Yes, it's summer.
The season of fun, outdoors, joy! Moderators are humans too, they need to go have fun and go outdoors during the summer!
Even if they can get out after oldcp, mods aren't made to be stressed upon how they need to work REALLY hard for a GAME.
You're putting them in a sort of box!
Let them have freedom, I'm sure people can report things!

I am VERY sorry if my head speaks foul language, but it's what I think.

Master Jakey said on 19th May 2015 12:10 PM:
Yes, it's summer.
The season of fun, outdoors, joy! Moderators are humans too, they need to go have fun and go outdoors during the summer!
Even if they can get out after oldcp, mods aren't made to be stressed upon how they need to work REALLY hard for a GAME.
You're putting them in a sort of box!
Let them have freedom, I'm sure people can report things!

I am VERY sorry if my head speaks foul language, but it's what I think.

Yes, they are humans too. But 'Moderator' is not just a title, it is a job, and with any job, you must fulfil your duties or you'll find yourself being excused from your job.
The minimum time set in place isn't even that intensive - I could easily spend that long online, and there's people who can be on for WAY longer.

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I see that you may decrease the time each week, but I strongly disagree with this policy for many many reasons.

First of all, I see that we have time for moderating, but the thing is, we are not ensured to being 3 hours and 20 minutes a day. (I see that you may decrease the times) Even so, this whole idea is crazy. You are pretty much forcing the moderators that were HIRED for a reason to be on whenever possible. The reason is, people are in school at different times, so someone could start summer in like 2 months, but that's not all. Some people cannot come because it is unhealthy. We can only be on so much, because it hurts some people when being on too long. Also, we all have parents, and are all kids, that means that our parents will usually give us an amount of time we can be on. If we as mods and future mods have to follow this policy, I agree that administrators should have one similar, like 6-12 hours a week, because after all, they are the same as us, and will probably have as much time on their hands as we do. Also, this is summer. Are you actually forcing people to get on if they do not want to? I mean, we might be playing other games, spending time with family, but that is not the point. We all have events and special times, and we may be inactive for a certain period of time due to sports, family, etc. I get that you'd understand, but everyone is busy, and when there are new moderators, you will force this policy on them too.

I would like to see you and even some of the other administrators to get on as long as we do. You cannot simply put a label on someone if you have not tested it out. What I am saying is that you never tried this out. You should have done this a week before, and seen how long each of the mods get on. You can figure out an average, and see how much they would do compared to the next week because it is only fair if you know before taking any actions. This is not a good policy, because we should have to be on a certain amount of hours, we should be being responsible, not slacking off, and there should be a policy to make sure that moderators do their jobs in the certain amount of time they have, not how long they can be on. You see, If you continue this with 24 hours a week, most moderators may not want to come on after their 3 and a half hours, and it is almost impossible to catch up with in the later time that we have. Do whatever you want, but when you have like 10 moderators online, with like 2 doing their job and the other half texting, on xat, forums, etc, it will not be so effective will it?

With testing it out, you should have looked at the pattern for a month, yes, a month. You should have noticed a pattern if the moderators were active or not. Damen said we don't have to spend all our time here, and this seems like you are forcing us to if we want to keep our ranks. Some of us only come on at spare time, and with that spare time, we must always be alert and never play around for 3 and a half hours? Seems unfair. I believe this should be taken away, or you should temporarily take it away to test it. We need to know what we can do, not what we are forced to do. Anyways, this is not a good idea, with our time, we should be able to have fun, do what we want, within our time limit. There are so many components that you didn't think about before making this. I believe it is a good plan to do this, but it is horrible with the circumstances you are making. I believe you should temporarily REMOVE this whole thing, and see how long we each get on. Also, you guys as admins should join in too, seeing how tough our jobs really are, because we were all moderators at some point, talking to the administrators and moderators. Finally, you should realize what moderators are doing, and not slacking off, because there could be many moderators, but they cannot always get on, or they slack off with their time. Many have school when others are off, and it is the other way around. You are very busy I see, but you make it way to hard to have rules when YOU don't even FOLLOW your OWN rules. You can take some time off from whatever you do to join in and partake in playing, not on xat, but on oldcp also. I believe this has many flaws, it it should be fixed. You are just making all the good moderators that were hired be forced to spend all their time here even though you can't do the same. Change it, this is horrible if you don't change it.

Realize that this is only my opinion, yet it is very strong. I just want this to be changed, or taken away, because moderators should not always have to get on, they need to not slack off.