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Subject: Is there a shortage of moderating staff?

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

There are enough forum cops on Bnet, so there's no need for more moderators.

  • 10.21.2007 12:33 PM PDT
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I know the voices in my head are not real, but they have some great ideas.

Brown chicken Brown cow!

They have to be carefull who they appoint as a mod, you wouldnt want a mod that banned people just becuse he didnt get the perm he wanted would you?

Besides, we all know that they are just de-frosting the new mods at the moment.

  • 10.21.2007 5:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: RoboChocobo
Use a Hammer and hit it's weakpoint for massive damage.

Which equates to delicious crab meat.

I think there are alot of people who would love to help "Janitor" the site, but it's just not the way B.net is run. There was a time when I wouldn't have minded to pick up after the kids in the Halo 3 forum, but now I'm old and tired :D. Too much Drama that way anyhoo.

Of course the real problem is quite simple: Life catches up. Cid and the Australian mods are busy with school, other mods have left, some just don't have the same "Guilty Spark" that they used to, and for others things just change. But that doesn't mean Recon 54 won't be here for another half a century as some kind of crazy Cyborg/Mainframe hybrid to interface with Bungie's latest game AND moderate at the same time.


Recon will become the next Disembodied Soul

  • 10.21.2007 5:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Yoozel
I'd really kill to see how many posts are made through out the day, note the news... one million members! That's a lot of people posting, interacting and generally saying things that their own mother would slap them for.
You're just looking for new drinking buddies, aren't you...

  • 10.21.2007 7:17 PM PDT
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The moderation team is fine. It's just a metter of getting ahold of them. I have several mods on my MSn messanger and it seems evertime that I really need one, they're not online. It's usually really late at night/ early in the morning is when I find that a moderator is needed and none are in sight. If there were some sort of "Report thread/post" button that sent a complaint to somehting like a joint moderator inbox, then I think that would work wonders.

  • 10.21.2007 9:13 PM PDT

Posted by: stare3
Posted by: xp3r7k1LL3r
To get a life.


I'm a video gamer, I have multiple lives.


ZOMG COOLEST VIDEO!

when/why did ghandi leave? damn halo 3 forum,they should have just let it go and posted a warning.

The children in there will eventually crash on their sugar rush i suppose...

  • 10.21.2007 9:14 PM PDT

Posted by: demonhunter191
There are enough forum cops on Bnet, so there's no need for more moderators.


No one respects the hall monitor. Most of the forum cop threads go like this;

Douche: OMG FIXX YOURRR GAMYE BUNGLE, WHERES MY HAYIBUNGA ARMORSZ!!!!!!
Forum Cop: Stop spamming and use the search feature please
Douche: STFU NOOB! I PAIDZ GOOD MONEYSS, IWANT MY ARMY!!!
Forum Cop: There are already 10 threads on this page discussing the skulls and Hayabusa armor
Douche: YOUR NOTTA MOD,

flame
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cheap shot at forum cops -blam!-ity
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cheap shot at forum cop's mother's loose moral standards

  • 10.21.2007 9:14 PM PDT
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Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

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Posted by: Sparten457
when/why did ghandi leave? damn halo 3 forum,they should have just let it go and posted a warning.

The children in there will eventually crash on their sugar rush i suppose...



I admire your optimism. Now please leave, before the internet turns you into a cynical jerk, like it does everyone who sticks around. The Halo 3 forum will never calm down.

Hmm... out of curiosity I looked at your join date. If you've really been around for that long and still have hopes that it will get better, I truly do admire your optimism, and your perseverance.

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  • 10.21.2007 10:43 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

Moderators get tired too, we all need to step away at times before we go on mass rampages and ban people for the word
"crap" and with the Search function... it's easy. We're working on doing the best we can, a lot of "new" members aren't even aware that we are a presence on these boards.

