Ask the Moderators

[PacNW]

We seem to have tapped into a medium-sized spring of our discontent here today. I contend that it’s partly due to the inscrutability of the moderators as moderators. We might have some ideas about you from your posts as individual contributors, but how about a couple paragraphs from each of you on what you think of your role as moderators.

 

How’d you get started? How much of your time does it take up a week? Do you communicate with the other moderators a lot or make decisions on your own? What kind of posts piss you off the most? What’s the best fight you’ve fought and won? And lost? How much effort *does* deej invest in fighting for our posting rights? (He said to ask )

 

Change the names to protect the innocent (if there are any involved), but give us some human detail to demystify the mysterious ways of the moderators.

[seaboy4hire]

Good questions Pac. Although I am not a moderator here on the mc but am on another chat/mc it would be nice to hear how the mods here think of things etc...

 

Hugs,

Greg

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[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Just gives ammunition for some disgruntled soul to lob back at them in the future.

[ErikMcAlister]

As does ANY post by ANYone.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

True but the moderators walk around with a bullseye on their T-shirts as you can appredciate I'm sure. So why provide kindling for being burned at the stake?

[ErikMcAlister]

I suppose the answer's the same as that to "why be a moderator?" really.

I don't deny that moderators often make easy targets. But, my experience alone is enough to prove that it doesn't take being a moderator to become a target. That was my point.

[JT Brooklyn]

Erik..Definitely True..LOL :+

[Doug69]

>But, my

>experience alone is enough to prove that it doesn't take being

>a moderator to become a target.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/images/245/baby_crying.jpg

[taylorky]

>I suppose the answer's the same as that to "why be a

>moderator?" really.

 

the only good one they had has been long gone, seems the moderators of this board are insignificant people trying to exercise authority they don't have in the real world, sort of sad actually,with the exception of cooper,he's the only one that projects an image of quality.

[Barry]

>the only good one they had has been long gone, seems the

>moderators of this board are insignificant people trying to

>exercise authority they don't have in the real world, sort of

>sad actually,with the exception of cooper,he's the only one

>that projects an image of quality.

 

My my Taylor. Have we met? :+

 

Barry

[+ deej]

Since nobody else is stepping up to this, I'll give it a stab...

 

>how about a couple paragraphs from each of

>you on what you think of your role as moderators.

 

... but I'm not up for a homework assignment just now. :-)

 

>How’d you get started?

 

As a favor to Hooboy.

 

>How much of your time does it take up a week?

 

It varies widely. Usually 20 minutes in the morning (if you count scanning the day's new reviews over coffee) and about 20 minutes in the evening. This week it's going a little longer. :-(

 

>Do you communicate with the other moderators a lot or

>make decisions on your own? What kind of posts piss you off

>the most?

 

There is a private moderators forum where we discuss most activities, although being the geographically dispersed lot that we are some decisions are made on the spot since a discussion can take days by the time everyone checks in.

 

>What’s the best fight you’ve fought and won? And

>lost?

 

A lady never tells. ;-)

 

>How much effort *does* deej invest in fighting for our

>posting rights? (He said to ask )

 

Yep. (Barry, how many times have I disagreed with you over a deletion? Are you tired of having me ask "which rule did it break?")

[Barry]

>Yep. (Barry, how many times have I disagreed with you over a

>deletion? Are you tired of having me ask "which rule did it

>break?")

 

Ad nauseum but I tolerate you because in the end I'm always right. }(

 

 

Barry

[+ deej]

ROFL!

[+ Lucky]

The moderators here have made themselves known here over time by their posts and their actions. And guess what? They are just like the rest of us who want to see a reasonably friendly place to share ideas and information. Barry and Cooper tend to be less involved in deleting, deej offers a lot of info, especially on porno stars, but gets more involved in controversy. Tri posts a great deal and has an opinion, usually a pretty good one, on everything.

 

Cooper built the Male Strip forum essentially from scratch and has helped innumerable guys enjoy strippers in various cities besides New York. He and tri are the only ones I have personnaly met, but, hehehe, I have seen deej live and up close. So take it easy. We are bound to differ from time to time, but these guys work for free and do a great job.

