I don't know if the job is ever funny, but I was wondering if there were any humorous stories of being a "moderator"?
Stories involving - you getting reported to yourself, or being PM'ed something like "Have you read what Pumaman wrote, I really think he should be banned!"
You know......Funny Stuff
I enjoyed myself ENORMOUSLY as a moderator on the RON forums for a while... But in retrospect it wasn't very funny (even at the time) and it was certainly quite annoying for everyone. Probably for the best I got that taken off me...
Quote from: Captain Mostly on Fri 04/03/2005 22:42:54
I enjoyed myself ENORMOUSLY as a moderator on the RON forums for a while... But in retrospect it wasn't very funny (even at the time) and it was certainly quite annoying for everyone. Probably for the best I got that taken off me...
Yes ¬
¬I can't say there have ever been any particularly amusing things that have happened as a moderator... It's a HARD AND THANKLESS JOB!!!
Thank you, AGA, for being a mod. :'(
Well I was joking, but thanks for your thanks anyway :P
Oh and I painted a picture and everything:
(http://img199.exs.cx/img199/1153/hug9dx.jpg)
Well, anyway, for the subject: The funniest thing I've ever seen as mods on other forums, is people missing the "reply" button and hitting "report to moderator" instead. Oh the laughs I had.
During my time as moderator on a forum, I rarely found it amusing.
It was pretty nice to be recognised as reliable and someone who could be depended upon, but it was certainly never funny.
Moderating you guys puts the sunshine into my day.
I love being moderated, with all those chains and whips and leather... woops... wrong forum. ;D
I think the moderators here are doing a great job at keeping this community the way it is and having everything going so smoothly.
Hats off to you, especially Eric!.
(I lied, Eric are fag!!!!)
Shawn
edit: but there has to be something done about new members who mass post to every thread within their first day of being a member here.
I never get to moderate anything, I think people are scared of me. I was one of 3 persons to gain access to a clan-server once though, and that was fun. blowing up campers, setting spawnkillers on fire, muting flamers, the usual. Funniest job I ever had.
I think the moderators here are moderately moderate at moderating
Well speaking of being moderated. A friendly moderator decided to edit my post and add words that i never typed.
I wrote hats off to you, and AGA put in the part about Eric. It wasn't me. So if Mr. Colossal reads it, just know that it wasn't coming from me.
Plus, i don't think my post should have been edited just to add a comment like that.
I'm not too happy about it either. >:(
We know AGA edited it. As a joke. We can clearly see it was edited by him. Don't get upset. I think it's funny.
Jeez, it was comedy, calm down. It quite clearly says who did it, it's not as though you're implicated of any wrong-doing.
By the way, ERIC put the bit about Eric, not me. That's why I modified it to add my bit... :P
AGA, i'm not fuming over it. I just don't want people thinking that i was bashing another member of the community. I mean, i did laugh at first, but i'm not like punching walls mad and throwing my computer on the ground.
:)
well, my bad. Hats off to everyone.
Wow Dark of Night...
What did I ever do to you? Why do you have to call me names?
That was a really... really jerky thing to do... I can't believe you'd right that about me
I laugh all the time ...
FORUM RULES - READ BEFORE POSTING (//http://) stickied at the top of the GiP forum and still, on a frequent basis, people start threads like this:
SUBJECT: My new AGS game!!
I'm making a game. You play as a guy who finds himself in an adventure. I don't have a title, or any screenshots yet. Oh and the game will be awesome!
Ahhhh good stuff. Cracks me up all the time. It's a good thing I still enjoy locking threads so much ;)
It's just karma for humping my mom Eric.....You....Mom-Humper you...
WAREZ TEH LUV?!?!?!?! ??? ???
[tasteless] Currently drying in a wad of tissue-paper. . . [/tasteless]
Ooooh, that's just naaasty! (I liked it). SOEMTIMESD ITS IN URE UNDERWAREZ THO
The funniest thing is when newbies ask to be moderators.
Im not 13 but I thought that was discrimanating(woha big word) Il need to report you to a moderator
Quote from: Potter on Sun 06/03/2005 12:11:31
Im not 13 but I thought that was discrimanating(woha big word) Il need to report you to a moderator
I didn't want to discriminate, I just wanted to state the fact that it's mostly 13 years old that do that. I'm not much older here anyways, so.... Nevermind, I edited my post. Sorry :P
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Sun 06/03/2005 10:41:11
The funniest thing is when newbies ask to be moderators.
Even funnier is when the admin is so unbelievably moronic that they take the newbies up on their offer. I've seen it, it has actually happened.
Bet you're regretting giving me and Eric mod in our first week now, eh, CJ?
As Eric is an over-protective pseudo-samaritan suck-up, and AGA is a trigger-happy totalitarian fascist, CJ must be pretty happy he still has me :P
PS, I eat babies.
And me, who's just a puppet for his nefarious schemes.
And me, because... because...
oh god I suck!
