Post active hours for Boards Discord

KFCeytron·Nov 11, 2018·2 votes·3,263 views

I can totally wait a few minutes for a mod to respond to a ping, or even a couple hours, but if it takes more than 10 or 20 hours I'm eventually going to have to eat or sleep or something and I won't be around to talk to the mod who pulls me into a room and waits a few minutes before closing it. Could the Discord get some sort of "we're away, back at N:00" thing? Or an estimated wait time indicator? Taking it out of real time would be fine, too; I'd much rather have a conversation that takes a few minutes of my time over the course of a few days than waste hours of attention only to not have a conversation at all.

Note: this isn't a complaint. I'm just thinking that maybe the process of speaking with a mod could be improved.

2 Comments

ModUlanopoNov 11, 20182 votes

I gotchu. Glad I was able to help.

Imperial PandaaNov 11, 20181 votes

Making an estimated wait time thing wouldn't really be the most practical thing though. Since it is purely a volunteer moderation. There will be times that unavailability will just happen to overlap.

Making available hours means some mods will have to make sure they are available during such; pretty much making it feel like a job at that point. Sonwhile it might need some improvement, hours available and wait time may not be the avenues to look at.