The Oceania category has been running since early November 2022 and we are required to review the status of the category’s moderators at least once a year.
If you want to know what the guidelines for moderators are then take a look at the Moderator selection criteria. I would like to highlight that if anybody feels that a moderator has stopped fulfilling any of the points in the requirements list at any time, they can flag it privately to the @forums-governance team and do not need to wait for the annual review.
@Sam_Wilson has indicated that he does not wish to continue as a moderator, which leaves this category’s moderators as:
The Oceania category has had 58 new topics over the last ~1.3 years which is about one per week. As far as I know over the same period there has been three moderator actions, or about one every 5 months. Given the low level of traffic three moderators appears to be enough.
What we are seeking is any comments on:
Are the moderators fulfilling the requirements of the role? (if you want to respond privately you can do this to @forums-governance)
Is three moderators enough for this category?
Does anybody wish to volunteer as a moderator, if you think this answer to 2 is no?
With the lack of traffic & issues, yes, 3 would seem to be enough.
No, thanks very much!
Slightly OT Footnote:
A bit surprising (to me at least) that there’s so little traffic here, when AU list still gets some posts that aren’t repeated here, & Oceania forum on Discord is quite busy?
I was the opposite. One post a week was more than I would have guessed.
For comparison the talk-au list has had 57 new topics over the same period if you go off the message threading in the mail archive talk-au. The conversation do go on for longer on the mail list, for example that NPWS path deletion has been an ongoing topic since September last year.
