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Should moderators be Validated

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    #32
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I may have left leanings but to lump me in with the occupy crowed is insulting and leading, this is exactly why you have a following of diametrically opposite posters. My problem with you is based on my beliefs that you are not everything you would have people believe......

    Little things like the whole Farmer from donegal who went to Princeton and came back enlightened with libertarianism....

    You see claims of being a very successful entrepreneurial free spirit,the €5000 bet on Michael D to win presidency, €1.5m in bank shares, being staunch FF last year and calling them left looneys this don't fit right with me.
    Then there is your complete refusal to engage in a proper debate unless its structure suits your loaded questions.......

    I have a difficulty with you and your coterie of so called libertarians spouting rubbish that I believe is harmful and morally repulsive,

    Essentially I think there is something amiss with you, the posting, the boasting and the lack of clarity all contribute to this.

    This is the point of the thread, in my opinion your supposed views have no place in a just and equal society and if given time to flower (you have been using boards for your soapboxing long enough now) will be damaging to anyone who is for reasons of nature not as strong as the alpha male.

    The idea of validation doesn't imply I would silence you, quite the opposite, I would have you and your ilk in clear view, the idea is just for the direction of boards and how they would be perceived externally, say for example you were made mod of the Politics forum tomorrow then it would send a clear signal that there is support for your ideologues and I think it could be harmful,

    As for myself, you can question my motives and trawl my posts for stupidity (of which there is many), drunken posts and contradictions but I always say what I mean and no ulterior motives, my postings here are just simply musings in the moment...... like this one.

    On a similar but lighter note I will admit to a certain movement from the left to the centre in the time I've being using boards, maybe its age.

    what was that falsly attributed to churchull quote,

    "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."


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    #33
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Corsendonk wrote: »
    yearly validations of Mods just for starters. Just not a practical idea.

    Isn't that what mod beers is for? :pac:


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    #34
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    And another one bites the dust. :confused:


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    #35
    Permabear
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    #36
    Duke Leonal Felmet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭Duke Leonal Felmet


    Shield wrote: »
    Validated by who?

    Coast guard?


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    #37
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Permabear wrote: »
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    correct me if i'm wrong here, but are people not meant to be having a discussion in politics forum rather than poking fun?
    and that most people hold mods (regardless of which forum they are in charge of) to a higher standard of posting?

    maybe this is why people find it more offensive than that from a normal poster?


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    #38
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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    #39
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    thanks, i was wrong, i thought you were referring to the normal politics forum not the light hearted cafe subforum,

    your post seemed to imply that it was the normal politics forum, but thanks for clarifying that up.

    i can't see why people would be annoyed of what you said in that sub forum ...


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    #40
    Blowfish
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    It should probably be pointed out that there isn't a whole lot of point to this thread anymore as it seems the OP has closed their account.


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    #41
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Blowfish wrote: »
    It should probably be pointed out that there isn't a whole lot of point to this thread anymore as it seems the OP has closed their account.
    that's sad ... :(


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    #42
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I would like to confirm that.

    I very rarely read the Politics forum. When us Admins are choosing a new Mod for that forum, the persons politics are never discussed and would not be known by most of us.
    We would also not know if you are male or female, what colour you are, your religion or lack there of, your sexual preference or your age.
    We don't care.

    The requirements for choosing a mod have to do with having a level head, half a brain and cop on.
    That's it.


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    #43
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    The requirements for choosing a mod have to do with having a level head, half a brain and cop on.
    That's it.

    :rolleyes:


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    #44
    User Friendly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭User Friendly


    davoxx wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    :D:D*


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    #45
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    davoxx wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Is that feedback davoxx?

    I have no clue what you are trying to communicate there.

    Same goes for you User Friendly.


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    #46
    User Friendly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭User Friendly


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    Is that feedback davoxx?

    I have no clue what you are trying to communicate there.

    Same goes for you User Friendly.

    do i really need to spell it out?

    ask Davoxx why he thanked a post,the gave it the it the:rolleyes: in the next post?
    cheers:o


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    #47
    Amber Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Amber Lamps


    He thanked a joke


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    #48
    User Friendly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭User Friendly


    Amber Lamps wrote: »
    He thanked a joke

    yeah,thats cleared it up


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    #49
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    Is that feedback davoxx?

    I have no clue what you are trying to communicate there.

    Same goes for you User Friendly.
    please don't ban me ... someday i want to be a mod too!!!


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    #50
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,495 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Beruthiel wrote: »

    The requirements for choosing a mod have to do with having a level head, half a brain and cop on.
    That's it.

    Well I suppose if you only had half a brain you would have a level head...it would be kind of flat on top :D Still I hope I wasn't asked to be a mod on that basis ;)


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    #51
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    The requirements for choosing a mod have to do with having a level head, half a brain and cop on.
    That's it.

    I hope their is a long waiting list of mod candidates or it doesn't speak well of any boards members not mods!:D


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    #52
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    looksee wrote: »
    Well I suppose if you only had half a brain you would have a level head...it would be kind of flat on top :D Still I hope I wasn't asked to be a mod on that basis ;)

    You weren't asked personally. When they shouted you were the only one that heard them :D

    In the land of the deaf the one eared man is king :pac:


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    #53
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    looksee wrote: »
    I hope I wasn't asked to be a mod on that basis ;)

    I'm afraid you were flathead. :p


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    #54
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,634 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    The requirements for choosing a mod have to do with having a level head, half a brain and cop on.
    Can we update the requirements to "at least half a brain"?

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    #55
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    28064212 wrote: »
    Can we update the requirements to "at least half a brain"?
    no ... it has to be exactly ½ of a full brain, no less no more ... :D
    i'd be more annoyed about having a flat head :D


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    #56
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I wonder if you mod in Arts does it need to be the right half of your brain?

    Or the left half in you mod in Science? :pac:


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    #57
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Dades wrote: »
    I wonder if you mod in Arts does it need to be the right half of your brain?

    Or the left half in you mod in Science? :pac:
    i thought it was the back half ... :D


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    #58
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,495 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well obviously it has to be the bottom half.


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    #59
    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Does anyone want to continue the original premise of this thread or are we done?

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    #60
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,495 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Trojan wrote: »
    Does anyone want to continue the original premise of this thread or are we done?

    :o oops sorry, that was mostly my fault!

    The original proposal, I think we have agreed that validation other than by previous posts and behaviour, which are open to investigation by everyone, is pretty well impossible (and unnecessary). And as someone else pointed out, the OP has lost interest and left.


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    #61
    davoxx
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Trojan wrote: »
    Does anyone want to continue the original premise of this thread or are we done?
    if we can suggest methods, perhaps a logic test and a personality test might be good for determining mods?


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