The Day in the Life of a Moderator

JSK 252

I was always curious about what a moderator on boards.ie does on a day to day basis. Do ye have a specific workload that has to be done or what?

You can think of it as an episode of THIS IS YOUR LIFE:D .

Terry

We begin the day by checking the previous nights reported posts on our respective forums.
We then deal with the reported posts.
Then we do some coke and get head from a hooker.
Then back to boards to oppress people. Remember, we are high on coke at this stage, so we are extremely arrogant.
We continue to oppress people until the coke has worn off. Then we do some more and the circle continues.

Or we just do everything on a voluntary basis when we have the time to do it.

Ruu_Old

Clock in, nuke Mythology spambots, hookers and coke, food, more hookers and coke, IP checks, 3am nap when the backup takes place before being woken up again by Cloud's steel toe boot for the next shift.

I look after the boards listed over there <--- with other co-mods along with my smod duties (nuking naughty users, helping out on the site as a whole, receive/deal out abuse, whatever else my masters want, clean out the admin's private jet from top to bottom which is not a pretty sight after DeV comes back from Vegas!).

Stark

No work required. You just get to look clever with your Moderator badge and post pictures of owls on Feedback threads.

Although seriously:
Respond to reported posts.
Depending on how busy the forum is, either read through all the new posts(LGB) or else rely on reported posts(FAP).
Check the moderation queue for unregged posts.
Petition the admins for a side order of ketamine and rent boys to go with the coke and hookers.

jhegarty

which mod has to feed all the cats ? or is that an admin job.....

JSK 252

3 people on coke and hookers. Hmmmm..... Very interesting. Very interesting indeed.

Have ye ever had to report a user to the gardai?

Talliesin

JSK 252 wrote:

Have ye ever had to report a user to the gardai?

Yes.

This is less interesting than it may sound.

JSK 252

Talliesin wrote:

Yes.

This is less interesting than it may sound.

Why and for what?

Talliesin

Being naughty.

When the cops are looking at something you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy isn't charged you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy is found innocent you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy is found guilty, but the last you heard about it was during one of the above, you can't talk about it in public.

Not actually that interesting though.

Ever call the cops on someone? Probably wasn't that interesting either.

JSK 252

Talliesin wrote:

Being naughty.

When the cops are looking at something you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy isn't charged you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy is found innocent you can't talk about it in public.

If the guy is found guilty, but the last you heard about it was during one of the above, you can't talk about it in public.

Not actually that interesting though.

Ever call the cops on someone? Probably wasn't that interesting either.

Surely there was 101 people who did the same offence and therefore it would not single out any 1 individual?

Sparks

JSK 252 wrote:

Surely there was 101 people who did the same offence and therefore it would not single out any 1 individual?

Surprisingly few people take cocaine while receiving oral sex from a prostitute and using their computer to alter text posted to an online forum by other people. You couldn't mention a thing like that, lest someone be identified by a process of elimination.

Talliesin

Actually, now I think of it, the one matter I was involved that went as far as the cops wasn't on boards. It was just there in my memory under the general category of "things that have happened with people on the interwebs". It was actually an email list.

On boards I've never had to go further than letting someone know I know their name and address so that I really could tell the cops about them (people doing stupid things on the Internet tend to think they are anonymous when of course they aren't - we can only sometimes work out who they are but if the Gardai put their mind to it they always could).

Giblet

I don't have any real power in real life, so I like to think that banning people makes them real angry and I just hug myself to sleep. *click*, ban, *sigh*. Repeat until you feel good.

amp

9am - Wake up, scream with horror at the memory of a supermoderator forcing his tongue into your mouth
9:30am - cry in shower
10:00am - this is all bull**** so far as I am alway asleep at these outlandish hours.
18:00 - check reported posts
18:01 - read feedback
18:03 - Masterbate
18:04 - Feel guilty
18:20 - Ban someone in order to get rid of guilty feelings, the more righteously innocent the poster, the better the feeling MORE THAN A FEELING!
19:40 - Snort coke
20:00 - Hookers arrive
00:45 - Hooker die due to exploded vaginas
01:10 - amp sentenced to death due to outraGEOUSLY LARGE COCK!

So that's my day, FUN NO?!

muffler

I get fuelled up on vodka first before going for the hoke and cookers... hic!!

Tar.Aldarion

ban/jerk off, good combo.

Cake Fiend

Sparks wrote:

Surprisingly few people take cocaine while receiving oral sex from a prostitute and using their computer to alter text posted to an online forum by other people.

I can see you're new here.

Karl Hungus

They banned me from the coke and hookers after what I did with the coathanger last time.

Beruthiel

Well Karl, even us abusive, power hungry, drugged up, no lifer mods have standards!!

Karl Hungus

I just had to kill a lot of people...

With their own shoes?

Karl Hungus

No, with an axe in the face.

Ah. Pity.

Karl Hungus

I need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale. It can not be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs.

Terry

Completely off topic, but I can't open any thread with more than one page.
I would have put this in the datastore errors thread (because that's what's happening), but it's over one page.

Stark

Aye, same thing's happening to me at the moment. I can open all but the last page in those threads.

