Do developers have the same powers as you guys? Meaning, can they also delete/edit/etc. posts and stuff?

Touche...Be at the abandoned warehouse in the old industrial district. 8:00pm sharp, don't bring anyone.

:P

Have you guys ever continued a thread that got locked in your private forum??

And roughly how many bans/post edits happen a day, cumulatively.

No, the dev group get a colored group name and icon, and cannot be warned, however they lack moderation abilities.


Occasionally we joke around in a thread after it's locked.

Warnings/Bans fluctuate a lot. We can easily go a whole day with no warnings or bans issued, or we may have a dozen warnings and half a dozen bans. I have no clue what the average is. Since the ban and warning threads also include conversations, and sometimes a single post will log multiple actions, we can't simply divide the post count of these threads by the length of time they've been active.

If someone were to eat a moderator's soul, would the moderator role change the soul's taste?

And on a more serious note, what's your favorite http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

I see you can edit posts without it saying so. What other similar powers do you possess?

If Todd Howard were to come in and start flaming and made a bunch of forum game threads, then made a thread discussing moderator actions, what would you do?

Few more questions before sleepy time.

When you get a new mod, do you hold their hands for a while, letting them know when it's appropriate to warn, edit comments, lock topics and such, or do you just let them loose?? Have you ever had any over zealous mods that went a bit trigger happy when they first got promoted?? If so how did you reign them in??

What is the shortest amount of time someone has been a mod??

Has anyone ever confused you with a mod for one of Bethesdas games, i.e.

"Rohugh is a great mod!! Probably my favourite!"

"Eh?? Is it a new mod?? What's it do?? Will have to add it to my LO and try it out if it's that good!!"

:D

And finally, if you post the most in your hidden forum, would it say that's where you're most active?? Are any of you most active there??

They would bow before their master :bowdown:

They can actually edit anything you do on a day to d- Oh excuse me, I have to build a giant totem shaped like a bear in a top hat.

Alright then. Could a mod please edit this post to make me say something embarrassing? I think it would be funny.

(As long as no one everyone decides to sig. whatever they make me say of course. . .)

I think EvilFish1 is, without a doubt, the best thing to ever happen to these forums.

What's the logic behind this ??

Why is it hidden instead of an open discussion?

Unless I quote it first, and then they have to edit this post to-

This is my 5,000th (active) post. What is your opinion on post counts, stars, and ratings?

<_<

Do you like me?

Lie if you have to.

Minecraft being as popular as it is, I'll assume some of you must have been to the Minecraft Forums.

So my question; Would you kill yourself within a day, week or a month of moderating them.

Why do you moderate the forums? What is your motivation to put up with us day in and day out? I can understand why some folks would volunteer to feed the homeless or clean the beaches, but moderating the forums?

The one problem I see with volunteer mods and this forum is that there is no method for user feedback - unless you call the occasional rant feedback.

There is no way for users to "rate" the mods, no real path for complaints to be heard or get any attention, no way for people to say "Why did you lock that thread?", and see how many other users agree with them

Too much of the "issues" are hidden under the rules saying you must PM to discuss Locks/Warnings/Bans; it's all swept under the carpet.

While I think the mods generally do a good job, I have seen examples of "over zealous" locking, sometimes seems to be almost random. Some mods show a tendency to log on and go on a locking binge - like they woke up in a bad mood that day.

If you don't have some provision for feedback from users, then I think the admins are not doing their job

The Terms of Use prevent us from discussing people's warnings in public or with other people, so otherwise someone could claim anything they wanted and we wouldn't be able to confirm or deny it.


:chaos:


Yeah, sure... I guess. :ermm: :shrug:



:P :hugs:

OK, that makes sense if users care about their warnings being discussed - but, since all posts are essentially anonymous (just a made up user name shown) seems to me to be not a problem ? Terms of Use may be overly protective of users rights here

They may not all be alias/ or made up names, some use real names and some people use real photo's of themselves. It could also adversly efect their standing within the community, whether that's right or wrong or not is irrelivent

I'd probably assume his account had been hacked again.


1. We have a thread of useful tips and things, and we make ourselves available for any questions/discussions and whatnot. We've never have someone overzealous like that, but there have been a few with the opposite problem who were extremely anxious about handing out warnings and bans.

2. We added someone active as a moderator for a few weeks who had some problem come up and they left. They were let back a while later and then something else came up and they left again. I imagine their total time as an active moderator was less than two months.

3. Not that I'm aware of, but on a few instances I've responded to conveniently worded queries about game mods with a comment about moderators. But most of the time I resist that urge.


Post counts and join dates are useful to generally identifying new members and members who may be familiar with an older set of rules and expectations. However for the most part I don't pay much attention to them, and I rather wish stars could be disabled. I also think ranks should be readjusted, when the system went up having a thousand posts was a big deal, today it isn't, and I think a rescaled rank system would help reflect this.


I play Minecraft but I've never looked at their forums.


I enjoy the community here and moderating gives me an opportunity to help out with the community.

First point - OK, I see. I'm surprised that people do use their real name.

Second point - it SHOULD affect their standing within the community! But since the first point stops it, it's all academic

If you don't want to discuss the matter with the moderator in question you can PM one of the community managers to discuss the matter. I don't see how public discourse would aid this given that is it the community managers who run the forums and keep us on board.

One can also contact us about problems they aren't directly involved in if they have a question. We can't discuss warnings or bans but we can often explain why we locked a thread.


There is a good chance that person logged on, saw a huge pile of reports, and was working their way through them. I've never known one of the mods here to stop by the forums and just lock tons of threads without reason.

Occasionally threads will be locked for reasons that aren't readily apparent. For example maybe someone has been told not to make threads on a specific topic because they have a habit of being belligerent when people disagree - if they start a new thread on the issue it may very well get locked even if there aren't any problems yet. On a number of occasions we've identified a member who has been repeatedly banned and we will remove all of their extant threads in the hopes of reducing the chance that they come back - which has helped in the past.


In this situation better to be too protective than not enough.

While I do see the advantages of being able to handle these publicly I think the problems it would raise would outweigh these. Among other things it would make the process of warning and banning a member far more laborious for us if there was a chance of public discourse and debate after each one, and I think it would also result in us having to be far less lenient. At the moment if we feel there are sufficient mitigating circumstances we can go easy on the person - but if every such action becomes public precedent we would need to be far more careful with any exceptions being handed out. Personally I'd rather keep the system private and flexible and public and institutional.