So yeah, moderating CAN be fun, but it's mostly hard work, lots of clicking, locking, moving, and editing.
We too have a large sticky thread that says "READ HERE BEFORE POSTING, N00BSZ!!11" and yet we get people all the time asking questions like "How do I maek teh my game!??" and "BLARG!". :P
But I deal with it and TRY to be patient most of the time...
I was never a forum moderator, but I once became an OP on #K&P (The Klik&Play Channel) because um... of that one amazing adventure game I made, I guess.
Anyway, I never did much, but one time I finally got to kick+ban somebody, I right-click on the name on mIRC to do it and I kicked and ban the wrong person! And with my attention span to IRC, I didn't notice for a good couple of minutes.
How embarrasing. :D
heh, it's not funny when mods don't have the same ideas of how to control a forum. That is, when no forum rules exist.
I was sometime ago a mod, I think I was 14 then (and I believe the oldest active member was 21) and was more liberal and didn't like to lock too much threads and opened sometimes even threads up the other mod closed.....I was a bit stubborn and silly at that time.... :)
Also more or less funny was that I had problems with the cookies but only with that forum so I couldn't do any actions like a mod can do and only post.
lol, I didn't notice the "I eat babies" until now. Good one, AGA.
First when I saw that I thought to myself; "Wait, I wasn't supposed to tell the community that!" But now everyone will think it's just a joke.
I think all you moderators suck! And this forum sucks! And AGS is a big piece of CRAP!!!
Ok, now I'll just wait for AGA to edit this post too... I'm genious!
You want to hear something so stupid it'll make your ears bleed?
Someone who continues to hold a grudge against you for something that happened a year ago...
Now, it's not something like I punched this person in the face or ate their baby or anything, I just deleted a post they made... That's it... And they still hate me...
When is the last time someone here has held a grudge for that long? And was it for something substantial like... I dunno, being physically harmed? Or someone stealing something from you? Or was it for something as insignificant as deleting some ones and zeros off the internet?
People take the internet so seriously and then when they are angry demand that you don't take the internet so seriously... ARGH
Quote from: MrColossal on Wed 30/03/2005 21:49:41
You want to hear something so stupid it'll make your ears bleed?
Someone who continues to hold a grudge against you for something that happened a year ago...
Now, it's not something like I punched this person in the face or ate their baby or anything, I just deleted a post they made... That's it... And they still hate me...
All I need is an apology!
Gosh, all I wanted was to be able to tell a group of adventure game enthusiasts how 1337 my skillz is without being censored for once.
C is in charge of GenGen. I trust his judgement.
On a side note, scotch opped me in #ags because everyone else was away at Mittens. Thankfully, he can't check the logs to see I abused by power.
Whee.
Oh, wait.. He reads the forums, too..
Crap.
Oh wait, there's an edit button..
oh wait... that was the joke... :P
Quote from: MrColossal on Wed 30/03/2005 21:49:41
You want to hear something so stupid it'll make your ears bleed?
Someone who continues to hold a grudge against you for something that happened a year ago...
Now, it's not something like I punched this person in the face or ate their baby or anything, I just deleted a post they made... That's it... And they still hate me...
When is the last time someone here has held a grudge for that long? And was it for something substantial like... I dunno, being physically harmed? Or someone stealing something from you? Or was it for something as insignificant as deleting some ones and zeros off the internet?
People take the internet so seriously and then when they are angry demand that you don't take the internet so seriously... ARGH
Glad I don't know what it's like to have a group of people hate you for something that happened well over a year ago...
I HATE YOU! YOU RUINED MY AGS CAREER!
Prepare to be amazed...
At the horrible Story...
Of the N00B that wouldn't DIE...
:)
He was called Fran or somesuch name. Basically, he aplied for a project a Warhammer community I'm part of was doing a while back, and for his proof he submitted Manga. Of cource, they said no, we need non-comic related art to be an artist. So he THEN steals a piece off another Warhamer community and submits it, and they didn't realise and let him in.
Next week, the very same artist that Fran steal's off applies for an artist post. Fran, who was discovered by now as a n00b who used leetspeak, was thrown out.
He then comes back as "Gandalf", and applies again. The mods spot this (he's now imfamous as a n00b) and ban him. Then he comes back as Druan Keyforge. Ditto as before. He finally comes back as "HavokBlight", applies, gets the NO, and we decide to not ban him, giving him his final warning. He then posts a massive Swearfest and goes off in a huff. They ban him. Again.
*Finally*, he comes back as Ryokepp, and guess what? He does the same thing, and say's he's an 8 year old and pretends to commit suicide over MSN to one of the Mods. ;D
At the moment, he's copied the ENTIRE Project, faked a different project, stole all their second-choice names for the project, and is now pretending to run "Project elite" with exactly the same story, plot etc as the original project!
Saddo... :)
happy april fool's day, aga. you sure do.
anyway, i'm off to bed.
good niht