Exactly. Not enough porno going on on my view.

I worry that mods would ruin a good thing here.

I think we do a good job of policing ourselves. We get out of hand sometimes. But what family doesn't? And that's what we are like here, family.

Mods to get rid of spam? Ok. No problem.

Mods to "moderate" the users? Nope. Bad idea.

Grem
I worry that mods would ruin a good thing here.

I honestly don't think my turning into a sort of de facto mod for the X series forums has had any negative effects. But a lot of typos in thread titles have been fixed, duplicate posts have been removed, I've started/contributed many threads that people have found useful, and been able to provide some feedback directly to Cakewalk. The (very) few incidents that people had were handled by PMs, no one was banned, and the problems basically went away of their own accord. 
 
As I've said before, I think "host" is a more appropriate description of the role. The fact that the community is largely self-policing is what makes this possible.

My worries Mr. Anderton is that you know how to handle forums. You have been doing it for years and I've seen you in action. What happens when you are replaced? 

InstrEd
My worries Mr. Anderton is that you know how to handle forums. You have been doing it for years and I've seen you in action. What happens when you are replaced? 

Rumor has it that Behringer is making a software model of him right now! 

InstrEd
My worries Mr. Anderton is that you know how to handle forums. You have been doing it for years and I've seen you in action.

 
Fortunately, it's a learnable skill. If Cakewalk wanted me to provide basic training to the other hosts/mods, I'd be happy to do so (another reason for a private forum).
 

What happens when you are replaced?

 
I don't know if CW has plans to replace me, but the forum runs so smoothly it doesn't require much of my time...I can keep doing what I'm doing if requested.
 
 

Grem
I worry that mods would ruin a good thing here.

I think we do a good job of policing ourselves. We get out of hand sometimes. But what family doesn't? And that's what we are like here, family.

Mods to get rid of spam? Ok. No problem.

Mods to "moderate" the users? Nope. Bad idea.

This.
 
Don't try to fix what isn't broken.
 
 

paulo
Don't try to fix what isn't broken.

I admit that removing typos, deleting duplicate posts, initiating more threads, and providing another conduit to Cakewalk ("hey Noel, there's a thread you should check out") don't qualify as fixing things that are high-level "broken." But, I do think they qualify as improvements. While I agree it's not good practice to fix things that aren't broken, I do believe there is always room for improvement. 
 
 
Also, think of all the people who come into this forum asking questions that are more appropriate for other forums, specifically because this one gets more traffic and is more likely to furnish an answer. If people could count on more answers and focused dialog in all the forums, that would be an improvement as well.
 
Forums with a strong tendency toward self-policing are the ideal environment for moderators. They don't have to spend time being hallroom monitors, which gives them more time to be hosts. It seems premature to dismiss something with at the least the potential to be beneficial. In the first post, Willy specific mentions doing this for a trial period. If it sucks, you stop doing it. If it's great, you keep it.
 
Maybe I'm just naive, but I can't imagine that people drawn from this community would create a doomsday scenario of incompetence and agenda-driven vendettas. Nor do I think they would create a utopian forum that dazzles people into a state of mind-boggling amazement. Maybe Cakewalk has more grandiose goals, but I think a modest improvement in the user experience would be sufficient.
 
 
 
 

dubdisciple
I guess I must be missing all this inappropriate content.  Any sexual innuendo is mild enough to be on daytime tv and far below what any kid would see on prime time tv daily. Considering the forum has language filters that already censor completely harmless words that may contain letters of possibly objectionable words. In fact, i have seen more sexual innuendo in modern animated films. There are occasional posts that venture into politics but that is mostly in the coffeehouse area and not a big deal because that area is mostly filled with a fairly homogenous demographic that probably considers their political talk "normal" .  Even some of the more bizarre rants are more weird than political.  Again, maybe I am missing something. I think "family friendly" is highly subjective anyway.  "Family friendly" to a 50+ conservative white male from the bible belt is probably different than what  a 22 year old liberal female Berkely grad considers family friendly. I struggled with this issue when I was responsible for policing content on a tv station.  I finally settled on allowing anything that would not be censored on daytime network tv.  Bottom line is it seems like a request to address a problem that does not actually exist.

There are things on daytime TV that violate the forum TOS. Like the booking.com commercials and their play on words... there was one today (I cannot remember what they were advertising, maybe a phone) that had a word that would normally be "Ship high in transit" but was another, similar sounding word. I am pretty sure that runs afoul the TOS here. I figure not many people care, but I do.
 
J

I'd rather talk about forum options rather than crime and punishment.
 
Like, how about the forum makes it easy to post pictures in support of our posts. I have lots of cool things that this crowd would find interesting but posting pictures is a pain right now.