Have You Ever Been A Moderator?

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Good Night Owl 2023년 11월 20일 오후 2시 04분

Not on Steam, just anywhere on the internet. Did/do you like it? What was it like?

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Sir Dookface McFerretballs 2023년 11월 20일 오후 10시 16분

Good Night Owl님이 먼저 게시:
Not on Steam, just anywhere on the internet. Did/do you like it? What was it like?

I'm not a fan of moderation, but some things you have to do for legal reasons.

It's fine if it is a small group of regulars, and you only have to worry about "that one guy" occasionally.

So it is fine at first when the sites/forums are small and it was pretty much just a free-for-all with people of similar interests that kept most posts relevant to the forum. Then it got annoying as the sites/forums got bigger and more people came in just to troll post or when the "creepers" started showing up and I ended up spending more time moderating than posting.

And those were adult-only forums...

I couldn't imagine how much of a pain it is to moderate something with a "kids-friendly" rating and wouldn't moderate that even if I was paid to.

So in short, it can be fun when it is a close group of people with similar interests (you don't actually have to moderate much at all), but an absolute nightmare when constant "randos" show up or a site/forum starts getting popular.

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Faster With Feeling 2023년 11월 20일 오후 10시 22분

That's what it was like for me when I started my group, it was just a small like minded group and was pretty chill and relaxed. But once we hit our milestones like 100 members and then 200 members I could not do it all myself so delegated to other people to be admins and mods. The pain usually begins once you exceed 100 people or more, at least that's what I found.

I am amazed our little group managed to run for 3 years before it started shrinking.

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Dom 2023년 11월 20일 오후 11시 33분

It may be a lot of unpaid voluntary work and there is also the expectation of being active. If you're not active enough, you may lose your moderator status which you probably spent quite a bit of effort and time applying and convincing that you are good for that position.

If someone can schedule it properly, dedicate time and have passion for whatever platform it is, then it could be nice. But lots of people just don't have enough time, or interest - or neither.

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TwisterCat 2023년 11월 20일 오후 11시 35분

Could have been. I had a lot of support for it across a very popular community with many members.

Biggest reason I decided not to is because the people I sincerely liked had left, and the role never really suited me all that well.

Perhaps in an alternative universe I decided to take on the position, and my favorite server would still be around? Well, it was never my flavour of tea.

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Dom 2023년 11월 20일 오후 11시 45분

Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏님이 먼저 게시:
Dom님이 먼저 게시:
It may be a lot of unpaid voluntary work and there is also the expectation of being active. If you're not active enough, you may lose your moderator status which you probably spent quite a bit of effort and time applying and convincing that you are good for that position.

If someone can schedule it properly, dedicate time and have passion for whatever platform it is, then it could be nice. But lots of people just don't have enough time, or interest - or neither.
If you have to work really hard at it then you're doing it wrong (or are just using it as a distraction from something more painful).

I once got moderator on a semi-large Terraria server just by taking the time to teach the admins how to make a sky pool arena that was just a big floating blob of water that you could fly in and out of, by using bubble block.
...and I used my moderator powers only to give myself items that had been removed from the game. :cleanseal:

Yeah, it depends, different things have different criteria.. also if there are a lot of people applying, then the bar may be higher and the platforms and servers may be very different in nature.

Being moderator and doing it well in one place may not be sufficient enough to do well in another and vice versa.

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Xautos 2023년 11월 21일 오전 12시 15분

Once a moderator for about 9 months on a steam hub. I've seen enough on the other side to know it's not worth pursuing. the amount of abuse you get is unbelievable and staggering and i don't know how others can keep doing it year in and year out honestly.

Applying those rules, the interpretation around them. i'm a bit more qualified than many others who never served in that capacity to state that no moderator is truly impartial despite any claims to the contrary, they will always be clouded by their thoughts, their moods, the rules and how they are seen, the way the rules are processed in a certain way, rules carried over from other game forums into steam and used and of course moderator conduct, which is a thread that lists what moderators can and can not do and where they may need help with, etc.. you won't ever see that, or the automated reports that are generated, most of which are safely ignored because a lot of users don't know how to use the report feature correctly and no action needs to be taken.

Take it from someone who used to be one, it's not worth trying to become one and if you think the level of toxicity on off-topic is bad? you ain't seen nothing until you become a target of abuse from other users who think your judgement is wrong, even though you followed the rules put down exactly and the interpretation is sound.

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Crazy Tiger 2023년 11월 21일 오전 1시 27분

In the past, yes. Been administrator or moderator on gaming forums mostly in the 90s and the 00s. I have no particular like or dislike for it. Sometimes it was fine and easy, sometimes there were annoying people to deal with.

I wouldn't do it anymore now. It requires certain activity and because of that it can feel like a job. I stopped with such roles because of that.

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Here is my card 2023년 11월 21일 오전 9시 46분

Morkonan님이 먼저 게시:
Good Night Owl님이 먼저 게시:
Not on Steam, just anywhere on the internet. Did/do you like it? What was it like?

Yes, I have.

It varies with the type of site/forum being moderated. Open forum sites suck...

Great, now you are back when I rarely discuss in here anymore 😄. You've been missed. At least I have.

And for the wise Owl, yes. A long time ago. Wouldn't do it anymore though.

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L1qu1dator 2023년 11월 21일 오전 10시 04분

Somehow I've been one of the admins on a CSS server.

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Jolly Devil 2023년 11월 21일 오전 10시 10분

I was a mod for a Naruto RP guild on GaiaOnline for like 3 years back in the late 2000s. It was meh.

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captainwiseass 2023년 11월 21일 오전 10시 18분

Not here, but yes. It was a great way to learn that every single person who has ever complained about being unfairly silenced on the Internet is completely full of crap.

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Rio 2023년 11월 21일 오전 10시 20분

I don't like being a mod/admin. Its usually work that you don't get paid for, and working for free is silly.

And I don't enjoy banning people either. Nor do I enjoy gossiping behind regular users backs with other mods/admins if a user should be banned or not.

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