- Shishka
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Posted by: atomic weggie
You're right about consistency. But that's also unfair. You're comparing moderating ability between ninjas who were moderating since the internet was invented and a crop of new mods who just started. I betcha Shishka and Recon weren't as consistent when they first started back in 1945. It takes time, just like any job.
When I first began moderating back in '04 (That's 2004, not 1604, weggie), it was just stosh and I, and the site population was so low I was able to read every post. Back then, stosh and I could only edit threads, and bans were handed out either by Frankie or Achronos. By the time Achronos got us the ability to blacklist people, I had been sending him lists of people over PM, listing names and infractions.
You really think Achronos is "bitter?" Keep in mind who my enabler was, when I was a forum ninja. He has always been far more cruel a host than I'll ever be. That hasn't changed a bit.
What has changed is the population. Bungie.Net caters to thousands of people. These are big forums, now, not the smaller, less used forums of the perl days. And, the larger the group, the larger the group think. That is to say, there's a lot of morons on the internet, and when a lot of people congregate to one website you can expect to see an inverse proportion between population and intelligence. Your complaints now mirror the complaints made when Halo 2 brought in a new group of people to the community. The Halo 2 complaints are no different than what people said when Halo 1 brought new people to the community. The list goes on. Keep in mind that any complaint you have about the community now was probably made in reference to the wave that brought you to this website.
Keep in mind that the moderators are volunteers; they get no pay or anything of the sort for monitoring these forums, and in all cases except JAF's, they have real lives that will occasionally take higher priority (I jokes, I jokes!). This is exactly the same as when I moderated. The rules are the same, as well:
1. The Moderators are the law.
2. Bungie is above the law.
3. You are not.
Again, all that has changed is the population and the density on this website. And with the rise in population, so too must the moderators rise to keep some kind of semblance of control. As far as I can tell, they've mostly chosen not to follow my own rather draconian philosophies towards forum moderation, but despite that they've managed to do a damn good job keeping the ridiculous number of people on these forums from transforming the place into a cesspool of mental diarrhea.