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Geek Culture / A Story of Moderators -- Is This True? Post your thoughts.

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That C++ Nerd
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 16:54 Edited at: 5th Jun 2007 00:26
Not sure if this has been posted before but...

I heard all this stuff about moderators a few months ago. Someone said that many moderators wind up with post-traumatic stress disorder, along with a list of other disorders and diseases. They're believed to be caused by exposure to long hours of work, and disturbing writings and content. Another cause was the long hours on computers without much communication with the outside world.

So why do the moderators do it?

I'm not sure, but I'm thinking it's either to protect the public from seeing the inappropriate (which really is the point of a moderator, isn't it?) and throwing the inappropriate at their own brains, or it's becasue of the access to do more, like lockig, editing, and others.

So is this true? If so, what's YOUR opinion. Post your thoughts. Moderators are encouraged to post.

-That C++ Nerd
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 17:23
No.


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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 17:26
Who the hell do you talk to to hear that?

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 17:29
Quote: "Another cause was the long hours on computers without much communication with the outside world."


and that is a problem? LOL
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 18:01 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2007 18:13
Nah, they release all that stress when they are in their private boards! They really muck it up about us, and our quirks. See we are the ants in the antfarm. They are the scientists, watching all our behaviors, idiosyncracies, mental disorders. They have to record their data, so from time-to-time they let us behave as we will. But they can't afford to let things become chaotic.

So, they shake-up the farm, Jostle us from our clicks, niches, and our well fortified tunnels. Scramble us all up, and let us build new paths and tunnels. You think this forum is about game programming? What you don't know is that #$^7iohp98ye . This entire site exis#$))_sasdlf' for o[sadf pura;dpose.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2007 18:11
LMAO. I wasn't just refurring to these forums but ALL forums.



w/e

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 07:20
I do it because the pay is well. I make decent money in my day job, but moderating here is a good second income. Also, we have the Nuke button which will remove all traces of a forum user. With great power comes great responsibility

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 07:23
Exactly what do the mod buttons look like? I'm just curious..maybe some screenshots of your management stuff...lol...I like to pretend sometimes..lol

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 07:31
thats a security issue 3 score.

Van B
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 13:42
Hehe, people over-estimate how much modding or time modding, moderators actually do.

Personally I see it as being a normal user who has special powers, like Batman almost, a utility belt at the bottom of the screen. Instead of a bat shaped frisbee and grappling hook, we have the power to move threads (most of the time), and the unmighty power of noob slappage.

It's also a good way to kill time at work, in fact I probably do most of my moderating at work. Kinda like saving a number 2 for work, so you have the guilty joy of being paid to take a dump.


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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 13:51
I wouldn't mind a screenshot! I've always wanted to take a peak at a moderator buttons!


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@van b -
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 16:19
Hope I won't get slapped for this, but this image was posted by OSX Using Happy Dude/TCA/Bouncy Brick/Philbert McTwitch, etc. I saved it just for this occasion.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 16:32
Quote: "Kinda like saving a number 2 for work, so you have the guilty joy of being paid to take a dump."


ROFL!

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 19:20
By the way, I was joking about getting paid. We do this for free Just wanted to make sure none of you got the wrong idea hehe.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 20:12
I still would love to have this forum able to be used some other place..

I'd love to have a forum system like this on my website.. You should really open it up some day...*imagines Rich in 20years, homeless muttering to himself "Apollo!! I made it! NO! You can't has it!!"* lol(jk..please don't kill me)

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 21:52
if apollo was released to the world, we would have the same spambots problem as PhBB

as it is now, exclusive to DBPro, we have a lovely spam free forum

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 22:19 Edited at: 3rd Jun 2007 22:20
I don't see any harm in posting a screen shot...



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Benjamin
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 22:26
Sorry BatVink, but when I saw that I was shocked. I thought my ancestor made it. I thought it was made using Microsoft Spreadsheet version 1, 2, 3, or 5 (NOT 4 CAUSE 4 WAS FOR STUPIDS AND I DIDNT LIKE IT). Is that a game, a program, or an image missing the profile/web/msn/etc buttons at the bottom of someone's post? I really think the latter.



