How much do the forum mods get paid?

[FnG]magnolia;21902913 said:
Heh.

How do you deal with posters who have very different views from your own? Where is the line where your personal opinion becomes less important than your Don requirements to be fair and impartial?
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It's difficult to say where there's an absolute line, I'm sure that for most people there will be one but you'll probably find that quite a few of the moderators won't necessarily get involved in topics they feel very strongly about because it can be difficult to remain completely neutral.

You can disagree with what is posted as a moderator but provided you do so politely and make sure the rules are upheld impartially then there should be no conflict.
 
semi-pro waster said:
It's difficult to say where there's an absolute line, I'm sure that for most people there will be one but you'll probably find that quite a few of the moderators won't necessarily get involved in topics they feel very strongly about because it can be difficult to remain completely neutral.

You can disagree with what is posted as a moderator but provided you do so politely and make sure the rules are upheld impartially then there should be no conflict.
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I couldn't do that but I think you especially do an amazing job. You're consistently brilliant.

Do you guys talk to each other before getting involved in threads? "This is too close to the bone for me, can you mod it?" That kind of stuff?
 
I used to love it - obviously as you know I've stepped down out of personal choice owing to not being able to commit the time to it. It is a time consuming job, and everyone sees you as a non regular member which is a shame, as basically you're just a member with an edit/ban button.

You get picked on for personal opinions and the line of "you're a moderator how can you have such views?", which is grossly unfair really. Often if you have a disagreement with someone it gets personal or they push the rules on purpose to get a rise out of you. That's when other moderators step in to help as a 3rd party.

99% of the time I never had any problems with people, in fact I helped a lot of people get their bans lifted, and discussed extensively over email some of the decisions made and I believe I was a good impartial and friendly moderator.

Sure, I had bad days, who doesn't? And there were moments where I undoubtedly was overly harsh - but in general, being a moderator was good fun, and if I'm honest I forgot I was one, except for when I actually saw a rule break - interacting with other members was just that, 2 members interacting with one another. :)
 
Freefaller said:
I used to love it - obviously as you know I've stepped down out of personal choice owing to not being able to commit the time to it. It is a time consuming job, and everyone sees you as a non regular member which is a shame, as basically you're just a member with an edit/ban button.

You get picked on for personal opinions and the line of "you're a moderator how can you have such views?", which is grossly unfair really. Often if you have a disagreement with someone it gets personal or they push the rules on purpose to get a rise out of you. That's when other moderators step in to help as a 3rd party.

99% of the time I never had any problems with people, in fact I helped a lot of people get their bans lifted, and discussed extensively over email some of the decisions made and I believe I was a good impartial and friendly moderator.

Sure, I had bad days, who doesn't? And there were moments where I undoubtedly was overly harsh - but in general, being a moderator was good fun, and if I'm honest I forgot I was one, except for when I actually saw a rule break - interacting with other members was just that, 2 members interacting with one another. :)
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For what it's worth you did a great job.

Hypothetical situation : I say something needlessly inflammatory and you suspend me but you actually agree with what I said. Do you feel guilty or is that just part of what the role is?
 
Personally I'd write in the message when I suspend you "whilst it is a passionate subject and many people including myself may agree with your viewpoint, you cannot say that sort of thing on the forum..."

Or alternatively, if someone emailed me I'd explain that he/she broke the rules, and that whilst I understood the position/viewpoint, it doesn't allow for such language/behaviour.

Oh and thanks for your kind words. :) It is a thankless task at times, but it does have it's merits too. :)
 
Freefaller said:
Personally I'd write in the message when I suspend you "whilst it is a passionate subject and many people including myself may agree with your viewpoint, you cannot say that sort of thing on the forum..."

Or alternatively, if someone emailed me I'd explain that he/she broke the rules, and that whilst I understood the position/viewpoint, it doesn't allow for such language/behaviour.

Oh and thanks for your kind words. :) It is a thankless task at times, but it does have it's merits too. :)
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Do you ever catch yourself nodding along to something a poster has, uh, posted before realising that you're supposed to be impartial? I suppose what I'm asking is, is being calm, fair and affable a trait you have or a trait you learn?

ots3go said:
Does anyone else, these days, jump into Kwerk threads just to quickly see if he's been banned yet?
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Nope. Kwerk's pretty open about his ideas perhaps not being the norm. That doesn't mean he should be banned though. He's a lunatic but he's our lunatic and we should be thankful that we have interesting people posting.

That wasn't a personal attack. Oh, the irony if that happened in this thread :D
 
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