Request to be a Moderator on Sailing forum

Wez

I recently found a board about Sailing here. I'm a very keen sailer and I am very interested in talking about it. I saw that there's no current moderator on that board and I would love to apply for the position. I have broadband so I could come on very often to check it out. I also think I'd be able to handle the responsibility as I am a moderator on another forum using the same forum software.

Wez

weemcd

lol :rolleyes:

Hobbes

You forgot to do the Amp Test!

Rabies

The board isn't exactly over run with posts (102 posts). Does it need a Mod?
Why do you want to be a mod? Having BB doesn't matter at all.
If the sailing forum needed a mod it would have been delegated one at some stage.

Send your CV to an Admin along with a few notes and sure they could make you a mod of something. Choco forum maybe.

smoke.me.a.kipper

is there a gathering card for this?

CuLT

smoke.me.a.kipper wrote:

is there a gathering card for this?

No, and I apologise profusely :P

smoke.me.a.kipper

[picard]make it so![/picard]

Wez

Well the thing is, I've got alot of friends that are into boats. I'm planning on recommending them to come and post there, so I'm just trying to get in on the ground floor before it gets a bit bigger. I think it'd be kinda fair that if I started recommending people to go there that it would be fair enough to give me a modorator position. Of course I'm not saying that if I don't get it I'm not gonna recommend people, but I just think it'd be a fair trade.

Amz

That's a new one ...

Redshift

Wez wrote:

Well the thing is, I've got alot of friends that are into boats. I'm planning on recommending them to come and post there, so I'm just trying to get in on the ground floor before it gets a bit bigger. I think it'd be kinda fair that if I started recommending people to go there that it would be fair enough to give me a modorator position. Of course I'm not saying that if I don't get it I'm not gonna recommend people, but I just think it'd be a fair trade.

Just some friendly advice
If you put the effort into building up the forum and prove to be an asset in the sailing forum then the admins may see fit to give you the job in the future. I have never to date seen anyone who asked for mod actually get it. So it would appear to be up to you to put the effort in first and maybe an admin will notice you someday.
Good Luck

Red

BuffyBot

I nominate the Sea Captain..

"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Aquos76

Wez, If I was you, I would not ask to become a mod here, take Redshifts advice and wait to see how the forum pans out. There are a few mods on boards.ie already that think they are God and would only love the oppurtunity to take the piss out of you for wanting to help out.

Now in saying that there are plenty off "good guy mods" here also, but like everything in life you will always have a minority that think they are above everybody else.

Lump

I've sailed from Dublin to cork, and then on to the algarve. I think I should be mod. I have BB and Skillzorsssssss

John

RuggieBear

i was on a boat once.....unfortunately i only have dial up!!!

Raphael

smoke.me.a.kipper wrote:

[picard]make it so![/picard]

Yes cap'n

mad m

Lump wrote:

I've sailed from Dublin to cork, and then on to the algarve. I think I should be mod. I have BB and Skillzorsssssss

John

Haha I nominate John as sea captain of the boards seas and master comedian

The Muppet

Wez wrote:

I think it'd be kinda fair that if I started recommending people to go there that it would be fair enough to give me a modorator position. Of course I'm not saying that if I don't get it I'm not gonna recommend people, but I just think it'd be a fair trade.

Thats a mighty strong argument and very generous may I add , I can't see how the admins can refuse .

I second Wez for Moderator.

After all everbody loves a Sailor.

CuLT

Amz

azezil

Can I be mod

CuLT

Nice one az, I've made a slight alteration to the card now

mad m

Amz wrote:

Haha sorry Lump(john) but Amz gets comedian in my book,but you can still be Captain.

Lump

What did I say that was funny? I was confused when I read the first post commenting on it, but decided not to say anything. I was being dead serious. I do have skillzors


John

mad m

Lump wrote:

What did I say that was funny? I was confused when I read the first post commenting on it, but decided not to say anything. I was being dead serious. I do have skillzors


John

Ok i believe you.You dark horse you.

Lump

You Racist

John

yossarin

skillzors arn't enough. you need skailorz-skilzzz

Wez

I just hope none of you are employers! someone comes into you asking for a job and you slag them because they asked to work there? I don't get the big deal really. I asked to be a mod, for a good reason, and you start a slagging competition? So mature! If someone came on and said 'alright, there's no need for a mod right now, so do your magic and we'll make you mod if we see fit that you should be'. it would have been grand! Except you start slagging me because I told you what I have e.g. broadband and you think it's funny to start jeering! I sent a pm to a mod and asked him who to apply to and he gave me a link to post my question here. So I did, I thougt this was the right place to go since a mod direrected me, but oviously it's not. And in fairness, you can't really blame me for requesting it if I was gonna try and bump up the visitors.. At this rate I don't really care if I'm not mod, because some of you guys seem like 5 year olds, WHO POST THINGS HERE THAT ARE TOTALLY IRRELEVANT! This is what moderation is about, that you've to make sure nobody comes on and starts bullying or slaggign and they post the relevant comments in the right place. You know that function the way you can move a thread? That's what it's about! and don't even waste your time coming on and saying 'we're mods, we know what to do' cause I'm a mod on two other forums, so ha! Just to let you know, I have noticed that some of the mods here are real sound, and I don't wanna tar you all with the same brush, but these guys really bring you down a few notches.

koneko

Wez,
You don't get paid to be a mod, you do it because you like boards.ie and want to help out, so you can't really compare it to a job in that sense.

The admins will generally appoint people that seem involved in the community and are active on the boards, and they know to be sound (and not muppety).
Start posting in the board, help people out, be active, and they might make you mod. They don't really appoint people they're never heard of that come in and say "make me mod" because they don't really know you or whether you'll just take the piss or actually take it seriously.

So in short, just be active on the board and see how it goes, coming in and right off the bat asking to be a moderator isn't really the way to go about things. If they think you're suitable once you've been around a while, they might consider it, but you're new so give it time, eh?

Lump

I personally, and I can't vouch for anyone else in this situation, am 5 years old.


John

Beruthiel

Wez wrote:

I sent a pm to a mod and asked him who to apply to and he gave me a link to post my question here. So I did, I thougt this was the right place to go since a mod direrected me.

yes it is the right place
but you made the little mistake of asking to be a Mod instead of asking for 'someone' to Mod the forum in question.
As Koneko said, Admins normally only give Mod positions to posters they know.

I can also just vouch for the fact that Lump is indeed a 5 years old and that I have the mental age of one, does that count?

Lump

I love you tooooooooo

Huggzzzzzzz

John

(I think I should be banned for the huggzzz comment, but don't it was done in jest)

BuffyBot

I just hope none of you are employers! someone comes into you asking for a job and you slag them because they asked to work there? I don't get the big deal really....................blah blah

And the way that you've dealt with what you've come up against means you'll make a superb moderator (not). Do as Koneko said, and you might actually demonstrate some value to the community rather than the negative response you've recieved here.

seamus

Now, I'm going to be friendly, yet honest here, and if you take it up as me being a bollox, you're reading me wrong.

Wez wrote:

I just hope none of you are employers! someone comes into you asking for a job and you slag them because they asked to work there? I don't get the big deal really. I asked to be a mod, for a good reason, and you start a slagging competition?

Actually, that's not really the way it works here. Imagine if boards.ie was a large supermarket. Now, this supermarket has a large wine section, and you happen to like your wine. Of course, when you ask any of the staff about the wines, or attempt any kind of discussion pertaining to wines, they just shrug their shoulders and say "I dunno". So, recognising a gap in a niche, you approach the manager, and say - "I would like to apply for the position in your wine section, I know a lot about wines." However in this case, there is no position going in the wine section, and the manager has thus far seen no need to employ anyone specifically in the wine section. He also notices that you're not a very loyal customer, having only arrived once or twice to perhaps buy a couple of small things.

Of course, you have also asked him out loud, in the middle of the canteen, at lunchtime, and left yourself at the mercy of the rest of the staff who will give you their opinion on it too.

A more delicate approach would perhaps have been to say "Excuse me sir, but I couldn't help notice that you have a generous wine section, yet nobody in particular to tend it...." and continue from there, creating the need for such a position before applying for it.

Also, most of the people here who actually slagged you weren't mods.

RuggieBear

Sorry Wez!

You probably don't deserve the slagging and have your heart in the right place but if you had a bit more experience of Boards you would have known that this sort of response is "normal".

Gordon

Alright Wez, there's no need for a mod right now, so do your magic and we'll make you mod if we see fit that you should be.

But let it be known that Cloud works in mysterious ways.

Wez

You all make much better points now.. I can see why you're mods.. Seamus, that's a brilliant example, and now I totally understand. Ruggiebear, I appreciate the apology, and you make a good point. So I'll do what I can to boost posters, and we'll see what happens..

randylonghorn

Beruthiel wrote: »

I can also just vouch for the fact that Lump is indeed a 5 years old, and that I have the mental age of one, does that count?

Ah, bless! ... our Beruthiel is growing up so fast!

tallaght01

Fair play for offering to help out, Wez

Silverfish

Jesus, I remember this thread from before it was dragged up for almost no reason.

tallaght01

a 3 year ressurection?? lol

Sparky

randylonghorn

Silverfish wrote: »

Jesus, I remember this thread from before it was dragged up for almost no reason.

O_O

Jeez, don't ask me! ... I opened Feedback, and there it was!! I didn't even notice how old it was!

Maybe something to do with the problems with the server earlier?

Karl Hungus

Ah, maybe someone bumped the thread, then deleted their post after someone had replied, making it look like it was you who had bumped it? Deceptive.

Amz

Someone replied pimping their site while bumping the thread. The post which bumped the thread has since been deleted.

randylonghorn

Ahhhhh ... thanks, Karl, I'm going to choose to believe that's what happened, anyway, for the sake of the tiny modicum of sanity I have left ...



(and Amz!)

Weyheyyy! I'm not gone completely bonkers!! \o/


... or am I ?!!11!1

>_>

Dub13

Poor old Wez will not know whats going on the next time he logs in,the poor chap may think he has finally been made a Mod.

Tom Dunne

Amz wrote: »

Someone replied pimping their site while bumping the thread. The post which bumped the thread has since been deleted.

Yes, and my incredibly witty reply to their pimpage has been lost forever.

Damn gremlins.

Lump

BUMPY BUMP BUMP - I'm still 5

Doctor DooM

And here I was wondering why someone with over 1000 posts was asking questions like that...