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Let me make a small introduction and go back in time to year 2014 when Theymos created Croatian local board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=201.0) - here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218992.0;prev_next=next)

Since then Bitcointalk forum and it's local boards went through some changes and activity shifts.

If we look recent posts and activity, you can see that Croatian board is now one of the most active board in forum:
In total we made over 44088 Posts in 1801 Topics.

We want to make our board even better, more active and ready to accept all new members, but for that we need local moderator again.
With all due respect to foreign moderators, I think that they can not understand our language with machine translation, and they can not always react properly.

We also need moderator to clean up some sub-sections and create new ones that can have healthy conversation and ideas.
Potential spam, off-topic and malicious links can be removed much faster.

I am now calling @theymos to bring back our Croatian local mod, and I am answering with my candidates:

1. Daniel91 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=334636) - Member since 2014, Legendary rank and our merit source
2. Trofo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1099980) - Hero Member and active community member from 2017
3. dkbit98 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1410401) - Member since 2018, hero rank
4. Rikafip (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2658890) - Sr.Member and active community member from 2019, currently busy
5. marlboroza (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=787736) - Member since 2016 and Legendary rank, hate him or love him, you all know him, Not much active in local board and forum
6. Lucius (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=533583) - Member since 2015 and Legendary rank Not active in local board


All of the candidates need to be are active, high ranked and with passion to make some changes and improvements.

I am sure that with new mod our board will function much better and that is a good thing for whole Bitcointalk forum.

Are they 'okay' with being a mod though?

Try to start a thread/poll for a new moderator on your local board and then send the data to theymos. That's how the Indonesian board got the mod (assuming there are multiple candidates and all of them want to be a moderator).

Human society made by rules so i believe local community which more than 1k member need a moderator, to put everything under control. Although most of us try to obey rules and acting kindly, there're still shits that need to be removed.
But firsts, did you ask your candidates about are they willing to be a moderator?

Why are you saying that? Why candidates need to be active and high ranked please?  ???

Nobody needs inactive inexperienced newbie moderator, but you can propose Halab mod change in FR board if you want.   :-\

Must always be active indeed the criteria needed to become a moderator, but for Rank must be high, it is not absolute and can also be selected from Members with a Rank above Member - Lengendary.

The most important thing is the contribution that can be given and useful for forum residents and can control the forum well in order to avoid spam posts and other inappropriate posts.

Can discussion who will be a candidate for modertaor and vote if needed.

The names you mentioned are very active members.

Thanks for this suggestion for the moderator, I fully support it.
We already had an example that moderator who doesn't understand Croatian move topic from Croatian board to other local board,  by mistake.
Thanks for the nomination for moderator and if I get the support from  the local community I am ready to take responsibility and help.
I also think that Marlboza and Lucius are very good candidates and I would like to suggest also Dkbit98 as candidate for moderator.
He is also respected member of our local community.

I am sure that the 3 names that you are proposing to become potential moderators on your local board are qualified and experienced users and have high rankings. But that is still not enough because the proposal is only your own assumption and does not yet have the support of most users on your local board.

In your local board, I am very sure that there are enough qualified and experienced users to be a moderator including yourself, try making a polling thread by submitting 3-7 names or more (high-quality, experienced, contributing users, not necessarily ranked high but not a newbie) so that your local board user has the right to choose who deserves to be a moderator there and in my opinion this is a good way because the name that gets the most support is what your local board wants most there.

Look at what Theymos said about the nomination of the german mod, maybe that will help you.

I will add myself to the list, but I think others can do better job than me :)



Sure. Thank you for suggestion.

All right, fair enough.
I was gonna suggest you anyway. ;)

dkbit98, thanks for suggesting me as one of the candidates for our local moderator. However, I would point out some important things that do not work in my favor when it comes to this position.

The first is that I only recently activated in local board, so I think from that side it would not be fair to others who have been active for years there. The other thing that doesn't benefit me is that I'm not a DT member and that I have a neutral trust, so I am not a good candidate by admin criteria. Regarding reports, I am only on 700+, with 100% accuracy.

