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Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Also for some reason we can give and cure Forums Cancer even though Forums Cancer was a dumb idea.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2016 08:10

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:12

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Skoll posted:

Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue.

I realize this is a joke, but in general the easiest way to disqualify yourself as a moderator is to ask if you can be a moderator.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2016 00:58

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

I'm still in the top 40 of that list, and I've been a mod for ages.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 00:09

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

But then I wouldn't have the amusing story of how I got there! (I think I got as high as top 5.)

Story: Years ago, SA introduced the ability to buy intra-forums ads for a cheaper price than the normal banner ads. A... friend from high school decided to buy this hideous flashing pink banner which linked directly to my "ignore this user" link. When someone pointed this banner ad out to radium in the thread he posted for feedback on the new ad prices, he realized that probably shouldn't be allowed, and fixed it for future purchases, but in typical radium fashion he didn't fix the existing banner ad (so it ran for the full month or whatever). Several hundred people clicked it, as you can see from the Posting Gloryhole page. I like to believe that some of those people later became puzzled as to why they had a mod on their ignore list (I haven't been tracking the exact count so I don't know if it's decreased over time).

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 00:26

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Trammel posted:

Do you have any measure of success when moderating the forums?

I can't say I've ever had anyone talk to me about metrics as a Something Awful Forums Moderator. I guess "is this a forum I actually want to post on" is a measure of success.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 17:11

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:12

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Grandmother of Five posted:

And I have a question that could perhaps be used in the new thread; basically it'd be neat to hear how the behind-the-scenes stuff works. I thought I had it figured out, but apparently not! What I specifically mean to ask is how the IK, mod and admin roles differ, and how the report and mod-queue system works.

Mods get a couple special buttons, one of which lets you queue punishments for people. 6 hour probations go through instantly; everything else goes into the queue to be approved by an admin. I think the only technical difference between IKs and mods is that IKs don't have access to the mod forum; an IK can queue a >6 hour probation and it's up to whoever's approving the modqueue to decline them. Admins get approve/decline buttons on the modqueue, in addition to standard mod tools in all forums.

User-submitted reports generate threads in a special Reports forum, tagged by forum (so, for example, I had a bookmark to the reports forum filtered by forums I could moderate). Report threads have an iframe with the reported post in them, so you can use your mod buttons directly from there (but you can also click through into the thread for context, which is generally useful). I think someone posted screenshots of a report thread at some point, and I know there's at least one in the goldmine.

very late edit: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3787246&pagenumber=4&perpage=40#post463646695

Incoherence fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Nov 27, 2017

# ¿ Nov 21, 2017 07:04

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask us about SA forums moderation!

Skoll posted:

zen death robot posted:

Trammel posted:

Grandmother of Five posted: