Been a bit since I wrote anything, and this ones going to be short, I today resigned as a moderator, so won’t be anything else posted concerning that from now on.

Alright, if you read any post you should already know I’m a moderator, so heres a bit about what I do. When I get on at any time to moderate, I get online, go to the same forums as anyone else, and log in with my moderator account, the same way anyone else logs on. The first difference is that when I log in I have some extra buttons, and access to areas of the forums that regular users don’t. The next thing I do is check my private messages. If this is my first time on for the day, odds are theres at least a hundred private messages. No, people don’t just send me hate messages. Most of them are reports, you see whenever someone clicks to report a post and submits the report, it gets sent to all the moderators as a private message. It has Message Reported: before the thread name for the title of the PM, so it’s easy to tell them apart from actual messages. Inside the PM/Report is the reporters forum name,  any message they submitted when reporting it, what is contained in the reported post, and a link to the reported post.

Now heres where I have a bit of a rant, some people feel the need to report a chain of 4 posts, each seperate. What we do involves already going into the thread, if theres a quote pyramid we make sure none of the other ones have something wrong, if they do we get rid of them, then we go to the newest post, making sure no new posts quote or reference the removed post, so it just is pointless to report each individual message of a quote pyramid in a thread.

Now the second part of the rant, heres the thing, the moderators that are ussually seen around the forums are volunteers, we have no hours, we moderate whenever we get the chance, so theres a chance that it could be a few hours before something reported is taken care of, it’s not that we don’t care, that we dislike you, it’s just we aren’t on, or are busy with something else at that time on the forums, it will be taken care of if you reported it though. That said, when you report something, and put a snide remark in as the message to us, it annoys us. It may lead to us checking your post history and making sure YOU haven’t broken the rules, and if you have, we may not be inclined to let it slip for you this time like we may for someone else that was polite, or apologized. So heres a tip, be polite.

That all said, after we finish reports, we basically just wander around the forums, read random threads, and make sure any rules aren’t being broken, there’s no way for us to read EVERY thread, so don’t assume we’ll just stumble across a thread you’ve got something wrong with just because we do stumble across some, just to be sure submit a report. When we get tired, or distracted from moderating, we tend to get off then, and go about something else, and thats basically a segment of the day of a moderator, if we get back on it basically just repeats. Any question posters? If so, just throw me a comment with it.

Not much to say today, nothing to rant about, and nothing major going on online it seems. On the moderating front, it’s actually slowing down, one would almost think us mods are finally being effective and the trolls are giving up! I can only hope…or maybe I shouldn’t hope? If everyone starts behaving, I may end up losing my moderators position, hmm, heck of a position to be in.

On another note, heard Obama finally announced his running mate as Biden, nothing really to say about that personally, given my fondness for firearms, I tend not to agree with their Gun law stance, and tend to vote against them either way.