User blog comment:3primetime3/Urgent: Please vote!/@comment-26235098-20150420040905

"What can we admins do to improve our behavior? Please let us know! "

Maybe this could be a separate post/thread?

My suggestions, fwiw:

Think of yourselves as teachers, guides, and try to be gentle. Think of yourselves as moderators even if from a technical user rights perspective, this word has a different meaning. What does this involve:

-- With newly registered users -- consider yourselves a welcoming committee, in the positive sense.. Reach out to them.

-- With anons -- some are spams, some are fly bys and some are regulars. Not always obvious who is who. Try to make encouraging suggestions, rather than calling people out, even when it is legit to call them out because they broke a rule or disrespect you. Acting like a moderator means, call them out gently, or inform/remind them gently about a specific rule they need to observe.

-- Role models, good and bad traits -- May I suggest, in regards to your request for nominees, Primetime, that examples/role models be named only for positive traits. For negative traits... naming names does not seem useful, and might even be harmful if it creates bad feeling.

The admins with whom I've had contact, esp gone to for help, have been helpful, but my contact has been pretty limited, so can't really say one or the other is best. So far, I have a very good impression of Wildones, I'll say that. What I like/admire is that Wildones seems to be able to keep cool and polite even when others are emotional, which I feel is an important asset to admins and mods. At least from what I've seen so far, lol.