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Subject: Should moderators be done away with on Bungie.net?

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Lets have a 500,000 man anarchy... yea...

  • 03.14.2007 6:23 PM PDT
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Imagine.

Umm, i don't come to the septagon much often anymore, but this thread caught my eye. And i don't ask this much either but....Are you retarded?

  • 03.14.2007 6:27 PM PDT

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I suppose you also feel that because NO CIVILIZATION ON EARTH can exist peacefully without some sort of law enforcement that we do not deserve to exist?

Who pissed in your milk?

  • 03.14.2007 8:16 PM PDT

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I suppose you also feel that because NO CIVILIZATION ON EARTH can exist peacefully without some sort of law enforcement that we do not deserve to exist?

Who pissed in your milk?


*ahem*

Um. Is it too late to come forward peacefully?

  • 03.14.2007 8:27 PM PDT
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Yes. Meanwhile, lets do away with capitalism, exploitation of the working class, and turn the world into a dictatorship of the proletariat.

  • 03.14.2007 9:08 PM PDT

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  • 03.14.2007 9:10 PM PDT
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At least the OP was reasoned and seemed to be well thought out.

But, ultimately, the verdict is a resounding 'no.' Moderators are necessary and cool at times. They consistently post thought-provoking discussions/replies and add good insights to topics, but that's part of the job, I suppose.

And why do you recommend letting the entire site be dismantled in order to get rid of immature and unreasonable posters? Newsflash: many people here are fans of Bungie's games and would be out of a place to come and discuss these games and projects within Bungie's "radar" in hopes of letting the staff know what the populace thinks.

  • 03.14.2007 10:16 PM PDT
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I seriously think this is a JOKE.

But.........the forums would be more "interesting" without authority, initially at least. We've read "Lord of the Flies," correct? (Typical High School english Literature.)

Anyway, I think there would be some who try to rise up and take a power position- because even in anarchy, there will always be someone looking to take control.

Then you'd the ne'er-do-wells. Spammers, trolls, off topic posters, you name it. They'd run rampant, but eventually, it would all phase out. Or slow down a lot at least....

Eventually you'd have a huge divide between those who try to do the "right" thing, and those bent on doing the "wrong" thing. And seeing as how the "wrong" is always noticed more, it would kind of thrive.

But it would be interesting.........

By the way, if this isn't a joke, then it is a really really REALLY bad idea LoL

  • 03.14.2007 10:23 PM PDT

If this is a joke, i don't get it.

  • 03.14.2007 10:27 PM PDT
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This is the most ridiculous thing I think I've ever heard...

That's like asking the Police in your city to take a day off... It'd be anarchy...

  • 03.14.2007 10:38 PM PDT
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Moderators are not a sign of weekness. If anything B.net has the least moderators I have ever seen for the size of its community. Moderators are needed in every online community to keep order, becuase no matter what you will get hackers, spammers, -blam!-s, and the rest of the online scum at least two to three times on your site, if its successful that is. Moderators are the structure of a website, and are usually people who are respected members or those who built the site from day one.

You could say in a way that the moderators here are the founding fathers or were around to see them.

  • 03.14.2007 10:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: King Karp
I would never eat a pet, as in an animal.
Now, if it was a pet cake or pie, then Hell YEAH! I'd eat that -blam!- man!

modderators should stay their for those people who want to break the rules just to see what happens, or those people who just want to be stupid,
if you guys posted this inside my group you would be under extreme ninja attack

  • 03.14.2007 11:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: Synthmilk
I suppose you also feel that because NO CIVILIZATION ON EARTH can exist peacefully without some sort of law enforcement that we do not deserve to exist?

Who pissed in your milk?


*ahem*

Um. Is it too late to come forward peacefully?


No, if you wish to surrender, I will still accept.

  • 03.15.2007 6:06 AM PDT
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Wow, two actual Bungie members posted in this forum, you don't see that everyday. We have one talking about cats trying to kill him and one who owned that cats' prey. Now, when they go to work, they will have a 1 vs 1 Halo 3 match on one of Jeramiah's new gametypes he made for MM.

  • 03.15.2007 7:08 AM PDT
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Ok, assuming everything you said was true, no forum, besides tiny 3 member invisionfree ones, desirves to live. There are no forums in the world that have no mods and no rule breaking besides ones with under 10 users.