Heck, I've spent hours moderating and banning on the Halo 3 forum only to see things I've replied to or locked move to page 5 at four in the morning! It's becoming a very tedious task to Moderate, people really underestimate what we do for the community. (Cough HBO) But we are always trying and hey... who know what Achronos has up his sleeves. We all know that the new NEW Bungie.net is hardly complete... :)

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Posted by: Great_Pretender
Achronos is constructing a giant enemy crab.

-TGP-

Better have real time weapon change, or it will be useless.

  • 10.22.2007 12:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
You could say that, sort of. Not exactly. Maybe. Probably not. But perhaps, just not in the way you expect.

Posted by: atomic weggie
Maybe Achronos is working on getting some more mods.
Oh yeh. I feel so dumb that it took so long to figure out (I swear I wasn't think about this post for so long, that would be strange). Achronos is talking about the report thread feature. Soon "we" can help the ninjas moderate the forums. Did I get it right ;-)

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  • 10.22.2007 3:08 AM PDT

but there's no sense crying over every mistake
you just keep on trying until you run out of cake

Do not lose faith. They darkle. They tinct. Be wary.

  • 10.22.2007 6:50 AM PDT

Posted by: Yoozel
a lot of "new" members aren't even aware that we are a presence on these boards.


That right there should tell you we need more ninjas.

No one's questioning the fact that the moderators who actually moderate work hard Yoozel, it's that B.net has seen a major population explosion and no new ninjas? Hardly makes sense.

*jumps back into Thunderdome*

  • 10.22.2007 8:29 AM PDT
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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."

Posted by: atomic weggie
cheap shot at forum cop's mother's loose moral standards


Your mother has loose moral standards! In that she believes in a Machiavellian viewpoint that any means to an end can be justified if the end is a good one. One-fourth degree burn!

Considering that, not too long ago, two people were blacklisted for making spam in the Flood, it seems that the moderators are plentiful enough and are doing their “job.” Sure, I see the occasional bad person get through in one particular forum, but either I ignore the person and assume (usually wrongly) that someone else has reported that person and the situation will eventually go away thanks to some salmon-texted hero, or I go ahead and report the person myself, which usually gets the situation resolved much faster. Which, I suppose, should be a lesson for me, but I can’t quite figure out what it is…

But since I’m in the process of putting my thoughts into a text format and forcing you all to read them, I have been curious about the posting habits of the moderators and the number of moderators on at any time. I sometimes wonder if the mods, some of them, at least, would like to post more often, but don’t because of their worry that if they do post, then something bad will happen while they are writing out posts (controlling, of course, for the assumption that someone will take their statement as one from a Bungie Executive). In short, I am curious to know if the mods, who we certainly know to be quasi-rational forum-beings, would be more willing to post and share their viewpoints and have fun if they were under the impression that there were more people to help pick up the slack that they would drop.

  • 10.22.2007 8:45 AM PDT

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meh, whats the fun in moderating when you can just tell a moderator to do things and be a quasi-mod? That way you dont get held accountable! And recently it seems that more stuff is getting noticed and fixed.

  • 10.22.2007 9:03 AM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Posted by: Mabian
In short, I am curious to know if the mods, who we certainly know to be quasi-rational forum-beings, would be more willing to post and share their viewpoints and have fun if they were under the impression that there were more people to help pick up the slack that they would drop.

I cannot speak for the other mods, but I do not feel that way. I feel more that I have to watch what I say because it will be taken differently than if it were by a regular member. After seeing the week long posts about Recon's quips it just drives the point home even more. With the huge influx of new members we have to be very careful on what we post. They all see orange text and assume we work for Bungie. The people that have been around the block a few times (like all of the people in this threads mothers :P ) will know different and treats us like normal folk.

I must say before the release of Halo 3 I felt more comfortable posting in the forums. Now I have to walk on eggshells. Kinda sucks (like all the people in this threads mothers :P ).

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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."

Posted by: Achilles1108
I cannot speak for the other mods, but I do not feel that way. I feel more that I have to watch what I say because it will be taken differently than if it were by a regular member. After seeing the week long posts about Recon's quips it just drives the point home even more. With the huge influx of new members we have to be very careful on what we post. They all see orange text and assume we work for Bungie. The people that have been around the block a few times (like all of the people in this threads mothers :P ) will know different and treats us like normal folk.