Our member who meets all the criteria to become a moderator would certainly be marlboroza, but I would certainly support Daniel91 as one of the most active members in our local board, which in no case means that you are not a good choice, on the contrary.

In conclusion, I would say that we do not lack candidates, and that we certainly need a moderator because we are one of the most active local communities. I hope Theymos will consider this request, which is just one in a number of ways to give local boards even more incentive for progress and development as essential parts of forum.

Thanks @dkbit98 for starting this!

Considering the fact that our local board is quite active,  and one of the few ones without moderator, we could certainly use one. I am certain that any of the nominees would do the job properly so choosing would be an easy job, now we just have to get one.


It makes sense to be higher ranked one, as it implies being more experienced and knowledgeable regarding ins&outs of the forum, and specific issues. It doesn't necessarily have to be Legendary account created at the early days of forum or something like that to do the job properly, but some experience is needed, imho.

Regarding activity, I think that should be one of the main factors when deciding about moderator. What's the point of having local moderator that will log in every once in a while, delete few posts, move some topics  and then go offline again without interacting with other members of the board?
Contrary to the popular belief, forum moderator is more than some kind of forum police that will just enforce rules and that's about it (or at least it shouldn't be). Beside doing standard "police" job, good moderator will encourage discussion and  point them to certain direction when/if needed, share news&updates, help members (especially new ones) and increase  overall activity of the board through various initiatives.

I've been active on various forums for almost 20 years, and trust me, good moderator can make a huge difference. Especially now when forums in general ain't as popular as they used to be, unfortunately.

I follow just a few topics on Croatian board and I can't say whether a moderator is needed there.
btw. is it possible that no one is assigned to that position?


regardless of any of the users from this list is a great choice, they all behave very reasonably in the discussion. As I know all are quite active and doing a good job to this forum. Any of these members easy can moderate some of the other boards, not local board only.

Thanks! I'll bribe you with merit later  ;D
Well, from my own perspective I can say that global mods are handling reports just fine, there were few mistakes but mostly nothing which hasn't been handled after, but, on the other hand it is pain to report some posts and probably some users gave up reporting off topic replies and/or automated translations (former requires either translation of both topic and post or content and latter...uhhh (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5083477.0)). Moderator who understand our language could, for example, merge posts in case of multiposting instead removing them (of course, if second post is not just spam or something) or split some topics if there is interesting and/or informative discussion going on but half thread is off topic.

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What interest me is how many reports remained unhandled between February 2017. and April 2018. and how many posts have been reported and reports remained unhandled after April 2018. till today, if there is any statistic for Croatian local of that kind.

Is mister Theymos going to honor us with his answer any time soon? :)
We are eager and ready to make some great changes in our local board 2.0
You can even give us a Trial period, and expect report from us.

I am also asking for support from other DT members to get this thing moving.

@dkbit98

I'm fully supporting your request
The Croatian local board deserves a moderator

Best regards

In the last few days we have had several cases of spam, duplicate posts,  posts in the wrong sections etc.
Since we don't have a local moderator to handle this right away, we had to wait a lot longer for another moderator to fix it after we reported it.

Looks like it's sleeping time in Bitcointalk forum... nobody cares about our local section.
Everyone watching news  :P

I think it's pretty unrealistic to expect this sort of thing to be solved in just 2-3 days, because if everything depends on one person (and this is the case here) the question is how high or low we are on the priority list. I think this kind of stuff still requires patience and perseverance, and we just need to keep this topic alive for the admin to take action and make the decisive move.

We need some shill accounts for purposes of this topic. Any bump account available to hire?  :P
Theymos care about our local board, I can tell you that, but he is probably too busy to reply or he doesn't think that we need moderator. Time will tell which one is it.
Are those reports handled and how long "we" waited for that to happen? For example, I reported 2 posts and 1 topic earlier today, one post is handled pretty fast and other two are undhandled(second post is reported later). One 11 days old report remained unhandled and few reports between are marked as good (I believe mods handled it fast enough).

