Congratulations – or condolences, however you look at it – to John Corrado, our newest Pit moderator.
He joins Alphagene and Lynn Bodoni as a fellow hall monitor and all around good egg.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
I would say “obey him as you do me,” but that would be really unfair.
You like me! You really like me!
No, wait. You want me to help out in the Pit…
I’d like to thank Tuba, Manhatten, Chronos, Arnold, Gaudere, DavidB, UncleBeer, Slythe, Eutychus, CKDextHavn, Lynn, and Alpha for their support, and I hope that I prove myself worthy of their, and your, trust.
And a special shout-out to Cecil and Ed, for making this such a wonderful place to visit.
Okay, now that that’s out of my system, I’m going to go off and deal with the welcoming committee The Pit has offered up for me… shudder…
Cool, John! Now my respect for you knows no bounds!!
So when do I get to be a moderator, hmm? WHO DO I HAVE TO SLEEP WITH TO GET A JOB AROUND HERE?
Or, rather, who do I have to send chocolate to get a job around here? 
(Meant, as always, to be taken in jest)
Welcome dude.
But you won’t be seeing no posts from me, I ain’t reading the pit.
That should be obvious…Satan of course.
And, to think, I was the third person in that room, and was originally supposed to sleep with John. I coulda slept with a moderator…
OK John, why don’t you post here a link to your first act as moderator, so we can judge you by your work?
Congratulations and good luck! You’ll need it in the pit, I’m afraid to go there.
She got it right both times, John.
It’s like swimming, have fun, but don’t forget to close your nose!
But the last time I tried that, Drain’ems slapped me in the butt with a 2X4. I had a massive welt on my rump for a week.
Only those who can pass through the Seven Challenges of Drain Bead are fit to sleep their way to moderatorhood. Backing down on the first challenge? You’ve got a ways to go SPOOFE.
Congratulations.
Your assignment does pose a numbers question:
Does the fact that there are three pit mods (vs. only one each for 4 of the forums) mean that you have to operate in shifts?
Do the IMHO and Mailbag posters go home at 5:00, while the Pit posters suffer insomnia? Does the graveard shift produce the most otherworldly posts?
Or does the Pit simply operate on regular hours, but get too intense to walk alone?
Also, if you’re good, will they let you transfer out when your eardrums are shot? I hope so! Dying of earbleeds would be a terrible way to go!
There’s a lot of reasons that the Pit gets three moderators, while some others only get one. First off, there’s a lot less volume in the singly-moderated fora: The Mailbag forum, for instance, once went four days without any posts. Another big factor is what a moderator would need to do in each forum. In the two comments fora, the most common need for moderation is when a thread was posted to one forum, and belongs in the other. If this isn’t handled immediately, it’s no big deal: We can afford to wait until Dex wakes up. On the other hand, the Pit sees rather a share of trolling, ad hominens, etc, which really do need to be taken care of as quickly as possible.
Of course, the final reason is that Arnold Winkelried is continually online 24 hours a day, with his computer hooked up directly to a socket installed in his brain, and can moderate solo at any time. How did you think he always manages to be the first to post the link? 
Thank you for the compliment, Chronos, but lately I’ve been slacking off :eek: and sometimes several posts intervene before I get the chance to post the link, or, more often than not, the link is posted before I even get there, thanks to the efforts of the other fine posters of the SDMB.
Here’s the link to the relevant forum.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1
::adjusting my researcher’s green eyeshade::
Here’s the link to the relevant thread, and the relevant quote
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