I'd go for SexySteph to be Mof for a Day.
She's very helpful, does not rub people up the wrong way, is not sarcastic and bitchy, knows how to organise stuff, does not seem to have 'cronies' and is generally a good-egg.
In other words, is quite the opposite of me!
My nomination for Mod for the Day would be Espy......
The reasons being:....
he's polite,
can be firm but fair,
always hepful to all
seems to understand the intricacies of IT
nice sense of humour
equi-princess xxx
Like I said I won’t get into the popularity contest thingy, but the subject of what makes a good moderator is intriguing.
I think a good moderator is:
Consistent: That generally requires them to be a fairly well balanced personality but also to have thought things through where common practice is to be applied.
Good under pressure: Not phased by strong or aggressive characters – ready to act sensibly on own initiative when urgent circumstances require.
Collaborative: With the other mods to ensure that the place is run on a consistent basis but also to hear other experienced people’s views.
Good judge of character: It really helps if you can read between the lines to see if someone is being genuine, is a troll or has a damaging agenda.
Generous: Is prepared to explain privately, if necessary, but publicly if others need to learn, why certain actions have been taken.
Hard working: Prepared to put in the time to a lot bone-aching activity on the fora/ads etc.
Good written communication: Essential to avoid misunderstandings.
Competent: No room for airheads.
Intelligent: Needs to be able to hold a sound argument in a controlled way.
Selfless: Prepared to give up their leisure time for the benefit of others.
Innovative: Look at the exchanges on northcoastboy's thread on Missy's good idea on the photoads.
There’s probably more and a GSOH definitely helps!
I don’t suppose Mark has ever analysed it thus but he has made a pretty good job of finding the best people around who fit those criteria in my view.
I tried to re-arrange the criteria into a snappy acronym (‘cos I love doing that sort of thing!) but I gave up – too many Cs and Gs.
To help the man in some small way I think we should make :
Meat2pleaseu
Mod for the day. It will help him ban those in his Q for being Bass'Tards.
Fred
A good mod must be fair
A good mod must be firm
A good mod must be resolute
A good mod must be loyal
A good mod must be stable
A good mod must be Bloody Nuts
Fred
All I wanted to do was 1) inject some form of thinking exercise into the forum and 2) see if your ideas about what makes a good Mod co-incides with ours. 
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Terrible stuff this red wine - I've told her and I'm in real trouble ! 
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so I am sure I will fit right in 
