Community Moderators Wanted!

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Konman wrote:

IceIX wrote:

<snip> Elitist Jerks <snip>

What an awesome name for an new alliance

They have the second coolest guild name in Warcraft, beaten only by Gnomeland Security.

Clintman

Telepath wrote:

Konman wrote:

IceIX wrote:

<snip> Elitist Jerks <snip>

What an awesome name for an new alliance

They have the second coolest guild name in Warcraft, beaten only by Gnomeland Security.

Elitist Jerks was my favorite forum of all time.

Tannen

And yet the mods could ban you for asking completely legitimate questions if they deemed them inappropriate.

The regulars were afforded some leeway, the newbies, none. That doesn't foster discussion, it kills it.

I used to trawl the banned-post forums. Some of the reasons were hilarious. On the other hand, the sheer amount of hate that some of the mods were on the receiving end was... scary.

Nonce Equitaur 2

I'll be glad to be a moderator.

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I already moderate everyone...IN MY HEAD!

I like it that way just fine, otherwise I would be drunk with power and start banning people based on screennames.

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As a random aside, is anyone else missing the "lightbulb" icon next to this post? It only shows the red version for me (when unread posts exist). The black version (when there are no new posts) doesn't display.

Edit: Well, now that I've posted here, the black icon with the red asterisk displays. So it's only the base icon that is missing for me.

Nonce Equitaur 2

It might be good to have a Spam forum, and that could be one place for Moderators to send things.

In that particular forum, all links could be nulled.

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A suggestion to the community mods: put a line in your sig that says something like "This is my moderator voice." in red text. That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat. It's a mod thing on some other boards I've posted on, and it seemed to work well there.

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Community moderator? I nominate mechgouki *insert trollface here*

over_clocked

Northern Polarity hands down.

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Vairelome wrote:

A suggestion to the community mods: put a line in your sig that says something like "This is my moderator voice." in red text. That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat. It's a mod thing on some other boards I've posted on, and it seemed to work well there.

I agree with this statement. In spite of TheLadder's little joke, I think I would make a good Alliance forum moderator, since I am a huge alliance advocate as it is, between the 33 people I manage in 2 alliances and the alliance suggestion thread I already maintain. Not to mention I know how phpBB forums work. That way I can leave my role-playing and trash talking in general discussion without people thinking I'm abusing my moderator powers, and just help promote everyone's Alliance Agenda and keeping the forums there tidy.

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Vairelome wrote:

A suggestion to the community mods: put a line in your sig that says something like "This is my moderator voice." in red text. That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat. It's a mod thing on some other boards I've posted on, and it seemed to work well there.

That is a very good idea.

Puritas

Vairelome wrote:

That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat.

Yeah, to go a step further, most of the successful mod setups I've been involved in were where the mods were the type of people who already didn't post normally in their assigned subforums, except for data/spading/etc

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klingsor wrote:

Vairelome wrote:

A suggestion to the community mods: put a line in your sig that says something like "This is my moderator voice." in red text. That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat. It's a mod thing on some other boards I've posted on, and it seemed to work well there.

I agree with this statement. In spite of TheLadder's little joke, I think I would make a good Alliance forum moderator, since I am a huge alliance advocate as it is, between the 33 people I manage in 2 alliances and the alliance suggestion thread I already maintain. Not to mention I know how phpBB forums work. That way I can leave my role-playing and trash talking in general discussion without people thinking I'm abusing my moderator powers, and just help promote everyone's Alliance Agenda and keeping the forums there tidy.

Whoa, what's with the negative rep?!

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Fluffyudders wrote:

klingsor wrote:

Vairelome wrote:

A suggestion to the community mods: put a line in your sig that says something like "This is my moderator voice." in red text. That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat. It's a mod thing on some other boards I've posted on, and it seemed to work well there.

I agree with this statement. In spite of TheLadder's little joke, I think I would make a good Alliance forum moderator, since I am a huge alliance advocate as it is, between the 33 people I manage in 2 alliances and the alliance suggestion thread I already maintain. Not to mention I know how phpBB forums work. That way I can leave my role-playing and trash talking in general discussion without people thinking I'm abusing my moderator powers, and just help promote everyone's Alliance Agenda and keeping the forums there tidy.

Whoa, what's with the negative rep?!

I guess Jozier and EmeryT believe that thinking differently from them is cause to downvote me. Both jozier and Emeryt have a habbit of commenting after me, because I rub them the wrong way. Jozier compared me to Napoleon! Which I thought was cute. When I go to the Napoleon Monument in Paris, I will take a pic just for him. Back on topic though:

I frequently post on suggestions sub-forum and I think I differentiate my posts there from my posts in general discussion, where I take liberties.Of course, people are free to disagree with me. Clearly having teenagers manage the forums is preferable over adults who manage complex software projects on the day to day

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klingsor wrote:

Fluffyudders wrote:

Whoa, what's with the negative rep?!

I guess Jozier and EmeryT believe that thinking differently from them is cause to downvote me. Both jozier and Emeryt have a habbit of commenting after me, because I rub them the wrong way. Jozier compared me to Napoleon! Which I thought was cute. When I go to the Napoleon Monument in Paris, I will take a pic just for him.

And just like magic, it disappeared...

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Puritas wrote:

Vairelome wrote:

That way, you can post as normal, while having an unambiguous way of signalling when you are wearing your Official Hat.

Yeah, to go a step further, most of the successful mod setups I've been involved in were where the mods were the type of people who already didn't post normally in their assigned subforums, except for data/spading/etc

You can go that route as well, though I would expect it to be more common on very large, high-traffic forums where you can split up the mod duties like that. In the case of these forums, I expect that d3 would like a handful of people who already spend a fair amount of time browsing the forums on a daily basis, and I would think that most of that group would be frequent posters.

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Please clarify that not all Fitted Kitchens will be perma banned, just the spammy ones!

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IceIX wrote:

- Which sub-forums you're interested in keeping tabs on

I would like to moderate the News and Announcements subforum. Those guys posting there need some serious reigning in. Also, every patch announcement would forever include "<alliance x> is banned from earning event rewards" where <alliance x> is replaced by whoever offers me the best bribes that week.

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I think everyone keeps missing the point that you'd be a mod for all the forums not just a sub forum or two.
So in short if you want the job you gotta take it all, not just the few parts you want.
In-fact that's the exact reason I'm not tossing my hat into the ring,
I'd rather not get myself in over my head only to figure out that its more work then I'm willing to chew on.