So you changed your mind now about theymos care  ;D
I remember you said something much different before about it.

Anyway all is good.
All eyes on Bitcoin now. 🔻

I think there are enough active people in our local board who care about getting a moderator, we do not need bumping bot services ;)

I explained my case regarding the position of moderator, what about you, will you accept this position if admin is ask you?

Yes, theymos care about our local and no, I didn't say "theymos doesn't care", I said "theymos doesn't give a fuck (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3221724.msg33867573#msg33867573)" (closest translation). Context (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3212995.0) was very important here, (more context (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3213025.0)) but who gives a fuck about context and how our main AKA bitcoin board  looked (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3212995.msg34223736#msg34223736) like (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3212995.msg35032019#msg35032019) and what was going on at the time I said it and at the time we complained anyway. Perhaps, better expression would have been "it seems that nobody gives a fuck about our local board".

Actually, I would understand if you said "nobody cares about our local board" at the time when it was in big mess and (if my memory serves me well) many reports remained unhandled, but now? Moderators are handling reports, theymos is handling some other things, we also have 2 merit source, I just can't see how is this "nobody cares". Someone obviously do.
Yeah, I know, I was joking.

@marlboroza looks like you are not spending so much time in our local board recently so I think you can not judge clearly.
My recent experience with reporting posts is something opposite from yours.

You also skipped a clear question from Lucius.
Thanks

the lazy way to find topic bumpers accounts and to red tag them. Then you prove your quality to be local board moderator ccc...

He said he was joking... but looks like he has some strange sense of humor as nobody understand the joke so far.

ok, I forgot to put  ";D"

Are you me now?
So there must be many posts you reported and moderators marked them as bad or they are unhandled. I assume you are talking about this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230465.0

As for topic itself, it is something which might interest forum members, but it is not about bitcoin so it should be in Off topic board, as we don't have Off topic board nor any other board where this should be posted, it is posted in main board. It is not for marketplace either because user doesn't sell/buy anything nor they offer service.

As for posts inside topic, there are some off topic replies so I assume you have bunch of unhandled reports.

If you are not talking about this topic, can you provide some examples of posts you reported and they are not handled or they are marked as bad?

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"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

Edit:  --> ;D <--

No.

Several members from our local forum say that there is issue with reports, and you say something else.
I will not post any examples here, but mods can check their log.

I can't say that I have issue with reports in local board when I mostly don't but I did mention that I have issue with one report:
but ok. Lets get back to part where we might agree:


So we need off topic board (for topics such as discount on watches (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230465.0), radioactive rain, how to protect yourself (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5178952.0), flame room (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1615775.0), politics in Croatia (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191040.0), telegram bots (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5076939.0), what is allowed to advertise on twitter and facebook (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217318.0), "merry xmass topic", "happy easter topic", "happy 8. March", where to buy condom and what kind to buy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5107980.0), would you share your crypto information with your girlfriend/wife (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5120687.0) and so on...)

Scam board (for topics such as MLM - dangerous strategy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122633.0), scammer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5091345.0), warning - Coinomi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2399189.0), scam warnings topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5177212.0), another scam (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5213589.0), telegram scam (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093196.0) and so on...)

Perhaps beginners and help board (there are several topics for this board) and altcoin separated from ICO bounty/ann translations. So, first we need admin to give us new boards and then moderator to place everything in correct boards and moderate them everything.

This is biggest problem with Croatian local board. We have a lot of great posts and consequently posters but we are really missing few sub boards to tidy up our section. I agree with malboroza assessment above. Off topic is an absolute must at least. This would clean our Local section significantly and made it much more intuitive and easy to browse, especially for new members.

Situation with report handling is quite good at the moment and I have no objection regarding that. Yes it would be nice that some posts disappear without all of us seeing it and some of us reporting it but at least someone jumps in and handles our reports.

