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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 02/03/2004 : 21:39:23
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I noticed that several of you have different titles underneath your names--for example, under Dave W. it says "Info Junkie" or sometihng like that. What is that about? It just invoked my curiosity, that's all:)
Jarrid
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Edited by - Dave W. on 02/03/2004 21:54:51
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 21:54:24 [Permalink]
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"Website Related Q & A" looks to me like it'd be a good place to post this.
To answer part of your question, after a certain number of posts, the "New Member" that appears under your name will change to "Skeptic Friend." After even more posts, it'll change to "SFN Regular." I'm not sure if there are any more automatic changes like that. @tomic would know.
The special ones, like mine, are, well, special. Gezzam's, for instance, says "Humor Moderator" because he is the Moderator of the Humor folder (and Politics, too). The people who moderate the various folders can be found on the "All Forums" page, so there's little need to rely on what it says under a person's name.
Mine simply said "Moderator" for a while, but that was kinda dull. Lacked style. |
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 21:56:26 [Permalink]
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I see. Interesting! Oh, and the first time I posted on here I accidently posted a creationism V evolution question on the polls forum...is there any way you can delete that? Or someone can delete that? Because I reposted it in the proper place, so the one in the polls forum is obsolete anyway.
Jarrid |
I don't have to go swimming through an outhouse to know I wouldn't like it." |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 22:04:08 [Permalink]
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| That's good. Sorry 'bout that I was confused at first as to how to post things;) So how did you become a "moderator"? And what do you have to do as a moderator? |
I don't have to go swimming through an outhouse to know I wouldn't like it." |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 22:42:25 [Permalink]
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quote:
Jarrid:
So how did you become a "moderator"? And what do you have to do as a moderator?
Well, maybe we could start the process this way. How much money can you send me? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 22:43:46 [Permalink]
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Again, the duplicate thread was no big deal. If you happen to post a new topic in what you later think is the wrong folder, all you need to do is ask a moderator or an administrator to move it for you. Takes all of 15 seconds.
I became a moderator after doing things which Janet Jackson would never dream of doing. Things which would make Marilyn Manson blush; things which would make Ozzy Osbourne vomit in disgust. If I remember correctly (it's all a bit hazy), even Hunter S. Thompson said, "keep that crazy [bleep] the [bleep] away from me!" And that doesn't even count the dreaded SFN initiation rites, from which I still have physical and emotional scars. But all the horrors, beatings and humiliations were well worth it, as now I get to move threads from one folder to another!
Besides that, my "job" here involves much the same things that the moderator of a public, face-to-face debate needs to do: try to keep things on-topic, somewhat civil, and moving. I've also got to sweep up at nights, and make sure the ashtrays get emptied regularly during those damn week-long parties Kil likes to throw. Again, I consider myself lucky. Valiant Dancer became a moderator after I did, so he's got the least seniority, and has the really gross jobs. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 23:08:44 [Permalink]
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Dave:
I've also got to sweep up at nights, and make sure the ashtrays get emptied regularly during those damn week-long parties Kil likes to throw.
I have to say, Dave was really good at ashtrays. Always smiling. You could eat off of those ashtrays. In fact, we did! Now I learn that he might not have been fully enjoying himself. Ah, but maybe that is what it takes to be a good moderator... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 23:15:53 [Permalink]
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| haha crack me up;) sounds like you went through a lot to become a moderator...poor guy:( but hey...no pain, no gain! but i think i'll stick with my motto: no pain, no pain. j/k;) oh, and maybe if i stay here long enough i'll get invited to some of those week long parties that kil throws...man my life is so boring! i feel like such a reject! jk |
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 23:20:33 [Permalink]
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| oh, and kil, i found a couple pennies in my couch...is that enough money? |
I don't have to go swimming through an outhouse to know I wouldn't like it." |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 23:26:07 [Permalink]
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quote:
Jarrid:
i found a couple pennies in my couch...is that enough money?
It's a start.... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2004 : 23:49:09 [Permalink]
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Kil wrote:quote:
Well, maybe we could start the process this way. How much money can you send me?
That's the way it always starts, isn't it? You'll send $50 or so, and next thing you know, Jarrid, you'll be skipping naked through the pediatric ward at a hospital while @tomic video tapes it (and when edited and released, the video will have a disco version of "dueling banjos" as the background music).
Of course, if they decide to post bail for you, that'll be just the beginning...
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- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 14:18:20 [Permalink]
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| nice...so what is the administrators job then? Is that the founder of the website or what? |
I don't have to go swimming through an outhouse to know I wouldn't like it." |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 14:24:34 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Besides that, my "job" here involves much the same things that the moderator of a public, face-to-face debate needs to do: try to keep things on-topic, somewhat civil, and moving. I've also got to sweep up at nights, and make sure the ashtrays get emptied regularly during those damn week-long parties Kil likes to throw. Again, I consider myself lucky. Valiant Dancer became a moderator after I did, so he's got the least seniority, and has the really gross jobs.
Hey, new guy always gets the crap jobs.
I....feel....so.....dirty
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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| Edited by - Valiant Dancer on 02/04/2004 14:24:57 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
751 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 17:38:35 [Permalink]
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| You had NO idea who I had to sleep with to get the moderator job |
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