How are mods chosen...

Overheal

Cos I was spending a lot of time in the Leaving Cert Forum recently and its in need of more hands because of the Mocks and all that. Poor panicked childrens posting new threads left and right demanding to know whats coming up on their mocks and all that. An unsorted mess with font-wars and personal abuse afoot.

User45701

i was very suprised that there was even a leaving cert of junior cert forum on boards. Nwever really understood why they even exist tbh. But i do know that the rule of being a mod is not to ask. But then again from what i have seen you are a very productive poster with some good points to make so you never know they might make an exception. The only time i was ever "up for mod" was shortly after i first joined board when i had a vey activity and the SG forum was made.

EDIT: dont bother making a leaving cert / junoir cert comparrison to my spelling for some reason i cant find it on firefox after my re-install and i am dying of cold/flu/headac/****s/tired so im not bothered getting spelling right, sorry.

Red Hand

Jesus, the Leaving Cert!:eek:I haven't a tap done!

Ruu_Old

They are normally recommended by fellow mods and then the admins decide. Then of course there is the application form, exam and then brainwashing.

Sherifu

I thought it was the tried and trusted Rock.Paper.Scissors with everyone on the forum.

Overheal

I was hoping for a fight to the death with Klingon Battliths

Ruu_Old

Also you aren't showing your shiney red stars, go to User CP->Group Memberships and select Subscribers.

Maximilian

Ruu wrote: »

They are normally recommended by fellow mods and then the admins decide. Then of course there is the application form, exam and then brainwashing.

Wait, not penis size? Oh god I feel so used.

I think I'm going to be sick..

Overheal

Yay I have more stars just what I wanted

edit: aww but there ARE evil deeds happening in the LC forum... those jumper wearing bastards.. just saw a bloke post up copyrighted material :eek: wont someone please think of the server?

seamus

Sitting around poking the locals with a stick is not how you go about becoming a mod

Report those that you think are dodgy, kthx

6th

Overheal is not my dual account!

watna

I was just thinking about the leaving cert and boards earlier. Thank god I didn't know about boards when I did my LC 6 years ago. I wouldn't have got in to college! Damn boards addictiveness.

Maybe one of the other mods could just help out as it's a busy time of year. Is there a need for another mod all year round or just at mocks/exam time?

Overheal

Overheal wrote: »

just saw a bloke post up copyrighted material :eek: wont someone please think of the server?

Bwah hah hah. I'l gladly use up the Dept. of Education's servers anyday!

Crash

I hate the leaving cert forum.

So.
Very.
Much.

Nevyn

Overheal wrote: »

Cos I was spending a lot of time in the Leaving Cert Forum recently and its in need of more hands because of the Mocks and all that. Poor panicked childrens posting new threads left and right demanding to know whats coming up on their mocks and all that. An unsorted mess with font-wars and personal abuse afoot.

If you have an issue with a post then used the
to report it to get the notice of the mods of that forum and of the cat mod.

User45701

çrash_000 wrote: »

I hate the leaving cert forum.

So.
Very.
Much.

+1 then add the junior cert forum

The JC Forum appears a lot more mature than the LC Forum

Mr. Presentable

Ruu wrote: »

Also you aren't showing your shiney red stars, go to User CP->Group Memberships and select Subscribers.

Wish I could, Ruu. Tomorrow will be a week since I went to the Help desk re my missing sub. I even started an ironic thread here regarding the absence of action. But still I am starred like a pleb I note Quality is in the same situation, and wonder are there others.

PurpleFistMixer

Thankfully the residents of the JC board are probably too busy getting secretly drunk in fields to be posting on boards. Like all respectable 15 year olds.

Also they subsist under an iron fist. That Piste one is just a monster.

Talliesin

Overheal wrote: »

I was hoping for a fight to the death with Klingon Battliths

Yet another part of the old boards culture that's been watered down over the years

jor el

Ruu wrote: »

Then of course there is the application form, exam and then brainwashing.

eh? I don't remember that.

Overheal

Talliesin wrote: »

Yet another part of the old boards culture that's been watered down over the years

G'al Da'ach!

Thaedydall wrote:

If you have an issue with a post then used the
to report it to get the notice of the mods of that forum and of the cat mod.

I did but I figured I'd pop the question anyway as the forum was a bit overrun this afternoon with random, erratic, multifonted, txt spkn threads and then the little bastard called me a cock fag and that was the end of it :rolleyes:

Sparky

Dont forget they make you walk through a group of people that hit you in the ass with bats for 10 mins.
The idea was your ass will be so sore that you will do your modding quicker.