We could also really use local moderator to separate/join some topics when discussion goes in other direction or someone starts a new topic for something already there. This happens quite often and there is no way anybody who isn't local and reading trough our boards every day can help us with that.

Agreed with @Trofo

At the moment, anything you want to write has to go into main section, and is by default if it's not bitcoin related, it's off topic. As such, it's always at risk of being reported and deleted by global mod.
It would really be nice to have someone to bring order into chaos (Anakin?) and open one or two more subsections.

I just took a quick look. Almost all local boards have 'Off-topic' or 'General Discusion' sections. I think it's time to bring some order into the Croatian subforum, and a moderator would certainly be welcome there. I support all suggested members.

We users from the German board just went through the same situation.  :)

We proceeded as follows:
- We created a thread (in our local section) in which users could express their interest in the role as moderator.
- Every user should include his/her report history in the application.
- After a certain time, a poll was created where everyone could vote for his/her favorite candidate.

Even though theymos does not use the result of the poll as its primary influence, we still wanted to know which candidate is favored by the other users.

Here is a statement from theymos on how the final decision is made:


Now we have mole0815 as our new mod, who is really doing a very good job.

Well then, hopefully you will soon also have a local mod.

It has always been like this but as far as I know "Off topic" topics are not moderated unless they violate forum rules.
Yeah, there are some interesting topics for "off topic" and honestly, I would place all merit topics into "off topic" board and leave main board for discussion about bitcoin thingies only.

So, do you also agree that a separate 'Off topic' section would be useful for the Croatian Local Board? Personally, I would like to see only Bitcoin related topics in the main section.

I personaly would.
Off topic would be great, as it would let people talk about stuff unrelated to crypto.
Some will argue that you can do that on other forums, but then again, there's a main Off-topic section, so why not

I see we have no update on this topic so I take the opportunity to bump it up a bit.
Maybe we should hold a vote in the local board?

Asking again, if we can please have some moderation for our local croatian section??

I observed all other local threads, and most off them have more sub-sections and child-boards.

We want to cleanup, make better order  and add few more sub-sections.

I completely agree with the proposal.
In addition to the above in the previous post, due to a lack of understanding of the language, it happened that moderators misplaced some posts before, even moved posts in the wrong part of the forum.
A local moderator, who understands the language, would moderate our local part of the forum much better, in my opinion.

it looks like only members from Croatian board write here. maybe we could start some missed local topics here, certainly, other users and administrators do not visit topics with "other language" in the subject. acts as a message from the administration: If you need more threads in your local board section, use meta for that purpose.
Seriously, a long time ago, I am also started about dedicated thread to Serbian community but I never get an answer from an important member from the forum. did you get any hint here?

Why do we need local moderator in our board?

How about this recent data for one of the reasons... we are one of the local boards with most posts:
Stats are from @DdmrDdmr and his  Merit Dashboard (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4428616.0)

Why is the request for a moderator on the Croatian board ignored by the forum staff? Maybe because we don't have enough spammers so we don't even need a moderator?
It's just my wild theory ...  ;D

Maybe we’re too good and don’t make trouble like the others so then we don’t even need a moderator  ;D ;D
A local moderator who understands the language and is active in our part of the forum would be really welcome.
He could reorganize our local part of the forum, and that would really help.

In case someone says that it's just one month worth of data, they might wanna look at previous months (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231446.0) .Then it gets  obvious that it is pretty much standard now, our local board being among most active ones each month, so this is not just some coincidence or anomaly. And if you look at the top 10 active local boards this year, Croatian is the only one without moderator. Hell, some barely active have mods. Not that I think their  mods should be removed or something , on the contrary, mods are needed for local board development and growth.


I somehow thought that forum moderator role is much more than just being some kind of police. But you might be right, maybe we don't have enough drama going on there :D

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Anyone knows when is the last time some local board got moderator, and did any local board got moderator after loosing one, like it happened to our local board?

