C K Dexter Haven, please stop with your stupid overzealous hall monitor act. Every time you need to make a mod action you have to blow your stupid virtual whistle and announce your moderator status. At first I thought it was amusingly pitiful, but it’s starting to get real fucking old. If you need to do some moderating, simply state your purpose quietly and concisely then take the necessary action. Have some respect for yourself and The Straight Dope, it really doesn’t make you look good.
One recent example. If you’re familiar at all with CS you’ll know what I’m talking about.
I thought the whole point of Moderator “hats,” “whistles,” “underoos,” “whatevers,” was to make sure everyone understood that the Mod was acting in that capacity, and not just contributing as a participant in the discussion. Seems like a good policy. Why is this a bad practice again?
No, because every time I think we’ve hit rock bottom, someone grabs a jackhammer and finds a new level of worthless minutiae to complain about.
::goes back to bed::
Well there’s Fucking Hall and there’s Professional Hall.
I know which one I’d rather monitor… :D. Dex, I think you got screwed with your job assignement (or not, as the case may be…)
Huh? When a member is both a moderator and a poster it’s useful (to me at least) to have them announce that status when they are acting in mod capacity, and especially when they are personally admonishing someone. If they are just doing post clean ups, forum moves and general thread janitorial duties it’s not really necessary.
Now tell me again why someone wants to be a moderator.
Personally, I think it would be cool if the moderators would use a different way of announcing that the post is a moderating comment instead of a regular old post. One time, they could say “Blows whistle!” The next time, “Dropkicks this post through the goalposts of the Interenet.” The key is they should never use the same attention getting line twice.