I must say before the release of Halo 3 I felt more comfortable posting in the forums. Now I have to walk on eggshells. Kinda sucks (like all the people in this threads mothers :P ).


Perhaps I’m basing this on a personal assumption. This assumption could also be affected by the fact that since I don’t care about all that Halo stuff, there would, hopefully, be no one to take my words out of context in an “employee” sense. And while I wouldn’t put this problem past a few people, I wouldn’t think any words used as part of a general discussion on, say, video games genres could be used to state that Bungie’s next game will be an RPG featuring a blue squid named Roy G. Biv.

But then again, I’m sure that my own assumption is again has a rather poor basis, as most discussion of such a nature takes place in the Flood, and as I understand it, the majority of moderators would love nothing more than to metaphorically hang the forum by its metaphorical entrails. Metaphorically speaking…

  • 10.22.2007 9:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: Achilles1108
I cannot speak for the other mods, but I do not feel that way. I feel more that I have to watch what I say because it will be taken differently than if it were by a regular member. After seeing the week long posts about Recon's quips it just drives the point home even more. With the huge influx of new members we have to be very careful on what we post. They all see orange text and assume we work for Bungie. The people that have been around the block a few times (like all of the people in this threads mothers :P ) will know different and treats us like normal folk.

I must say before the release of Halo 3 I felt more comfortable posting in the forums. Now I have to walk on eggshells. Kinda sucks (like all the people in this threads mothers :P ).


Accountability is a -blam!- huh? I miss the old days when there was nobody here (camparitively) and people didnt mind what anyone said. But it's wishful thinking to hope for the return of those days.

  • 10.22.2007 9:47 AM PDT

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

Posted by: atomic weggie
Posted by: spartakus14
And I don't think it's that moderators aren't here anymore, I just think there a little busy, trying to get good at playing Halo.


Most of them don't even play Halo.


Hmmm...that's weird, because I've played Halo 3 with a good majority of them. I did naughty things to Recon with a tank in co-op (What happens in Co-op...stays in co-op). I also listened to Ash tell a horrible "knock-knock" joke to Pez. I still cry when I think of that joke Ash. A lot. I betray Achilles almost on a daily basis.

Who can blame the mods for wanting to play the same game we are with all that little kid glee. I don't expect them to be logging 5 hours here on B.net when they could have spent that time having fun in Halo 3 or whatever they want to do. Maybe that means more mods. I can't say. What I can say is that it would be a lot better if their were less idiots.

~B.B.

  • 10.22.2007 10:08 AM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

Karma system being more user based. And you can see it? just a guess.

  • 10.22.2007 11:27 AM PDT
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And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

It's not really a shortage of moderators, but rather a shortage of good forum members.


EDIT: Just a minor typo.

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Edit - never mind

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Posted by: BerserkerBarage
Hmmm...that's weird, because I've played Halo 3 with a good majority of them. I did naughty things to Recon with a tank in co-op (What happens in Co-op...stays in co-op). I also listened to Ash tell a horrible "knock-knock" joke to Pez. I still cry when I think of that joke Ash. A lot. I betray Achilles almost on a daily basis.

I think I've avoided playing with you so far! Hooray!

An additional note: it takes a while for new moderators to get the feel for the job and to get out of their "I'M NEW, I'MMA BAN SOME STUFF" phase. We can't have new moderators being shown the ropes during such an active time. That's why we added new moderators not that long before Halo 3 came out, so they had time to settle. THAT'S why we had 20 moderators when the site didn't even need 20 moderators. If we want any more, we'll probably have to wait a few months yet.

... wait, I think I DID play with you at least once. Damn.
-TGP-

  • 10.22.2007 4:39 PM PDT

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

Yes, you did TGP. No one escapes from my suckiness!! I'm still trying to stalk down Nos, but for the most part, I've caught'em all.

~B.B.

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