It should be, and that part is the one we actually need most in Croatian section. We don't have many spam posts and the ones we do have get deleted quite fast after we report them. Our moderator is needed to split some topics when conversation goes off topic which happens often and results with problems when trying to find some particular posts. That is something only native speaking moderator can do.

Furthermore we desperately need some more subsections, at least off topic section should be a must have.

I know Welsh has replaced the former moderator of the Spanish section. But it's a special case because Welsh was already moderator, so it's not really an nomination.
Mole0815 must be the last moderator of a local section, but I don't have the timeline in mind. It took a few months.
In my case, I started to really make reports from this message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2961670.msg30637750#msg30637750) from Theymos, and I was nominated as mod at the beginning of July 2018 (oh tomorrow I'll celebrate my 2 years as moderator, I thought I'd last 2 months :)). But the situation was unbearable, we were invaded by spammers, bad translators.
I hope you continue to make reports in your section. Without reports, Theymos will think that there is no need for a new mod.

Yeah I guess that situation is a bit different from ours.

I can imagine situation being very bad back in those days, when altcoin market was still very much alive and forum being way more active than it is now.


To be honest, we don't have huge problem with spam not being deleted, and if that is  main criteria for getting a local mod, then our chances are not good. We simply need our board to get organized, move some topics and especially make  few more child boards. With our activity, feels kinda bad not to have local mod, when so many others do.

I fully agree with this. We don't have that many spam attacks - and when an occasional Google translated ICO project hits the board most of us report it fast enough.
In my 2 years here I have only 36 reported posts and global mods really react fast there.

The problem is that our board is clogged and there's not really any order or sense. For a new member it must be hell to find something there.
If a native speaking moderator was appointed, he'd already know what needs to be done - because we've already discussed how we want our board to look like and where do most topics need to be.

All suggested members are highly rated and all of them have my support. If we need to vote we will, but who that one will be is less relevant - any of them would do the same job. And we really need that to happen.

Reports are not only about spam to be deleted. You can make a report if a topic is in the wrong section, if you think part of a topic should be splitted, a topic to be locked, etc...
And you don't need thousands of reports. In six months, I've had made ~400 reports (in a tumultuous period).

This is a bit more complicated, even when a mod make a request for a new board, it can take several months. So without a moderator...

Thank you for feedback and suggestions Halab!
I am reporting and I think other members are reporting anything that is not following rules of the forum.
It would be good if we could global stats of reports for our local board.

Yeah, but the problem here is that we do not have enough sections/subsections as well. Look at other local sections and how many child boards there are - we have only 3 (Main, Marketplace, Altcoins).
So, if we open a 'Happy New Year' thread, it goes into main. If we report it's in the wrong place, where do we report it needs to go to? Same for xy number of topics that simply do not belong in main, but neither in 2 of the other subsections that we have.

And if it takes months to create a child board or 3 of them, well, that's shocking and definitely not something that is normal on a forum and something we should strive towards.

Summer bump.
Market is green, Bitcoin is 10k again, and Croatian board still need new moderator.
I am calling all bitcointalk gods for attention please.
Please listen the voice of our local community.
Have mercy ;D

Almost one month passed since the last bump, time for another one. Once again Croatian local board is among the most active ones, and still waiting for our locally mod , or at least few new child boards that would make our board more organised.

It seems that it has already become a tradition on this forum to wait a very long time for an answer from the admin.
I understand that they are very busy but still it would be nice to have issues like this resolved faster. 

You need to clam down mate. Judging from the last post date per thread on your board, The post growth in your board is not that alarming compared to Indonesia board which already above 1M post.


But I agree with you that Admins are very slow to response on every issue here due to the intensity of report sending to them and also they only have few moderators. Goodluck on the candidates and I believe you should launch poll on your local board to be fair to all your countrymen.

Yeah I guess we have to accept that it takes a time to get any changes on those forum, and getting new admin is a big change. I don't think that admins can help us much here, its probably up to theymos and few others at the top. As Halab said, it takes few months to get new child boards even when you have local mod.

