Thread: Moderator vs Volunteer Moderator

On some forums, the admins will call moderators volunteer moderators instead of just mods, my guess is so members know moderators aren't paid staff.

Which do you prefer, and/or find better? Moderator, or volunteer moderator?

Personally, it doesn't matter to me. I think they both sound pretty good.

I think moderator sounds fine... Most of the time, at least from the forums I've been a member of, staff aren't paid and most of the people know that.

Since I do not really know many forums that pay there staff I find that just Moderator is fine. See no need for a 'volunteer mod' when most of the time they only get paid in forum posts anyway.

At Vietnam we seperate 2 moderator's group: Real Moderator (with full moderator right) and Trial Moderator (which has limited time for testing before upgrading to Real Moderator). We don't have "Paid Moderator".

Moderator is fine. It seems to be standard that you DON'T get paid to moderate forums..I've yet to come across a forum that pays staff.