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Are Mods being scammed?

  • 20-03-2011 06:45PM
    #1
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭


    Feel free to move this to the conspiracy forum Moderators!

    But I've noticed a high volume of forums and moderators to moderate the forums, I've also noticed a lot of new forums being made and also more users becoming mods!

    nothing unusual so far, right?

    well heres my theory: How many of the mods suscribe monthly? a high percentage I'd imagine!

    So does boards create pointless forums and make people mods to generate income?

    I thnk so!!!

    Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    You can see who subscribes here, Orange:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showgroups.php

    Im too lazy to count them though..


  • #3
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Feel free to move this to the conspiracy forum Moderators!

    But I've noticed a high volume of forums and moderators to moderate the forums, I've also noticed a lot of new forums being made and also more users becoming mods!

    nothing unusual so far, right?

    well heres my theory: How many of the mods suscribe monthly? a high percentage I'd imagine!

    So does boards create pointless forums and make people mods to generate income?

    I thnk so!!!

    Any thoughts?

    I however, don't think so.


  • #4
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Feel free to move this to the conspiracy forum Moderators!

    But I've noticed a high volume of forums and moderators to moderate the forums, I've also noticed a lot of new forums being made and also more users becoming mods!

    nothing unusual so far, right?

    well heres my theory: How many of the mods suscribe monthly? a high percentage I'd imagine!

    So does boards create pointless forums and make people mods to generate income?

    I thnk so!!!

    Any thoughts?

    Yeah, I dunno if I want to drink tonight, I'm considering it.


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    No, but I was scanned before I was made a mod. They didn't find anything.
    Not sure what that means though.


  • #6
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    biko wrote: »
    No, but I was scanned before I was made a mod. They didn't find anything.
    Not sure what that means though.

    By social services presumably.


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  • #7
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,888 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    biko wrote: »
    No, but I was scanned before I was made a mod. They didn't find anything.
    Not sure what that means though.

    Scanned?

    I was probed...


  • #8
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    biko wrote: »
    No, but I was scanned before I was made a mod.

    You mean the part of removing all your clothes and having the admins take photos? I thought we all had to have that done as part of our registration?

    You're telling me I was scanned in a scam?!


  • #9
    futonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭futonic


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    You can see who subscribes here, Orange:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showgroups.php

    Im too lazy to count them though..

    around 500-600 of them I think. only around 30 mods, so OP, I think you're wrong. Only 50 euro to subscribe, so from subscriptions they only get about 25K. How can they afford to employ people? Must be mostly advertising I guess, but I don't think subscriptions, going on those numbers, comprise much of boards funding.


  • #10
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    futonic wrote: »
    so OP, I think you're wrong.

    In fairness, you wouldn't even need to click the link to come to that conclusion.


  • #11
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Whatever about buying mods, I think boards has an agenda, or at least a bias, on certain topics.


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  • #12
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Barrington wrote: »
    Scanned?

    I was probed...

    probed?

    I was kicked in the face...

    ...look where that got me :(


  • #13
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    newmug wrote: »
    Whatever about buying mods, I think boards has an agenda, or at least a bias, on certain topics.

    Go on, I think what you're say is somehow connected to my case!


  • #14
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I don't get why the mods do it. Why waste your time by having to filter threads and all this stuff. I know people will say power but it's not like they can abuse it so where's the fun?:confused:


  • #15
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    How about a Conspiracy Theories sub-forum - "Boards.ie Conspiracy Theories"? It might work as a corner for discussion of all the paranoid whinges concerns re Boards.ie specifically - e.g. mods, thanks (and all the concerns associated with it, such as "thanks-whoring" and "second post syndrome"), post count, whether mods/admins get paid, etc.


  • #16
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Im almost positive Subscription is not a Moderator prerequisite. Like, 99.99992% sure.

    That 0.00008% though, it's scary. Freemasons for life!


  • #17
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I never subscribed before I started moderating. I did subscribe for a while, but only a good while after I became a moderator.
    newmug wrote: »
    Whatever about buying mods, I think boards has an agenda, or at least a bias, on certain topics.
    Usually people who say that are those who are dying to post unsubstantiated negative comments about various demographics in society. Fair enough if you observe certain trends, but you should balance it out by acknowledging they don't apply to all, otherwise it's akin to incitement to hatred, and in fairness, Boards.ie isn't in the business of that. And surely that's preferable.


  • #18
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Dudess wrote: »
    How about a Conspiracy Theories sub-forum - "Boards.ie Conspiracy Theories"? It might work as a corner for discussion of all the paranoid whinges concerns re Boards.ie specifically - e.g. mods, thanks (and all the concerns associated with it, such as "thanks-whoring" and "second post syndrome"), post count, whether mods/admins get paid, etc.

    Whats second post syndrome?


    Also I agree with u dudess - there should be a sub forum


  • #19
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    How about a Conspiracy Theories sub-forum - "Boards.ie Conspiracy Theories"? It might work as a corner for discussion of all the paranoid whinges concerns re Boards.ie specifically - e.g. mods, thanks (and all the concerns associated with it, such as "thanks-whoring" and "second post syndrome"), post count, whether mods/admins get paid, etc.
    but who's going to mod it?


  • #20
    Mrmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    Isn't the whole point of being a mod is that you don't have to subscribe:D


  • #21
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    im invisible wrote: »
    but who's going to mod it?

    Boards


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  • #22
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    The 22k I get a year from modding could be more, but I am happy enough with it.


  • #23
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    probed?

    I was kicked in the face...

    ...look where that got me :(

    better looking ?


  • #24
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Boards

    Feckin' power-hungry boards. I'd prefer a table to mod it.


  • #25
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    The 22k I get a year from modding could be more, but I am happy enough with it.
    All those years of thinking those "Earn Big $$$ working from home" ads you see on lawn signs at the edge of the roadway were just scams.


  • #26
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Whats second post syndrome?
    The notion that people rush to post something smart when a thread is posted so that they'll get a load of thanks. I personally think that's reading into things a wee bit too much.


  • #27
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    The 22k I get a year from modding could be more, but I am happy enough with it.

    But its directly related to how many posts you have & in conjunction with your thanks ratio...so your doing well :D


  • #28
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=169968
    what an interesting username


  • #29
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I don't get why the mods do it. Why waste your time by having to filter threads and all this stuff. I know people will say power but it's not like they can abuse it so where's the fun?:confused:

    Obviously so the can put it on their CV!

    Interviewer - So it say here you havent worked since 2006!

    Mod - well technically yes, put as you can see I moderated a thing called after hours, it was really tough, I was like the police of the internet!

    Interviewer - Right.................we'll be in touch!


  • #30
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    Dudess wrote: »
    The notion that people rush to post something smart when a thread is posted so that they'll get a load of thanks. I personally think that's reading into things a wee bit too much.

    People actually... believe that? I mean making a funny post is one thing but anyone who believes in that is a bit insane.


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  • #31
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,888 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    im invisible wrote: »
    but who's going to mod it?

    (runs away)


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