What do Mods do?
What do Mods do?
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MagicalTrevor

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6,481 posts

258 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Not these ones


Purely out of interest, it seems like an awful lot of work keeping up with all the different threads or do you rely on people reporting 'naughty threads'. How much time do Mods generally dedicate to the task and how do you fit this around work? Also, how do they get selected?

I'm not angling to be a mod btw, I probably don't have the time, purely interested smilethumbup

ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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hehe Love you really mods

Shaw Tarse

31,888 posts

232 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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The mods do need assistance from people clicking on report button as they can't watch every single thread.

wolves_wanderer

12,955 posts

266 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Shaw Tarse said:
The mods do need assistance from people clicking on report button as they can't watch every single thread.
Ha! The amount they get paid, they should be able to manage. I'm not doing their job for them.

Slinky

15,704 posts

278 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Shaw Tarse said:
The mods do need assistance from people clicking on report button as they can't watch every single thread.
This is very true..

Mods do all sorts of things, but mainly the brief is to keep things moving in the right direction without transgressing any of the rules of posting.. We move topics, tweak titles (where required), edit/delete posts/threads, throw naughty folk in Parc Ferme or the Sin Bin for discussions about conduct.. That sort of thing..


Slinky

15,704 posts

278 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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wolves_wanderer said:
Ha! The amount they get paid, they should be able to manage. I'm not doing their job for them.
Ahh come on, we don't get paid that much..

Shaw Tarse

31,888 posts

232 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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wolves_wanderer said:
Shaw Tarse said:
The mods do need assistance from people clicking on report button as they can't watch every single thread.
Ha! The amount they get paid, they should be able to manage. I'm not doing their job for them.
They're unpaid(as far as I know) they do a brilliant job & deserve any help we can give them!
:brownnose:

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

279 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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ZOLLAR said:


hehe Love you really mods
>> ZOLLAR GETS PUT ON "THE LIST"

Hughesie

12,790 posts

311 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Shaw Tarse said:
:brownnose:
Noted smile

As Slinky has said, we try and keep things on a straight and narrow path, we dont always get it right, but also require a lot of input from all of the PH Community.

We also have our own forum, where we keep all the Porn and Mr Will*


*This may not be true.



TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

279 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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General jist is to keep it moving with as little intervention as possible, and make sure everyone adheres to the posting rules / T&Cs.

wolves_wanderer

12,955 posts

266 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Shaw Tarse said:
wolves_wanderer said:
Shaw Tarse said:
The mods do need assistance from people clicking on report button as they can't watch every single thread.
Ha! The amount they get paid, they should be able to manage. I'm not doing their job for them.
They're unpaid(as far as I know) they do a brilliant job & deserve any help we can give them!
:brownnose:
Whooooosh smile

Stu R

21,638 posts

244 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Don't believe the decoys that have replied thus far.

They're all aristocrats for starters. They sit in darkened rooms in wing backed leather chairs, smoking fine cigars and quaffing port (I know it sounds like I'm just describing Garlick's Facebook profile, but they're all the same, honest) in stately homes, talking about you, the forum user - usually in a scoffing and derogatory tone. They take pot shots at will, just banning people who misplace commas and aren't part of the PPP secret underground league of paid posting piston-masons, like digital snipers. After hours of regaling each other with their best tales of how they manipulated the underclass to their financial advantage, they wheel out a hand picked bunch of posters, and a range of largely useless 'prizes', booze them up and watch them bid for them, often against themselves as they're so intoxicated they become schizophrenic, and often up to the 10000x the face value of the products.

When bored, they sometimes like to pretend they're 'normies' and post on PH, adopting a more working class tone like middle class people do when dealing with tradesmen, purely to gain material for further scoffing and humiliation behind the scenes.

All of this costs Haymarket in excess of £100M per annum, and I'll no doubt be killed and my head hung on one of the many, many vast walls in the east wing of one of the PH hunting lodges, for sharing this information with you.

They also do stuff like ban spammers and tards, tell you off for making quips about anonymous footballers, organise events, and keep the forum topics on track, well, as on track as a PH topic can be.

MagicalTrevor

Original Poster:

6,481 posts

258 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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See, I was trying not to brown nose unlike Shaw Tarse wink

So, do you mind me asking how you became one? You never see the role 'advertised' as such so were you approached in some sort of Masonic way? What time do you dedicated?

You do a great job though smile (dammit, now I'm brown nosing!)

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

279 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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There was actually an advertisment for mods to volunteer a couple of years ago I think, as forums got busier and wider it was felt it was needed. Prior to that it was Ted saying "here, you fancy being a mod?" hehe

Shaw Tarse

31,888 posts

232 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Stu R said:
Don't believe the decoys that have replied thus far.

They're all aristocrats for starters. They sit in darkened rooms in wing backed leather chairs, smoking fine cigars and quaffing port (I know it sounds like I'm just describing Garlick's Facebook profile, but they're all the same, honest) in stately homes, talking about you, the forum user - usually in a scoffing and derogatory tone. They take pot shots at will, just banning people who misplace commas and aren't part of the PPP secret underground league of paid posting piston-masons, like digital snipers. After hours of regaling each other with their best tales of how they manipulated the underclass to their financial advantage, they wheel out a hand picked bunch of posters, and a range of largely useless 'prizes', booze them up and watch them bid for them, often against themselves as they're so intoxicated they become schizophrenic, and often up to the 10000x the face value of the products.

When bored, they sometimes like to pretend they're 'normies' and post on PH, adopting a more working class tone like middle class people do when dealing with tradesmen, purely to gain material for further scoffing and humiliation behind the scenes.

All of this costs Haymarket in excess of £100M per annum, and I'll no doubt be killed and my head hung on one of the many, many vast walls in the east wing of one of the PH hunting lodges, for sharing this information with you.

They also do stuff like ban spammers and tards, tell you off for making quips about anonymous footballers, organise events, and keep the forum topics on track, well, as on track as a PH topic can be.
Is that why he's leaving?

Slinky

15,704 posts

278 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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MagicalTrevor said:
So, do you mind me asking how you became one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment

wink

Hughesie

12,790 posts

311 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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MagicalTrevor said:
So, do you mind me asking how you became one?
Blue pill or Red Pill ?

hehe

MagicalTrevor

Original Poster:

6,481 posts

258 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Hughesie said:
MagicalTrevor said:
So, do you mind me asking how you became one?
Blue pill or Red Pill ?

hehe
I'll have the blissful ignorance of illusion ta wink

ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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TonyHetherington said:
ZOLLAR said:


hehe Love you really mods
>> ZOLLAR GETS PUT ON "THE LIST"
yikes

<bungs a wad of £20's>

"you saw nothing right?"..

Stu R

21,638 posts

244 months

Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Shaw Tarse said:
Is that why he's leaving?
He wasn't financially viable - too new money apparently, £56m net worth, a tweed jacket and a Coutts account is just, well a bit obvious really. See that Hetherington bloke? 95th generation upper class and owns every bit of land with 'sex' in it's name, which they consider orrrfly risqué and dashed funny.