Please welcome our new mods

Chips Lovell

With Gavin stepping down and the forum becoming busier than ever, we've decided to appoint two new mods. So please welcome CramCycle and ednwireland.

Khannie

Best of luck / hard luck lads.

Lemag

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

manwithaplan

Lemag wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

Everyone takes one step back?

Best of luck lads.

ednwireland

Lemag wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

you get beaten up until you give in

just to prove that we arent all skinny whippet racers (i hate pics of me cycling, i look much better than that in my head)

only noticed because i suddenly had edit buttons everywhere



me at top of glengesh

this just arrived in the post

Beasty

You will see we have gone for an endurance athlete in Cram "Wiggo" Cycle who will inflict plenty of suffering before delivering you to sprint king ed "Cav" nwireland to execute the killer blow with the very blunt instrument he's just taken delivery of (and posted a picture of above)

Good luck guys

Lemag

Lemag wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

Swimsuit contest.

RobFowl

Good choice's I think and best of luck to the new Mods...

(Can I be the first to use this one)

Beasty

Lemag wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

Not a topic for general discussion in this thread, but the existing mods put forward names to the CMods and in turn the Admins for clearance (or not, as the case may be;))

There's a thread in the Help Desk setting out some of the criteria typically used in determining suitability for mod roles on the site

Khannie

Lemag wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what's the selection process?

Not sure how super secret this is, but they can't fire me now.

It usually goes like this: Mods have a chat among themselves and suggest people that they think would be good to the cat mods (me in this case). Cat mods pass it up to an admin (me in this case) if they have no objections. Admins have a chinwag and give a thumbs up / down. Person is asked if they're interested. If they decline, the process starts over again, otherwise the person gets their badge and gun and access to the coke and hookers room.

I say "usually" goes like that because there are obviously cases where that can't happen (new forum for example).

edit: I started typing this a while ago and beasty got in there before me.

bcmf

Does this mean Beasty is still a mo...........oh errrr I fully welcome our new overlords

Jawgap

Khannie wrote: »

Not sure how super secret this is, but they can't fire me now.

It usually goes like this: Mods have a chat among themselves and suggest people that they think would be good to the cat mods (me in this case). Cat mods pass it up to an admin (me in this case) if they have no objections. Admins have a chinwag and give a thumbs up / down. Person is asked if they're interested. If they decline, the process starts over again, otherwise the person gets their badge and gun and access to the coke and hookers room.

I say "usually" goes like that because there are obviously cases where that can't happen (new forum for example).

edit: I started typing this a while ago and beasty got in there before me.

So you woke up one day and decided you wanted to be a mod of this group - had a chat with yourself in the mirror (twice) - and here we are!

All hail!

velo.2010

Lads, be prepared to be still up close to the witching hour, typing away, debating the finer points of forum rules with posters who may have sailed too close to the wind!;);)

Are you ready?

el tel

Do Mods get paid an hourly rate or just a stipend to make up for income lost from their normal empoyment?

Beasty

el tel wrote: »

Do Mods get paid an hourly rate or just a stipend to make up for income lost from their normal empoyment?

Just the normal going rate - Coke and Hookere - unfortunatley as it's the cycling forum we're not allowed to discuss the doping aspects, and despite my best endeavours I've still not discovered any of the "other" in the forum

Captain Havoc

el tel wrote: »

Do Mods get paid an hourly rate or just a stipend to make up for income lost from their normal empoyment?

Even if we did, it still wouldn't be enough.

Khannie

Jawgap wrote: »

So you woke up one day and decided you wanted to be a mod of this group - had a chat with yourself in the mirror (twice) - and here we are!

All hail!

Not in the slightest. I'm not a mod here at all. I make it my business to actively avoid moderating in here. I think the new lads are going to do a great job (edit: and the older lads too of course ).

Sr. Assumpta

Welcome to your new roles CramCycle and ednwireland!!

When do you attain the ultimate accolade of having your names in uber-desirable and ever-on-trend bold ?

Beasty

Sr. Assumpta wrote: »

When do you attain the ultimate accolade of having your names in uber-desirable and ever-on-trend block ?

.... it's all based on the number of infractions and bans handed out - they're now in a race to see who achieves "bold" status first (and we're not prepared to tell them what the target is):)

Chips Lovell

Sr. Assumpta wrote: »

When do you attain the ultimate accolade of having your names in uber-desirable and ever-on-trend block ?

I thought you defaulted automatically to it, but you can change it in the Group memberships part of the control panel, i.e. a mod or admin can opt to go non-bold if they wish.

Lusk Doyle

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

I thought you defaulted automatically to it, but you can change it in the Group memberships part of the control panel, i.e. a mod or admin can opt to go non-bold if they wish.

Oooooooh! I bet that once you go b[lack]old you never go back!

Sr. Assumpta

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

I thought you defaulted automatically to it, but you can change it in the Group memberships part of the control panel, i.e. a mod or admin can opt to go non-bold if they wish.

good

Beasty

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Oooooooh! I bet that once you go b[lack]old you never go back!

...who are you calling old?

Lusk Doyle

Beasty wrote: »

...who are you calling old?

My god, and this is your mother tongue is it?

Take out the [lack] silly! What's left?

Beasty

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

My god, and this is your mother tongue is it?

Take out the [lack] silly! What's left?

yeah - what does the "b" stand for? "bleedin"? :P

Satanta

Is that a Four Masters jersey?

Congrats also.

ednwireland

Satanta wrote: »

Is that a Four Masters jersey?

Congrats also.

sure is (but i dont think they like me wearing it - i'm no where near good enough )

CramCycle

I can't believe they gave me responsibility, let the good times role: