What kind of Mod/admin would you be?

First off, feel free to delete if not allowed.

So what kind of Mod or admin do you think you'd make? I used to think I'd be pretty fair. Let discussion flow, throw out some warnings or bans when needed but after spending waaaay to long on here over the last few weeks I think in reality I'd be a awful.

Another thread on something that's already being discussed - warning for laziness and inability to use the search

You post crazy outlandish stuff supporting conspiracy theories - ban for being a numpty

You've created another random thread (you know who you are!) - ban, just because

I actually think it would end terribly for all involved.

Feisar

That last random thread is at 13 pages at the mo. I think there should be an "I'm pissed" forum for nonsense type pub chat.

As a mod I'd be fairly laissez-faire.

I'd ban anyone espousing free-market ideas.


(here fishy-fishy)

corner of hells

I'd take things back to the old days , beatings , house burnings , coke and hookers for my acolytes the usual stuff.
Other than that , I'd be fairly easy going.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I'd probably be way too lax. Yellow cards only when I hear gunshots.

Huntergonzo

I'd read the all knowing charter.

Rodney Bathgate

I’d ban anyone spouting socialist garbage.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd ban anyone espousing free-market ideas.


(here fishy-fishy)

Walter Mitty II was fond of self-indulgent ****, and utilised the hidden hand of the free market to rub one out.

I would censure those who favour trite expressions like "wind your neck in" and "I'm a boards legend". Other than stamping out more than a hundred accounts from the same IP, keep a loose rein on proceedings. No political correctness, and allow Travellers to be criticised like anyone else who breaks the law.

JohnnyFlash

I’d get a few of the bores around here banned, give Mr Feiglin a commission for starting threads, and generally lower the tone of the place a few notches.

eviltwin

Fair and reasonable but wouldn't put up with rereg nonsense

smelly sock

Id be a bollix

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd ban anyone espousing free-market ideas.


(here fishy-fishy)

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

I’d ban anyone spouting socialist garbage.

And they say free speech is dead!!

Foweva Awone

I'm far too lazy to be a mod. Also I'd hate to be tied to good behaviour like that!

Rawr

I would rename everyone "Dave" and give them the ability to make the Smilies 20 times their current size.




...I'm sure that would work fine.....

Feisar

I'd ban anyone that:

Used this damn thing::rolleyes:
Typed "touch a nerve"



Bring back blasting with piss

Dravokivich

eviltwin wrote: »

Fair and reasonable but wouldn't put up with rereg nonsense

Rereging in itself isnt really a problem. It's just more noticeable here compared to other websites, becuase commuinities have formed across boards.

I dont think it helps constantly sniping them, or people trying to make a point of identifying them. You're just giving them the 1 thing they want and that's your attention.

iamstop

All posts must stay and vowels aye

B.A._Baracus

I'd say everyone would become that bit more of a dick when a mod. As everyone is biased. Dispute what people may say.

Give you an example: when the user whoopsydaisydoodles (think I have the correct spelling, as there is another user with a similar name) was a mod of after hours she'd be fairly biased when the topic of feminism came up I found. Often telling users "not to post in the thread again" if they offered a different view.

On the subject of being a mod why should you tho?
Hey I like looking at boards. We all do. But boards.ie makes money. It shows ads to users. Which that's what it's all about. Making money.
But you wouldn't work for some company for free would you?

Feisar

Dravokivich wrote: »

Rereging in itself isnt really a problem. It's just more noticeable here compared to other websites, becuase commuinities have formed across boards.

I dont think it helps constantly sniping them, or people trying to make a point of identifying them. You're just giving them the 1 thing they want and that's your attention.

How do people know rereges?

I would be a benevolent and fair ruler.

Actually no I'd be terrible. I'd be very light touch but if I was having a very bad day I'd take it out on the posters here. Also I am extremely nosey so I'd be snooping behind accounts to see who they are a re-reg of.

jimgoose

Something along the lines of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now". The beards.ie brass would have to send Boom_Bap up the river to take me down. The horror, the horror...

Dravokivich

Feisar wrote: »

How do people know rereges?

Habits, people come back in certain topics or forums. And the views they discuss. Tend to be markers. Along with their style of language.

Harry Palmr

I'd be very careful about which forum I was allowed to moderate. Some are full of genuine idiots and cretins while others are much more civilised, populated with people who are helpful thus requiring only a gentle nudge not multiple ban hammerings.

Rothko

Irredeemably corrupt

RobbingBandit

EVIL

I would target all who have opposed me and then just for ****s and giggles any with two or more vowels in their user name. Make me mod and many people will cry some will die too

Kylta

corner of hells wrote: »

I'd take things back to the old days , beatings , house burnings , coke and hookers for my acolytes the usual stuff.
Other than that , I'd be fairly easy going.

Can I go to that party

Kylta

I mayhem should be the word, I let them all at it. But I'd like a little di©khead logo, so I could put it on the poster who was taking things way to serious. And part of being Mod you should be able to post on what your Moderating on. Oh and I would never shift or remove a post before letting the posters know first.

Rodney Bathgate

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

And they say free speech is dead!!

Banned?

Gynoid

It would be horrible to have to be good all the time.

ablelocks

smelly sock wrote: »

Id be a bollix

no, I'd be ablelocks.

Rodney Bathgate

Have any Moderators ever gone rogue?

Tom Mann Centuria

I'd be a great mod in forums that had no visitors.

ablelocks

smelly sock wrote: »

Id be a bollix

ablelocks wrote: »

no, I'd be ablelocks.

and I'd ban you for bad grammar and spelling too.

Tom Dunne

I'd try to be rational and coherent, debating with posters as to the merits of them using bad language, resorting to lazy stereotypes and hurling abuse at fellow Boardsies.

Failing that I would engage my darker side, losing my faith in humanity and throwing my toys out of the proverbial pram, dismayed at the inability of the vast majority of people with an internet connection to engage in anything remotely resembling rational debate. *







*any similarity to any events that may have occurred on this website are purely coincidental.

cj maxx

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'd be very careful about which forum I was allowed to moderate. Some are full of genuine idiots and cretins while others are much more civilised, populated with people who are helpful thus requiring only a gentle nudge not multiple ban hammerings.

Would you be a mod on the soccer forum. Say just after Liverpool lost 3-0 to RM in a champions league final?
It would be hard for any mod to restrain themselves
I wonder did he re-reg ?

cj maxx

I would be a sneaky mod and just delete posts by certain types in certain threads
No warnings,no PMs
Just go back and delete posts

begbysback

I’d be a bipolar mod, let everyone away with everything, then suddenly get the axe out and start choppin heads.

buckwheat

The best forums by far are pretty much unmodreated. They basically self moderate with minimal intervention from actual mods.

Huntergonzo

As a matter if interest, how does someone even become a Mod on boards?

Huntergonzo

Huntergonzo wrote: »

As a matter if interest, how does someone even become a Mod on boards?

You are not allowed ask or express any interest whatsoever. Even if forums are having difficulty in finding a mod that doesn't matter. It's best to maintain an air of nonchalance while posting in a consistently inoffensive manner.

Sober Crappy Chemis

I'd bring yore ma back.

TheBoyConor

An authoritarian power tripper banning and infarcting anyone who disagreed with me.

Oh wait, that's just being a regular normal mod

TheBoyConor

An authoritarian power tripper banning and infarcting anyone who disagreed with me.

Oh wait, that's just being a regular normal mod

Panthro

I was once described as "The Maradona of modding" back when I was a mod.


(nobody actually said it, but I said it to myself like)

I’d be brilliant for the users Wouldn’t play favourites or give people the runaround. So I’d be sacked in the first week.

Dravokivich

Huntergonzo wrote: »

As a matter if interest, how does someone even become a Mod on boards?

It's kinda like someone put your name in the hat. And there are no other names in the hat.

corner of hells

Dravokivich wrote: »

It's kinda like someone put your name in the hat. And there are no other names in the hat.

I thought there wasn't even a hat.

retro:electro

One that would communicate through gifs only

Feisar

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Have any Moderators ever gone rogue?

I was around at the time under a different name but didn't Terry go off the walls?

Trigger Happy

I would ban quick and ban often. Ask no questions and seek no explanations.
Fck fairness....no time to that. Leave that to more level headed mods.

i'd be terrible