03-31-2016, 11:42 PM
(03-31-2016, 11:16 PM)Segolia Wrote:(03-31-2016, 10:09 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: They don't.
In fact most of the forum moderators you'll run into out there are volunteers who have normal lives and day jobs and stuff to deal with.
If you were on the Kerbal Space Program forum from mid 2013 to mid 2015 or so, I was one of their moderators. It is an exhausting and thankless job, dealing with brats who think they don't have to listen to you because your rules are too strict and they can do whatever they want.
And I can tell you it completely ruined the game for me. Between the drama of moderation, the politics of being on the inner circle between community and devs, and just the overall grind of constantly dealing with bad characters, I literally cannot enjoy KSP anymore. Completely and permanently ruined it for me.
Pretty much this. I mean I don't get it really from here because hardly anything goes on, but I've talked to Dunto (one of the starbound forum moderators) from time to time about it and he had the same sort of sentiment. It really is tiresome and people don't see how much busywork moderators do that goes completely unheard of.
You're basically doing the garbage collection of the forums. You're deleting inappropriate threads and spambots, moving topics to the appropriate place and whatnot. Whenever you see a dispute you can't just back away and do something else because you're the person who's expected to resolve it, no matter how petty or silly. People mostly just get mad at you for taking moderator action against them, no matter how justified.
People assume you think you're better than them because you have a fancy name tag and were afforded a tiny modicum of power to enable you to do your job. Some people aspire to it and all I can think is why would you want to do it at all? I suppose if you really love the community and stuff.
as someone who also was moderator on the largest starbound RP server...yeah
people went "oh you think you're so much better than everyone else" all the time when i pretty much always thought i was worse than everyone else, and everyone blamed the mods for everything that was wrong if anything did go wrong.
i do not miss not being a mod there e_e
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