Posted by notfred on May 10, 2007, at 11:30:05
In reply to Surveys, and names, and I statements, Oh my!, posted by gardenergirl on May 8, 2007, at 19:35:40
" Dr. Bob,
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> You've never asked the deputies to "hold down the fort" indefinitely. You've not provided the deputies with adequate tools and resources to do so. You've made no formal (or otherwise) changes in policy to increase deputy authority to make up for the void you've left. You have done little to make up for the giant deficit of support for the deputies while continuing to rack up a greater "support debt"."
This is troubling. I really have no way of knowing
how mush dr bob checks in with this site. I support him not being highly envolved and posting a lot as I see a big conflict of intrest with being owner, moderator, and researcher. Dr. Bob
has created a system where the deputies can always defer to Dr Bob. As it should be considering they are volenteers. There is a big problem if Dr Bob
is not present to decide on the issues the depuries do not feel comfortable in deciding/acting on. So here we have a formar depuity saying "You've never asked the deputies to hold down the fort" indefinitely." I trust GG so it seems to be Dr Bob has been motly absent as of late. Given the organizational structure DR Bob has set up this site starts falling apart if he does not spend enough time to address the issues the deputies defer to him. T have noticed the "notify the admins" function gets is not always
delt with in a timely manner. (there are some cases where I could see why the admins & Dr Bob
may resonably choose not to respond, due to volume.)It comes down to this, if you start a board like this and it collects this many users you have a resondsibility to either manage it or set up a system so others can. Nor should it get to the point that several deputies are so overwhelmed
and unsupported that they quit.
poster:notfred
thread:756918
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