Announcement April Fools 2015 - Announcement - BYC Staff / Moderator Term Limits & Retirement

[bamadude]

How bout anarchy

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Thank you moderators!

 

[Gargoyle]

How bout anarchy

Sounds good. Lets vote on it.

 

[DUCKOBSESSED]

How bout anarchy

Love it!

 

[1muttsfan]

Thanks to all the mods, past, present and future, for doing a tough and demanding job.

BYC has changed many times (remember when the format changed and the sky was falling! ), and has survived them all. We will certainly miss the retiree's assistance, but they will still be here, part of our community.

In our local historical society, in which I am a board member, the best way to get a new post is to miss a meeting. That is how I got to be secretary.

 

[seminolewind]

why is everyone so nice to moderators?

I have no idea

 

[draye]

Over the last three years there has been a tremendous increased interest in our members wanting to become a BYC staff member/moderator. The job is often hard and thankless, but our BYC Moderators are first-in-class members that love our community and put in a tremendous amount of time to help ensure that our millions of site visitors every month have an enjoyable experience! With that said, we've decided to start limiting all the staff/moderators to one year of service. This will allow many of our other amazing members the opportunity to become members of our team.

So, over the next two weeks, we'll be retiring the following moderators and thank them for their service:

• elevan
• Happy Chooks
• Judy
• Lothiriel
• sumi
• The Chicken Lady
• Wynette
• terrielacy

(NOTE: each of these moderators can re-sumbit to become moderators again, but only after a one-year break in service)

Please take a moment to thank these amazing people for their years of great help and support to our wonderful community!

Starting tomorrow, the moderators (retiring and continuing) will be reviewing our most active and helpful members. Once that process is complete, we will select a handful to invite to join our team to replace those that will be retiring.

You can read more details about our moderator requirements from our FAQ's here:

Q: How do I become a moderator?        
A: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/13536/how-do-you-become-a-moderator

Happy retirement to each of you moderators. Sad to see you go, but hopefully I'll see you again in at least a year.


You each have made our community better.

 

[tntchix]

Yep, out with the old and in with the new. It was an amazing experience working with Rob and the rest of the team…. I'm not good with departure notes, so I'll just say "Good Luck" to the new mods!

Sumi, you and I had a weird start with the GFM conversation

but you have become my friend. Great job keeping it all together on here. Now we have even more time for the your thread. LOL

Holy Crow!! I am a NEW moderator!! How am I going to handle all you people with all the greatest in the world mods being retired!!!

You got this. You'll get new blood and it'll be great.

It's been a really nice experience over the past few years. Maybe now my house will get cleaned.

not if you are still hanging out on byc

Leyla, we're just a PM away, and always happy to help "offline" if you should ever need it.

Best of luck!

That's what I love about this forum.

Quote:

Get rid of them I say LOL

Mods are like wine - they get better with age - until they dont

I would like to nominate @bamadude

Gosh I hope that admin can take a joke LOL

Thank you to all the retiring moderators.

Hope you all can have a Moderator Emeritus Badge to display for all eternity to let all in the future know your part in helping to make BYC the most trusted forum on the net.

Job Well Done..

How bout anarchy

...and here he is...

but seriously, Thank you to all of you for your help and information. Hope you all come back to mod again next year!

 

[peep peep peep]

Thank you so much moderators for your wonderful help! I will miss you all so much ;.; ;.; ;.; ;.;

Thanks for tolerating me (Haha. I know I can be pretty ridiculous sometimes...But who needs me to tell you that? )




I will miss you all SO MUCH and I hope you guys will still be on here so we can talk to you all!




We need a cool name for the retiring mods!! Any ideas? Something cool ^-^ .

 

[ozexpat]

We need a cool name for the retiring mods!! Any ideas? Something cool ^-^ .

I can think of names I have called them in the past....