What those 'clam down' words mean exactly?
He is calm and just saying the facts.

And how can you compare Indonesia with over 267 million total population with Croatian few millions including all bordering countries?
And as far as I know Indonesia local have not one but two mods: (bshck and sapta).

So don't just write stupid things like this again and look at this image:

You already mention what I'm pointing out. Stop spouting stupid things since I'm not against this thread. If that what means of calming down to you so be it. I don't like the tone of your post as if you own this forum. You should comprehend my comment before you sling negative comment. If you don't want a constructive criticism, I believe you should privately email this to theymos rather than posting it publicly or maybe you should create a moderated thread.

I provide a data supporting to my claims. What's non sense on pointing out that Croatian board is not that over crowded by judging on last post history?? No need to reply. As if I care to your business.  ::)

Picture says more than a thousands words
You provided nothing.
And why do you comment Indonesian local when you are from Philippines?
Croatian local had more than double posts than Pilipinas local in July, and that also have their own local moderator.

+Ignore

We already had a poll somewhere and a few good local members were proposed and received votes. That part wont be a problem because our local section is not made up of individuals who are hungry for power and influence. We just want to organize it properly and delete the crap that doesn't belong there.
It doesn't help that the admins don't speak our language so mistakes have been made in the past with moving/deleting posts and threads that shouldn't have been deleted. 

This is one of the threads  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5147881.0)I found where local members have voted for appointing a local mod. I can't remember where exactly the candidates were proposed. Someone will probably jump in who knows. 

I really do not care if we get one or not. I think we need one, some people might think that we do not. It would be much easier to navigate with a mod but we're managing regardless. It's not really easy to navigate for new users though.

The thing that really gets on my nerves is the ignoring part. Ok, say 'no mod', we will say ok and that will be it. But completely ignoring the thread for months is really rude. We have another thread where we asked that one of our members gets unbanned - without reply for a year.

It's so pathetic to see that 'oh, don't be angry' attitude, most of the people here would sell their asses for 3 satoshis. I don't even know who the mods are, I don't care, I just know that it takes a bit more to earn respect than just being here long enough. Am I angry? Fucking right I am, I feel like somebody's spitting in my face for years.

And to whoever thinks waiting 6 months for answers is ok - well, good luck in life. Good fucking luck.

And yet again post count data shows that Croatian local board is among most active ones this year. And one of the rare ones without local mod.
There are plenty of local board with way less activity than our board that have their own mod, and we don't say that they shouldn't have mod just because "they are not overcrowded", but that local mod who speaks the language is necessity for a proper development of an active local board such as ours (and any other for that matter )
As you can see we are patient, we don't spam and bump this thread constantly, but some answer would be nice after 6 months of waiting.

I don't think that is something moderator can create, it's up to admin to give us few new boards. IIRC I've PMed him one or maybe more times to create us new board.

Well, if they don't belong in altcoin or marketplace, correct board is either main one or trash.

In fact, this discussion about the new moderator for the Croatian part of the forum, started a long time ago, 6 years ago, at the request of theymos, as you can see here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906983.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906983.0)

Before that, we had a moderator who gave up his job.
After that, we had several discussions about the new moderator, both on our local part of the forum and here in Meta, but nothing concrete happened.
Theymos started it all originally but seems to have forgotten about this issue afterwards.

Did you get an answer or any kind of feedback on those requests?


Maybe it's time to have another poll on our board, just to be ready in case we actually get some kind of official reply here. By the way, do you remember when exactly we lost moderator, how many years ago?

