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What do you get for being a Mod?

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  • #32
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Would be good to put on your CV no? Being a moderator of one of Ireland most popular websites?


  • #33
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    To give back to a site that has entertained them.


  • #34
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Edit: LighterGuy, there are over 400 mods on Boards! It would take far more than a dozen employees to cover moderation of the whole site. So without the voluntary mods, it just wouldn't happen at all.

    Okay :)
    So why isnt there mods who get paid tho?
    Why are they all voluntary? .. if you want to say the site is so big, fair enough, but how come there is none that get paid at all? ... how comes there isnt a boards.ie mod team that DO get paid. With the voluntary mods backing up?

    why is all not getting paid?

    Again, because why pay when you can get work for free. No different from the internship scheme people.


  • #35
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Other mods go on a total power trip like those bald supermarket security gaurds and boards becomes their life.
    And some users ... actually, no, I'm not going there! :)
    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    And then you never called! ; _ ;
    Pfft, you expected me to treat you like a woman?!

    Oh wait ... >_>


  • #36
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Okay :)
    So why isnt there mods who get paid tho?
    Why are they all voluntary? .. if you want to say the site is so big, fair enough, but how come there is none that get paid at all? ... how comes there isnt a boards.ie mod team that DO get paid. With the voluntary mods backing up?
    There is a Boards team who are full-time and get paid, though the first of those only came on board about 2007 / 2008 I think? My memory for history is good, for dates not so much.

    The site in its early days existed on a server under a desk in UCG NUIG, and *everything* to do with it was done in people's spare time. it gradually grew until it was possible to employ someone, and it has tended to grow exponentially ever since.

    Nowadays there are a couple of developers, and a couple of people who work to back up the Admins and Mods ... Dav and (until recently) Darragh. Darragh has been very very recently replaced, but blessed if I can remember the name just now.


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  • #37
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    There is a Boards team who are full-time and get paid, though the first of those only came on board about 2007 / 2008 I think? My memory for history is good, for dates not so much.

    Yes but we're not talking abouts mods are we ;) :pac:
    we are talking about the employment of guys who maintain the site from technical aspect. Not the mod aspect.


  • #38
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,937 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    mise_me_fein3 wrote: »
    Yeah...thought so. Sorry to some of the mods, sure you're nice but I really have to question the mentality behind it.

    Maybe is the bouncer power trip affect for some but I don't know why you'd do it.

    I'm sure some might do it because they like having power, and in a bunch of 400 or so, I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case. However, I'm pretty confident that people who do it, do it because they want to help build/maintain a community they have become part of. It is probably impossible for anyone to understand the reasoning unless you use this website, and others like it, as more than merely a resource. some people do it because if they didn't they think the alternative would be worse than them and would make for less of an enjoyable experience on the whole for posters.

    Lots of people like to give mods grief, and complain that they are being mistreated, and I'm sure in some cases this is deserved. Mostly though it is not, and people who complain just can't live within the system (or many micro-systems) that have evolved here in the last 13 or so years. I have had my differences with a couple of mods here over the years, mostly while I was a mod myself, but on the whole, mods are absolutely essential for the running and upkeep of community forums such as this.


  • #39
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    hoke and cookers for those not into that other lifestyle.


  • #40
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Yes but we're not talking abouts mods are we ;) :pac:
    we are talking about the employment of guys who maintain the site from technical aspect. Not the mod aspect.
    randylonghorn wrote: »
    ...and a couple of people who work to back up the Admins and Mods ...
    No, not just the technical aspect.

    Anyway, this is way too serious a discussion for this hour of the morning, so I'm reverting to the standard reply!

    COKE AND HOOKERS!!!!1! :p
    Ruu wrote: »
    hoke and cookers for those not into that other lifestyle.
    We'll convert you yet, Ruu-ster! :D

    Hi, btw, haven't bumped into you in ages!! :p


  • #41
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    justryan wrote: »
    Would be good to put on your CV no? Being a moderator of one of Ireland most popular websites?

    Double-edged sword that point , yeah it may impress some potential employers but others may have a gripe with boards - I can think of several organisations that would have little love for boards.

    Imagine you're at an interview and the interviewer asks you your boards name and it transpires you banned them previously :eek:

    I was promised unlimited opportunities for sexual liasions by becoming a moderator but they lied......they lied !!


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  • #42
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Delancey wrote: »
    Imagine you're at an interview and the interviewer asks you your boards name and it transpires you banned them previously :eek:
    Imagine I was at an interview and someone asked me my boards name, full stop! :eek:

    Though given that I was dubbed with this in college as a joke one night, and the "Randy" bit at least stuck in general usage, I have actually been addressed as such by former lecturers, and in the middle of a work meeting one day by someone I went to college with! >.<


    EDIT: Dude, if you could only figure out which truncheon was which ... :pac:


  • #43
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056407590

    I nearly spat my drink out laughing at this.

    Probably the greatest reward for being a mod. Hilarious posts.


  • #44
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056407590

    I nearly spat my drink out laughing at this.

    Probably the greatest reward for being a mod. Hilarious posts.

    lol prison forum and all.


  • #45
    kieranfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    A warm squishy feeling inside.


  • #46
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Mods get to insult people in the prison forum.....I want in.


  • #47
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    All of the advantages of being a mod are listed in this absolute beauty of a thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056358781


  • #48
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Like all the best games it's about collecting tokens.
    <user> Got it
    <mod> Got it
    <catmod> Workin on it
    <admin> Someday
    <sekret bonus> Dreams

    - perhaps I'll get to start my own Boards. GoatBoards.ie. Wanna Mod for me?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #49
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    About €750 per week and €50 bonus for each banning ;) But, keep that between us, OK?


  • #50
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    A Countdown teapot.


  • #51
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    Moderators forums (usually just to discuss boring stuff).


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  • #52
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    A Countdown teapot.
    I want one of those so badly... But I'm too retarded to go on Countdown, I'm only good at the Maths round.


  • #53
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    tbh wrote: »
    All of the advantages of being a mod are listed in this absolute beauty of a thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056358781
    Blocked.

    Where does this link go and who do I have to ask to get there?


  • #54
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Hal Emmerich wrote: »
    Blocked.

    hate that


  • #55
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Hal Emmerich wrote: »
    Blocked.

    Where does this link go and who do I have to ask to get there?
    I can see it, must be just you it's blocked from...


  • #56
    Apolloyon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭Apolloyon


    I would never have thought to go forward for the job. Too much hard work, grief and abuse for me. That is until I heard they were getting free cheese. Now even though I'd never pass their dress code. It makes me wonder at what might have been. *sigh*


  • #57
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    tbh wrote: »
    hate that
    Aww shucks, I'm taking this to Feedback.

    Also, turn on your Green Light.


  • #58
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Apolloyon wrote: »
    I would never have thought to go forward for the job. Too much hard work, grief and abuse for me. That is until I heard they were getting free cheese. Now even though I'd never pass their dress code. It makes me wonder at what might have been. *sigh*
    Winter is nearly here, the Gov will be giving out lots of it in a couple of wks.

    All the cheese you'd ever want.


  • #59
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    I thought the only thing they got was the ability to talk in bold


  • #60
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    You get to know that your working for the greater good of men and it looks good on your CV :rolleyes:

    You also get to have your name highlited :rolleyes:

    You get to ban people :rolleyes:

    You get to give yellow cards :rolleyes:



    Come to think of it....Its crap really....:D


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  • #61
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    Beaten up by a rocker.


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