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12 Apr 2007, 5:45 pm

being a moderator is overrated, i moderate some boards and let me tell you it is a pain in the ass

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12 Apr 2007, 7:12 pm

richardbenson wrote:

being a moderator is overrated, i moderate some boards and let me tell you it is a pain in the ass

Overrated in that it usually causes some people to view you in a negative light, and at times it can be a lot of work, for free no less, but it is still quite necessary.

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12 Apr 2007, 8:17 pm

oh its necessary, i just never understood why everyone always aks to be one like its so cool or something

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12 Apr 2007, 8:30 pm

richardbenson wrote:

oh its necessary, i just never understood why everyone always aks to be one like its so cool or something

Maybe that is what you view moderating as. Most I have known do it because they want to be of benefit to the site actually and give back some good.

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12 Apr 2007, 8:37 pm

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oh its necessary, i just never understood why everyone always aks to be one like its so cool or something

I never asked to be one. Indeed, people kept on putting my name forward after the recent spamming fiascos, but I refused, at least until Alex actually upped and made me a mod. I was afraid I'd start abusing the power, but I don't think I have, so far...

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12 Apr 2007, 10:02 pm

richardbenson wrote:

oh its necessary, i just never understood why everyone always aks to be one like its so cool or something

The moderator position comes with power. Ignoring the responsibility involved, along with the likelihood that people will expect moderators to abuse that power, it is easy to see why some would want it. The key repeated word. Power. A position of authority. A feeling of control.

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13 Apr 2007, 3:49 pm

richardbenson wrote:

oh its necessary, i just never understood why everyone always aks to be one like its so cool or something

People who got to be CoSysop's on my time with limited rights had explicit interest in topics and fields of knowledge I didn't have. When you act as SysOp or moderator, you simply has to draw a very flexible thin line of appropriate/unappropriate with rules set as firm as possible in as a few words as possible... and se it from a flexible perspective. There's always the grunts, the wannabees, the newbies, the accommodated people feeling cozy in the chat, and those who has absolutely outrageous hate to the topic and want the topic beeing sent to hell for cooking over. And so on.

Most people asking to be a CoSys was simply wanting the power and worship. They got neglected. But honestly people that realy knew what they talked about could get a CoSys+ status with ability to change users status because they where simply totaly snowed in on the subject and didn't care a dime about the other topics in the discussions. They where, and is in my opionion, the best CoSys I've ever had in their specific field of knowledge, and they happily warn a user for misbehaviour a couple of times instead of throwing in the big axe for a mispelled word of honour.

Maybe that's why my BBS survived for 17 years on various software and is still known as a BBS to remember (and is still there, I''ve just haven't found the goddamned mediaconverter between 10-baseT and 10-Base2 that my 'miggy has (remember, its from 1992 so it's celebrating 14 years computer time, it's only a teenage computer! Going into puberty.).

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14 Apr 2007, 12:48 am

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Most people asking to be a CoSys was simply wanting the power and worship.

Worship? Cool, I could go for some of that. Somehow though, I don't think being a mod is any help there.

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11 May 2007, 9:55 am

You Mods are ruining WP!! Turning into petty tyrants when Alex's back is turned. All he
wanted you to do was to delete SPAM. PERIOD! Some of you have megalomaniac
tendencies and seem to be dangerously mentally and emotionally unbalanced. You
have no business trying to run a support forum. I appologize for my bluntness
whatever, i'm not sucking up to you ppl just because you are trying to get me banned.

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11 May 2007, 10:03 am

I think we are helping WP. So f*****g what if I'm a bit unstable right now. It doesn't prevent me from doing a decent job moderating.

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11 May 2007, 10:15 am

I wasn't referring to you Starbuline i didn't even know you where a mod.

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11 May 2007, 10:28 am

bizarre wrote:

I have restored the thread that was moved that RichardBenson wrote.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ic&t=32712

I moved two other threads but they are low in the stack.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ic&t=32730

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ic&t=32713

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11 May 2007, 11:13 am

Now someone is hacking in my account it says i have 6666383 new messages so i cannot access my mail.

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11 May 2007, 11:14 am

Moved your thread here so that it will come to others attention quickly.

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11 May 2007, 11:48 am

I noticed that you [/i]edited[i] too.

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11 May 2007, 11:50 am

bizarre wrote:

I noticed that you edited too.

Care to elaborate on that by giving an indication as to how rather than simply making accusations that are otherwise baseless?

Oh, and I edited your quote since you didn't use the italics tags correctly. Hopefully that's not a problem.

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