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Damini
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I know full well moderating is a thankless task, that invariably means you have more people trying to score points off you than ever thank you, but there are some things I would like to bring to light.
Since the start of these forums, there have been one hundred and sixty two thousand, eight hundred and sixty posts. Taking into account these forums were fairly sedate before you guys came along from the old GOA forums, that works out at us moderators having to wade through twenty three thousand, two hundred and sixty six posts a month. These forums alone are more active than every other forum on Barrysworld combined.
Instead of people swinging their handbags, and grappling with high horses when they see things they don't like, you have the option to do the following.
Report the post already!! I'm tired of this "Oooh, matron, finally a mod shows up! I've been staring at this post all day thinking how naughty/satanic/pornographic it is, and its making baby jesus cry, and the humanity!! THE HUMANITY!!!" Well, how about you actually report it and let us know? We have not only all these posts to read through, but also (Drum roll please) a life outside of these forums. And we're completely voluntary. It may take us some time to read the posts in question. We might not ever stumble across them.
PM us Maybe its not a thread that needs reporting, but maybe an ongoing issue, or a suggestion for change. Click the PM. Much as we'd sometimes like to suck your brains out with a straw and sift through the gellatonous mass for infomation, sometimes its just plain easier if you tell us. And less messy.
Everybody on these forums was given the opportunity to apply to be a mod. Out of all the active posters here, a ridiculously miniscule percentage applied. Maybe it was the lack of company car, and the fact the effigies of you will be burnt at the stake every week or so, but you can't have it both ways. Either you moderate, or you except the moderating. You can let us know privately when you disagree, and you can let us know once and we'll get the message. Arguing with us won't get you anywhere fast, debating with us might. I've decided to put on my spikey Thatcherite shoes on and get tougher on people giving us mods grief. What we do we do for the forums, and not for some power/status kick. I don't strut around in RL with a t-shirt saying "DAoC mod, lick my shoes!!". I do this because of a respect for Barrysworld and for these forums. Realistically, I should have handed over the baton because final year university degree = work of insanity, but these forums do need a lot of moderating simply because of the massive range of people who write here. We have parents with their kids, we have people of I should imagine 13 years and upwards, we have many different nationalities, we have the 1337 and the ones that want to bury the 1337 far out in the woods and deny their existance... Its a big cross over.
What I'm trying to say is I'd like to see this community actually help the mods more, rather than just whinge if something happens they don't agree with. And I'm going to become less tolerant of anti-mod behaviour - I'm putting away my niceness until Christmas time. The mods are here to help the community out, and its about time it felt more recipricated from some areas.
Damini xx
Since the start of these forums, there have been one hundred and sixty two thousand, eight hundred and sixty posts. Taking into account these forums were fairly sedate before you guys came along from the old GOA forums, that works out at us moderators having to wade through twenty three thousand, two hundred and sixty six posts a month. These forums alone are more active than every other forum on Barrysworld combined.
Instead of people swinging their handbags, and grappling with high horses when they see things they don't like, you have the option to do the following.
Report the post already!! I'm tired of this "Oooh, matron, finally a mod shows up! I've been staring at this post all day thinking how naughty/satanic/pornographic it is, and its making baby jesus cry, and the humanity!! THE HUMANITY!!!" Well, how about you actually report it and let us know? We have not only all these posts to read through, but also (Drum roll please) a life outside of these forums. And we're completely voluntary. It may take us some time to read the posts in question. We might not ever stumble across them.
PM us Maybe its not a thread that needs reporting, but maybe an ongoing issue, or a suggestion for change. Click the PM. Much as we'd sometimes like to suck your brains out with a straw and sift through the gellatonous mass for infomation, sometimes its just plain easier if you tell us. And less messy.
Everybody on these forums was given the opportunity to apply to be a mod. Out of all the active posters here, a ridiculously miniscule percentage applied. Maybe it was the lack of company car, and the fact the effigies of you will be burnt at the stake every week or so, but you can't have it both ways. Either you moderate, or you except the moderating. You can let us know privately when you disagree, and you can let us know once and we'll get the message. Arguing with us won't get you anywhere fast, debating with us might. I've decided to put on my spikey Thatcherite shoes on and get tougher on people giving us mods grief. What we do we do for the forums, and not for some power/status kick. I don't strut around in RL with a t-shirt saying "DAoC mod, lick my shoes!!". I do this because of a respect for Barrysworld and for these forums. Realistically, I should have handed over the baton because final year university degree = work of insanity, but these forums do need a lot of moderating simply because of the massive range of people who write here. We have parents with their kids, we have people of I should imagine 13 years and upwards, we have many different nationalities, we have the 1337 and the ones that want to bury the 1337 far out in the woods and deny their existance... Its a big cross over.
What I'm trying to say is I'd like to see this community actually help the mods more, rather than just whinge if something happens they don't agree with. And I'm going to become less tolerant of anti-mod behaviour - I'm putting away my niceness until Christmas time. The mods are here to help the community out, and its about time it felt more recipricated from some areas.
Damini xx
