I wanna be MODERATOR
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Avago Earo
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You could not pay me to moderate this hell hole, screaming abomination learned place of discussion.
The mods have the fortitude and constitution of Winston "we shall never surrender" Churchill. They get yelled at. Told they're shutting down debate. Verballed. Labelled. And yet the get up each morning, and wonder what those silly people on the internet have said today. And probably immediately regret their decision. But they still do it.
They're all mad and deranged and very lovely ever single one of them. They do a hell of a lot of good work for frontier. You can elect to not agree with a decision, but they are seldom ill-informed (unlike the threads they may have to moderate).
Don't disparage their efforts. Don't give them crap. God knows what this place would be like without them. Can you imagine it being worse?
The mods have the fortitude and constitution of Winston "we shall never surrender" Churchill. They get yelled at. Told they're shutting down debate. Verballed. Labelled. And yet the get up each morning, and wonder what those silly people on the internet have said today. And probably immediately regret their decision. But they still do it.
They're all mad and deranged and very lovely ever single one of them. They do a hell of a lot of good work for frontier. You can elect to not agree with a decision, but they are seldom ill-informed (unlike the threads they may have to moderate).
Don't disparage their efforts. Don't give them crap. God knows what this place would be like without them. Can you imagine it being worse?
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I wanna be sedated!
I'm in my T9, long haul, listening to trance. Does this count as sedated?
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I'm in my T9, long haul, listening to trance. Does this count as sedated?
Trance. trance?
Synthwave. Get some synthwave and outrun and darkwave into you. Taste, my good sir or madam, is lacking in your musical pursuit.
[I kid I kid! well, mostly. But, pssst, synthwave, trust me.
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Trance. trance?
Synthwave. Get some synthwave and outrun and darkwave into you. Taste, my good sir or madam, is lacking in your musical pursuit.
[I kid I kid! well, mostly. But, pssst, synthwave, trust me.
This guy knows what hes talkin about
The OP is a sick guy wanting to be a moderator in the most flaming negative salt environment probably in the history of gaming. We should probably have an intervention for him. He's in southern USA so it wouldn't cost a lot for me to fly there.
Er... no. To all of it. Apart from some of it.
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How would you read it with this forum background?
Me too.
I'm a moderator on a couple of other internet forums. One in particular is quite large and attracts more than its fair share of "high maintenance" characters.
I do not know what exactly one has to do to be a moderator around here, but if it's anything like the other forums I'm involved with, I'd say it's something like:
- Be a long-term, proven, positive contributor to the forum.
- Frequently say things that the other moderators agree with and are in line with the forum's stated rules and policies. Clicking on the "report post" button when yourself or others are in violation of forum rules demonstrates that you are aware of what the rules are and you desire to see them enforced.
- Demonstrate an ability to combine diplomacy and discipline.
- Living in a timezone that is under-represented in the current set of Mods can also help; they can always use more people on the graveyard shift who are alert and online when they are not, to help provide 24-hour support for cleaning up spam attacks, breaking up forum fights etc.
Some moderators are appointed in limited or restricted capacity, at least at first; they might be given charge of a particular subforum where they've been particularly active. Jane Turner is a recent appointment in charge of the newly created BGS subforum, for example.
Remember, forum moderators are not, for the most part, paid staff of Frontier. They're volunteers. And they're human, they make mistakes. If you believe you (or someone else) has been moderated unfairly, there is a process as outlined in the forum rules. And no, starting threads along the lines of "Waaaah, waaaah, i got moderated, it's so unfair!" is not part of that process.
I do not know what exactly one has to do to be a moderator around here, but if it's anything like the other forums I'm involved with, I'd say it's something like:
- Be a long-term, proven, positive contributor to the forum.
- Frequently say things that the other moderators agree with and are in line with the forum's stated rules and policies. Clicking on the "report post" button when yourself or others are in violation of forum rules demonstrates that you are aware of what the rules are and you desire to see them enforced.
- Demonstrate an ability to combine diplomacy and discipline.
- Living in a timezone that is under-represented in the current set of Mods can also help; they can always use more people on the graveyard shift who are alert and online when they are not, to help provide 24-hour support for cleaning up spam attacks, breaking up forum fights etc.
Some moderators are appointed in limited or restricted capacity, at least at first; they might be given charge of a particular subforum where they've been particularly active. Jane Turner is a recent appointment in charge of the newly created BGS subforum, for example.
Remember, forum moderators are not, for the most part, paid staff of Frontier. They're volunteers. And they're human, they make mistakes. If you believe you (or someone else) has been moderated unfairly, there is a process as outlined in the forum rules. And no, starting threads along the lines of "Waaaah, waaaah, i got moderated, it's so unfair!" is not part of that process.
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