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I want to be a mod.
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There's a group of "regulars" here who are like broken records and are just continuing rows from other threads anywhere they interact.
Its got to stop and it will stop. No more sniping, no more stupid "I was just wondering" threads which are laced with agenda (SOTS, you listening?). No more snide pot-shot taking. Cut it out, this is yore ma givin' you one of *those* looks....
Back on topic. (Thanks Tom!)
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I don't know whether to take you seriously or in jest sometimes.There's a group of "regulars" here who are like broken records and are just continuing rows from other threads anywhere they interact.
Its got to stop and it will stop. No more sniping, no more stupid "I was just wondering" threads which are laced with agenda (SOTS, you listening?). No more snide pot-shot taking. Cut it out, this is yore ma givin' you one of *those* looks....
Back on topic. (Thanks Tom!)
DeV.
Anywho, SOTS is banned so unless he logged out or re-regged he can't see this, silly. :P
I do have a genuine Q, though, not a complaint or anything but just a small thing that's niggling at the back of the cranium. Are LoLth and trojan busy with other things that Zaph and Tom had to step in on the threads? (I think Dav even stepped in on one or two aswell a week or two ago?) Again, just a curious question as they're listed as the forum mods but we don't see them all that much. You may delete upon reading so it doesn't clutter the thread. 0 -
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Of course I get the fact that they're all only human and it's voluntary so real life comes first. I didn't see it odd that tom and zaph have been active on the threads. I think it's a good thing that admins arms can stretch site wide to help out when needs be. I was just curious as to how they got here before trojan or LoLth. Being nosey, basically.
The warnings were fair & clear and put out there and stood to everyone. It's pretty shít on tbh. He put in a good bit of effort into his Op and the thread and then the silly bitch fits and agendas destroyed the thread.
It cluttered it up, made those posters look silly (for want of a better word) and created extra, and most definitely not needed, extra work for admins to deal with in deleting posts, keeping an eye on the thread etc.
Anywho, I'll go venture being nosey elsewhere for a while. o/0 -
El_Ganador wrote: »Of course I get the fact that they're all only human and it's voluntary so real life comes first. I didn't see it odd that tom and zaph have been active on the threads. I think it's a good thing that admins arms can stretch site wide to help out when needs be. I was just curious as to how they got here before trojan or LoLth. Being nosey, basically.
I just happened to be around when intervention was needed, as was Tom Dunne. Nothing more to it than that really. While Trojan and LoLth may be listed as the mods for Feedback, in reality any admin can step in here, and as TD and I haven't got any specific areas of responsibility we tend to just roam the corridors of boards looking for trouble. Or something like that. 0 -
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Sharpshooter wrote: »I can only answer for AHs here, but we do communicate if we won't be around for a while.
It works well, and the rest of us know who is around re a certain time frame.
As for shift work, Rabies is generally about when the rest of us are sleeping or just being posters elsewhere.
But in general, it's when the rest of us are sleeping he is starting his day.
I haveto take my hats off to ye really cos lets face it, boards is a commercial site relying on traffic for revenue and I would imagne the largest part of that comes from AH.
So I hope you get more than a secret handshake and free access to the S&S forum, I'm assuming there's a mod swinging club tbh 0 -
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Unfortunately the only other thing the mods get is abuse mainly. And the odd pint or two at a mods beers.
TBH's post still stands and this thread will be sanitised and the worthy parts preserved!
DeV.
Thanks Dev.
Shame about the abuse. At least you have the raw mackrel to fall back on 0 -
Mason Powerful Matchbox wrote: »I have a quick general question on Modding, for liability purposes etc, is there shift work in the busy forums so as to make sure that everything is above board?
Soccer is quite like AH in the sense that having someone in a very different timezone helps massively.
We don't have 'shifts' per se but if someone is going to be on holidays, has a family matter etc then we just drop a post in our mod forum and the rest of the lads know what's going on.
Rarely do we get a situation where the forum is without a mod for more than a few hours, and even then there's always a Cmod or Admin about.
