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What kind of Mod/admin would you be?

  • 17-04-2020 1:35pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • #2
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭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.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #3
    Simon Mysterious Whirlpool
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Simon Mysterious Whirlpool


    I'd ban anyone espousing free-market ideas.


    (here fishy-fishy)


  • #4
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,640 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #6
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    I'd read the all knowing charter.


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  • #7
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    I’d ban anyone spouting socialist garbage.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [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.


  • #9
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


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


  • #11
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Id be a bollix


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,640 ✭✭✭✭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!! :D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


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


  • #14
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭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.....

    :D


  • #15
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I'd ban anyone that:

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



    Bring back blasting with piss

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    All posts must stay and vowels aye

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #18
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭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? ;)


  • #19
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭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?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #21
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭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...


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  • #22
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,906 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Irredeemably corrupt


  • #25
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #26
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #27
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    And they say free speech is dead!! :D

    Banned?


  • #29
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


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


  • #30
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,803 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Id be a bollix

    no, I'd be ablelocks.


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  • #31
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Have any Moderators ever gone rogue?


  • #32
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,072 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


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

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #33
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,803 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,559 ✭✭✭✭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 ?


  • #36
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,559 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #37
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


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


  • #38
    buckwheat
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭buckwheat


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


  • #39
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


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


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #41
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    I'd bring yore ma back.


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  • #42
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


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

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


  • #43
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


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

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


  • #44
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭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)


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #46
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    One that would communicate through gifs only

    giphy.gif


  • #49
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭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?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #50
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    Axel Jealous Shoplifter
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Axel Jealous Shoplifter


    i'd be terrible


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