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SOMEONE MAKE THIS GUY A MOD!

MysticCow wrote:

While I may not approve of all of the moderators actions, I still have a deep respect for them.  Why?  Because they are managing to keep the boards afloat as best they can.

Forgive the rant, but we need to have some good comments about the mods, and not in a spot where it can be easily hidden (like inside another topic).

My thread I started is to have the forum more then just afloat. a piece of wood keeps afloat, a Yacht runs smooth.

MODS good.  Trolls bad!

MysticCow wrote:

(cleaning up the lesbian porn bots, etc).  .

Please leave those on there!

You know, there are some people who have major problems with the mods, but outside of one or two incidents (which everyone quickly recovered from), they have been wonderful people to me.  We have had some wonderful conversations and continue to have wonderful conversations (even about my "self appointed title"--loves ya Alien)

Wow!  You've had "wonderful discussions"!  I guess that does it!  They're great!

You've had interesting discussions with moderators on a discussion forum.  That proves everyone wrong! 

Being a moderator isn't exactly easy work

Sit on your ass, read threads, report offensive posts. 

I can't imagine anything more rigorous than that. 

Forgive the rant, but we need to have some good comments about the mods, and not in a spot where it can be easily hidden (like inside another topic).

So, basically, your whole point of this thread was to suck up? 

You can please some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people, all of the time.

Death wishes, insults, and moderators blindly defending this doesn't help.

justine wrote:

Way to suck up, MC.

I don't think of it as sucking up.  We're only seeing certain posters being those-words-Alien-called-XYZ and we're not hearing about the positive points of the mods here.

Indeed, there's a difference in doing the job and doing the job well.

Of which, the percentage of those who do the job well seems to rise every day.

I think the phrase "a whiny bitch" or "whiny bitches" should be turned into "those words Alien called XYZ"

Woah, you are completely underestimating what the mods do.

No, I pretty much summed it up.

Its a constant balancing act to keep the public happy.

Reality check: You mean like almost every other job out there? 

Here's a tip for the moderators: Insulting your members won't keep them happy.

You need to decide what gets edited, what gets moved, what gets deleted.

Oh no!  The work!  Too much! 

It's really simple:
1. Edit posts filled with profanity that slipped past the filter.
2. Delete spam, posts with inappropriate images
3. Lock threads that develop into flames
4. Move threads that don't belong in the right topic

If that confuses you, then you're going to have one hell of a difficult life once you get a job. 

Usually, whatever you do gets you yelled at by some section of the posters. (Or just XYZ:D)

Yeah, usually calling someone a bitch will get you yelled at.

Finally while it's not an official part of our jobs, we moderators often end up being called on as resident experts. What topic does this topic belong in? What do you know of that tech issue? It all adds up.

Unfortunately, as I've complained before, MAf moderators aren't tech experts. 

Not even close. 

We also have to assist in evaluating new policies, reevaluate old policies as times change, vote on the behavior of individuals brought to our attention.

You're joking! 

You guys have to vote to ban too?! 

That, with your additional load of locking threads is just...unimaginable. 

I don't know how anybody does it!  Locking threads and voting to ban!  Damn, and people think that coal mining is tough!

Habs24 wrote:

You need to decide what gets edited, what gets moved, what gets deleted.

Oh no!  The work!  Too much! 

It's really simple:
1. Edit posts filled with profanity that slipped past the filter.
2. Delete spam, posts with inappropriate images
3. Lock threads that develop into flames
4. Move threads that don't belong in the right topic

If that confuses you, then you're going to have one hell of a difficult life once you get a job.

In a forum like Desktops, a days work can be wrapped up in 15-30 minutes (with posting well researched answers). In a forum like Circuit Board it is more of a 48 hour a day job, even more than that if you do a good job at it.

Usually, whatever you do gets you yelled at by some section of the posters. (Or just XYZ:D)

Yeah, usually calling someone a bitch will get you yelled at.

And some posters you could be a bloody saint when you deal with them and they still wouldn't happy. XYZ comes to mind as a continuous example. I mean when people agree with him and he becomes petulant. He consistently posts on the edge of what's acceptable according to the rules never actually crossing the line. Since we feel he has not actively trying to troll but honestly believes his rhetoric we haven't as of yet been able to bring ourselves to the draconian option of banning him for being a jerk and formenting hard feeling amongst the other posters like he does even though we are sorely tempted to.

[puts the uniform back on]
[takes a deep breath]
Who let you back in, anyway?  I strongly suspect you're just lashing out because you can't handle the fact that you were punished by an authority figure in the past.