LIST OF FORUM MODERATORS

[Eduardo Manchón]

This is the list of moderators of Panoramio:

list edited by HVB 12 May 2013

© Andre Speek	Dutch, English
© mimipet.com	Bulgarian
Aleksander Nikolov	Bulgarian
Baycrest	Chinese
Buelipix	German
D. Alexandru Ioan	Romania
Daniela Brocca	Italian, English
David Soler	Catalan
DL1LAM	German
Draken	Spanish, English
Fsup	German, English
dzonihsv	Serbian
Graciel.la Vidal	Catalan
hranom	Ukraine
hvbemmel	Dutch, English, German
i.bulyha	Ukraine
Igor Fedotenkov	Russian
IPAAT	Russian
Ishiki	Japanese
Jordi Carbonell	Catalan
Matthew Walters	English
Nguyen Bang Giang	Vietnamese, Polish
NightHunter	Hungarian
Panamon_Creel	English - German
RoarX	English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Rumpelstiltskin	Polish
Tomas K☼h☼ut	Czech, Slovak, English
Vasily Badin	Russian
Volkan Yuksel	Turkish, English
Will51	French

Moderators are volunteers that contribute taking care of the forum; answering questions, deleting spam, moving post to the correct and blocking threads when necessary. They don't have moderator rights out of the forum, but they are very fast and helpful communicating issues or problems to the administrators.

Eduardo Manchón

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The moderators (short singular form: "mod" are users of the forum who are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralizing spam and spambots etc.). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a reliable user to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as respond to specific complaints. They also can do anything to lend a helping hand to a user in need. Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privileges over only a particular topic or section (called 'local'), while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads, locking, renaming, stickying of threads, banning, suspending, unsuspending, unbanning, warning the members, or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.

'Junior Modding', 'Backseat Modding', or 'Forum copping' can refer negatively to the behaviour of ordinary users who take a moderator-like tone in criticizing other members.

Essentially, it is the duty of the moderator to manage the day-to-day affairs of a forum or board as it applies to the stream of user contributions and interactions. The relative effectiveness of this user management directly impacts the quality of a forum in general, its appeal, and its usefulness as a community of interrelated users.

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