Signs you aren't smart enough to moderate a forum

I don't know about anyone else, but I found these pretty funny and insightful!

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- You delete anything that isn’t porn, advertising, or one member calling another member a “faggot retard.” If you are deleting things because someone posts that such and such a decision is “poorly thought out,” you are too sensitive and need to not be online. Ever.

- You delete threads more than once a week. Most situations should be handled by locking the threads. Locking allows players to see what it was that got locked (people learn from example), prevents reposts of locked material, and prevents conspiracy theories. If you are having to delete more often because of violations of the porn rule, you need tighter security on who becomes a member in the first place.

- You are constantly revising your board rules. If you have to have fifty rules that all boil down to “play nicely,” either you have an unusually obtuse community (possible) or you are making rules against things that annoy you personally (likely). Take your ego out of the game. If you cannot, you are not qualified to moderate a board.

- You have more than a handful of rules. A board rarely needs more than ten rules, and there are literally thousands of rulesets that at this point you can just cut and copy. The older, the more time tested. The one I usually start with was originally a usenet post.

- You avoid posting something that might cause drama, even though the something in question is most certainly going to be part of the game. Man UP, you chickenshit wimp.

- You whine about how the content of a particular post wasn’t your idea. This usually happens when the CM doesn’t have any balls besides the ones he keeps in his mouth.

- You talk to members in PM for any reason besides acknowledging reports. The best way to start drama is to indulge in whispering, making special friends on the forums, and putting in writing that you like some members more than others. A private message becomes a public post the moment you think it’ll never happen to you.

- You cannot separate your feelings from your work.

- Frank: Your first reaction to a negative post is “impotent rage” or “immediate denial.”

 

moderators can't have friends? wow, that's rough.

 

what are friends

 

i'm not sure. i've just deleted all of mine.

 

want to tell us who this thread is directed toward?

 

moderators who've banned him and deleted his posts because he was inappropriate and rude, most likely.

 

It's directed to me and my super badassness... I mean, come on...

 

ahhhh. well that makes perfect sense. carry on.

 

hahah, some of you are really itching to take that personally, no?

 

i figured as much; just thought it might be interesting to see if he's willing to name names... :Angel:

 

ARE YOU CRITICISING ME?!!!

 

I think I just swallowed a spider that drowned in my drink...can anything happen?

 

Those are truly not funny.

You really should go and reconsider your entire existence with that sense of humor.

 

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzt, WRONG!

Please put 10 pence in the machine and try again. Never been banned from here at all, sparky.

I just found it interesting because I had been on so many sites where I had seen people like that, and taking apart the dynamic behind it amused me. Hell, I haven't even been on this site long enough to have an opinion on anyone here, let alone decide I dislike the place.

Are you paranoid or something?

 

Now you're going to have spider babies crawling out of your bellybutton...

 

Hahaha.... So moderators can't pm people unless it's about a moderation thing? :lol: Hate to break it to you but I think just about every moderator here has friends here... I, for one, have countless friends here that I've met and quite a few that even live near me....

As for threads being locked and not deleted... pointless threads that are against guidelines often get deleted. If you don't like it, take it up with his site... his rules and for a good reason. Some threads do just get locked though.

Anyways, I agree.. that list wasn't funny at all... a bit stupid actually... being that it lumps every forum into a one-size fits all formula thingie. Yeeeahhh....

 

Well Lucky Stripe removed my sig for no good reason -- fascist fuckwit!

 

lol dude thats funny

 

Because it was too large and it was disturbing people.

And try calling me that one more time... I got my finger on the ban button.

 

Does it make you feel important?