That election thing reminds me of something we were talking about shortly after overthrowing killer. We were talking about having community elections each year for who would be admin. Then we got kicked off that forum and the idea was forgotten, lmao
I never forgot the idea, it is that we had that half year forum war. I think I had a chance to win that election. If I recall right, the election was my idea.
anyway, if it weren't for the fact that he's never there, I would say phil (OP2PATRIOT). He's always been able to keep his cool in madding situations, and the only time people were complaining was when he temp-banned it2000us for TOS violations
Well, I can't remember that time well enough to know if I kept my cool. Just recently my forum had a situation worse than the It situation, where a member delibertly antagonized the community, expected me to give him a free pass since I was his friend, I said he must give responsibility. He delibertly tried to talk me into lashing out at him, and I must sadly admit that I did. Then he and his friends rallied against me and tried to get the forum to overthrow me. Not many people believed him, he would change the severity of his views from time to time. We eventually got him to leave, but his friend flood attacked the place and because of poor tech support the forum was shut down for days. Were I a staff member at this forum, I'd be less likely to get upset given I am not as close of friends with you all as I am with people at my forum, but any person who knows which buttons to press can set me off.
Are we talking about IRC op or forum moderator?
If IRC op, there is no way I would do that. If I had the time to be in that room frequently and had things my way, I'd have censors set up and message rate slowers for people you trip off the censors. I'd be a person for banning the chatroom for TOS violation, and if that isn't there, I'd have it set up. I'd hate the job, it'd be draining, and I just don't have the time.
As for forum moderator, people, you shouldn't really seriously consider me unless I am here straight for a month. I have plenty of experience with the old community and dealing with xfir, but I don't know the newer people as well. Along with maturity, the qualifications for a good moderator should be frequent-enough activity and knowing the members. If a month from now I am still active, I would be interested in a moderator/admin job here. I have lots of experience with modifying Invision and have whipped a disorderly spamming bunch into productive nice members ... without ever using the ban button. It was quite an active place until the Thanksgiving incident. Hopefully with some new changes it will be active again. Were I an admin/moderator, I'd probably think up some policies that I'd recommend to the administration to make the forum a nicer and more orderly place.