If you can find a forum with even a thousand members that has no mods, and nobody EVER breaks the rules, you official win the Greatest Discovery of all Time award.

No matter what you do, there will always be atleast one rule breaking person on every forum. Therefor, you need atleast one mod. With a forum this big, you have tons of rule breakers. You also have Bungie haters who would try to wreck the place. One mod can't manage them all, so you need more.

Use your brain. MODS WILL NEVER BE UNNECESSARY!

  • 03.15.2007 12:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: MiIkie
Moderators help maintain the forums and keep it spam-free, but in the end, isn't the need of moderators a sign of weakness in the community? Since some members are not mature enough to obey the rules, the community's level of maturity is diminished, and the community is less worthy of existence. Therefore, I am proposing that moderators be done away with on Bungie.net. This will be a test for the forums. If the members go crazy and the forums fall into chaos, then Bungie.net is unworthy of existence, and it should be allowed to be consumed by its unworthy members. If the community is worthy of existence, then the community will continue on functioning with minimal problems.

I say you're unworthy of existence for being dumb enough to suggest this

  • 03.15.2007 12:16 PM PDT
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No, the moderators help to minimize the problems.

  • 03.15.2007 5:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: elmicker
I have a better proposal; remove all the normal members.

Perfection.


has the same kinda logic to it

this forum is kida saying there are car accidents so if we take out air bags people will not want to crash

*edit*
sory will make a point
i am going to relate this to human natuer if you look back to the begining of time there has allways bean wars beetwen the differnt peoples of the world some times peole make peac some times people do not. moderators should be thought about as more of police oficers there not there because every one is nesasarly doing somthing wrong thay are there because if some one is to do some thing wrong there is a whay to solve the problem and to assure it never gets the chance to escalate into somthing that could be damaging to the peoples of the site

well so much for relating it to human nature

[Edited on 3/15/2007]

  • 03.15.2007 6:22 PM PDT
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Okay, there is no need for flaming. Not even mild flaming. It is never acceptable here, so don't do it.

Post the potential merits, and the potential problems all you want. Critique the overall idea all you want. Speculate about the future consequences all you want too. All of those reactions are fine. Just don't flame, or insult anyone.

That being said, I'm rather biased when it comes to this idea, as I'm sure most of you can understand. I don't know exactly how bad this forum would get without moderators, but I do know it would be bad enough to make this site unnavigable. Making this idea rather pointless, because it would cause the exact opposite reaction than what it was initially intended to.

Aside from that, how would doing away with the rule enforcers convince everyone to follow the rules? I can't honestly fathom how that would work.

  • 03.15.2007 6:30 PM PDT

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Removing the moderators would be like removing law enforcement.

All hell would break loose.

The apocalypse horsemen would be seen daily.

  • 03.15.2007 6:33 PM PDT

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Y'know, I'd love to get rid of those pesky moderators too. They're such a drag; I mean, I hardly get a chance to post anymore because of the moderating on this site. What jerks.

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  • 03.15.2007 6:37 PM PDT
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No. Moderators help Bungie.net out a lot. Without them, this website would burn in the ashes of the Ghost moderator.
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  • 03.15.2007 6:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: twinkiemaker
Yes, removing the moderators from Bungie.net would only make the community stronger.
Yes, theoretical communism is possible.
Yes, I do own the Brooklyn Bridge if you're interested in buying it.
Yes, you don't really have to pay your taxes.


Get my point?


You know theoretical communism would also be good for the world, just to add to that.

  • 03.15.2007 7:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: EAGLES5
Bad Idea, because even the "good" member might act out.

Without moderators the forums could turn into xbox live.

People not afraid to say what ever they want because they know nothing can be done about it.

And i dont even want to think of the spam attacks.

if enough people got together and started to spam this place the forums may die.

It happend on Ebalums world a long ways back i think


Good point. Xbox live can be very annoying with plenty of racist and sexist comments. I would leave Bungie.net if there were no moderators.

  • 03.15.2007 7:58 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Not having moderators here is like not having police, laws or Military.

Nonstop murders, thefts and rapes... not a plesent thing to live with.

  • 03.15.2007 8:07 PM PDT

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