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Mod Nomination thread... (pg. 3)
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| Jeffree |
| If I can't have Mikey Mark I second the Montie nomination. Really only because he's totally gay for me. |
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| FuzzyChicken |
| quote: | Originally posted by montana
Idoru |
+1 |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by MR STROKE
Gamespot forums? |
Yes, when we relaunched the GameSpot forums (in 2002? -- our prevoius boards were TERRIBLE and hardly used) I worked with Lithium (who has done forums for the likes of Dell, Nintendo, Sony, Adult Swim,) and a in brainstorming a TON of the ideas you see in their boards today. Although after some time for various reasons we completely re-developed the boards inhouse which allowed us to implement every feature the Lithium-developed boards had and we've gone far beyond that to integrate our boards deeply within Gamespot.
For the first couple of years I adminned the board...basically controlling everything myself and and overlooking a small number of mods. The problem that came about is that I was doing this on top of all my other duties...which caused me to be up to 2am-4am every night making sure people behave, overlooking the upgrades, etc. That's when we decided that we needed to hire a full time admin...in which we hired one of our mods full-time and moved her to SF from th east coast. We believe we have three or four (maybe five or six) full time admins at this point with a godly number of mods. But it's largely because our community has expanded into doing online tournaments and stuff.
Another forum I relaunched was way back in 1998...and it's the Gaming-Age boards. Probably one of the most controversial boards on the net in regards to gaming. It became well respected by the video development, publishing, and media industry back in the day and too an extent is today. It was a board that could easily get out of control but think we kept it well in check when I was heading it up. It grew from nothing to one of the largely VG forums on the net within 18 months before I left in Nov 1999. After I left it got so out of hand though that if you signed up you had to be approved before you were allowed to post. Hasn't been like that for years now, and the community is surely still well respected within the industry, but don't think it is as much as it.
Anyhow, I get sucked into communities far too easily if I am a mod or admin...and I have a ton of responsibilities in my life now and just can't handle it....plus just don't want to deal with it. :)
Want to know something scary? As some may know, I've known Drew (Rukes) longer than anyone else on these boards...by far. How? We actually, in total coincedence, worked on Gaming-Age together. This was way back in 1998. And we both lived on the east coast at the time, albeit I was in Florida and he was in New York. We hadn't talked to each other since probably late 1999 (when I moved to SF and had a total disconnect from the internet for awhile outside of work) when he popped up out of nowhere posting pics of some event on the Spundae board maybe 2 years ago and I noticed the name "Rukes" and then recognized him in some pics...and was WTF!!! What a small world.
OK, enough rambling.... :) |
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| Orbital32 |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
While I don't see a problem with multiple mods, if there really is minimal modding required then wouldn't multiple mods be overkill? |
two mods would be good. redundancy! best way to have things. If you have one mod, we are going to have the same problem as last time. Either the mod i will oneday leave and it will take an act of god to get a new one. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
While I don't see a problem with multiple mods, if there really is minimal modding required then wouldn't multiple mods be overkill? |
no I was saying we only need like 1/4 of a mod, and since being 1/4 of a mod is easy there are a lot of people in here that would qualify. I mean the only thing we have asked swamper for in the last 3 months is to sticky a thread. hehe. who can't do that. Although keeping up an updated events list, and setting down guidelines for posts on shows (show review posts should have pics and reviews, only one review thread, allowable bumping, reposts) would be nice, we get along fine without it.
but john has a point, if we get like 2 or 3 mods, we are almost guaranteed to have one around when we need something. and as long as they don't let their new found internet 'power' go to their head, there is no problem with having multiple ones.
To me the best mod would be someone that is on here daily/will be here for a long time and knows the people to spot out possible 'problems'. i think thats it. :) |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
no I was saying we only need like 1/4 of a mod, and since being 1/4 of a mod is easy there are a lot of people in here that would qualify. I mean the only thing we have asked swamper for in the last 3 months is to sticky a thread. hehe. who can't do that. Although keeping up an updated events list, and setting down guidelines for posts on shows (show review posts should have pics and reviews, only one review thread, allowable bumping, reposts) would be nice, we get along fine without it.
but john has a point, if we get like 2 or 3 mods, we are almost guaranteed to have one around when we need something. and as long as they don't let their new found internet 'power' go to their head, there is no problem with having multiple ones.
To me the best mod would be someone that is on here daily/will be here for a long time and knows the people to spot out possible 'problems'. i think thats it. :) |
This is true. :) |
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| tranceaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_bas
I'll do it. |
Elect Bas. |
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| skizzell |
| Do we currently even have any mods in our neck of the woods? If so, who are/were they? |
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| idoru |
| Photo Bot was our mod, then he resigned. He nominated DaveT who turned it down. For a while we had nobody, then we had Coup for like two days, then it switched to Swamper, who's our current mod. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| haha i wondered what happened with coup being our mod. |
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