"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
Written by :brainstorma
Yakumo what i think you have missed in ade's post is thins little aussy thing we like to call sarcasm
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YOU're talking about drugs. I'm talking about this odd apparatus that is spewing smoke.
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Written by :flash fire
I already offered to stand down and hand my mod status to someone more relevant
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by :Spanner
And I'm glad that you seem to share my opinion that it's the appropriate thing to do. One question here then, is why your offer wasn't implemented.
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
Written by : LTC
When Meg talks about people being more useful than others (sorry Rob, just putting it to rest, I hope) I think she means 'some people are more active than others'. there's no descrimination there, she's stating a fact. another thing that is getting too hard to do for almost everybody nowadays.
Written by : LTC
Pele seems to me to be very defensive a lot of the time when there's no need to be, and does come across as authoritarian. ANd when an argument heats up at her, she "tags in" (her words) the boyfriend to handle it for her, who just respouts her opinions in a more offensive tone. Not exactly moderator conduct?
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Written by :Doc LightningWritten by :flash fire
I already offered to stand down and hand my mod status to someone more relevant
Over my dead body!
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"
Written by :Yakumo
Love the new tabs at the top of HOP
Could the edit boxes be made 100-120 chars wide or so instead of 60, and maybe a few more lines also?
A smidgin of javascript to make it user scalable would be a most excellent alternative.
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
Written by :SpannerWritten by :Pyrolific
ok sorry - I'm missing what the needs of the changing community are that are so radically different to what we do now. Please be specific.
I'd be very happy for there to be input on improving things round here - if you know of techniques being used on other boards that would be good, why dont you tell us?
I can only speak for myself but I'd be willing to bet that those who also hesitate do so because when moderators aren't moderate, they're won't be perceived as approachable. You shouldn't be surprised to hear that your reply sounds slightly sarcastic and demonstrates my point.
I have a sense of deja-vu: I'm sure long previous threads on HoP issues have been locked/deleted, then when members insist on discussion, moderators leave them open and reassure us they're listening and that changes will be implemented, which suggests progress, but this seems to be later forgotten and the circle starts again.
Until a thread like this, what should be the moderator teams united response just looks like one moderator's one response. Looking at moderators' posts, too many don't post regularly for months until a time like this, when their sudden presence on far less controversial threads around the same time seems far more for the sake of being seen to do something rather than actually doing it. I understand life gets between everyone and HoP sometimes, but I'd expect that if this was going to be the case long term for a moderator, for them either to step down temporarily or hand over to someone who can keep their ear to the ground. Otherwise, it currently seems that moderators are being called back in, coming in late on proceedings to formulate a very disorganised and inconsistent response.
Some time ago I reported a known troublemaker returning under another name. One moderator response was that this person had just as much right to be on the forums as anyone else, thank you very much. The other banned them and thanked me for spotting him as they wouldn't have I've also seen evidence that one moderator isn't using the search often enough to know that if you search for something only under "All Forums", it won't help to "Please wait a few minutes and try again" because it never works. In this thread another is apparently unaware that non-moderators can move threads. I'm sure those moderators still care very much about HoP, but maybe not enough to forgo their privileges for the greater good, so I'm not surprised that the issues of who does and doesn't care is coming up time and again.
I'm generalising again, because I have to go out in a minute, but there is a lot of other people's points I'd like to respond to, so for now I'm just going to echo what others have said about hoping that this thread hasn't been done away with in the meantime and that some heated response is understandable when people are posting what they can, when and while they can.
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Written by :PyroWill
I personally would like to see that number increase. I think mod's should be quite tightly woven into the community or at least a couple of them.
Written by :PyroWill
Review Pele's status as a mod, maybe a vote if thats possible
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread
I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Written by :Pele
You know Doc, sometimes I think you get out of hand just cause you like it when I spank you
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by :Pyrolific
*an open question follows to Spanner, and everyone else with absolutely no mal-intent*
Can you please now share with us some of these great ideas?
surely if you care about HOP as you say you do, you wouldnt mind posting some friendly constructive criticism?
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In fact, I've been criticised by some members for being too soft, and trying to see too much good in people and other related wussy things
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
Written by :Doc LightningWritten by :Pele
You know Doc, sometimes I think you get out of hand just cause you like it when I spank you
*whirls around and squares the Nutella railgun at you*
*flicks a switch on it and an ominous rising whine emanates from the gun*
Lady, put the paddle down. Just...put it down. And I'm willing to forget this little...transgression.
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
Written by :PyroWill
A shame I believe, a mod should have the respect (not necesarily the admiration) but respect of the community,
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Written by :FireTomTime consuming yes, unwise, no. It works a bit quicker for admins to quickly chose a few, and then see if the populace vote them out afterwards.
it would be unwise to have the mods elected by the audience.
Written by :Yakumo
a well run system has total mod accountability to other mods and admins. Common systems include many or all of the following, either out of the box or by highly popular plugins :
* Any moderator action is tracked by the system and viewable by all other mods, if any mod is abusing their powers it should come to light and the admins should remove moderator status.
* Mods can soft delete/or move to hidden archives.
* Only supermods/admins can physically delete things, not mods.
* A report posts gets generated in a hidden forum when 'report this' is hit by a user, action taken is then done as a manual reply by the mod and thread locked, lets all mods online chip in on tricky decisions easily and rapidly.
* Mod stealth editing of a post massively discouraged or filling in the 'edit reason' simply forced as a required action.
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-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
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