Unfortunately I miss a lot of the juicy stuff being the one in the other timezone
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Mason Powerful Matchbox wrote: »So I hope you get more than a secret handshake and free access to the S&S forum, I'm assuming there's a mod swinging club tbh
There isn't one, unless someone else organised and they've excluded me :mad:0 -
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Just a question. Do Mods, Admins and all you higher ups get fed up of having all that responsibility and ever want to just be a regular poster again?
yeah sometimes.
Sometimes I feel like I "have" to check on boards, where I'm looking for problems rather than hanging out.
Sometimes I'd like to speak my mind, but I know it'd be taken as official mod/cmod policy by some people, and used as a stick in future debates, and that's unfair to everyone else. so I have to shut up. Not. My. Style
Sometimes I can see people straight out lying about something, but I can't say anything because, well, you can't say anything.
Sometimes you get abuse for doing what you thought was the right thing.
Sometimes I have to close a thread that I enjoy reading because some people don't like it.
all that kind of stuff can be tricky, but it's the exception rather than the rule.0 -
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Of course some do... People get fed up... We're all different, have different views and thresholds so it's no suprise to me when I see some people just shrug their shoulders and decide it's time to step down for one (or many) of the plathora of possible reasons out there.
On another note, it's often very rarely been a 'fed up' issue - Sometimes RL just takes priority... Sometimes people just move on in their internet lives...
Sadly, sometimes people get stressed out and feel they HAVE to step down... And this isn't an uncommon thing, either, which makes it all the more saddening when it happens. Truth is, justified or not, Moderators take flak and I've seen a damn lot of them pass the torch over time purely because they felt it was too stressful, or that shouldering the stress for X time has proved not to be worth the reward at the end and they figure its pointless trying to continue. Some people have encounters Boards users who have made it their aim and goal to push people out of the website altogether, or just plain enjoy making it as miserable as possible for them.
Not saying being a Moderator is always so sad or stressful but these things can and do happen so, yes, sometimes people get a bit fed up.
I don't know a lot of Posters/Moderators anymore on Boards because the numbers are so huge, but you can't help but sympathize with these scenarios regardless - At the end of the day, if a Moderator is decent (and was chosen for the right reasons) then they are a Moderator because they have pitched in a lot of effort into Boards.ie (or just specific Forums on Boards) and to see them get pushed out after becoming a Moderator really is a sad thing to witness or read up on in goodbye threads.
It's not a bed of thorns but it certainly isn't a bed of roses, either, and that goes for CMods, SMods, Admins too.
Partly why I used to bite back against the plathora of chancers in the past back in old-Feedback when it was swimming in sly 'Make me a Mod' hinting was because you knew Moderating (especially back then) could prove to be a very difficult task and only the really dedicated would ever shoulder it if it boiled down to the nasty side for them, so those looking for a bit of status wouldn't ever last long.
Again, I'm not trying to come across as overly carebare - It's not a case of it all being bad (certainly not all the time anyways) but on the flip side there've been so many cases of people having to leave for seemingly all the wrong reasons or because of other people's doing that it's a bit depressing. And yes, sometimes people just say screw it, I'm fed up ^^
Everyone is human afterall.yeah sometimes.
Sometimes I feel like I "have" to check on boards, where I'm looking for problems rather than hanging out.
Sometimes I'd like to speak my mind, but I know it'd be taken as official mod/cmod policy by some people, and used as a stick in future debates, and that's unfair to everyone else. so I have to shut up. Not. My. Style
Sometimes I can see people straight out lying about something, but I can't say anything because, well, you can't say anything.
Sometimes you get abuse for doing what you thought was the right thing.
Sometimes I have to close a thread that I enjoy reading because some people don't like it.
all that kind of stuff can be tricky, but it's the exception rather than the rule.I wouldn't have figures for that obviously but yes, quite a few of them do "step down" for a variety of reasons but a good percentage of those cite that very reason - they just want to be an ordinary Joe Soap again.
Nice one fellas. Just as I thought.0
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