Take more people in th manage the administrative work of GUI and back end process as well.
3. Have a strict deadline of things which are planned and not loose the heat of the things.

This is what I feel I strongly want to do if I am an Admin. Again point is if i am May be I am just seeing only one side of coin

[ash]

Biggie, can't you just make these two ladies Mods already? Then I can retire peacefully and work on my projects..

[durga]

@ ash!
ha ha ha ha !!!
read the second point..I said to increase the number of admin NOT replace dear! so chill ...

[crazyboy]

Oh ASH Boy!!!!

You are too young to retire from your services. keep doing your good work for another few years.

If I were the mod/admin I would have done following improvment:
1. Disable the userid of inactive members.
2. Keep an eye on spammers.
3. I noticed in the morning only that home page is not updated (rightly said by Shalini)
4. Work on user titles (There should be norms, that after posting these many important threads only you will be promoted to certain title/honour)
5. Apply to feature to rate/importance a thread/post.

But still I guess our Mods/Admin are doing good. We all know that all mods/admin are either working or student so they have responsibilities on their back and they can not devote all of their time to CE. Also too many Admin/mods will make a choatic situation.
So All I can say is GOOD JOB Mods/Admin. Keep doing your good work.

-CB

[The_Big_K]

Of course no one is going to take this personally. As I said, there are lots of ideas you all may have.

Allow me to express few thoughts on the common points you've raised -

1. Updating the home page:

Agreed; it needs loads of work. The current layout does not suit our needs. Moreover, we need dedicated, passionate CEans who can take up responsiblity of owning various sections. Currently, that is the biggest challenge.

2. Disabling inactive users:

We've discussed this before. We are not going to disable/delete inactive users. Rather, try hard to get them back on CE. If they spent time in filling our registration form; I'm sure they will come back. There are users who posted once and became inactive for many months then came back with full swing. CEan Neha & Aashima; for example were very active few months ago. I'm sure they'll be back. CEan Anuragh27Crony was inactive for many months after he registered.

Think of it. You register on CE and forget about it. Then one find day, you read about CE in newspaper or watch us on TV - you feel great! You come back and be active.

3. Administration:

Our current mod team is excellent & very talented. We couldn't have had a better mod team. We'll add more mods in coming few months as our traffic shoots and things grow beyond the bounds. Over the past 3+ years, we've learned that it's always good to hand over the mod responsibility to CEans who perform & add value over a long period of time. We've learned a lot from the mistakes we did in setting up our editorial team. We do not want to repeat mistakes.

CE's goal for next 12 months (or December '09) is to be profitable and to setup steady revenue streams for our core contributors.

Good to see your ideas & feedback. Keep commenting!

[The_Big_K]

@ Ash: At least be with us until we start a pension scheme for mods who retire?

[raj87verma88]

A pension scheme sounds good.

[ash]

2. Disabling inactive users:

We've discussed this before. We are not going to disable/delete inactive users. Rather, try hard to get them back on CE. If they spent time in filling our registration form; I'm sure they will come back. There are users who posted once and became inactive for many months then came back with full swing. CEan Neha & Aashima; for example were very active few months ago. I'm sure they'll be back. CEan Anuragh27Crony was inactive for many months after he registered.

Think of it. You register on CE and forget about it. Then one find day, you read about CE in newspaper or watch us on TV - you feel great! You come back and be active.

Sorry to bring this up again. Well, if you remember our old discussion.. the crux of it was on inactive users with ZERO posts and have not logged in since their registration date.

Honestly, if they do find out about CE again, the likely scenario would be that they would have to register again anyway.. since they forgot their password (and probably the email they used to register)

Would they actually be put off if their 2 year old account was gone? I don't think so. Why would they be if they haven't posted anything?

Just as we are vigilant in banning spammers, I don't see why we cant also be vigilant against redundant registrations. Its like getting rid off the weed in the garden