Terry

Terry wrote:

Completely off topic, but I can't open any thread with more than one page.
I would have put this in the datastore errors thread (because that's what's happening), but it's over one page.

A few Ctrl + F5's clears it up.

The Bollox

what does ctrl + F5 do? I know F5 refreshes. is ctrl + F5 a super refresh?

Giblet

Yes, actually.

miju

The Bollox wrote:

what does ctrl + F5 do? I know F5 refreshes. is ctrl + F5 a super refresh?

or more specifically clears your browsers cache of that page / site. right thats my token mod helpfullness for the week back to oppressing all the normies

Talliesin

It also sends the appropriate headers to request proxy caches to no use the cached version if they have one.

miju

Talliesin wrote:

It also sends the appropriate headers to request proxy caches to no use the cached version if they have one.

you just had to go one better than me didnt you :cool:

RuggieBear

i've just learned something good on a thread that had no right to be useful.

Borzoi

RuggieBear wrote:

i've just learned something good on a thread that had no right to be useful.

Likewise. This place has gone to s**t

miju

agreed there hasn't been a "boards mods are evil dictators" type thread in a while

David Michael

*hugs*

JSK 252

Is it normal for a moderator to be banned from a forum? Can a moderator be banned from their own forum?

miju

a moderator cant be banned from their own forum and yes many a mod has been on the recieving end of a good hard smack of the ban stick.

dont forget mods are just normal users outside of the forums they mod and they've to adhere to the same boards rules as everyone else (including any forums they mod)

Ruu_Old

JSK 252 wrote:

Is it normal for a moderator to be banned from a forum? Can a moderator be banned from their own forum?

It has happened not too long ago.

JSK 252

Ruu wrote:

It has happened not too long ago.

Go on. Go on. Cough out the name!

Ruu_Old

Ok, the name you are looking for is

made ya look

.

oleras

Once again a simple question is answered with coke and hookers style gibberish, do you moderators think you are above answering a simple question simply ? small c0ck syndrome comes to mind, but far be it for me to question the size, ill leave that up to your ma's to answer.....


ps.Stark was the only one to give a semi-comprehensive answer.....so he must be the biggest..................

pps.........no, he let himself down on the last line, sad......


time to snap the whip admins,dont want the inmates running the institution !

aidan_walsh

oleras wrote:

Once again a simple question is answered with coke and hookers style gibberish

How hard is it for people to understand the term "voluntary"? Should such people be treated to proper answers?

do you moderators think you are above answering a simple question simply ?

Only when it has been answered many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, oh dear God so many times before.

muffler

oleras wrote:

but far be it for me to question the size, ill leave that up to your ma's to answer.....

You mean......we are half brothers?

oleras

muffler wrote:

You mean......we are half brothers?

and you came to that conclusion by ???

since you quoated me, does not make sense............

If you are speaking for the hive, Ma was plural.......

CuLT

Adverts Moderating is a bit different to regular moderating, plus everyone has a different style anyway. That said...

I always have a gmail window open for reported posts/adverts, though I very rarely get reported posts on boards.ie itself anymore.

I personally only deal with a few reported adverts a day, most of the section amods get to them before I do. I concern myself mainly with performing adverts bans for the section mods, recruting new moderators, revising the adverts rules (making sure they're up to date, relevant, clear and fair, etc), dealing with issues raised in the adverts support forum (why a user was banned, various technical issues, clarification of certain rules).

I also would mediate in the very rare situation that a user would feel they are getting a raw deal from one amoderator (I have only had this situation occur once or twice).

For the likes of Digital Art / Design, the regular users don't need any moderation, they're all level headed and well organised; I just make sure the place is clear of spam and sticky threads they want stickied or update/merge threads for them.

oleras

CuLT wrote:

Adverts Moderating is a bit different to regular moderating, plus everyone has a different style anyway. That said...

I always have a gmail window open for reported posts/adverts, though I very rarely get reported posts on boards.ie itself anymore.

I personally only deal with a few reported adverts a day, most of the section amods get to them before I do. I concern myself mainly with performing adverts bans for the section mods, recruting new moderators, revising the adverts rules (making sure they're up to date, relevant, clear and fair, etc), dealing with issues raised in the adverts support forum (why a user was banned, various technical issues, clarification of certain rules).

I also would mediate in the very rare situation that a user would feel they are getting a raw deal from one amoderator (I have only had this situation occur once or twice).

For the likes of Digital Art / Design, the regular users don't need any moderation, they're all level headed and well organised; I just make sure the place is clear of spam and sticky threads they want stickied or update/merge threads for them.

Great answer CuLT.............im sure that answered the op.

BuffyBot

a moderator cant be banned from their own forum

I'm pretty sure WWM has banned someone from their own forum.

Tar.Aldarion

If you get a cat ban...

Crash

miju wrote:

a moderator cant be banned from their own forum

WRONG!

I discovered this one drunken night when myself and my fellow TCD mod were arguing over whether I could ban him. Turns out I could ban him from the TCD board by banning him from the EDU category.

Hilarity ensued

Thats not the only time you banned someone for little provocation!