To all the ex-Mods- why did you quit your forum?

bigpinkelephant

Just nosy! I've noticed a few people around lately who no longer mod a particular forum.

Nevyn

There could be a whole range of reasons if they wanted it known they would have posted about in those forums.

kaimera

outgrew the fora and a new face(s) could only be a good thing for me.

also tired of the user v mod whinge-fest.

Tristram

Since the destruction of the moderator resurrection hub mods want to do something meaningful with their lives.

brendansmith

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

AlmightyCushion

brendansmith wrote: »

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

Odd comment from someone who whines about being banned from there. Surely if they were all muppets you'd be delighted about being banned so you don't have to interact with them.

brendansmith

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Odd comment from someone who whines about being banned from there. Surely if they were all muppets you'd be delighted about being banned so you don't have to interact with them.

Gotz ta keep them cages a-rattlin man.
You know how it is!

Tom Dunne

Both my hookers caught the clap (what are the chances of that happening?) and I used up my allocation of coke.

Beruthiel

Just a wild guess here Tom, but could you have passed the clap from one hooker to the other...?

And the real answer is:

Real life got in the way.
Some got fed up.
Some lost interest.
Loads of different reasons.

seanybiker

brendansmith wrote: »

I quit modding the afterhours forum because all the posters there are a shower of muppets.

hey i resemble that comment.

I used to mod on a biker site then found out one of the other mods was a scumbag so havent been in the site in a couple of years

stovelid

If this mod week in feedback or something?

Dudess

Got too involved in AH discussions and was afraid this would affect my impartiality.

Also, a handful of phenomenally nasty users were becoming quite trying.

Sherifu

Dudess wrote: »

Got too involved in AH discussions and was afraid this would affect my impartiality.

Also, a handful of phenomenally nasty users were becoming quite trying.

Name & shame.

Beruthiel

stovelid wrote: »

If this mod week in feedback or something?

Haven't you noticed, every week is mod week in feedback.

javaboy

Sherifu wrote: »

Name & shame.

Use spoiler tags if you do Dudess. I don't want the surprise ruined.

Marcus.Aurelius

If there's anything major going on in their lives, we can hardly expect mods to sit and read through all our verbal diarrhoea and make sense of it, never mind moderate it.

There's loadsa mods I'd like to see come back to the job, but that's up to them really.

It's good in some ways, keeps things interesting with new mods every now and again.

Will

Demodded myself from 3 other forums, only kept the one im most interested in.

Reasons for leaving the others;

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

People think modding forums is easy. It's not, it's very very hard especially if it is busy and it goes into insane mode if you've a troublesome poster. I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc.

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking.

In my time moderating (about a year) I've only ever banned 1 person, infracted maximum 2 people (apart from spammers). Why? Because once you tell people in a manner that isn't "I'm the almighty mod, bow down and follow my lead..." they're a lot more willing to listen since you showed them some respect.

Anywho all I'm saying is it isnt it's all cracked up to be, it is tiresome, it is hard at times and sometimes that get's too much for people especially if other factors are included like college, work, family issues and the like.

Sherifu

Will wrote: »

Demodded myself from 3 other forums, only kept the one im most interested in.

Reasons for leaving the others;

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

People think modding forums is easy. It's not, it's very very hard especially if it is busy and it goes into insane mode if you've a troublesome poster. I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc.

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking.

In my time moderating (about a year) I've only ever banned 1 person, infracted maximum 2 people (apart from spammers). Why? Because once you tell people in a manner that isn't "I'm the almighty mod, bow down and follow my lead..." they're a lot more willing to listen since you showed them some respect.

Anywho all I'm saying is it isnt it's all cracked up to be, it is tiresome, it is hard at times and sometimes that get's too much for people especially if other factors are included like college, work, family issues and the like.

Translation: it's not the same without davey180.

_blank_

Sherifu wrote: »

Translation: it's not the same without davey180.

imo

Ludo

Will wrote: »

Simply wasn't interested in them enough and felt that the other mods did as good a job as myself.

Well aren't you the humble one

faceman

OP if you post on boards secret site, http://modconspiracy.boards.ie/ you will learn the when mods fall out of the clique, they get the boot.

jor el

faceman wrote: »

OP if you post on boards secret site, http://modconspiracy.boards.ie/

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhuddup...

4zn76tysfajdxp

Judging by his last thread, Amp quit due to mental illness.

Steve

Saul Early Shoe wrote: »

Judging by his last thread, Amp quit due to mental illness.

Nah, it was the other way around, they found a cure. :pac:

MIN2511

Would miss Karoma though...

mike65

Got a bit bored tbh.

