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Greetings fellow Oceanian OSMers,

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:

  1. Are the moderators fulfilling the requirements of the role? (if you want to respond privately you can do this to @forums-governance)
  2. Is three moderators enough for this category?
  3. Does anybody wish to volunteer as a moderator, if you think this answer to 2 is no?

This topic will be open for 7 days.

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I’ve only been around for a while, but I think that the moderators are doing a fine job, and at one post per week, 3 is plenty.

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IMHO

  1. Yes you are, with thanks for your efforts! :+1:

  2. With the lack of traffic & issues, yes, 3 would seem to be enough.

  3. No, thanks very much! :rofl:

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?

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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.

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I think 3 moderators is sufficient given the number of messages. Thanks for your service.

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Thanks for the post. I’m not very active here but I do keep an eye on activity, and I’m sure the 3 mods will be plenty and are doing a fine job.

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Thanks everybody for your words of praise.

Thanks to @Sam_Wilson for your contribution as a moderator.

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