Personally I've been on quite a few forums where the mods are also posters - didn't seem a problem. Like a few people have said if we all are decent to one another there shouldn't be too many problems...

Hey guys, thought i better make a post in here telling you all i pm'd Ted on Wed night offering to help out if needed. He has replied and kept me up to date (most recent reply saying more details on Monday)

I hope this doesn't upset anyone, i just thought with BB on it's way back soon it may be too much for just 1 or 2 people.

Well done Jen

You will make a good addition to the team

Oooh, go you, Jenstar. You're as brave as the other FMs who have volunteered 

Rexi, I suggested you many, many pages ago in this thread. I hope you've applied too 

No ... I just ignored your post 

I don't blame you   You would be good though, Rexi 

Can't see why anyone would or should be upset Jen... I've not posted in here for ages. The way I see it from Ted's post, they wanted us to take more responsibility with the forum,  We have had a free ride for knocking on three years, so it's put up or shut up time as far as I'm concerned. 

If we don't like the choice of mods,stick our hands up and offer ourselves. I'm more than happy so far with the ones that's offered to give up some of their free time to do it and even if I wasn't I'm not willing to do it, so I'd not be moaning about it anyway 

Ooooh.....welcome aboard Jen!

Ty guys

Good on you for volunteering, Jen.

Well Done Jen!

I just noticed when I logged in today and was taken to my profile things tbh I would like to be given the chance to decide if , now change is afoot ,I was ok with them remaining  there ,my postcode being the main one tbh.

My thoughts entirely Lee.  I don't like my postcode being there tbh, its like posting your phone number for all to see.

I hadn't thought about that - I've just deleted my postcode

Aquarius I was so taken aback tbh....,I want  to remove that,the new terms of agreement doesn't permit  us to post personal information here,and rightly so, imo,our postcodes are as personal as it gets so with the changes we should be allowed to get them off our profiles.

Kaffy we can do it now?

Check your PMs, Lee.

Maybe Lori could help us with this one.  I don't want to go deleting and find myself bopped or summat

  Thanks for that, Lee.  I hadn't noticed that postcodes were included on our profiles. 

OK I confess.. I didn't read the Ts and Cs... (I never do) and i probably should have - I'm starting to think I need to know what's what.     Can you find them anywhere - or anyone want to do a copy and paste job for me?  

Aquarius I doubt they'd bop us for wanting to feel secure...Growly I never noticed before either so was shocked myself.

They popped up when I signed in Kaffy,I skin read them and clicked agree,sorry I have no idea where we can find them now though.

They did for me too Lee.. but I was in work so time was limited - I just clicked ok (bascially because I don't expect I'd break them)  Now, I'm not so sure.

Anyone who was going to take anyones postcode, and murrrrder them in their sleep will have mad a note of them by now so it is too late for you 

But if the new mods haven't been appointed yet, they won't have been given access to the information about individuals that Seattle can see. 

Ah I thought Lee meant on our profiles , visable to all....

Eeeek  Now what?  Erm....checks all the dead bolts

I think you will be fine, Aquarius!

As a 'member' you cannot see oter peoples e-mail addresses and post-codes. Although Ted didn't quite rule out the possibility that the new mods might be able to see these details, I felt the wording suggested it was very unlikely that they would.

We didn't look before we leaped,

Fluffs pls don't take it personally,you've explained how you deal with sensitive info in a daily basis and that is good enough for me.We don't as yet know who or how many will be mods,if they don't work out who then will possibly fill the role.A whole lot of why's  and what if's I know but unsettling none the less,easily remedied by having the choice to either delete emails postcodes etc,or none of it being accessible.

You can find the Terms of Service in your profile, under Your Settings. Look to the upper righthand corner, and you'll see the link.

The post code is an optional field. Nothing bad happens if you remove it.

So we can delete it Lori,can we also delete our email address,some do contain our forenames and or surnames?...Oh and ty for replying.

Thanks Lori.      All looks reasonable apart from the last sentence - but I'm sure the mods appointed won't take that literally.

That may need revising too given the proposed changes to modding.

Lee, although we can easily delete our postcodes, I don't think you could delete your email as that's used as part of the log in procedure. We don't know yet if the community moderators will have access to members emails. If they do, I would expect that any moderator who used emails for any purpose other than for moderation or for truly exceptional circumstances such as someone was missing from the forum causing concern to others - any other use would not be tolerated by the administrators here.

And that's precisely why I have now deleted as much information as I can from my profile, and have also changed my email address to one that doesn't contain my real name. 

I thought peeps were just meaning delete it from showing, not from the site.

No, I don't want my information visible to the new mods.  Like everyone else, I joined this forum in the knowledge that the moderation was carried out by people who had no personal knowledge of any of us and who were on a different continent.  Having new volunteer mods from within our membership is entirely different, particularly when it appears that we will have no say in who will become mods.

Lee, don't worry, I'm not taking any of the feeling expressed regarding this, in any way personally. Apart from the post about the confidentiality of my work, what I am posting here is just as a member and not as a potential mod.