This is a good one :)
And reminder what Theymos said:



I agree.
Make the poll :)
I am sure at one point someone (important) will reply here, and with new moderator we could finally have someone to blame for everything bad in our local  :D

I don't remember very well now, it's been a long time but it seems like about 7 years.
What seems more important to me than that is the fact that we had a moderator when there were fewer members and activities on our local part of the forum.
Another important fact is that theymos promised us a moderator and asked us to choose a candidate from among ourselves and propose to him.
We have done this several times in the last few years but we have never received a response from theymos.
So, we’re not really asking theymos to decide whether our local part of the forum needs a moderator or not because theymos have already decided on that.
We only ask him to select one candidate for moderator from several already proposed candidates here.
And if the main condition is knowledge of English, all candidates fully meet it  ;D

@Daniel, what are you bubbling about again? Theymos open discussion about moderator and he assigned Lauda to that position. That topic should have been locked back then.
Not really:

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No.
In January, 2017.:

It’s been a very long time since that and I’m not young anymore either so I forgot some things, especially around the exact moment of some events  ;D
I thought Lauda had been a moderator much earlier and I had already forgotten when exactly and why he stopped being a moderator.
Thanks for the accurate information.
All of this, however, does not change the essence of what I said in the previous post.
We had a moderator when we had even fewer members and activities, and I expect theymos to assign us a moderator as before.
I think we have quite enough arguments for that request.

Topic updated with some changes and new members added in first posts for candidates.

Monthly bump.
One more month is gone without any answer...

More stats of our recent activity from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4428616.0):

Period 1.08-31.08

843 posts...

https://i.postimg.cc/ydKGP8Q9/chart1.png

One of the most active local boards...

https://i.postimg.cc/nLJT8w4f/chart-2.png

Very interesting info,  thank you for sharing.
I hope our stats are good enough that admins consider our request for local moderator.

When compared with others, Croatian local board was in the one of the most active ones last month (August). These numbers are pretty much standard for us in 2020 so this activity is not just some coincidence, we are consistently there in the upper half of the chart. I just hope that this good activity counts for something and that only criteria isn't number of reported posts.

I would just like to add my support for the election of a moderator for Croatian local board. Our board has relatively good activity compared to others and it's a shame there is no local moderator to make sure everything stays clean and tidy.
Also, I support the idea of creating a new 'Off-topic' section following the example of other local board's. I hope that some of the forum staff will respond to our request.

Thank you Rikafip for one more nice presentation.
Numbers are clear again.
Croatian local board is still one of the most active local boards in forum, and only one without local moderator, but not for long.
I am sure theymos is thinking about us, and we are here to remind him ;)

monthly bump

It seems to me that we have given enough arguments that we really need a local moderator in the Croatian part of the forum.
I understand that the admins are very busy and that the members send them a lot of requests and questions but it would still be nice to finally get some answer.

We also need to make some autumn cleanup in our local forum, make some new Child Boards and rearrange some topics.

Do we need to ask someone to do this or just wait for higher force and miracle from above? :)

If anyone knows more about this please write below.

i also think that we need to do some clean-up in our local sub-section and to re-arrange some topics, maybe add a sub-section Edukacija (Education), which would be good for new members that are entering the forum and crypto world as well
it would be good to have a moderator, but it would be great to have at least one time moderator to make these changes now-and-there, maybe twice a year is acceptable by forum global moderators, with a prepared suggestion from Croatian board side?

I agree with this. If we can't have our local moderator, this would be great too. We don't have much spam in Croatian section, but we desperately need more sections so the newcomers can find posts easily. I really think that "housekeeping" twice a year isn't much work and it would greatly help our Croatian community.

I agree with all these suggestions today but I ask the admins to understand that this is only a temporary solution for our local part of the forum but that we need a long-term solution as soon as possible and that is to get a local moderator.

Yup, agreed as well. For now a part-time solution would be great too, just so we can have a more organized local. It is all clustered and really hard to navigate.

We could write suggestions/comments for one of the global mods, it should not be too much work.

Long-term - we would really need a mod who speaks the language. We are an active board and cover a territory of 20+ million people, not just Croatia.

