hehe... This might provide some entertainment
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https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Mod
The Moderators' Creed
Almost without exception, moderators will operate under the following guidelines;
1. What's good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander - in short,
established board members are allowed to rip the piss out of n00bs but should the n00b under fire actually fight back and start winning,
a mod will step in (often by locking the thread, see "Mod powers" below) before the established member starts losing too much face.
2. Law of the Post Count - an unwritten internet law that states that the likelihood of a poster being moderated,
regardless of
the merits or otherwise of their post, is inversely proportional to their relative post count. The Law also states that
the truthiness of any post is directly proportional to the post count of its creator. (However to those in reality, the higher the post count, the bigger a loser in real life the person is and the less worthy their opinions are. But mods and admins like high post count people as they're basically minions in their army.)
3.
This Is Not A Democracy - a phrase invoked
when a moderator has been seriously pwned for making a crap decision, and will not (or, more likely, cannot) justify the decision in public.
4. I'll see how I feel - a decision made by a moderator does not have to be consistent, but instead will often be arrived at through gut instinct and with
absolutely no regard to whether or not a forum rule has been breached. Can often result in double standards, a basic requirement for any self-respecting forum.
5. Lets just take this to PM -
When a moderator has been called out for being a faggot and a Nazi. Rather then face the masses and actually admit to being an epic failure, they hide behind the cozy barrier of a PM and hide from the public like bitches.
6. You Don't Need No Stinkin' Thick Skin - Since every mod (especially older ones with high post counts) is an
asshole, there is often a rule in a forum that you should bring your "thick skin." Moderators however do not need to adhere to these rules.
If anyone is being an asshole to them, they can simply throw a hissy-fit and ban you without recourse.
Mod powers
There are a variety of tools that a moderator can employ in order to carry out his or her duties efficiently. These range from the basic (
editing of posts, maybe even deleting of posts) to the advanced (locking of threads, avatar and
signature alteration).
These powers are there to be routinely abused; for example,
a thread can be locked yet some moderators will still post on it regardless, denying a basic right of reply to the OP or the poster who apparently caused the thread to be locked in the first place.
As a result, moderators are often some of the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) internet trolls,
which doesn't stop them from accusing others of trolling at every opportunity. Should a moderator start losing an argument on a thread, they will often use the aforementioned powers, like deleting fucking everything, in order to attempt to beat a dignified retreat. Either that, or go running to the admin.
Moderator Induced Necrosis
The law: -
"The older that a forum becomes, the more reasons that Moderators find to ban the members". Eventually so many people have been banned and so many posts inevitably produce
hair trigger responses from the forum administrators that the dreaded condition "Moderator Induced Necrosis" begins to set in.
Moderators become more concerned with their own status than the health of the forum and
posters begin to drift away to other places where they can speak their minds without having to kowtow to a bunch of people who have been overcome by their own self-importance. In the final stage, all that is left in the forum are (a)
the Moderators, (b)
the occasional newbie who has wandered in by mistake, soon to leave, (c)
the forum arselickers and (d)
one or
two trolls with the energy left to be entertaining. Soon after that, like a sun collapsing of old age, the forum dies, with only
about ten members talking to each other about the same things over and over again, stubbornly soldiering on out of sheer inertia or
perhaps even nostalgia. The irony is that if only the
forum founders -- who have often
left a previous forum in disgust at the lack of freedom of speech - remembered their origins and
removed the collective sticks from their anuses then the forum would probably have survived.
*user title lasts 2 weeks if the banned user has 1,000 or more posts or has been a member for at least 6 months.
60% is a bit high.