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oh..btw, my name is Rusty Shackleford when reporting me..lol

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2007 22:56
Quote: "moderators wind up with post-dramatic stress disorder, along with a list of other disorders and diseases"


Doesn't sound too far off to me.

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Posted: 4th Jun 2007 18:51
I'm pretty sure it's:
post-traumatic stress disorder i.e. After a trauma, rather than:
post-dramatic stress disorder i.e. After watching a rendition of Macbeth.


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@Fallout

That's a big typo. I just got out of a nap when I was typing. I feel like an idiot now, because I never read it through.

?

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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:28 Edited at: 5th Jun 2007 00:28
Well, do moderators actually get messed up?

Mods, have you seen/read/heard any content you didn't want to see?

-That C++ Nerd

P.S. - How do you become a moderator? Doesn't TGC pick them out?
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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:35
Quote: "After watching a rendition of Macbeth."


You know that Shakespeare had me in a psychiatric ward for several months...very traumatising, I mean God, you should have seen lady Macbeth, anything like that would cause a lot of stress...at least that's the reason I think they sent me to that ward, but sometimes I wonder if it was because I ran around the globe theatre with no clothes on singing 'Barbie Girl' and then urinating on the stage for my finale - But I don't think 'Seppuku held by men in white coats - Exuent' was a stage direction in the real Macbeth, so I think they did a little bit of editing - I hate it when they do that, the play was good enough as it was...

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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:39 Edited at: 5th Jun 2007 00:40
WTF was that all about Seppuku?

?

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HINT: Joking.
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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:44
Not beer, more like tiredness and boredom -> Perhaps time for bed? But it's only 22:44

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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:50
Sorry to bump, but...what?

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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 00:53
Argh leave it -> I meant was, my comment came from tiredness and boredom and being drunk (From those little beer mug emoticons you posted- They are supposed to be beer mugs aren't they?) So perhaps I should go to bed, but like I said, the time is only 22:44 (well 22:53 now) so I hope that is a more coherent message.

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There was one pic, that a troll kept posting, that was really grotesque, that actually made me want to be a moderator, so I could deal with it right away it was so sick. That's the only time I can recall anything too bad being posted here though.


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Quote: "There was one pic, that a troll kept posting, that was really grotesque, that actually made me want to be a moderator, so I could deal with it right away it was so sick."

Yeah, it's a sad day when someone can't make a "post pictures of yourself" topic without Raven getting involved.

Joke.

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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 03:43
Quote: "There was one pic, that a troll kept posting, that was really grotesque, that actually made me want to be a moderator, so I could deal with it right away it was so sick. That's the only time I can recall anything too bad being posted here though."


Yeah, and then we put in the post approval system but it hasn't happened again... yet.


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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 05:33
No post-dramatic stress here. I'm here enjoying my duties. I think Van B put it best though. We're just normal users with a few extra buttons to push.



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Well moderators have the number one highest suicide rate of any job in the world. FACT

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 22:23
Quote: "How do you become a moderator? Doesn't TGC pick them out?"


Yes. Moderators are hired every once in a blue moon by TGC using a forum thread, and they are usually people who have been responsible, been around awhile, and who happen to live in the right timezones to moderate the forums while it's nighttime in England. Of course, I've also seen people get nominated and become moderators. (That would be JessTicular)

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Quote: "Well moderators have the number one highest suicide rate of any job in the world. FACT"


The source of this information please??? supporting study &/or data would be nice.

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Quote: "Well moderators have the number one highest suicide rate of any job in the world. FACT"


That's because all moderators are emos. *Dodges several noob slaps, bans and bricks*

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noob bricks? hmm...
Maybe it's just that everyone that becomes a moderator is already mentally sick, but it only shows when they actually are a mod...lol

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@Seppuku

arg! ARGGG! The word "emo". First of all, emos usually have great lives, and try pulling the bad out of their great lives.

Emos ruined the word depression. You can't have the disease depression, your now an "emo". It's ridiculous, no wonder everyone suffering from depression goes on a rampage.

EMOS ARE HURTING THE REAL PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION. It was bad enough they had depression, now emos come along and make everyone hate them.

Depression is a disease. Emos are not.
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I became a mod so I could post this...


and this...




Seriously,though,if you had been around the FPSC forums before they had their own mods...it was bad.
And it helps if you're already crazy before you become a mod.