Sherifu

The Paddling of the Swollen Ass With Paddles is the last in a series of cruel initiation rites by the Stonecutters Mods. It is remarkably similar to Crossing the Desert, The Unblinking Eye, and The Wreck of the Hesperus: in fact, it is exactly the same. The common thread connecting all of them: they involve a blindfolded subject/victim subjected to repeated paddling on the ass with wooden paddles.
Once the subject has passed the ordeal, he takes the final oath and officially becomes a Stonecutter Mod. Massive ingestion of alcohol Coke and playing of ping-pong hookers follow.


/Excerpts taken from the mod handbook (copyright Prentice and Hall 2008)

Overheal

Overheal wrote: »

G'al Da'ach!



I did but I figured I'd pop the question anyway as the forum was a bit overrun this afternoon with random, erratic, multifonted, txt spkn threads and then the little bastard called me a cock fag and that was the end of it :rolleyes:

Crash & TimAy are on the case.

jor el

Sherifu wrote: »

The Paddling of the Swollen Ass With Paddles is the last in a series of cruel initiation rites by the Stonecutters Mods.

Shhhuuuuuddduuuup!

Its simple really - you have to find the mod forum, its not linked so you have to get the number right. Then just post asking for the forum(s) you want to mod, and your in.

Sarky

Was I the only one subjected to a limbo tournament? 2 men go down, one comes up. At least, Talliesin said it was a limbo tournament...

WhiteWashMan

mods are chosen by complete randomness.

Zaph

You're lucky, they plucked me from the comfort of the southside and stuck me out in the wilds of Dublin 15 with an instruction not to p*ss the natives off if I know what's good for me. I haven't left my house in 3 years, just in case.

5starpool

Thaedydal wrote: »

If you have an issue with a post then used the
to report it to get the notice of the mods of that forum and of the cat mod.

Cats you say? In feedback? hmmm.

6th

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

mods are chosen by complete randomness.

I've started to believe this.

kayos

Overheal wrote: »

I was hoping for a fight to the death with Klingon Battliths

Dont start or Kharn will show up to a 4 star hotel, in a santa suit, wielding a Battlith in one hand and carring a big sack of presents in the other!

AckwelFoley

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

mods are chosen by complete randomness.

Yes it shows.


(let me get your reply in there for you so you dont waste ur time

- Do shut up)

Slow Motion

Deleted User wrote: »

Its simple really - you have to find the mod forum, its not linked so you have to get the number right. Then just post asking for the forum(s) you want to mod, and your in.

I found it and put a link in my sig!;)

kaimera

Mods are chosen by a complex maths algorithm that has evolved thru the ages and tweaked to the admins needs; if one of you mere users were to even try to comprehend the complexity of the variables involved...it would be bad.

cson

kaimera wrote: »

Mods are chosen by a complex maths algorithm that has evolved thru the ages and tweaked to the admins needs; if one of you mere users were to even try to comprehend the complexity of the variables involved...it would be bad.

Or in English; you have to do Comp Sys in UL

popebenny16

well, ever since i was made a mod, i have to type these bloody numbers into the pc every 108 mins because Vex said if I dont then boards.ie would end.

do the other mods have to do this too?

Spud83

For about the fourth time this week its all about the coke and hookers!

Shiminay

Amp Test

javaboy

You're all wrong. It's like the Crips and the Bloods.

To become a Mod you have to kill 3 or more Rockers:

watna

or three emos!

javaboy

watna wrote: »

or three emos!

The memories of the Mods v Rockers fights of the 60's should not be sullied by comparison with the current batch of Emos/Emocores/Goths/Softpunks/Emogoths that pass for subcultures now! Besides there's no challenge in killing an emo, they're so lazy and apathetic. Now an Emu, there's a challenge!


............This thread is veering dangerously towards cultural 'cleansing' and/or animal cruelty so I'm bowing out now

Mr Magnolia

Kharn wrote: »

Amp Test

Hard to believe it took 40 posts for the truth to come out.

5starpool

cson wrote: »

Or in English; you have to do Comp Sys in UL

Yay for Comp sys!!!!

cornbb

5starpool wrote: »

Yay for Comp sys!!!!

Did someone mention comp sys?

/adopts foetal position and reaches for blanky

Serious answer: OP, mods usually get chosen on the basis that they have been around, have a good knowledge of the subject matter at hand, are consistently helpful and don't take the piss too much.

People rarely get to be mods if they ask to be a mod. Although sometimes the person who requests a new forum will be asked to mod it, if they meet the above criteria.

The whole thing happens at the discretion of the admins, who will usually be advised by existing mods.

But trust me, you really don't wanna become a mod if you are doing your Leaving Cert anytime soon...

WindSock

Jimbo

:rolleyes:

Bring in the cats

Overheal

cson wrote: »

Or in English; you have to do Comp Sys in UL

Meh. UL was my second choice

Terry

popebenny16 wrote: »

well, ever since i was made a mod, i have to type these bloody numbers into the pc every 108 mins because Vex said if I dont then boards.ie would end.

do the other mods have to do this too?

It's just you.
Someone will be along to replace you shortly.