Today the community manager at Chowhound.com (GameSpot's sister site) reminded me about Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD). So, happy CMAD day to me and any others that deal with internet communities!

Today is the start of a troubling week for me because I'm concerned that tomorrow's Jury Duty won't allow me to be in for the Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament at our offices on Thursday. To put my mind at ease I figured I'd work a bit tonight to catch up on things I need to do tomorrow (but I'll be in Jury Duty). I would have loved if it was ANY other week this month, and sadly I already had them postpone this last September (aka that card was already used). :o

One of the things I finally posted tonight (after discussion with mods for a month now) is a new ongoing open moderation discussion in the Ask the Mods forum. We find so many abuse reports that are cleared from our moderation queue every day. I wanted to make sure people are grasping just how much effort we put into training our moderators about the rules we have on the site. Moderation isn't about punishment nor does it give any of us pleasure to penalize our members for breaking the rules. We do not prowl every single area on the site, we heavily rely on abuse reports you all make. To start off the open moderation discussion (OMD) I felt it would be good to start with the foundation of the rules in hope of shedding some light.

On a side note, I still haven't given hope on cutting that video! I will stay up one night just to complete it before my January 31 deadline!