Moderators ?

[Slaphppy7]

No comment.....in fear of incriminating myself......

Wise reply...

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Wise reply...

Good job what I am thinking cannot get moderated then innit, eh?

 

[Slaphppy7]

Good job what I am thinking cannot get moderated then innit, eh?

The Admins are working on the mind-reading software, to be added to the forum at a later date...beware

 

[ZoddyZod]

Just exactly what is it that moderators do ? How much time does it take ? Do you stare at a screen all day and all night until your eyes glass over ? Why can't we members grade you and rate you ? Everyone has a boss , do you ? Have you saved us from nefarious evil doers that were fomenting our demise ? Do you like it ?

loads of tedious admin...... and gossiping and moaning about the regular members in the 'secret' moderators only part of the forum

 

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loads of tedious admin...... and gossiping and moaning about the regular members in the 'secret' moderators only part of the forum

I would love to be a fly on the wall in that 'secret' room.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I used to moderate on fish sites, but I mostly did this in the site's chat room. I did this mostly before the rise of social media which doomed most, but not all, fish forums. I started on forums in 2001. I am still a moderator on a species site which is very inactive. It gets more spam than member posts by a long shot. The site is slow enough that I only need to fly through once every week or two. When I was asked to be a forum mod I declined because always felt that forum mods needed a broad knowledge about the subtopics they moderated. After al shouldn;t somebody who moderate the SW area actaully keep and know about sw tanks and fish?

As for the mods here now, they seem to be decent. But if you back up here a number of years and prior to current management, they were pretty lousy and they drove away a lot of good members. I walked away from this site for a number of years because management and senior Mods were the rear ends of donkeys. But I learned a long time ago when a sites goes south that the proper course of action is to vote with one's feet and just walk away.

Moderation on any site is only as good as the people who do it. And, as we all know, there are all kinds of people and some are decent human beings and nice folks and others are the opposite. There is no way to guarantee which will be found on any site or as a mod on a site.

I learned two things a long time ago about forums fights:
1. Nobody ever wins a forum fight.
2. Never argue in public with and idiot, people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

So if you as a member have issues with how a site is run or how the moderators do their job, vote with your feet. Do not make a goodbye post, do not make a nasty post or posts and get yourself banned, just walk away. There is always another place to go on the net.

 

[Rocky998]

The Admins are working on the mind-reading software, to be added to the forum at a later date...beware

Uh oh! I better delete my account as we speak

 

[Rocky998]

Serious question... How did some of you mods become moderators so fast? Like you @Slaphppy7... You joined just last year. Do you get recruited from other places??

I'm seriously just curious is all...

 

[Rocky998]

What do you have to hide @betta4ever!? Dont agree to my post like that!
Slap's comment is gonna cause lines to be drawn...
We all about to have trust issues

 

[Slaphppy7]

Serious question... How did some of you mods become moderators so fast? Like you @Slaphppy7... You joined just last year. Do you get recruited from other places??

I'm seriously just curious is all...

I was a Mod on another forum, a long time ago on a fishkeeping site far, far away...

@WhistlingBadger was a member there...he became a Mod here, before me...may have had something to do with it

 

[Rocky998]

I was a Mod on another forum, a long time ago on a fishkeeping site far, far away...

@WhistlingBadger was a member there...he became a Mod here, before me...may have had something to do with it

Ah ok! So you guys were recruited by the TFFSF (Tropical Fish Forum's Special Forces)

 

[Slaphppy7]

Ah ok! So you guys were recruited by the TFFSF (Tropical Fish Forum's Special Forces)

Something like that...

 

[betta4ever!]

What do you have to hide @betta4ever!? Dont agree to my post like that!

Me? Nothing...

 

[Rocky998]

Me? Nothing...

So that's why you guys like the smirk... It's like your hiding something

THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED

 

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I get it now. This is bigger than I thought. I better run before I find out things I shouldn't have.