DeVore

There are 700+ mods afaik... if each of them serves 2 years, there would be a mod-resignation a day!

DeV.

Will

Ludo wrote: »

Well aren't you the humble one

Didn't mean it as an "i'm awesome" comment :o

_blank_

Will wrote: »

Didn't mean it as an "i'm awesome" comment :o

Will.

I think you ARE teh awesome.

tallaght01

Will wrote: »

I'd one last year, sleepless nights, stress levels through the roof etc. etc..

Wow. Dude that's hardcore. Moderating a forum should never do that to you. IMO, if it even started to annoy me a bit, it would be time to move on.

Hope the body mod regulars treat you better. I lurk in there a bit actually, and you're one of the good guys.

Will wrote: »

"Oh but you get to use the banhammer lulz roflmao" - Rarely, very rarely and only in extreme cases would it be used on regular people (spammers obviously gone straight away). A moderator who bans and infracts all around them is a poor mod, very poor. Infracting and banning are final resorts to consistent rule breaking...

+100000000000000000000

Will

Body mod crew are lovely, very close knit community.

But anywho yeah, some people just leave, varied reasons.

Villain

Is the mod referring to the weather forum?

Giblet

I just gave up my account as a whole to go incognito. Easier to post without any attention whatsoever. My inbox has also recovered.

muffler

I dropped 2 forums which were at the lower end of the scale as the incremental pay didnt reflect the workload.

AlmightyCushion

muffler wrote: »

I dropped 2 forums which were at the lower end of the scale as the incremental pay didnt reflect the workload.

Do you still not miss that extra €40k a year though?

muffler

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Do you still not miss that extra €40k a year though?

Maybe this could become known as the "B" year. First the Banks and then the Boards.

Talliesin

I'm only here sporadically these days, so I wasn't really doing any moderating any more, and s-modding was pretty much all I was doing on boards.

I site-banned a lot of people as an s-mod, especially as that includes a lot of the most clear-cut cases to deal with (spam-bots, porn-spammers, threats of violence and so on). Forum bans were a lot rarer (infractions were after my time).

Supercell

I care too much

WTF? Tom Dunne and Karoma aren't mods anymore?

AlmightyCushion

Myth wrote: »

WTF? Tom Dunne and Karoma aren't mods anymore?

Yup, they both stepped down. When Karoma dumped Tom, things just got way too awkward in the mod forum so they thought it was for the best.

RuggieBear

too much choosing of sides....

Karoma

I step down when I find better people to fulfil the role...

* looks at Myth.

* thinks again

...Personal reasons. Mind your own business.

dr.bollocko

I think I speak for all the new mods when I say that this coke has been so stepped on it wouldn't even make a baby poop and those hookers, if I am not mistaken, have absolutely no teeth.
Who let Hagar have first go ffs?

Wibbs

dr.bollocko wrote: »

those hookers, if I am not mistaken, have absolutely no teeth.

Not always such a disadvantage when you think about it.

Who let Hagar have first go ffs?

Well if we ask snyper to act as a middleman these things may happen.

OT? I reckon that real life just gets in the way sometimes, hopefully in a good way.

+1 to Will, damn good mod.

cHaTbOx

Wibbs wrote: »

+1 to Will, damn good mod.

One of the best around imo

stovelid

RuggieBear wrote: »

too much choosing of sides....

No choice in it. You roll with your clique.

KnifeWRENCH

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I think I speak for all the new mods when I say that this coke has been so stepped on it wouldn't even make a baby poop and those hookers, if I am not mistaken, have absolutely no teeth.

Ah quit yer whinin' , at least you got coke and hookers.
All the C&H mods got was apple juice.

Earthhorse

DeVore wrote: »

There are 700+ mods afaik... if each of them serves 2 years, there would be a mod-resignation a day!

Man, prison terms just for modding a forum. Harsh.

Our man in Havana

I guess some mods get fed up of the constant feedback attacks.

Toto Wolfcastle

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I think I speak for all the new mods when I say that this coke has been so stepped on it wouldn't even make a baby poop and those hookers, if I am not mistaken, have absolutely no teeth.
Who let Hagar have first go ffs?

square_igloo wrote: »

Ah quit yer whinin' , at least you got coke and hookers.
All the C&H mods got was apple juice.

At least you two got something! I had to provide coke and hookers for the existing mods!

Tom Dunne

janeybabe wrote: »

At least you two got something! I had to provide coke and hookers for the existing mods!

That second hooker was a bit ropey, btw.

I still refuse to believe that was a birthmark.