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Quote: "Emos ruined the word depression. You can't have the disease depression, your now an "emo". It's ridiculous, no wonder everyone suffering from depression goes on a rampage."


Wow...

Depression is a disease?
Depression causes rampages?
It's possible to ruin a word like depression?, what did they do?, make it more depressing?

These are harrowing, HARROWING statements.


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I think its people C++ Nerd knows that associate the word 'depression' with emo and nothing else, as I'm sure a lot of us 'young'/immature (Pre-20, I don't mean you're all old) people tend to make those sort of associations. But for me 'despression' doesn't make me think of Emo's at all. But as one person pointed out - 'Emo' stands for 'emotional', 'emos' are 'emotional people', everyone has emotions...therefore we're all emos! Of course not everything is to be taken completely literally, the word it derives from isn't necessary it's full meaning...Now who was it that was insisted that homophobic meant the fear of things that are the same...

Quote: "First of all, emos usually have great lives, and try pulling the bad out of their great lives."


Not all, although I joke about them, I'm sure some have reason to be depressed, but all of the emos I've met are depressed about stupid things and well the emo bands don't exactly have a difficult depressing life - yes it's a fashion for people, despite how it makes some of us laugh.

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@Van B

I take offense that you're NOT calling depression a disease. And, in scientific form, it actually IS a disease. My father has suffered from depression for years, and it is simply horrible.

And yes, depending on what form of depression you have, you can go on rampages. There are many, many different types of depession.

@Seppuku Arts

I agree partially. Although SOME emos have real problems, I think most don't. I don't think there's a real difference between American emos and UK emos. Although the UK is very different, they're probably the same.

And I'm not associating that by people I know alone, but also by the behavior (behaviour, UK) of emos on the street. All fine when they're alone, and when people are listening, start saying how bad life is. This could be social anxiety disorder, but I see it happen way too much.

(Not being offensive or anything)

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My only thing is I think depression is too much of an umbrella term...I've seen people that just because they got mad one day(and actually not intending to do anything), they are declared depressed and bi-polar...
I don't deny there are some people that are depressed, but it's a term much too abused..

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Quote: "And yes, depending on what form of depression you have, you can go on rampages. There are many, many different types of depession."


Ohh, C++ got all bristly!

So now your saying your rampaging habits depend on what sort of depression you have?. You make a lot of generalizations, about Emu's and miserable folk, it's hard to do that and be taken seriously.


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Quote: "...about Emu's and miserable folk..."


Can't we leave the animals out of this... Poor emus



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There's an emo kid near me. I really want to cut his hair. It looks horrific. It reminds me of that bad guys haircut in the 5th Element. I feel sorry for him if he thinks it looks cool ..... or maybe he doesn't care? In which case, why has he done it? Self-expression? Then he must care! Or had he just done it for himself? Then what's the point, because he can't see it?

All questions I cannot answer and he's probably never considered. The best solution - get his hair cut.


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I think the funny thing is emo's big thing is to be non-conforming and to not care what others think...yet they all look bout exactly the same!
the thing I can't stand it "wannabe-emo"s though..they act depressed when they have a cool life, and then will be happy as crap..then a few days later there "depressed" and talk about how bad there life is because his girlfriend dumped him for a person that dresses half-normal...bleh!!..

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Quote: "I think the funny thing is emo's big thing is to be non-conforming and to not care what others think...yet they all look bout exactly the same"


You think that's funny, I came across a non-conformists site, that said 'Buying an iPod is conforming to the media society, so don't buy one because you would be conforming, however you should get this Mp3 player, because it isn't a part of conformity'...well...Yes, I shall conform to this non-conformist conduct when buying an Mp3 Player

Well, I know one Emo that said 'I don't liked to be labelled'...then he says a few days later 'I'm a scene kid, not an emo...' I don't have a problem with emos, but it seems very much to be a daft sub-culture, especially with it's hypocrisys, I mean you should see my Emo-friend's Bebo...in essence, he described himself as being a pacifist, who wishes not for violence...later says, if you annoy me too much, I will hurt you...okay...

But please, leave the depression to all of the teenagers who really are depressed and aren't contemplating suicide because their girlfriend left them, or too many people dislike you.

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