If any of you are about to appoint another person to be moderator of the tribe you moderate be prepared for a malfunction. If you do try it, leave settings such as members can invite other people on, in case it doesn't work.

It seems there is a bug in the system when one tries to appoint a new moderater the last couple of days. Yesterday I read that someone had a similar situation to what I today have experienced. It may be happening to private tribes only, but I have a feeling it is happening with all tribes, based on the situation I read in the tribe Shamanism (which I'm not in but was reading out of concern with how the outgoing mod was being treated by the rest of the tribe.)

In Shamanism, a public tribe, the moderator wanted to appoint a new mod, and I'm thinking she did indeed do that rather than just leave without appointing anyone, which is what I thought happened when I looked at it yesterday.

In my case, I was just appointed moderator of a private tribe, a temporary position while the mod went away for a little while and wouldn't be checking the internet. We thought this was a wise move. Many of you in this tribe can probably relate, as we are wishing that SFSlim had appointed another moderator during the time of his absence.

So in the private tribe I'm in the moderator attempted to appoint me as moderator while she was away. I received a PM saying that I am now the moderator, but in fact I have no moderator controls for the private tribe, and the mod spot says "choose a new moderator".

Moderators, this is my alert. Don't change mods right now, until this bug has been fixed, or your tribe will be left unmoderated. And I don't know how long it can take to get a mod put back in place once this has happened.

If you are still tempted to appoint a new moderator and the tribe is moderated or private, make sure you at least have the settings set so that members can invite others. That way the tribe can be accessible through the current members, in case it takes a long time to fix this bug.