Questions and innuendos about Moderators
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Corey is probably the least-known, but he played a very important role in the early days of GTPlanet. You can learn more about him here. Although we lost contact many years ago, I'll forever be grateful to him for his help with the technical side of things - I really had no idea what I was doing back then.
@Phil and @Talentless are some of the original moderators; I doubt even our oldest generation of currently active users remember when they were regular posters.
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I knew about Talentless, but I didn't know Phil was a moderator too.
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It was exhausting, and it took all the fun out of the forums. I was promoted shortly before the release of Gran Turismo 5, so I got to see all of the silliness that followed. There were some subforums that were just a mess, like the trades subforum and tuning. I found it really difficult to separate regular forum-going me from moderator me. There were more than a few times when I was up past one in the morning cleaning up after people accusing and counter-accusing one another of ripping each other off in a trade, or tuners ignoring most of the AUP.I wonder why some mods choose to stop being a mod. It's such a cool badge.
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What place was worse, the GT5 Marketplace or the tuning forum?
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I don't really remember - it was years ago.
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Actually, I have thought about it and I have changed my mind - the News and Current Affairs subforum was the worst, because the discussions tended to get very heated without breaking the AUP. It was the one subforum where you couldn't participate and moderate; it was one or the other because you couldn't let your opinion on the subject influence your moderating.
It brings up the worst traits of society for reasons i wont be explained here and it comes in a scary numbers. But thankfully more people are basically "restore the faith in humanity".
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It's just fear. Fear of what's different. Fear of what's unknown. Fear of what you don't understand. It's not a new fear, either; it has existed in some form or another for decades, if not centuries - Jews, communists, Asians, Muslims. They have all been subject to it. It's easier to try and project that fear onto some external entity than it is to accept the knowledge that the evil exists, however latent, within everything that makes you comfortable. That fear only betrays the individual's insecurity and their need to be morally right, because in its most extreme form, acknowledging the merits of another culture means admitting the flaws in your own. And if there are flaws, then you are not morally right, and to their minds, that is unacceptable. Projecting fear onto another is a means of containing them and undermining them, confining them to a narrow definition that can never, ever threaten or challenge the people who want to be right. If they are aware of the irony of this, it's justified as a lesser evil. Questions of faith or extremism are just a framing device; this goes to something deeper and much more primal about human nature.
Auden was right: "What Nijinsky wrote / About mad Diaghliev / The error bred in human bone / Not universal love / But to be loved alone".
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Infield only? Why?
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Because privalidge.
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Well, it's rather natural for that to happen with most online communities; and it seems to be the same with many workplaces and organizations. People just lose interest one way or another, although we do have a wealth of long-standing members - as well as the rather new - that keep me here.
Do I look at old threads every so often, wondering "what ever happened to so-and-so"? Yes, but you can't force anyone stay...people move on by changes and realizations, others just lose track of time, and others lose interest. It's also very easy to outgrow whatever community spirit becomes carried along with changes to its membership, although a big reason I stick around is that there's an establishment which has also matured as we all grow older and wiser.
Real life does have a way of interfering with gaming life and online life, and usually for good reasons.
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