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    #32
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    magpie wrote:
    Exactly, and they were the first to try and crush the suggestion. Surely they should be sufficiently confident of their abilities and the good trust they have built up in their capacities as Mods to ensure election.

    Or would all the people who they scream 'muppet' at just for disagreeing with them vote against them?

    Perhaps we shall never know.

    Ah no we probably posted what we did based on your previous post "asking" to be unbanned. Coupled with the fact you are banned from several forums I would discount quite alot of what you have suggested.

    I also think the current system where the admins (who pay for the site in cash & time) have the final decision on who becomes a mod on whole works well.


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    #33
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    I don't see how it is unrelated. You have a problem with a moderator in the personal issues forum, like you said in the other forum making a big bru ha ha about it rather than PM'ing the moderator is more fun.

    It would be related if I was saying 'Sack the mod who runs PI'.

    As it is I'm suggesting holding elections for Mods, if you can't see the difference I'm not sure how much further I can explain it.


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    #34
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    ok picture this, someone gets banned for posting crap in a forum, mod bans that person, and that person puts the mod up for election??? yes i can see this working really well!!!

    That wouldn't be the case.

    What I have been suggesting all along is having elections for all Mods, once a year. A General Election if you will.

    Individual users would not be allowed to 'put mods up for election' as you say.


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    #35
    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    magpie wrote:
    It would be related if I was saying 'Sack the mod who runs PI'.

    As it is I'm suggesting holding elections for Mods, if you can't see the difference I'm not sure how much further I can explain it.

    what is the difference between sacking one mod and electing another.


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    #36
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Users have every input into this site. However, the suggestions are implemented on merit alone. Well made points and argument will work - rabble rousing won't

    Which category would 'muppet acquired - permission to fire?' fall into?


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    #37
    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    magpie wrote:
    Which category would 'muppet acquired - permission to fire?' fall into?

    well if it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck...


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    #38
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    what is the difference between sacking one mod and electing another.

    The difference is it's entirely likely the encumbant mod will be re-elected based on track record and competancy. Unless the users/electorate feel otherwise.

    'Sacking' is taking a unilateral decision to remove someone.


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    #39
    woosaysdan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    in an ideal world your suggestion might work, but this isnt the ideal world!!!


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    #40
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    in an ideal world your suggestion might work, but this isnt the ideal world!!!

    Granted, but it's worth exploring.

    Right, I really must go and do some work. I shall leave this suggestion in the capable hands of the powers that be. Over and out.


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    #41
    woosaysdan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    ok you design the software and do all the other necessary work to get this up and going and come back to us then!!!


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    #42
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    magpie wrote:
    Try to stay 'on topic' please.

    Gandalf you appeard to have switched off your targetting computer?

    ... Magpie as you said its not a democracy. Mods to get remove/changed from time to time by the will of the people but it is generally the admins who have the last say.


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    #43
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    ok you design the software

    You could use a variant on the 'poll' system already in place.


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    #44
    Johnny_the_fox
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    magpie wrote:
    You could use a variant on the 'poll' system already in place.


    Everyone knows polls are fixed.


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    #45
    woosaysdan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    get designing it so!!! not only are you questioning the admins choices of admins but you want them to design it aswell???


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    #46
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    My God.

    I know it's Friday, but have you people no *work* to be doing?


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    #47
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    i can see this could be a laugh.....


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    #48
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    alot of trolling going on today.....


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    #49
    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    RuggieBear wrote:
    alot of trolling going on today.....

    and this is before the drinking starts


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    #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm sure you'll be able to help me. What is "trolling" exactly?


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    #51
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    billy the squid wrote:
    well if it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck...
    ...that's what you do when you do the hucklebuck? No hangon, I'm thinking of something else...
    Hobbes wrote:
    Gandalf you appeard to have switched off your targetting computer?
    He's using Teh Force.

    It's not like he could miss a target that size...


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    #52
    woosaysdan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=trolling

    http://www.reference.com/search?q=trolling


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    #53
    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    Papa Smut wrote:
    I'm sure you'll be able to help me. What is "trolling" exactly?

    [wiki]troll[/wiki]


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    #54
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    billy the squid wrote:
    [wiki]troll[wiki]

    left out a "/"

    EDITY: damn you...that was a quick edit :D


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    #55
    woosaysdan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    i like your defination better


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    #56
    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    I vote to shut this thread down.


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    #57
    koneko
    Registered Users Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    wow, mods don't get paid to do what we do
    we do it because we like boards.ie and help make sure things are okay and there isn't too much junk on threads
    now you want people to put extra work into keeping "modship" like some sort of competition?


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    #58
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    magpie wrote:
    But how about throwing us a scrap and holding annual elections for Mods? I'd enjoy seeing people coming up with manifestos, rival 'parties' emerging etc.

    This wouldn't work for the same reason that turkeys don't vote for christmas.


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