Why would someone want to be a mod?

Chuck Stone

What type of person/ality is it that wants to be a mod? I mean it's not as if you get paid for it or anything.

I understand that forums need to be moderated but I can't, for the life of me, understand why someone would actually seek to be a mod.

Is it a power thing? A person who seeks order?

Help me understand.

Shield

It increases the force of my ejaculate.

Biggins

Do ya not know by now, about the free drugs and hookers?

g'em

To get the wimmin.

Larianne

g'em wrote: »

To get the wimmin.

Defo this!

KeithM89_old

For the 5% discount in select McDonalds obviously

Micky Dolenz

The powah defo the powah. Wimmins are so 1990's.

chin_grin

Coke and hookers.................on tap.

WoollyRedHat

To fight the powah'

SeaFields

If you are regular poster in a forum that you enjoy you want that forum to stay interesting and not to be derailed constantly by gobsh!tes trolling, then mod is the job for you!

Dempsey

To do a thankless task for the betterment of those around them, something that Irish people do not understand unless there is brown envelopes involved.

Rhyme

Shield wrote: »

It increases the force of my ejaculate.

This.

Drilling holes in things/people was never so easy.

Elmidena

To keep Bigtommybomb out of a job

unbeat

think trainspotter with first iphone

Chuck Stone

Shield wrote: »

It increases the force of my ejaculate.

No.

g'em wrote: »

To get the wimmin.

No.

Dempsey wrote: »

To do a thankless task for the betterment of those around them, something that Irish people do not understand unless there is brown envelopes involved.

Pure alturism you think?

hondasam

The power and having the last word.

The Falcon

Referees just love that whistle!:D

digme

SeaFields wrote: »

If you are regular poster in a forum that you enjoy you want that forum to stay interesting and not to be derailed constantly by gobsh!tes trolling, then mod is the job for you!

You didn't happen to write the A-Teams slogan did ya?

Shield

Chuck Stone wrote: »

No.

Wait.. it was a serious question? At this hour? In AH?

Duiske

So, it's Power, drugs, hookers, chicks and sexual prowess. And all KeithM89 wants is a cheapo cheeseburger ? You gotta love them Dundalkians.

Chuck Stone

Shield wrote: »

Wait.. it was a serious question? At this hour? In AH?

You misunderestimate me Sir.

SeaFields

digme wrote: »

You didn't happen to write the A-Teams slogan did ya?

What?! The A-Team are hiring? Im there!

bluefinger

beats being a rocker. and you get to drive a vespa.

Ruu_Old

to bring them down from the inside and when my plan comes..oh said to much.

hondasam

Duiske wrote: »

So, it's Power, drugs, hookers, chicks and sexual prowess. And all KeithM89 wants is a cheapo cheeseburger ? You gotta love them Dundalkians.

keith is just a child, he knows nothing about hookers.

Captcha

They call it.

ePeen

Dempsey

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Pure alturism you think?

??

Kasabian

They were bullied at school and someone's gotta pay.

Chuck Stone

Dempsey wrote: »

??

Simple question.

Shield

Chuck Stone wrote: »

You misunderestimate me Sir.

Straight answer it is then:

When I started on here, there was nowhere people could get information about PSNI Recruitment. Being in the job, I decided that I'd answer questions about the process to anyone who was genuinely interested, if they were questions that were asking things I could answer. When I started in the job, information was impossible to find. I disagreed strongly with that ethos and wanted to at least provide answers to innocuous questions like salary scales etc.

I looked around the site and noticed that there was no forum for the emergency services, which meant nowhere that people like me, in the job, could answer questions to people like (for example) you, who had a question about 'How to become a fire fighter'?.

I suggested the forum in Forum Requests, it was granted and I was offered the option to moderate it, given the fact that I knew so much about emergency services in general. I accepted the offer, got trained up in the Moderator's forum, and the rest is history.

Dun

I'm guessing most have had a Mod complex since an early age. Irish mammies and all that.

Chuck Stone

Shield wrote: »

Straight answer it is then:

When I started on here, there was nowhere people could get information about PSNI Recruitment. Being in the job, I decided that I'd answer questions about the process to anyone who was genuinely interested, if they were questions that were asking things I could answer. When I started in the job, information was impossible to find. I disagreed strongly with that ethos and wanted to at least provide answers to innocuous questions like salary scales etc.

I looked around the site and noticed that there was no forum for the emergency services, which meant nowhere that people like me, in the job, could answer questions to people like (for example) you, who had a question about 'How to become a fire fighter'?.

I suggested the forum in Forum Requests, it was granted and I was offered the option to moderate it, given the fact that I knew so much about emergency services in general. I accepted the offer, got trained up in the Moderator's forum, and the rest is history.

Fair play.

This type of answer helps me understand.

Thank you.

Dempsey

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Simple question.

Did you bother to read my post in full or were you waiting for the opportunity to use the word 'altruism', not alturism? :rolleyes:

Biggins

*Gets popcorn*
Waits...