I am not sure why adding new sections on local board is a problem. some very informative posts remain overwhelmed due to a large number of posts in one topic. I don't think you can expect a positive reaction to your needs here. I was trying to do it for Serbian local board, but unsuccessfully.
in particular, is interesting to me that the Russian local board had a dedicated topic for scam/HYIP... promotion https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=55.0
If there is an explanation, better all fraudsters in one place why is not better all discussions properly sorted. Certainly, if that was the goal, obviously it didn't work very well because we can find a lot of HYIP scams around the forum.

Yep, that baffles me too. I mean, I would understand that mods/admins or whoever is in charge of that are reluctant to add new sections to board that is barely active, but Croatian local board is consistently among more active ones, month after month. If we somehow don't meet criteria for a new mod at the moment, it would be nice to get at least that. It is not a temporary solution and we still need our own mod who understands our language, but better that than nothing.

I don't even have to mention that among boards with similar activity we are the only one without the mod, and generally one of the rare few without one.

Exactly. Also, Croatian board is the only one of the active local boards (other than the Pilipinas) that have only two child boards. This is by no means enough nowadays and many quality topics are hard to find because they get buried in a pile very quickly. In my personal experience, as a new forum member, this was a big obstacle in finding useful information.

One more month gone and still no answer, and similar thing for adding new sections in our local board  :-\
We still need our New Local Moderator.

Well, we finally got two new sections in our local board. Kudos to the admins and staff!  :D
Now all we need is a local moderator and another merit source. I hope we're not asking too much.  ;)

What we are asking for is quite understandable and normal, and should have happened a long time ago, even without our request.
Just look at the statistics of our part of the forum and compare it with the statistics of other local sections.
We really don't need better arguments about the justification of our demands and I believe that the admins will solve this issue very soon.

Yes we still need our new local moderator, and then we could just blame him for everything we don't like, instead of blaming theymos and all other admins :)
Seriously, we need to have new mod and added visible trust feedback in our local trading board.

There is already a complete consensus on this in our community and everyone supports this request.
We have been waiting for the resolution of some other requests for a very long time, even years, so I hope that this request will be resolved faster.  ;D

For a long time we have not received an answer from the administrator to this request of the Croatian local community.
Let this statistic from Rikafip be an additional argument to our request for a local moderator.
Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182644.msg56360296#msg56360296 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182644.msg56360296#msg56360296)
The Croatian section of the forum is the seventh in terms of activity at this forum (number of post) and the only one among the top ten local sections in terms of activity that doesn't have its own moderator.

https://i.postimg.cc/cLjQkjnR/Number-of-posts-per-local-board-7.png

If you think about it, it's been 48 months since theymos said no. The fact that we still don't have a moderator up to this point means the request wasn't granted. My Magic 8 Ball tells me we aren't going to get one now unless we bully theymos into promoting someone.

Our problem is that our board is too clean. We don't have too much crap and shitposts and since moderators here are mainly seen as someone who deletes posts, I guess theymos doesn't feel the need to get us one.
Where are shitposters and spammers when you need them...

Maybe I hit some of his weak spot with titanic meme, or maybe Cyrus decides to do something similar like with unban requests. ;)
Nothing is impossible, and I would like to see our board with moderator before my account dies (in forum).

I just reported one today while you were sleeping ;)

I know. I have been saying that from the start. I don't know how the situation is in other more active boards like the Russian or the Turkish one, but I am guessing it's pretty bad. Compared to them, we are surely in a much better position. All the admins have to do is check the number of reported and handled reports from our local board to understand if any action needs to be taken. Since that stat isn't convincing... 

I'm sure you know that very well, but let's not poke a hornet's nest.  ;)



Me too. Maybe we'll get a moderator when the new forum software goes live?  :D

[don't mind me, I'm just feeling sarcastically pessimistic today.]

Why are you both afraid to mention that name?  :D
Does slackovic use a notification bot?  ::)

Yeah, of course I do. Otherwise I wouldn't know when somebody mentions me in posts like this ;D

I also think that our board doesn't need a dedicated moderator only for the Croatian board. There aren't many spam posts there and if someone posts spam, it usually gets reported and deleted pretty fast.