Board Thread:Staff Discussion/@comment-7424710-20170319022938

Remember; Staff Only thread.

Chat Mods, Discussions Mods, and Admins, you're required here for a discussion for a new way to optimize the chatroom after some heavy debates and eventually the demotion of one of our previously inactive moderators. '''The main flaw is that due to our low numbers, we may not be able to be on for all points of time during an active chatroom. This makes us vulnerable to trolls and whatnot entering the chatroom without any supervision to stop it.'''

I've talked with Admins and a small group of people on this before, and I believe I have come up with an idea that can lay out how we can find our vulnerable hours and when we can tell when our staff can be around. The key is scheduling. DON'T confuse this with shifts. The last thing I would want to do is try to force people to come onto chat.

Think of it as the way I have my moderating times set up on my main profile:

Mon - Fri.: 4 PM - 10 PM (CST)

Sat - Sun.: 11 AM - 11 PM (CST)

Times are always subject to changes if there are sudden events or special exceptions.

It shows the times that I'm most likely to be available. Note I'm not saying I'll always be available, it just shows the estimates. Regardless of you being there on those times or not, it still brings up a predicted timeframe of your appearance here.

Also note that it shows different dates on this schedule. If you work from 8 AM to 2 PM on a Monday but 5 PM to 10 PM on a Tuesday, that's fine. I don't care much about scheduling as long as you know when you're most likely going to be around.

Due to everyone being in different time schedules, we'll have to use a single time zone to express our schedules. Most of the mods I know seem to be in Central Time Zone, so we'll use that.

If you're not already CST like me, if you want, you can post both your native time zone time listings and the CST versions like this example below with someone in Eastern Time Zone:

Mon - Fri.: 5 PM - 11 PM (EST) | 4 PM - 10 PM (CST)

Sat - Sun.: 12 PM - 12 AM (EST) | 11 AM - 11 PM (CST)

Or you can just use the CST simplified version if you don't feel like typing out your own time zone. I assume a quick Google can find a converter if you don't know how to convert from your time zone to Central.

'''Once all the mods have listed their schedules, we'll compare to see what time mods are most active and what times there are gaps. The range of time we're looking for activity is within 8 AM CST to 1 AM CST''', since times after 2 AM to 7 AM seem to be the least populated if not vacant. Though if you disagree, please argue otherwise in the comments below.

Have fun. 