Right now, it's mostly troll reports. A few banner requests. The last pruning. Not much happening lately.

[ 10-15-2001: Message edited by: Mandard ]

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"What goes on at the Moderators Area? Why is it private?"

The Moderators Area is a forum for the Moderators and Administrators to talk about board issues. Most of the topics involve relatively minor issues such as graphics, UBB errors, troll reports, etc. It is kept private for convenience and also to allow Moderators to speak their minds without judgment or comment by the general membership.

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Originally posted by Stormtrooper X:
Can't you discuss those ideas with us common folk?

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Sure.

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OFFICIAL MODERATOR BOARD SUMMARY
for the fiscal quarter ending October 15, 2001

1. "Can we have a new forum banner? Yaaaay!"

2. "Man, them trolls suck."

3. "Members of other SW message boards may be trying to mess with us. That's a really stupid thing to do."

4. "Trolls be all like trippin' an' stuff, yo."

5. "You have ten minutes to sort through seventy-five pages worth of threads before I prune them all. PSYCH! I extended the deadline another eight months! Boy, the look on your face was priceless, lemme tell ya."

6. "Trolls: My 492-Page Doctoral Thesis on How Parental Neglect and Glandular Inferiority Have Directly Interfered with Nightly's Daily Operations."

7. "Some longtime Nightly members are doing stupid things to other longtime Nightly members. Maybe we should organize classes on morals and ethics for the lot of them."

8. "Help! Trolls! MOOOOOOOOOOOOMMYYYYYY!"

9. "*koff*koff*ThirdAdmin*koff*koff*"

10. "I got more dead-troll notches on my belt than you! "

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You'd be surprised how little I'm exaggerating.

[ 10-16-2001: Message edited by: NumberSix ]

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Originally posted by Stormtrooper X:
I don't mind. I just think that there should be more discussion with us on what is happening.

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. "I got more dead-troll notches on my belt than you!"

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Originally posted by General Kenobi:
Quite frankly I don't care what goes on in the Moderators forum... My only issue is that we were told we'd get updates. That's what JA told us he'd do. You can update us every once in a while and simply say that not much is being talked about in the Moderators forum... That would be curious though, and sad. I think one of the major bonuses of having good Moderators is that they can come to the Admins or each other and generate ideas and ways to improve the entire board.

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Lord, that would be ideal. [dreamy faraway look]

I applaud the idea of regularly scheduled Mod-forum updates, but I'm afraid they'd become a bit of a joke after a while.

Hypothetical example:

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JULY 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

1. We had trolls.
2. Someone got around the censor again.

AUGUST 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

1. We had jerks.
2. Someone's wielding their Silky grudge all over the place yet again.

SEPTEMBER 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

1. We had flaming.
2. The Lyceum changed their name to "The Yelling at Cross-Purposes Forum" and needs a new banner. Yes, another one. Yes, we know it's the eighth one this year.

OCTOBER 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

1. We had more trolls.
2. We need separate coundown timers for every video game being released on every console for the next three years.

NOVEMBER 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

(See AUGUST 2001 UPDATE)

DECEMBER 2002 MODERATORS' FORUM UPDATE

Board down entire month while JA upgraded to UBB 6.94182003, which fixes bugs we've never had and gives members the option of writing all their posts in "Wingding" font.

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...but I'm belaboring the point needlessly. Again.

I'd love to be in a position where I had the free time to brainstorm new ideas that would have some sort of positive impact on The Way Things Are. Perhaps when the Cantina gets to the point where Torch and I don't have to waste all our time purely on routine security detail, personally, I'd love to include Process Improvement* as a long-term objective.

* Sorry, workplace terms sneaking out against my will. Blasted day job...

[ 10-16-2001: Message edited by: NumberSix ]

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Originally posted by NumberSix:
Thanks. I'll take that in the spirit in which it was intended.

[eagerly waits for PayPal to forward him ES's fifty bucks]

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Originally posted by General Kenobi:
And I wonder who would turn them into a joke?

::thinks hard::

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Hey, I included a dead-serious answer:

"I'd love to be in a position where I had the free time to brainstorm new ideas that would have some sort of positive impact on The Way Things Are. Perhaps when the Cantina gets to the point where Torch and I don't have to waste all our time purely on routine security detail, personally, I'd love to include Process Improvement as a long-term objective."

Summary of the topics on the Mod Board for the last 30 days:

9 threads about trolls
5 threads about banners
2 threads about forum color changes
2 threads of check-ins
2 threads about inappropriate material on Lando
1 thread about counters
1 thread about the censor
1 thread about the sw.com boards
1 thread about an IP problem
1 thread about general flaming in the Cantina
1 thread about pruning
1 thread about news in the Cantina
1 thread about the archiving of board-based stories
1 thread moved from the Cantina for evidence
1 thread about post limits on threads (also posted here)
1 thread of Mods whining about wanting to have banning privileges