How do you become a moderator, administrator, etc?
You email TubaDiva for an application, she sends you one, you fill it out, the higher-ups decide.
I should also note that it doesn’t hurt to have compromising photos of some of the other mods as well.
I just wanna say if I ever get to be a Mod, I am gonna change my name to MsBossyPants.
Just so you know.
Before you send in your application, please decide whether you’re going to be a commie, a Nazi, or just a common- or garden-variety dictator.
And make sure you get your Nomex underoos…
Couldn’t I be like, you know, a kinder, gentler Mod? Like, maybe instead of a thread commie, I could be a thread Mommy? Instead of closing threads, I would just shake my head and say things like “My my my. Were we raised in a barn? Aren’t you ashamed? I want this thread cleaned up spic and span by dinnertime!”
And instead of banning people, I would kindly say, “Now, if you can’t play nice, I am going to turn this thread around and we are going to go home! And no comic books!”
From what I remember of being a kid, the most effective Mother Weapon was the “Don’t make me come over there” look. Quelled resistance at twenty paces, cut through 80dB of kid noise.
How are you going to do that in a thread? We’ll need a new smilie for it, at the least.
Do mods get paid or is it a voluntary position?
Seems like a good job if you get paid for it.
Volunteer, although they do get to wear special “Straight Dope” tiaras on special occasions.
Hmm…seems like they’d have a valid argument to put to the Chicago Reader for payment considering the hours they must have to put in protecting them from libel or copywright violations etc.
Maybe they should threaten to go on strike?
umm…that should be “copyright”.
What exactly are the duties of a mod/admin? Is everyone required to do mailbag columns, for example?
Required? No. Eligible? Yes. However, generally, Staff (the folks who do Staff Reports) is a larger group than the Message Board Police Force.
Well, we’re not officially required to do them, but if we don’t, then Dex sends us e-mails continually “reminding” us of the dire consequences which would befall if ever we didn’t have one to put on the page when it was due, and how it would be all our fault, and wouldn’t we feel sorry then?
And yes, Dex, I will get cracking on mine, as soon as my PhD oral is done, and I’ve delivered my Current Topics in Astrophysics seminar.
Oh good. Coldfire’s coming down here soon, I’ll get some pictures of him then. If I had known about this rule back in February, Euty, I would have gotten some REALLY risque’ pics of Arnold Winkelreid (you shoulda seen what he did to the sheep!)
Well, since I plan on asking Tuba for an application as soon as I turn 21 (less than nine months from now), I think I should mention that, if I were a Mod, I’d be the only Imperialistic Dictatorial Emirate Advocate on the Boards. (Get it? IDEA? Ha ha! Actually, I didn’t plan it to turn out that way… it just sorta happened.)
Yeah, I know. I’m counting my chickens before they hatch. But with the truckloads of chocolate I’ll send to Tuba’s house, I’m a shoe-in! I hear that’s how Czarcasm got his job.