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Subject: If you were a Bungie moderator...

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Depends on the country. Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland are the only countries I'd actually want to live in. As for the US... it'd take something pretty amazing to get me to move there.

  • 01.06.2012 10:36 AM PDT

Posted by: ev1l tr1t0n
Norway
That's a Country? Cool. I don't think we'd ever have any mods from that place though.

OT: I've always wanted to live in Spain, and if those two rare coincidences met, yes I would stay a mod and move. Maybe even start posting my reasons for bans, locks, and warnings in Spanish ;)

  • 01.06.2012 11:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dropship dude
Why would I have to move if I became a mod?

  • 01.06.2012 11:26 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

I could only imagine this being required if the following events were to occur:

* - Bungie decides to "go pro" with moderation.
* - Bungie were willing to pay for full-time, around the clock moderation of their forums.
* - Bungie maintains its practice of "no telecommuting" and those employee moderators would work AT a Bungie location (not necessarily the studio).
* - This location would have a "cubical farm" with shifts and teams of moderators.
* - There was not enough local talent to fill those positions.

That would take a LOT of money, would assume a HUGE amount of accountability that is now defended by the idea of "well, they don't actually work FOR us", and it would take a certain mind set to make these forums and this community a 40hr/week job for a group of people.

I don't see it, or any associated relocation, occurring.

  • 01.06.2012 11:35 AM PDT

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I'll be moving in the next 2 years hopefully if everything goes as planned.

  • 01.06.2012 11:53 AM PDT
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I'm just wondering, because I see a lot of moderators interested in this idea (or maybe it was only one moderator that really liked the idea). What sort of wages are you guy trying to find, anyway?
Posted by: Recon Number 54
* - Bungie were willing to pay for full-time, around the clock moderation of their forums.

  • 01.06.2012 12:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: burritosenior
Yeah. Why would he have to move if he became a moderator?
Posted by: Dropship dude
Why would I have to move if I became a mod?

  • 01.06.2012 12:41 PM PDT

Key


Posted by: Recon Number 54I would push for that job. What if you get carpel tunnel? No worker's comp. for you, my friend.

[Edited on 01.06.2012 12:45 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2012 12:44 PM PDT

If I could choose the country? Yes.

  • 01.06.2012 12:45 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: Izak609
I'm just wondering, because I see a lot of moderators interested in this idea (or maybe it was only one moderator that really liked the idea). What sort of wages are you guy trying to find, anyway?
Posted by: Recon Number 54
* - Bungie were willing to pay for full-time, around the clock moderation of their forums.

I have no earthly idea what some sites pay their employee moderators. While it can be a delicate and risky job (since you are now an official representative/agent), I doubt that it could/would be worth as much to a game dev/studio as a decent game tester would be. A tester is directly linked to the quality of your final product. So, in this field, I suspect that it wouldn't be a career altering job.

Not to get too long winded, (I know, too late), if Bungie wanted to simply "hire and pay" the existing team as full-time employees? They couldn't afford many/some of us, not compared to our "day jobs" or get us to reconsider what was our primary form of income.

The current system works, most folks are comfortable with it, it is flexible and yet predictable, and while anyone would love to get paid for doing something that they enjoy, it's clear that none of us are "in this for the money".

As to why we do it then? Clearly it is the power and our ability to arbitrarily wield it against those who would challenge our bias and over-inflated egos!

  • 01.06.2012 12:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Clearly it is the power and our ability to arbitrarily wield it against those who would challenge our bias and over-inflated egos!

  • 01.06.2012 12:59 PM PDT

Why not?

  • 01.06.2012 1:44 PM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.

Well, I'm already planning on moving in a few years. Maybe not out of the country, maybe staying in.


Anyways, no, being a moderator on an online website would not affect my decision in the slightest to move.

  • 01.06.2012 2:06 PM PDT
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Good answer. Although, I guess I was looking for a moderator that is actually interested in the job, or just a wage you'd place on the job that'd make it worth while (no matter how crazy). By the looks of it, I guess the want for a wage was probably a jest or a wistful thought (of if everything else stayed the same). Yeah, I was thinking that bobcast, at least, wouldn't settle for anything less than an arm and a leg (no pun intended).

To put it simply, I understand how serious of a decision job choice really is and I'm fine with how things already work.
Posted by: Recon Number 54
I have no earthly idea what some sites pay their employee moderators. While it can be a delicate and risky job (since you are now an official representative/agent), I doubt that it could/would be worth as much to a game dev/studio as a decent game tester would be. A tester is directly linked to the quality of your final product. So, in this field, I suspect that it wouldn't be a career altering job.

Not to get too long winded, (I know, too late), if Bungie wanted to simply "hire and pay" the existing team as full-time employees? They couldn't afford many/some of us, not compared to our "day jobs" or get us to reconsider what was our primary form of income.

The current system works, most folks are comfortable with it, it is flexible and yet predictable, and while anyone would love to get paid for doing something that they enjoy, it's clear that none of us are "in this for the money".

As to why we do it then? Clearly it is the power and our ability to arbitrarily wield it against those who would challenge our bias and over-inflated egos!

  • 01.06.2012 2:13 PM PDT

Moderation is not a job, it is voluntary, so it should not come in the way of certain opportunities.

  • 01.06.2012 2:26 PM PDT

Swag punks, fu­­ck off!

Maybe...

  • 01.06.2012 2:58 PM PDT

Bad connection? As someone on bnet in England, I can assure you that poor connection isn't an issue

  • 01.06.2012 3:06 PM PDT

I suspect llamas are secretly wizards. I <3 poptarts n' milk. I like me. Grimick is defined as: a logical parodox, the act of funnaling a potato down your throat, and a deliciously flavored muffin (with pecons and blueberries). Norway is the Swedish word for 'moron'. My sister has cancer, so i get to use handicap parking and cut small children in line at Disneyland.

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No, why would I? Here has Jamba Juice.

  • 01.06.2012 3:32 PM PDT

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Why would I move to another country if I get mod? That makes no sense.

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  • 01.07.2012 5:29 AM PDT
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I do not wish to become a moderator on this site or leave my beautiful country.

  • 01.07.2012 5:31 AM PDT

No, i'd like to stay in the windy and rainy UK.

  • 01.07.2012 5:33 AM PDT
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

I certainly wouldn't leave the US just for some arbitrary moderation gig.

Though I wouldn't even moderate here if it was an actual job. I like this community and these discussion boards. I moderate here because I interact here anyway. If I find something that violates our rules/CoC/ToU during my usual forum perusing, I'll handle it. If it was an actual job, where I had to log a certain amount of hours or moderate a certain way outside of my usual procedures, I don't think I'd last very long. I'd get burned out very quickly.

  • 01.07.2012 3:19 PM PDT

Soffish for everyone!

Art and Halo = my life... pretty much.

...No..I would certainly have an epic avatar however.

  • 01.07.2012 3:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: evilcam
I certainly wouldn't leave the US just for some arbitrary moderation gig.

Though I wouldn't even moderate here if it was an actual job. I like this community and these discussion boards. I moderate here because I interact here anyway. If I find something that violates our rules/CoC/ToU during my usual forum perusing, I'll handle it. If it was an actual job, where I had to log a certain amount of hours or moderate a certain way outside of my usual procedures, I don't think I'd last very long. I'd get burned out very quickly.

Unless the $ was LOTZ.

But lots of Moderators would probably not Moderate if it became an actual job...I think.

  • 01.07.2012 10:53 PM PDT

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