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Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
June 01 2011 11:50 GMT
#21
I think on TL we're a bit lucky. We get very few of those comments that you just posted and in general people are quite pleasant. In fact, I get excited when I see one of those posts as I don't have to think about the ban too much. Even the bad posters on TL seem to live in the grey areas, which is nice because they're not rude, but it's difficult because every ban is a tough decision.
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Mortal
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
2943 Posts
June 01 2011 12:27 GMT
#22
Hey, I get those all the time too!
The universe created an audience for itself.
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 01 2011 14:11 GMT
#23
I'm with Zellidon, you get trolled too easily to be a proper mod, this goes back to the days of you (and many people who are new to modding stream chats) responding to everything people say. Hell you made it a personal competition to try to get more compliments out of the chat that you're the best mod that iNcontroL has or something like that...thats absolutely ridiculous dude.

The best mods that I've been around in my experience are the ones that are willing to let chat flow as it does but you only get rid of people that are over the top obscene, spamming links, or those who are just starting up flame wars. Trolling is an absolute part of it that you shouldn't even bother listening to. You shouldn't EXPECT thanks whatsoever.

Until you get used to the idea that you are NOT supposed to be thanked by anyone for being a mod, and can get used to the fact that people troll you because you respond back to them, you won't be ready for some of the more insane streams around. I've modded for stream chats everywhere from 5 viewers to 40,000. The way I've seen you conduct it is far from ideal.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 01 2011 14:22 GMT
#24
Mods and staff on TL get thanked all the time. I actually find the threads that do it kind of annoying.

If you're modding because you want praise or some meaningless power and respect, then you should probably just stop. In my opinion the ideal moderator is just another contributor. Someone who sees a void and wants to fill it for the community's sake, not just his or her own. Sadly, on most of the internet people are doing it for the meaningless power and then when they realise their job has all the glory of being a garbage man (a noble job, but not a glorious one), they get tired of it and start complaining.
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GMonster
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
686 Posts
June 18 2011 05:52 GMT
#25
On June 01 2011 23:11 Zlasher wrote:
I'm with Zellidon, you get trolled too easily to be a proper mod, this goes back to the days of you (and many people who are new to modding stream chats) responding to everything people say. Hell you made it a personal competition to try to get more compliments out of the chat that you're the best mod that iNcontroL has or something like that...thats absolutely ridiculous dude.

The best mods that I've been around in my experience are the ones that are willing to let chat flow as it does but you only get rid of people that are over the top obscene, spamming links, or those who are just starting up flame wars. Trolling is an absolute part of it that you shouldn't even bother listening to. You shouldn't EXPECT thanks whatsoever.

Until you get used to the idea that you are NOT supposed to be thanked by anyone for being a mod, and can get used to the fact that people troll you because you respond back to them, you won't be ready for some of the more insane streams around. I've modded for stream chats everywhere from 5 viewers to 40,000. The way I've seen you conduct it is far from ideal.


The compliment thing was a complete joke between me and mortal because everyone <3'd you lol. Thought you figured that out lol. But yeah i know you won't get thanked lol i just thought the responses were funny/interesting.
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FlaminGinjaNinja
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom879 Posts
June 28 2011 14:08 GMT
#26
Unfortunatly those people are the retarded and very loud minority.

The majority of people understand the need for mods and i for one think they do a great job. I would become a mod just to try and make something like the TL community better by getting rid of the idiots who flame, troll and are disrespectful to other forum members.

If you think about it, when you get messages like those you should look at it like this:

I have just baned aa awful person and made the community a better place, where is my next victim
GinjaNinja.661 EU I'd like to thank my sh*t keyyboard for always messing up my 'Y's
drooL
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United Kingdom2108 Posts
June 28 2011 15:06 GMT
#27
i actually don't agree with the op at all. of course the people you ban flame you. big news bro. but on almost every channel i'm modding people are thankful if you come in (after no mod has been there) and you start banning people, put on slowmode, whatever they ask for. because that immedeately reduces the trolling by a large percentile, at least on channels with 1k-5k viewers.

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now i know that you, goku`, do mod nasl and maybe even ipl if i'm not mistaken, but i don't think that these should count. because (again) it's not big news that there are infinity trolls on these kind of streams.


so my point stands. on average (personal) streams, nobody except for the people you ban (obviously) will be angry at you being a mod. and sometimes people thank you, in fact that happened to me quite often so far. maybe you mod wrong bro.
@nowSimon
jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-28 16:54:49
June 28 2011 16:48 GMT
#28
I was a huge fan of Dell.

Then one day I sent my laptop in for repair, and they lost it, and they ignored my emails, and ignored my phone calls, and it took 3 months for them to send me a replacement, and then they didn't even send me one with the same specs as before, then the computer broke again in 2 weeks.

I look at modding the same way now. Sure, there are lots of great mods, but there are also lots of crap mods on the internet. It's easy to lump them all together as great until you get fucked by one.

For example, on the NASL chat, one of the mods asked "how are people getting 1080p for free?" So I typed how they were doing it. I was perm-IP banned, and I sent about 4 emails and they were all ignored with no response. Excuse me if I don't thank him for his work.
"If you want this forum to be full of half-baked philosophy discussions between pompous faggots like yourself forever, stay the course captain vanilla" - FakeSteve[TPR], 2006
Bereft
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1007 Posts
June 28 2011 16:50 GMT
#29
On June 01 2011 18:33 SirJolt wrote:
Why must he be Modtegue?

oh gawd, I read this like an hour ago, but I'm still giggling.
jacosajh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
2919 Posts
June 28 2011 17:11 GMT
#30
On June 29 2011 01:48 jdseemoreglass wrote:
I was a huge fan of Dell.

Then one day I sent my laptop in for repair, and they lost it, and they ignored my emails, and ignored my phone calls, and it took 3 months for them to send me a replacement, and then they didn't even send me one with the same specs as before, then the computer broke again in 2 weeks.

I look at modding the same way now. Sure, there are lots of great mods, but there are also lots of crap mods on the internet. It's easy to lump them all together as great until you get fucked by one.

For example, on the NASL chat, one of the mods asked "how are people getting 1080p for free?" So I typed how they were doing it. I was perm-IP banned, and I sent about 4 emails and they were all ignored with no response. Excuse me if I don't thank him for his work.


i agree. the majority of mods are great but there are always those that i auto avoid if they have a presence in the thread. smarting off to people almost as if theyre taunting them to break the rules. its like a corrupt cop. all the other goos cops will stick up for him so you have no choice but to avoid him.

just how the world turns.
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