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Ive sent you a PM

ok i like to help you guys out.

can I join :D

seems like we have a staff drive every two weeks now...

I have PMed!
I would love to help the team.

PMed too. I respect the hard work all the Moddb team put in, and think that it is good for other people to help out aswell.

I think you need more people to delete dead mods, I think its more of a case for scanning through the mod database and deleting dead mods, HL2 has a massive amount of them, and its dissapointing to keep coming over these day in day out, perhaps their could be an activite time line, say no activity after 6months and the mod is deleted.

pmed

even though a mod profile isnt getting updated it doesnt mean dead.

rumor has it some mods get released!

lol frosty, OUR DEPARTMENT IS FULLY STAFFED!

although i have a few games to finish up :/

I sent you a PM, just PM me back!!!

The mod listing will be cleaned up at some point. unfortunately it is sensitive work which does take ages!

Thanks guys for all the PM's so far.

I will be wading through them as soon as I get a chance, And will contact potential applicants this week sometime.

is pay involved?

No, all moddb staff are volunteers. Any profits made from the site go into the costs involved with running it.

Not to be rude or anything, but I sent a pm some weeks ago when you guys were searching for new teammembers, and I never had an answer?

I send a PM to that to, but maybe ill get lucky this time.

Good luck everyone!

If I did, I'd love to help make the ModDB a better, cleaner place. I do definitely agree that the ModDB listings need a cleanup.

Maybe you could put Mods into 'stasis' if they seem dead. Any Mod Leader will understand why you need to do such stuff, and if they plead their case then they can be refreshed in the listings. I'd hazard a guess that if you did something like that, about half the Mods you quarantined would never kick up a fuss, so you'd find out who the dead ones are.

I don't think it should be done on a progress made basis, but simply on when the last News Item :or: Mod Profile update :or: New Team Member was added. Basically the last time those watching saw signs of life.

The ModDB is a great resource for Modders and Gamers alike, if certain Mods don't keep their ModDB fanbase updated they don't deserve to use its services (such as listing, web hosting, file hosting, help wanted pages, etc.).

However, as was mentioned, it's a sensitive area, so care needs to be taken. A PM/Email to the member(s) responsible for their Mod's ModDB listing, warning of possible deletion if no explanation is given, would suffice. If a Mod has been making some behind the scenes progress, or even just that it hasn't made any progress at all because of bigger commitments IRL, the ModDB investigator could ask them to post a news item exaplaining the 'radio silence'. This could be a local News Post (i.e. one not submitted to appear on the ModDB 'home' news page), which would still alert any avid Mod Watchers to the item, and appear only on the mods.moddb/XXXX page.

I don't see anything unfair about giving people a chance to explain themselves, say a month max to allow for vacations, and if not auto-deletion. If a Mod team of key members of that team are going on an extended vacation then the ModDB should ask to be informed so that they can place them into 'hibernation'. When the team's back they can be taken back out of hibernation and be restored to their former listing.

How many people did you plan to hire for mod authorising and such?

wow crispy you put some thought into that, you should make a post in the forums so it could be discussed, even if never implemented.