what happened to the mods?

[mobsterboy]

oh but they were. believe me. As much as i like being an asshat, if there are so many of us asshats on the forum that its causing good mature AO'ers to lose interest, even the mods, then we need some banstick and fast

[iambored]

well what could be done? really, none of the trouble makers have foolishly crossed the line into the ban zone.
(Has anyone noticed that the ban list doesn't get updated?)

[behemoth]

well what could be done? really, none of the trouble makers have foolishly crossed the line into the ban zone.
(Has anyone noticed that the ban list doesn't get updated?)

Mods have more important things to do.

like show up every once in a while and ban some people for filter activation...

[mobsterboy]

well what could be done? really, none of the trouble makers have foolishly crossed the line into the ban zone.
(Has anyone noticed that the ban list doesn't get updated?)

who woudl update it?
we're 6 to 8 mods short

[iambored]

good point but that doesn't constitute passing the torch. However I'd say a few individuals are making the whole ao look bad. and the lack of mods being in the mix...well doesn't help much

EDIT: I mean, lol, if we get new mods dm and triangle might start the burrito vs. geometric shape war. (Just an example) but it could get nasty

[Lohman446]

New mods is not as simple as it seems. Although it sounds like a great idea where are you going to find someone who does not make any clique feel targeted, who will not us there authority in a way that makes people consider it abusive, is well known enough to be accepted easily by the members, and is on enough to make a difference?

[wimag]

I remember a day that if I told a man to shut the **** up, ban stick.

thats cause you are a punk *** kid and noone liked you.

[iambored]

thats cause you are a punk *** kid and noone liked you.

All most like dm? I mean you'd all most think he posted his crazy posts here as a joke, he has on stockclass paintball that he's the ao reject. It's like he just likes bothering people. I know this isn't the place for this but speaking of people no one likes dm is up there.

[etjoyride]

You

New mods is not as simple as it seems. Although it sounds like a great idea where are you going to find someone who does not make any clique feel targeted, who will not us there authority in a way that makes people consider it abusive, is well known enough to be accepted easily by the members, and is on enough to make a difference?

[mobsterboy]

You

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha hahahahahaha

[wimag]

All most like dm? I mean you'd all most think he posted his crazy posts here as a joke, he has on stockclass paintball that he's the ao reject. It's like he just likes bothering people. I know this isn't the place for this but speaking of people no one likes dm is up there.

squid is before your join date. that account is a new one due to his perm ban. You wouldnt get it.

[GT]

I moded not one but two forums about 4 years ago; one was a Honda forum the other a general car forum. The Honda forum I came in as one of the founding mods and it was great. Exceptations were high from the git go and the forum had awsome posts and a great group of guys. We actually got togther for races/working on members cars, kinda like AO used to be.

The other forum was already establashed and transfering my experience from one forum to another was night and day. I expected the same level posts on the more established forum and I rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. There was a monster pissing contest bewteen Our board and the retards over at one of the DSM boards; massive bannage and post deletions, it was not fun at all.

Thoughts on AO
Although AO would be a major PITA to mod, I think a few new moderators are needed to slash and burn some of the moronic posts and memebers around here. I would drastically trim membership, althougth this would be like adding bleach to a nasty green pool, I think a lot of the good guys and new guys with great posts would flock to AO.

I would love to help start a new forum, something fresh that hasn't been done before, but there is no way I would want something like AO. Trust me you don't want to be a mod of a forum that is the size of AO. It's a thankless job and if you have to ban folks, last resort, you end up pissing other memebers off, on the flip side if you don't ban some people then the whole forum suffers, i.e. AO.

[Miscue]

I'm still around... but more of a lurker, rather than a participant. AO is not the same... and that about sums it up for why.

BlackVCG and I have also went from student to... real world... and that plays a role too.

irc.automags.org being down... also doesn't help any. That was the backbone to the social network. Gone. Poof.

It was also our best tool for moderating... it's how we really stayed on top of stuff... one of us could easily be found in the chat room and stuff got done immediately.

[Dubstar112]

I'm still around... but more of a lurker, rather than a participant. AO is not the same... and that about sums it up for why.

BlackVCG and I have also went from student to... real world... and that plays a role too.

irc.automags.org being down... also doesn't help any. That was the backbone to the social network. Gone. Poof.

It was also our best tool for moderating... it's how we really stayed on top of stuff... one of us could easily be found in the chat room and stuff got done immediately.

Yeap, I remember those days.

[thecavemankevin]

nuff said