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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 27th Jul 2011 23:45
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I was just curious, but moderators, what is it like to be a moderator? Like how do you lock threads and give out noob slaps to people? Also, arent you guys able to post on locked threads?


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BatVink
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 00:09
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Imagine browsing the forums. Now imagine having to scrutinise some of the posts you would normally ignore. Imagine having to read the stuff that is of no interest to you. Imagine checking every post of newcomers and sifting through more WoW Gold spammers than you can ever imagine. Think of the few spam posts you see and multiply it by 100; that's what comes into the Mod box and occasionally one gets through in a dazed stupour.

That's 50% of being a mod. The rest is hate mail from people who acted stupid, got stopped and got mad.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 00:25
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Can we see a screenshot of mod view/HUD?

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 00:29
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That would be cool. I'd like to see the big "plot destruction of" around trouble threads.

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 01:01
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I've taken a few screenies of the mod thread controls, and the buttons we have when we click a user's profile. If some other mods chime in and have no problem with it, I'll post them here. I'm not sure if we are supposed to keep some of these functions a secret


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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 01:06
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What like the "Cause Login Errors For Lulz" button?

I like the idea that moderators are basically running a little puppet show and have tonnes of secret buttons everywhere. Is there a hidden mod forum that has a post for every member and their ban record, etc?

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uzi idiot
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Do you have a big red button that says 'DO NOT PRESS'?


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Quik
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Quote: "Do you have a big red button that says 'DO NOT PRESS'?"


THIS!

and for the record, I am a man.

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Lewis
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 01:56
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Pfft, Try being an Administrator, Now thats hard!

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 02:19
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Quote: "Can we see a screenshot of mod view/HUD?"

I probably shouldn't post this, as I might get in trouble:



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crispex
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 02:22
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Good God.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
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swissolo
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 02:26
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I'll bet the bottom left, top icon, is used for slapping,
*slap*
critical hit! Moderated for -8- days.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 02:33 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 02:35
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Lol!! Haha that is funny! I can imagine you have to read a lot if you are a mod, usually in a thread you wont see anything from a moderator until things get out of hand or off topic, then a mod is right there at that instant!! It just goes to show the mods read everything! Are you mods alerted each time a new post or thread exists??

Biggadd, being that you are a mod, i cant see you posting an image that stretches the page, but you have!


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BiggAdd
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Quote: "Biggadd, being that you are a mod, i cant see you posting an image that stretches the page, but you have!"


Ooops, forgot that not everyone has a large display!

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 02:39
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Lol! Haha see the mods reply very fast!!


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The Slayer
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 03:03 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 03:05
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Heheheh, it almost loox like playing a game.

But, I'm sure the mods have no fun in having to slap or ban one more immature behaving member. I bet most of us wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

Cheers

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old_School
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 03:28 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 03:29
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Whats up with not being able to write full message in code like this: 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100

Edit:

BTW those wondering a MODS job sucks its boring to be honest. Ive been admin/mod of several sites. Like he said surf endlessly reading crap.01001101 01101111 01100100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101011 01110011
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Indicium
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 03:29
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Uh, because it makes people want to hunt you down and kick you in the face?

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MikeS
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 04:32
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I was actually born as a moderator, it's all I've ever known...

On a more serious note--as the guys mentioned it's a lot of cleaning up those who take away from the community. We also spend time using our tools to sticky useful threads, run competitions, and recogne those members who are going above and beyond others to help make this the great community it is.



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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 04:33 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 04:35
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0101100101100001011010000010110000100000011010010111010000100000011101
1101101111011101010110110001100100001000000110001001100101001000000111
0000011100100110010101110100011101000111100100100000011000100110111101
1100100110100101101110011001110010000001110100011011110010000001100010
0110010100100000011000010010000001101101011011110110010000101110001000
0000100000010000010110111001100100001000000111010001101000011001010010
0000011001010110110101100001011010010110110001110011001000010011101001
001111

Yeh, read it with a binary to text converter.


Quote: "those members who are going above and beyond others to help make this the great community it is."
Speaking of this, do any of you feel like i dont help enough on the forums?? I almost never help anyone, all i do is ask questions... i cant seem to ever find a thing i could answer!


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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 10:07
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0101010101010111011010000000101110110101101010111011100110100101111
0101011110111010101100010000010001100011010101010101010101010111011
0100000001011101101011010101110111001101001011110101011110111010101
1000100000100011000110101010101010101010101110110100000001011101101
0110101011101110011010010111101010111101110101011000100000100011000
1101010101010101010101011101101000000010111011010110101011101110011
0100101111010101111011101010110001000001000110001101010101010101010
1010111011010000000101110[Mod Edit - No swearing, even in binary!]1101011010101110111001
1010010111101010111101110101011000100000100011000110101010101010101
0101011101101000000010111011010110101011101110011010010111101010111
1011101010110001000001000110001101010101


~Plystire

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 10:41 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 10:49
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0011000000110001001100000011000100110000001100000011000100110001001
1000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001001100
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0110001001100010011000100110000001100000011000100110000001100000011
0001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001001100000011000
1001100010011000100110000001100010011000000110000001100000011000000
1100010011000000110000001100000011000000110000001100000011000100110
0000011000100110000001100000011000000110000001100000011000100110001
0011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100000011000100110001001
1000100110000001100000011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100
0100110000001100000011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100000
0110000001100000011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100000011
0001001100010011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100000011000
0001100010011000000110000001100000011000100110001001100000011000000
1100010011000000110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000100110
0000011000100110000001100000011000000110001001100000011000000110000
0011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110000001
1000100110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100
0000110001001100000011000100110000001100000011000000110000001100000
0110001001100000011000100110000001100000011000000110000001100010011
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0001100000011000100110001001100010011000100110000001100000011000000
1100000011000100110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000100110
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0011000100110000001100010011000100110000001100000011000100110000001
1000000110001001100010011000100110000001100000011000100110000001100
0000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110000001100000
0110001001100010011000100110000001100000011000000110000001100000011
00010011000100110000001100010011000000110000


Muahahah obtain the secret passcode held within these ones and zeros!!


