When body language communications, such as nodding heads or shaking heads occurred, the moderator made a verbal comment (e.g., "I see nodding heads, can someone tell me more").
When ABC News' Carole Simpson was hired as the first female and African American presidential debate moderator in 1992, it never occurred to her that two decades would pass without another being chosen.
This could have occurred because the moderators and note-takers were of a medical background, and hence the participants may have had a desire to show preference for the use of skilled care.
For social media support, interactions between moderators and customers occur in text, via instant messages, Facebook or e-mail.
Another key element was the use of moderators to encourage, clarify, and integrate the discussions that occurred on message boards but, equally important, to 'weave together' the input from the conference participants into a global perspective each day.
2.4 Again, no snowball effect: Although in several groups the moderators actively asked participants to invite their friends, no snowball effect occurred.
The almost inaudible episode occurred as the Vermont senator launched into his second tirade of the night against Kissinger, during which one of the PBS moderators could be heard gently exhaling and whispering "oh God".
A: Exceptions to the marker rule occur when moderators remove duplicate posts, spam, or sometimes, when a comment or post is removed, it has been necessary to delete subsequent messages which refer to explicitly or quote from the original (removed) comment, in order to preserve some notion of conversational thread.
These usually occur when the moderator says or asks something that startles one or both candidates, forcing them to stop flipping through the memorized file cards in their heads.
"We want to prevent another disaster from occurring, where the moderators become the story," said Hogan Gidley, a senior adviser to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's campaign.
