To all the ex-Mods- why did you quit your forum?

bigpinkelephant · 23-01-2009 2:32am #1

Just nosy! I've noticed a few people around lately who no longer mod a particular forum.

Nevyn · 23-01-2009 2:40am

There could be a whole range of reasons if they wanted it known they would have posted about in those forums.

kaimera · 23-01-2009 3:04am

outgrew the fora and a new face(s) could only be a good thing for me.

also tired of the user v mod whinge-fest.

Tristram · 23-01-2009 3:16am

Since the destruction of the moderator resurrection hub mods want to do something meaningful with their lives.

brendansmith · 23-01-2009 3:45am

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

AlmightyCushion · 23-01-2009 3:58am

brendansmith wrote: »

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

Odd comment from someone who whines about being banned from there. Surely if they were all muppets you'd be delighted about being banned so you don't have to interact with them.

brendansmith · 23-01-2009 4:15am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Odd comment from someone who whines about being banned from there. Surely if they were all muppets you'd be delighted about being banned so you don't have to interact with them.

Gotz ta keep them cages a-rattlin man.
You know how it is!

Tom Dunne · 23-01-2009 9:38am

Both my hookers caught the clap (what are the chances of that happening?) and I used up my allocation of coke.

Beruthiel · 23-01-2009 10:10am

Just a wild guess here Tom, but could you have passed the clap from one hooker to the other...?

And the real answer is:

Real life got in the way.
Some got fed up.
Some lost interest.
Loads of different reasons.

seanybiker · 23-01-2009 10:16am

brendansmith wrote: »

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

hey i resemble that comment.

I used to mod on a biker site then found out one of the other mods was a scumbag so havent been in the site in a couple of years

stovelid · 23-01-2009 11:48am

If this mod week in feedback or something?

Dudess · 23-01-2009 11:48am

Got too involved in AH discussions and was afraid this would affect my impartiality.

Also, a handful of phenomenally nasty users were becoming quite trying.

Sherifu · 23-01-2009 11:53am

Dudess wrote: »

Got too involved in AH discussions and was afraid this would affect my impartiality.

Also, a handful of phenomenally nasty users were becoming quite trying.

Name & shame.

Beruthiel · 23-01-2009 11:54am

stovelid wrote: »

If this mod week in feedback or something?

Haven't you noticed, every week is mod week in feedback.

javaboy · 23-01-2009 11:56am

Sherifu wrote: »

Name & shame.

Use spoiler tags if you do Dudess. I don't want the surprise ruined.

Marcus.Aurelius · 23-01-2009 12:04pm

If there's anything major going on in their lives, we can hardly expect mods to sit and read through all our verbal diarrhoea and make sense of it, never mind moderate it.

There's loadsa mods I'd like to see come back to the job, but that's up to them really.

It's good in some ways, keeps things interesting with new mods every now and again.

Will · 23-01-2009 12:43pm

Demodded myself from 3 other forums, only kept the one im most interested in.

Reasons for leaving the others;

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

People think modding forums is easy. It's not, it's very very hard especially if it is busy and it goes into insane mode if you've a troublesome poster. I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc.

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking.

In my time moderating (about a year) I've only ever banned 1 person, infracted maximum 2 people (apart from spammers). Why? Because once you tell people in a manner that isn't "I'm the almighty mod, bow down and follow my lead..." they're a lot more willing to listen since you showed them some respect.

Anywho all I'm saying is it isnt it's all cracked up to be, it is tiresome, it is hard at times and sometimes that get's too much for people especially if other factors are included like college, work, family issues and the like.

Sherifu · 23-01-2009 12:49pm

Will wrote: »

Demodded myself from 3 other forums, only kept the one im most interested in.

Reasons for leaving the others;

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

People think modding forums is easy. It's not, it's very very hard especially if it is busy and it goes into insane mode if you've a troublesome poster. I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc.

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking.

In my time moderating (about a year) I've only ever banned 1 person, infracted maximum 2 people (apart from spammers). Why? Because once you tell people in a manner that isn't "I'm the almighty mod, bow down and follow my lead..." they're a lot more willing to listen since you showed them some respect.

Anywho all I'm saying is it isnt it's all cracked up to be, it is tiresome, it is hard at times and sometimes that get's too much for people especially if other factors are included like college, work, family issues and the like.

Translation: it's not the same without davey180.

_blank_ · 23-01-2009 1:07pm

Sherifu wrote: »

Translation: it's not the same without davey180.

imo

Ludo · 23-01-2009 1:09pm

Will wrote: »

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

Well aren't you the humble one

faceman · 23-01-2009 2:31pm

OP if you post on boards secret site, http://modconspiracy.boards.ie/ you will learn the when mods fall out of the clique, they get the boot.

jor el · 23-01-2009 4:06pm

faceman wrote: »

OP if you post on boards secret site, http://modconspiracy.boards.ie/

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhuddup...

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-01-2009 5:06pm

Judging by his last thread, Amp quit due to mental illness.

Steve · 23-01-2009 5:09pm

Saul Early Shoe wrote: »

Judging by his last thread, Amp quit due to mental illness.

Nah, it was the other way around, they found a cure. :pac:

MIN2511 · 23-01-2009 5:34pm

Would miss Karoma though...

mike65 · 23-01-2009 5:39pm

Got a bit bored tbh.

DeVore · 23-01-2009 6:15pm

There are 700+ mods afaik... if each of them serves 2 years, there would be a mod-resignation a day!

DeV.

Will · 23-01-2009 6:28pm

Ludo wrote: »

Well aren't you the humble one

Didn't mean it as an "i'm awesome" comment

:o

_blank_ · 23-01-2009 6:30pm

Will wrote: »

Didn't mean it as an "i'm awesome" comment :o

Will.

I think you ARE teh awesome.

tallaght01 · 23-01-2009 6:32pm

Will wrote: »

I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc..

Wow. Dude that's hardcore. Moderating a forum should never do that to you. IMO, if it even started to annoy me a bit, it would be time to move on.

Hope the body mod regulars treat you better. I lurk in there a bit actually, and you're one of the good guys.

Will wrote: »

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking...

+100000000000000000000

Will · 23-01-2009 7:00pm

Body mod crew are lovely, very close knit community.

But anywho yeah, some people just leave, varied reasons.

To all the ex-Mods- why did you quit your forum?

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