[jennandtonic]

Well ^^

1) INFP's tend to decide through personal values (Fi). In the case of situations when 'unpopular' decisions need to be made, I doubt INFP's can/dare/will make a decision that is just, in a neutral, socially validated sense.
2) INFP's will be able to relate so well to other INFP's, to the point of being torn up between possibilities considering modding a forum. This makes decision making difficult and not a fun job. In general, anyone who performs a job they don't like will get tired of it. It's a turn off, rather than a stimulant.

I dunno, I've modded another form for several years and if I do say so myself I'm pretty good, I tend to look at it from everyone's side even if the perpetrator(s) are people I like, and then I make my decisions; and I'm great at sensing and diffusing potentially tense situations.

HOWEVER, perhaps I'm not even INFP at all, this week I'm having another mini-identity crisis, wondering about my personality type...I got to looking at the functions (again) and started to wonder if I had it wrong all along. IDK IDK, this personality type stuff is heavy business.

 

[jennandtonic]

Of course I could be wrong - I generalize and I theorize. But at the moment, yeah I'm not convinced that INFP would be the best suited for the job.

As a sidenote, I've always had the impression you weren't a 'typical' INFP - which you may interpret as a compliment, yes. ^^

I do take that as a compliment.

I'm keeping my personality listed as INFP for now but the more I see of the behavior of INFPs here the less I'm convinced I'm INFP. If I had met one in "real life," one that was healthy and adult or at least my age (26), maybe I would know. Either many of the INFPs here are all wrong, or I am, and I kind of think it could be the latter.

In any case, I'm great at mediation and putting myself in others' shoes so I'm pretty good at modding. However, from what I've seen perhaps some INFPs would get too emotionally involved to mediate...

 

[jennandtonic]

@basementbugs and @ethylester mentioned the idea of creating subsections of the subforum. I'm not sure that's possible with the software, but it might help quite a bit, so I'll ask Happy if it's possible. So far, I've been focusing on merging identical threads and sticking the busiest ones. I would like to have less sticky threads, but as long as they're busy, I'll keep them there. I won't be deleting threads that don't violate the rules, so no worries there. They'll either be combined with others or moved somewhere else if they belong there.

I like the idea of thread merging better than subforums. Reasons being:
-Sometimes posts for Sub-sub forums are just a little bit too hard to categorize, and you'd end up having people posting in the wrong ones and put things where they didn't belong. A LOT. Nothing against the people it's just sometimes threads are a hybrid and you just don't know where to stick them (I see this again and again at my other modding "job.").
- Either that or these sub-sub forums would be hard to find and you'd have people posting them in the general area and you'd be right back to where you started.

It's easier to merge and redirect, in my experience. Of course, if that isn't the way it ends up going that's ok too, I'm just sharing my thoughts on the matter.

 

[jennandtonic]

I guess that's why my suggestion was for only one subforum -- a sort of "games/long-running threads" one. And within that subforum, I'd still support the merging of threads, of course. No need to have tons of similar threads floating about just because they're in their own subforum. The ultimate objective is to do as much as possible to make the place easy for members to navigate.

I do agree that tons of different subforums could likely be more confusing than helpful, yes. I don't see the INFP forum as so overwhelmingly out of control that it needs any more than just a separate section for the types of threads I mentioned above.

Yes, maybe one sub-sub forum wouldn't be bad. A bunch would definitely be too scattered.