Questions and innuendos about Moderators
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- monkeylima
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Reported.It may be annoying but it certainly is fabulous!
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- Hammerhead Garage
I found it to be a full-time job. Which is why I stopped being a moderator. It was very difficult to go from being an active participant in a conversation to moderating that conversation, especially in the News and Current Affairs subforum. Now that I'm a little bit older and a little bit wiser (though age and wisdom to not increase at the same fixed rate), I could probably handle it if Jordan asked me to return to the moderating team, but I can safely say that I'd turn him down.
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I do? I'll log on during breaks and whatnot but not usually instead of working. Usually...
I keep NDSU running. Yes, singlehandedly.
And also the reason we've won 4 back to back National Championships.
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I don't know about y'all but I about lost it when I saw the BUL entry for Hand Banana. First time I heard that term as well
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It took me longer than I care to admit to write that one. I wanted to make clear that it was a euphemism, but I couldn't list other euphemisms for the same thing.
Generally speaking, reports aren't funny. I remember them being frustrating, especially the more belligerent members. I remember JaymzVsTheWorld as being particularly difficult.
I think the humour in the BUL is often a means to work through our frustrations, but there was always a fine line to walk. I used to post on CommanderBond.net, which is run by someone who used humour when carrying out his moderator duties, and he always took things too far.
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1. Mostly.
2. Been asked before, but it's buried dozens of pages back. I moderated a music forum back around 00' to 01', moderated for one or two car club forums after that. Was an online magazine editor in one capacity or another from around '04 to '11, and that included forum moderation duties, but truth to tell, wasn't all that much to do there.
GTPlanet is my only current, active moderation post, but I don't get to do as much of it as I like, as I have a lot of other stuff on my plate.
2. Been asked before, but it's buried dozens of pages back. I moderated a music forum back around 00' to 01', moderated for one or two car club forums after that. Was an online magazine editor in one capacity or another from around '04 to '11, and that included forum moderation duties, but truth to tell, wasn't all that much to do there.
GTPlanet is my only current, active moderation post, but I don't get to do as much of it as I like, as I have a lot of other stuff on my plate.
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I find it hard to be anything other than myself. I did struggle with how to separate regular-member me from moderator me to begin with, but in the end I tried to stay away from moderating discussions in subforums that I frequented as a member, unless it was of utmost urgency.
My stint as a moderator here is the only one I have had to date, and will be the only one I ever have. I have been a member of quite a few forums in my time, but never one as well-run as GTP, so I figure that if GTP is this good and still I hated moderating it, then I will well and truly detest it elsewhere.
My theory is that Jordan has a long-term plan. Most forums I have seen go through a boom period that the administrators don't know how to deal with. F1 Fanatic is a prime example - it started out as a niche, hobbyist blog, but then Keith quit his job to run it full-time. As the site gained a reputation (he had pictures of the Ferrari F150 Italia hours before anyone else), more and more members started joining, but there was no plan in place to deal with it. As a result, if you stray from the popular opinion (Raikkonen good, Hamilton excellent, Rosberg evil), the community turns on you and you get banned because it's easier to ban you than the trouble-makers. GTP, on the other hand, has gone through several booms with the release of GT4, GT5 and GT6, and hasn't experienced any of those problems because policy isn't being made up on the spot.
My stint as a moderator here is the only one I have had to date, and will be the only one I ever have. I have been a member of quite a few forums in my time, but never one as well-run as GTP, so I figure that if GTP is this good and still I hated moderating it, then I will well and truly detest it elsewhere.
My theory is that Jordan has a long-term plan. Most forums I have seen go through a boom period that the administrators don't know how to deal with. F1 Fanatic is a prime example - it started out as a niche, hobbyist blog, but then Keith quit his job to run it full-time. As the site gained a reputation (he had pictures of the Ferrari F150 Italia hours before anyone else), more and more members started joining, but there was no plan in place to deal with it. As a result, if you stray from the popular opinion (Raikkonen good, Hamilton excellent, Rosberg evil), the community turns on you and you get banned because it's easier to ban you than the trouble-makers. GTP, on the other hand, has gone through several booms with the release of GT4, GT5 and GT6, and hasn't experienced any of those problems because policy isn't being made up on the spot.
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1. More or less. I'm very much a fan of playing devil's advocate, and enjoy looking at issues from multiple angles. That part of me tends to post in either the GT/FM sections, or Opinions/CE. The sense of humour is much the same, but as ever, text doesn't always convey tone as well as a real-life conversation would. I'm not a fan of "online personas": I don't bother with an act, seems like too much work.
2. This is the only moderator position I hold on a message board, but I do co-run a student group I helped form a few years ago. We found that the existing clubs at the school didn't cater well enough to our particular stream (advertising and graphic design), so I've held a few events outside the dry campus (with the coordinators unofficial support) to keep the different sections acquainted, as well as ease the transition for first-years.
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It was just a couple months ago. I got/am overwhelmed with our first baby (son) and don't too have much time for video games, let alone enough time to dedicate enough time to help Jordan and the guys. I used to have some time at work to Moderate, but one of our companies is really growing a lot and my free time at work has also diminished.
Once I get past the whole 'having kids' thing, and have more free time, I'm planning on returning as a Moderator 👍
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Oh ok. Oh and congrats on being a dad!
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Do any of the moderators/administrators know each other personally?
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Do you mean personally, or... Personally?
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All the UK based ones know each other I believe. A few US and Canadian ones know each other as well.
