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I'll do my best. When there is a significant release, especially if it doesn't "work on R4", the mod life gets very difficult. We are faced with tons of threads saying/asking the same thing, tons of reports of those threads, people joining just to get a patch and not really reading the rules, thus naming romsites and linking to roms, which CAN get us into trouble, and other horrors that may elude your understanding if you haven't been a moderator at a large site. The best we can do at those times is to try to stay relatively calm and just enforce the rules as we see them being broken. All the mods have their own personalities, and their own frustration limits, some even take a little time off when the heat is on and they find themselves being "reactive", I've done that myself.Win said:LeviCG said:I think the mods/admins here have been extremely ridiculous as of late, especially with their little power trips since pokemon has been released. I thought this site was all about sharing information and helping people? I admit closing billions of pokemon threads is quite the way to go, but sitting there not only deleting post and locking threads, replacing their comments with silly pictures is just beyond power tripping. Mods on this site are seeming to take away peoples freedom of speech and opinion. To ban someone over something as silly as "identity crisis" is beyond stupid, especially when this person is helping people. Are you mods helping people? Or just satisfying your need for your version of control? You know, if you ban this guy, and keep him from helping, more and more pokemon threads will continue to pop up. This guy had the solution. And uh "buying the damn game" isn't a solution for a lot of people, so get off that band wagon. If you don't like the fact that people acquire the game through other methods then that is YOUR business, and should not be used as an excuse to treat people the way that you do. If you choose to lessen the validity of my post due to my post count, that is a serious problem and I suggest you evaluate your life and look and see if you're really that pathetic.
not replying to that mister great mod? :S
Haha, dont even want to beacuse I would have to deal with all you suckers.ambitous21 said:shut up. You'll never become a mod, dream as you may.Rockstar said:THISJakob95 said:Kattykitkat said:LeviCG said:I think the mods/admins here have been extremely ridiculous as of late, especially with their little power trips since pokemon has been released. I thought this site was all about sharing information and helping people? I admit closing billions of pokemon threads is quite the way to go, but sitting there not only deleting post and locking threads, replacing their comments with silly pictures is just beyond power tripping. Mods on this site are seeming to take away peoples freedom of speech and opinion. To ban someone over something as silly as "identity crisis" is beyond stupid, especially when this person is helping people. Are you mods helping people? Or just satisfying your need for your version of control? You know, if you ban this guy, and keep him from helping, more and more pokemon threads will continue to pop up. This guy had the solution. And uh "buying the damn game" isn't a solution for a lot of people, so get off that band wagon. If you don't like the fact that people acquire the game through other methods then that is YOUR business, and should not be used as an excuse to treat people the way that you do. If you choose to lessen the validity of my post due to my post count, that is a serious problem and I suggest you evaluate your life and look and see if you're really that pathetic.
^ THIS.
THIIIIIIS.
You do know that all these pokemon threads waste server space, and are REALLY annoying to the regular members here.
ALL U NOOBS ARE ANNOYING!!!
Another good post that deserves a quoting.brofaux said:By the way, my two cents on the whole mods abusing power thing-
Having been a moderator on multiple sites and a World of Warcraft GM, I can say this:
Power DOES corrupt your ability to make rational, fair decisions. I'm not saying it makes you totally egoistical and idiotic, but it doesn't make you do things that you previously wouldn't do, or you just do things without putting in as much thought as you would before.
Now, again, the amount of change depends on the person, but it affects everyone who gets a higher power in a community involving people/players. Anyone who denies that is either lying or doesn't realize it themselves.
I'm not accusing anyone or saying that all admins/GMs/Mods/Ops are bad, its a fact.
The one thing that I, and most others, would ask of them is this-
When you choose to do something, please give the members a good explanation for why you do it. This keeps things understandable and reduces room for miscommunication and possible spite.
A simple but strong explanation for why you lock something/ban someone with CLEAR strong justifiable reasons is GOOD.
ALSO realize this, and again this is coming from my experience: Understand that you are NOT a God and that you're word IS NOT the law, and you CAN MAKE MISTAKES. If members of the community (and keep in mind that as a MOD/OP, you're ultimate job is to serve the people). If you make an error in locking something or banning someone, you can always go back and unlock/unban that person.
Fluidity is better than rigidness.
Thats all, and I hope you actually read this and take into consideration what I said.
Thank you so much. ~Brofaux
mthrnite said:
but without the hug because that'd be gay
QUOTE(Gengar @ Mar 21 2010, 03:58 PM)
"They're taking up server space!" is one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard in my entire life and can only be posted by a person that has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever how a forum works and how much "space" letters are using.
Just unban this guy, what's the fucking big deal anyway?
Lol your one of them right?Rockstar said:LOCK THIS JUNK THREAD WITH FUCKING NOOBS
Idk about you, atleast your better than the other 156 people posting shitJakob95 said:Lol your one of them right?Rockstar said:LOCK THIS JUNK THREAD WITH FUCKING NOOBS
Sorry for not defending you.
QUOTE said:All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.
Domination said:QUOTE said:All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.
I'm no mod, but here's what I think: If you can't accept our rules, you shouldn't really make an account and join in. As much as I welcome friendly discussion, I'm tired of seeing all this flooding and hostility. I swear, in my 2 years here, and all the major releases I've seen, this is the definite worst.
I do wish to inquire, how many of you actually intend to stay after you get the patch? There will be a number, but a small number. You don't care about our site, you care about the patch. Our mods are just doing what they are supposed to do for our forum, is there really a need to bash them? So what would come out of this argument? Nothing.
A patch will come when it comes, there are plenty of releases at hand that you can play. Take for example, Infinite Space. You can play it. I'm sure it doesn't lose out to HG/SS as a RPG. You could play G/S/C if you haven't already. I mean, why restrict your choices to this one game and get heated up all the time, when you can have fun? I'm sure there are tons of PC games too.
Why can't we just be peaceful and wait for the patch?
Rules are rules. In the real world, you go to jail once you break the law. An internet forum should be no difference.
Dommy those are some amazing words you got thereDomination said:QUOTE said:All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.
I'm no mod, but here's what I think: If you can't accept our rules, you shouldn't really make an account and join in. As much as I welcome friendly discussion, I'm tired of seeing all this flooding and hostility. I swear, in my 2 years here, and all the major releases I've seen, this is the definite worst.
I do wish to inquire, how many of you actually intend to stay after you get the patch? There will be a number, but a small number. You don't care about our site, you care about the patch. Our mods are just doing what they are supposed to do for our forum, is there really a need to bash them? So what would come out of this argument? Nothing.
A patch will come when it comes, there are plenty of releases at hand that you can play. Take for example, Infinite Space. You can play it. I'm sure it doesn't lose out to HG/SS as a RPG. You could play G/S/C if you haven't already. I mean, why restrict your choices to this one game and get heated up all the time, when you can have fun? I'm sure there are tons of PC games too.
Why can't we just be peaceful and wait for the patch?
Rules are rules. In the real world, you go to jail once you break the law. An internet forum should be no difference.