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Subject: What do you think of the moderators on the forums?
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ell oh ell.

  • 06.05.2006 7:26 AM PDT
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to actually contribute..

'on top' is GJJ. best and most helpful member back when i was a nubling, imo should have been a moderator much, much sooner. we love ya jim!

the majority of moderators i think do a good job, and they seem to be good people with decent sences of humour. a small percentage i have no respect for, through how they act on here, on Xbl - playing with modders is 'right out' and i have heard, on the IRC.

- though some are pretty inactive - havent seen chris or yoozel in an age, being a mod is voulantary, and id get bored of it prett fast i'd imagine.

  • 06.05.2006 7:55 AM PDT
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I've only seen one instance where I felt someone was being too strict. I think I thread got locked that I didn't feel was quite as pointless as the mod deemed it. But other then that, gosh, these guys are pretty cool. The one's that were already here of course do a a great job, and the "hired" hands that proved their worth to Bungie were chosen well.

  • 06.05.2006 8:21 AM PDT
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Achronos is right about bans stopping rule breakings, i've recieved one blacklisting in my time here, a 7 day slap on the wrist for an overuse of the word "noob" and variations of it in a post back at a troll on the forums (though it was in jest and posted as a joke for the rest of the forum), since then, i don't think i've broken a single one of the ToSs...

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  • 06.05.2006 9:19 AM PDT

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I think moderators keep a sense of balance and control over the forums. It keeps flaming to a minimum and they get rid of crude and unnecessary threads.

  • 06.05.2006 10:16 AM PDT

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The mods rock!!! But sometimes when we really need them, they're not there to get rid of the flamer/spammer/ect.

  • 06.05.2006 10:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: cortana 5
The mods rock!!! But sometimes when we really need them, they're not there to get rid of the flamer/spammer/ect.


The mods have there own lives to attend to..they can't ALWAYS babysit the forums.

  • 06.05.2006 11:40 AM PDT

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The mods rock!!! But sometimes when we really need them, they're not there to get rid of the flamer/spammer/ect.


The mods have there own lives to attend to..they can't ALWAYS babysit the forums.

I know that!

  • 06.05.2006 12:01 PM PDT

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Mmkay, here's the truth: If most of us members were allowed to be mods, we'd screw up, much more than our current mods. In one of the groups ive admined, I used to be extremely strict. But on the way to trying to get that position, since I didnt found the group, I was really nice.

Recently I've given a few members mod positions in that group, and so far only about 2 of them are handling it right.

PS: Moderators are human. In saying so i mean that they make mistakes, so the ones they make shouldnt be taken more lightly or heavily than regular member ones. They simply can click a few more buttons than us members.

*Most of the people who want do be mods just want it to act in athority over other members, not to contribute to the community like they should.

  • 06.05.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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Mmkay, here's the truth: If most of us members were allowed to be mods, we'd screw up, much more than our current mods. In one of the groups ive admined, I used to be extremely strict. But on the way to trying to get that position, since I didnt found the group, I was really nice.

Recently I've given a few members mod positions in that group, and so far only about 2 of them are handling it right.


For some reason I feel that some time ago people were asking about if the mods were too strict when they started out, and had to be talked to. I think it may have been TGP who came and said that they were actually a bit too lenient because they didn't want to screw up. But that was ages ago...

PS: Moderators are human. In saying so i mean that they make mistakes, so the ones they make shouldnt be taken more lightly or heavily than regular member ones. They simply can click a few more buttons than us members.

*Most of the people who want do be mods just want it to act in athority over other members, not to contribute to the community like they should.


I wouldn't exactly say the mods are human. They may have been before, but when you spend your entire life chained to a desk only able to go to Bungie.net, you basically give up your humanity.

I would say that people who go around saying "I would like to be a moderator" do so because:

A) They saw someone breaking the rules and thought to themselves: If only I were a moderator, I would have blacklisted that guy. They only want to be moderators so they can get rid of the few guys they don't like.

B) They have no idea what it means to be a moderator. They don't realize the responsibility, or the stress from getting 30+ PMs per day asking them to join groups, unban them, unlock threads, possibly to pin threads, and the like. I feel stressed out just thinking about it.

I wouldn't say they solely want the power per se, but they probably aren't really thinking about the well-being of the forums as a whole.

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  • 06.05.2006 3:47 PM PDT
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As Goldilocks said in the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears':

"Other mods are too hot.
Other mods are too cold.

These mods are juuust right!"

  • 06.05.2006 7:21 PM PDT
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They are just right...
Just don't get on their bad side, or else...

  • 06.06.2006 6:55 AM PDT

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I agree Mabian...but just think: If no one broke the rules then this thread wouldnt exist. The reason people think they are strict is because they have been banned or backlisted.

If no one broke the rules this thread wouldnt exist...
And I mean really didnt break the rules, not just saying they didnt when in fact they did. See rule breaking on these forums and in real life.. ...when some one breaks them, they have an opinion of whether they broke them, how bad they did break them, or not that they did. So, bungie put up rules that every one agrees on the standards of.

--Answer: No the mods are not to strict.

  • 06.06.2006 7:11 AM PDT
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I agree Mabian...but just think: If no one broke the rules then this thread wouldnt exist. The reason people think they are strict is because they have been banned or backlisted.

If no one broke the rules this thread wouldnt exist...
And I mean really didnt break the rules, not just saying they didnt when in fact they did. See rule breaking on these forums and in real life.. ...when some one breaks them, they have an opinion of whether they broke them, how bad they did break them, or not that they did. So, bungie put up rules that every one agrees on the standards of.

--Answer: No the mods are not to strict.


Which is why I'm working on fixing humanity.

*Returns to the lab*

*Explosion*

Fire!

[Edited on 6/6/2006]

  • 06.06.2006 2:07 PM PDT