What's it like....

[Tonberry_Kid]

What is it like being a moderator or an admin? I'm not asking to be one or anything I just want to know what you do and what it's like.

[igotrhythm]

RE: What

I was a mod once a long time ago on another board. I don't think I did it right, which probably explains why I lost that status about 3 weeks later. Anyway, what I hear is that the most common thought of a mod at work is that their job is most often a thankless one.

[c117]

RE: What

Hm. I'm a mod at a fairly large board (but not quite as big as this one) and... I dunno. You get @#$%^ed at a lot, but at the same time there are a few perks. It's really not all that bad :/

[emccky]

RE: What

you lock topics and yell at people :O

[aperson]

RE: What

It's not interesting. Seriously.

[ToshX]

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I've been a mod for tons of forums(surprise, surprise.) and I'd have to say it's pretty boring. You have to put up with the crap everyone, lock stuff, ban people, and pretty much tell people to STFU. It's like being a parent only without any feelings of joy.

[Tps222]

RE: What

The joy is the look on their e-faces when you lock their precious topic, or when you ban the guy. It's a job well done, a police officer of sorts, with no rewards other then a sense of accomplisment.

[gardyloo]

RE: What

Yeah it's a real boring job for the mods who have to remove all the porno links XD

[lightdarkness]

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It rocks so much, especially for me, since I can play halo 2 and mod the forums at the same time

[SullyXPride]

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go ld!!!!!!!!!!

[User6773]

RE: What

Difficult as hell on a huge forum like this one. Often really thankless, and you don't even feel like you solve problems when you lock topics. Forum warnings are REALLY tedious to issue (they take like 3 minutes each) and since it takes 5 to ban, issuing a 1st is never fun (especially since most 1st time offenders don't need a 2nd warning to stop what they're doing.)

Being on the game development team is SO much more rewarding. It's so much fun to see thousands of people enjoying the fruits of your hard work.

[ToshX]

RE: What

LD you have too many files...

[waffydude]

Re: RE: What

It rocks so much, especially for me, since I can play halo 2 and mod the forums at the same time

Or you could just play Halo 2 and not have to worry about the multitasking as you play.

In my experience of mod/op-type positions online, it's cool at first because there's all this new stuff you can do and you're not used to having the power. But after awhile it's mostly just tedious and bogs you down if you're trying to go through a period of not being online much for awhile.

[ToshX]

RE: Re: RE: What

Or you could just be like me and just walk over to the Xbox when you want to play Halo 2.

[white_boy]

omg ld...that setup is so sick....and wow wtf at 202934204 files, how do you find what you're looking for?