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Uncle Sam
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Do you mods ever wonder what it's like to be a regular TGC forum user?

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652069742074616B6573207570206973204F5645
52204E494E452054484F5553414E44212121

Oh, and you won't be able to convert this here:

101 154 154 40 171 157 165 162 40 142 141 163 145 40 141 162 145 40 142 145 154 157 156 147 40 164 157 40 115 105 41 41 40 115 125 101 110 101 110 101 127 101 110 101 101

TheComet

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 11:41
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Let's stop with the binary and other codes, it's really annoying


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Thraxas
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 12:02
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Quote: "I've taken a few screenies of the mod thread controls, and the buttons we have when we click a user's profile. If some other mods chime in and have no problem with it, I'll post them here. I'm not sure if we are supposed to keep some of these functions a secret"


I don't think it's a problem if people see the controls.

Quote: "I don't mind Thraxas as a poster, I just don't like him as a person."
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I think it must be like being God. But with more reading. If only all of us could aspire to such heights. Many a night I lay awake wondering if they were moderating me right there and then. Or even as I squatted on the lavvy... But it is not for us, the mere users, to wonder at the awe and majesty that goes into the act of moderating... They simply serve, and yet have the power to end the world...

Seriously though, who cares? It's some dudes who spend (probably) much more time here than us...

Cheers

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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 13:56 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 13:57
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dealing with children all day in and out. BiggAdd has it easy with the 3D modeling board. The occasional spam thread, the super noob in denial that people may lose there temper at after they try to sell there stuff for the 8th time.

But...

God help the souls of the Fpsc moderators...


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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 16:27 Edited at: 28th Jul 2011 16:30
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The hardest part with being a mod is denying all the requests from hot girls to go out and party with me. Ladies, I'm sorry, I'm taken.


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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 17:15
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Quote: "Do you mods ever wonder what it's like to be a regular TGC forum user?"


Yes; I remember once upon a time (about 5 years ago) when I was a regular member, and my inbox was uncluttered...

Being an FPSC Mod is quite the task at times. It's gotten a lot better though, honestly; many here can remember the days when the FPSC Boards were like the Wild West. It took a lot of work; but we managed to clean house. We still get the occasional flare-up there (such as the whole N2K "fiasco"), and that usually goes on for a few days; but then things go back to normal. It's a lot like having a part-time job, without the pay.

I've honestly gotten a lot of pleasure out of helping the Community over the years; though it's been at a cost of hindering my own development, as I already have a full-time job and family. I have become a lot less lenient over the years; though I still try to remain impartial and fair, but I am still human...as are the other Moderators here. We do the best we can in this very large Community; some people don't think that's enough, but you can't please everyone...just like in real life.

-Keith

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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 17:17
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Quote: "I've taken a few screenies of the mod thread controls, and the buttons we have when we click a user's profile. If some other mods chime in and have no problem with it, I'll post them here. I'm not sure if we are supposed to keep some of these functions a secret"


Quote: "I don't think it's a problem if people see the controls."


I do, once our powerful magic is relieved then people will stop the sacrifices and will no longer bow in awe and respect.



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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Jul 2011 17:25
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Yeah I can imagine the moderators get their fair share of abuse, people don't like being moderated.

I used to moderate a big religious discussion forum...nuff said. Most of the time we were called corrupt and biased or that the mods simply 'didn't like them', yet if they saw the moderator discussion board they'd actually see a lot of thought is put behind each action. Our moderator section had a profile for each member who broke rules or acted in a way that we ought to keep an eye on them because it looks as though they might cause trouble. And the profiles applied to anybody we saw breaking a rule, including some of our favoured long-time members.

Also, what Jerico said. I dedicated a certain number of hours a week to modding on that forum. I suspect the moderators here have a similar experience, hence why it makes me laugh when people start accusing forum moderators for being corrupt. Jeez, if they were, Jeku would have banned me a looooooong time ago.

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...And then noone saw another Seppuku post on the forum again.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Quote: "Let's stop with the binary and other codes, it's really annoying"
I guess if you have to read everything then that would get annoying!


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i dont know about the mods here, i think you really have to be dedicated to the subject to activley participate in the forum.
My story. my drunk friend got drunk and somehow managed to whip up some social networking site over night. in the morning, he pointed his finger at me saying "YOU! will be a moderator" and really, its kinda boaring especially if the subject isnt interesting to you. I dont think i would like being a mod because i cant really dedicate myself to one thing for too long, i get bored of it.

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Quote: "I probably shouldn't post this, as I might get in trouble:"

Okay, I see the banhammer button... but what does the raptor button do?


Why does blue text appear every time you are near?
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