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by **DMM** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:23 pm

BlueStreak wrote:
A desire to help the community, I guess.

I dunno, I'm a mod on two different comic book forums. I was asked both times out of the blue and I've had different experiences with each. With each forum, it's been great to help use the resources I have to help the site grow and I've made a bunch of nifty contacts and good friends along the way.

However, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's a thankless job and some of the crap I've had to deal with has been absurd. The internet seems to bring the worst out of people and between the butthurt drama here and some of the more creative trolls I've encountered because of the other site, it really kills a lot of my desire to be on the Internet at all sometimes.

Thanks for the honest answer. I still don't understand it. I guess it's the same reason as certain people want to be cops. I would never want to be a police officer, but certain people do.

by **DMM** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:24 pm

Basil Smotherman Jr. wrote:Networking, noob

by **Alchemic_Spider** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:24 pm

Basil Smotherman Jr. wrote:Networking, noob

Computer networking?

/Dairydead'd

by **DMM** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:27 pm

I wonder if BlueStreak is getting reprimanded by the other Mods for posting in this thread.

by **GHERU** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:28 pm

DMM wrote:I wonder if BlueStreak is getting reprimanded by the other Mods for posting in this thread.

by **BlueStreak** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:29 pm

DMM wrote:Thanks for the honest answer. I still don't understand it. I guess it's the same reason as certain people want to be cops. I would never want to be a police officer, but certain people do.

I didn't honestly think the mawdship was going to be that much work. Dumbass decision on my part. :lol:

I will say that the front page administrating has been great though. That has become one of my favorite hobbies.

by **Keb** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:29 pm

There is none. I did it once and it sucked.

I was asked years ago if I would be a mod and I turned it down because of the same them vs. us mentality that seems to be going on here today.

Instead I recommended Starlord! :-D

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:29 pm

BlueStreak wrote:
I didn't honestly think the mawdship was going to be that much work. Dumbass decision on my part.

I will say that the front page administrating has been great though. That has become one of my favorite hobbies.

Holla!

by **Lord Simian** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:31 pm

DMM wrote:I wonder if BlueStreak is getting reprimanded by the other Mods for posting in this thread.

Why on earth would we do that? :smt017

by **GHERU** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:31 pm

Keb wrote:There is none. I did it once and it sucked.

I was asked years ago if I would be a mod and I turned it down because of the same them vs. us mentality that seems to be going on here today.

Instead I recommended Starlord!

worked out well for you on two levels

by **The Juan Percenter** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:31 pm

Last week I received a LinkedIn request from an old boss who made it her job to make me miserable. I accepted it out of sheer curiosity and saw that she had the same job as she did 13 years ago

by **GHERU** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:32 pm

Lord Simian wrote:
Why on earth would we do that?

because DMM rejects nuance

by **Keb** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:33 pm

GHERU wrote:worked out well for you on two levels

It did?

by **GHERU** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:34 pm

Keb wrote:It did?

1 - you aren't a mawd
2 - starlord got rob banned

by **DMM** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:34 pm

I don't see how it can NOT be an "us vs. them" mentality. Mods have power over the regular posters. If the rules are annoying or seem to be unfair to regular posters, there will always be an us vs. them mentality. This website is pretty chill. I've been on the ones where they suspend you as soon as you post a single curse word, and it's just nuts. It makes sense though, if the website is trying to be friendly to all ages, all comers.