 

Chicago Boy/joel 304 was way out of line in using the H word in another thread, and I can't say anything nice about guys who create a new screenname just to lob a fireball and then return to their nicer persona...

 

All of this hurlyburly is getting really boring and going on way too long, IMHO!

[BewareofNick]

>I suppose the answer's the same as that to "why be a

>moderator?" really.

>I don't deny that moderators often make easy targets. But, my

>experience alone is enough to prove that it doesn't take being

>a moderator to become a target. That was my point.

 

Over the years, you've made yourself enough of a target on your own without anyone else's involvement. Your arguements with ad rian/axebahia/Auntie S were legendary in and of themselves.

[Zippy]

Don't forget his tantrum over being gifted a chia pet for X-mas from KYTop. That little outburst got him booted off the second time.

[BewareofNick]

Ah yes, memories.

 

Ethan's current arguements with others, such as the ongoing one with Rick Munroe, just underscore his continued inability to play nice and get along with others.

[+ deej]

>Ethan's current arguements with others, such as the ongoing

>one with Rick Munroe, just underscore his continued inability

>to play nice and get along with others.

 

Pot, meet kettle.

[BewareofNick]

And besides Ethan McAlister, with whom am I arguing?

[joel304]

Joel304 and chgoboy are not the same. I assure you. Feel free to check the ISP's. What is the "H" word? And, for the record, I don't have a nice side. Just ask my shrink.

 

I clearly write better than him, and, if the meds are working, often am more entertaining.

[ErikMcAlister]

>I clearly write better than him, and, if the meds are working,

>often am more entertaining.

 

I'll leave it to you all to find the hillarity in the above statement. Claiming to have superior writing skills, while simultaneously butchering the language is just damned funny.

It would be unseemly to point out the actual errors, but I trust at least some of you see them.

[PacNW]

RE: Dear Lucky (part one)

 

>We are bound to differ from time to

>time, but these guys work for free and do a great job.

 

So you say, and so say others. I was hoping that the moderators would take me up on the invite to say something in their own words on a subject they don’t often discuss publicly.

 

Daddy’s got the review side of the site running smoothly; he could take the opportunity to update us on things he’s thinking about for the MC. (And he can’t have gone “walkies” that far. He’s been updating the reviews regularly and was here at least once earlier this week when I checked who was online.) Deej is certainly the best-known quantity hereabouts. Unfortunately that’s due in part to his itchy trigger finger in locking threads, at least those lockings that are attributable to any one mod. That remains my impression despite protestations to the contrary. I’d be interested to hear his criteria for when he stops being a frequent contributor and becomes a moderator. Cooper, on the other hand, is an almost completely unknown quantity to me. OK, I confess to visiting the Strippers forum to look at the pictures and not to read the articles. It might be nice to know a little what he thinks about this stuff outside of there. Barry stands out for his actions in pinning the heroes post to the top of the forum, primarily for the gracious way in which he retracted it and gave an honest and heartfelt explanation for doing so. I hope he shows the same judgment all the time.

 

Personally, I was most curious to hear what Tri might say. He has often shown himself to be a perceptive and conscientious social critic, capable of grasping and expressing himself eloquently on numerous big-picture issues in America and worldwide without resorting to personalities. I was hoping to hear a hint that he performed the same function for these boards.

 

So the limited response has been disappointing. It’s clear we don’t have a *right* to know any more than these guys choose to tell us. Still, dozens of posters expend sincere time and effort to contribute here, hundreds of people follow along. I don’t think it’s out of line (I never hold with Hitler allusions, either) to respectfully press for a respectful response.

[PacNW]

RE: Dear Lucky (part two)

 

>All of this hurlyburly is getting really boring and going on

>way too long, IMHO!

 

I just don’t get it. How long is “too long” of a discussion? If we got together and all read through the three contentious threads from this week, we’d be hard pressed to fill 15 minutes. Less if we talked over one another. Less still if the musclestud group kept to their end of the table. I know we live in an attention-deficit society, but the whole concept that serious discussions should be time-limited is as aggravatingly artificial as the segregation of them I’ve been railing against elsewhere.