Shield

I've lost count of the amount of people on here that have thanked me for being the difference between joining and not joining, between quitting and sticking with it, and for helping them to reach their life-long ambition. That alone is worth all the stick I get from people who accuse me of being power hungry just because they see the word Moderator under my name. It wasn't always there and it's not why I joined boards.

Kasabian

*Chuck and Dempsey keep the thread on topic.

Kasabian, subcontracted by KeithM9.

*All work guaranteed, but highly irregular.

Dempsey

Last edited by DeVore; 04-03-2011 at 19:22.

What did you really say! :P

Micky Dolenz

Shield wrote: »

Genuinely, all I wanted to do was help people, and that's what I enjoy the most.
.

So why become a cop then?


:pac:

hondasam

someone get stopped by the bad cop?

later12

I don't know; on the face of it I have about as much interest in moderating as I do in joining my local residents' association...not very much.

The only reason I have the mod thing is for the odd occasion when a post needs to be moved or merged (I can't see anybody getting a ban from Economics or kicking up a stink on there). I think to refuse to do some basic maintenance would have been highly rude, considering that this is a free service that relies only on community spirit (helped by cat pics) as a means to its success.
It's a bit like housemates taking part in the housework; I'd attach about as much importance to moderating as cleaning the toilet in my apartment. It isn't anything to get excited about, it's just a small way of making the space more comfortable.

If people do choose to be moderators out of some bizarre sense of elitism then that's their own issue, your criticism of them is probably the least of their worries.

Shield

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

So why become a cop then?
:pac:

I only help people in my spare time. :pac:

Chuck Stone

Dempsey wrote: »

Did you bother to read my post in full or were you waiting for the opportunity to use the word 'altruism', not alturism? :rolleyes:

I've had a few drinks and so my spelling isn't great. Would you like me to follow every post you make and correct your mistakes? I can do it for you if you like.

Trust me, when I have to, I can produce excellent English. My peers have commented on my high standard of syntax in fact.

If you ever need something proof read I'll do it for a good price.

Now if you can't answer the question why don't you go to sleep?

Dempsey

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I've had a few drinks and so my spelling isn't great. Would you like me to follow every post you make and correct your mistakes? I can do it for you if you like.

Trust me, when I have to, I can produce excellent English. My peers have commented on my high standard of syntax in fact.

If you ever need something proof read I'll do it for a good price.

Now if you can't answer the question why don't you go to sleep?

I have a spell checker installed on Firefox, even when I'm pished my spelling isnt!

I'm sure that your spelling mistake is but a blip on the irish educational system but I dont understand your question to me given the context of my post.

El Horseboxo

Gets popcorn but doesn't eat any. I'm on atkins.

chucken1

*sneaks in*
I was a moderator on somewhere as far removed from Boards as you could find....

I did it to keep things clean and nice..cos I cared

Not anymore, it gave me a pain in my brain getting too personel (sp) meh

Chuck Stone

Dempsey wrote: »

I have a spell checker installed on Firefox, even when I'm pished my spelling isnt!

I'm sure that your spelling mistake is but a blip on the irish educational system but I dont understand your question to me given the context of my post.

I don't claim to be good at off-the-cuff spelling. If you read my post you'll see that I said 'If I have to' I can produce high quality English.

Anyway, the question you seem to be having trouble with is 'Do you think that modding is a purely altruistic endeavour?'

I have been given a satisfatory answer from only one mod which I appreciate.

Edit: Two mods now.

Shield

(Was I one?)

Dempsey

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I don't claim to be good at off-the-cuff spelling. If you read my post you'll see that I said 'If I have to' I can produce high quality English.

Anyway, the question you seem to be having trouble with is 'Do you think that modding is a purely altruistic endeavour?'

I have been given a satisfatory answer from only one mod which I appreciate.

Edit: Two mods now.

I dont have trouble with the question, just why you focused on my post to wheel out the new word you learned of sesame street.

From experience, most do it to help others find what the information they want without the bull**** they endured to get it. Altruism is being abit extreme, its when they realise that they have fallen under that description that mods 'give it up'

charlemont

First Boards, Then the World..

Chuck Stone

later10 wrote: »

I don't know; on the face of it I have about as much interest in moderating as I do in joining my local residents' association...not very much.

But enough to be a mod nonetheless.

I think to refuse to do some basic maintenance would have been highly rude, considering that this is a free service that relies only on community spirit (helped by cat pics) as a means to its success.

There's no such thing as free - that's economics' first principle is it not? As a moderator of the economics forum I thought you would be wary of taking that stance?

It's a bit like housemates taking part in the housework; I'd attach about as much importance to moderating as cleaning the toilet in my apartment. It isn't anything to get excited about, it's just a small way of making the space more comfortable.

Fair enough.

If people do choose to be moderators out of some bizarre sense of elitism then that's their own issue, your criticism of them is probably the least of their worries.

Am I criticising? I thought I was just enquiring as to motivations.

Shield

Dempsey wrote: »

I dont have trouble with the question, just why you focused on my post to wheel out the new word you learned of sesame street.

I call unfair on that.