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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| CurlyQ wrote: |
| Have you guys been getting spam on your PM's? |
See this link for info about those spams.
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| Also, for the mods, how much time do you spend doing this? Are you paid? Why did you decide to become a mod? How did you get the job? Do you guys work in shifts? Who has the 2 am shift? |
We do it when we want/when we can. No we are not paid. (I wish!) We don't work in shifts but we are spread across the world and hemispheres (mods go global  ) ... and as we're not all in Korea, we pretty much have the timezone thing covered... so there's no real 2am shift.
Personally, I was asked to join the moderating team about a month ago and I was already spending a fair bit of time on this site, collecting a lot of information for myself. I thought, "why not?" as I see it just as an extension of my being a user on this board.
Edit: Sorry for the double up of info - The Lemon and I must have been posting at the same time! |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Have you guys been getting spam on your PM's? I went to a site that was advertized and saw suspicious posts from Dave, Kimcheeking and Beckerson that are not typical of previous posts here.
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BTW - Don't believe those identities for a second, they're not the same posters as here, just trolls out tonight putting on a performance for the traffic generated by their spams. I'm glad you thought they were suspicious looking! |
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CurlyQ
Joined: 25 May 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| waterbaby wrote: |
| CurlyQ wrote: |
| Have you guys been getting spam on your PM's? |
See this link for info about those spams.
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| Also, for the mods, how much time do you spend doing this? Are you paid? Why did you decide to become a mod? How did you get the job? Do you guys work in shifts? Who has the 2 am shift? |
We do it when we want/when we can. No we are not paid. (I wish!) We don't work in shifts but we are spread across the world and hemispheres (mods go global ) ... and as we're not all in Korea, we pretty much have the timezone thing covered... so there's no real 2am shift.
Personally, I was asked to join the moderating team about a month ago and I was already spending a fair bit of time on this site, collecting a lot of information for myself. I thought, "why not?" as I see it just as an extension of my being a user on this board.
Edit: Sorry for the double up of info - The Lemon and I must have been posting at the same time! |
Cool, good for you guys, there are worse ways to spend your time and as Oigirl said, we appreciate it. There was something kinda scary about that koreanesl board. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:50 am Post subject: |
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There was something kinda scary about that koreanesl board. |
That the human race as a whole has a lot of weirdos: trolls, stalkers (my dad now has one) and those are just the annoying people, not the ones that hurt you.
CLG |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| I'm happy about getting rid of the spammers and appreciate the mods work, though a perfectly reasonable thread commenting on the situation disappeared without a trace from the general discussion forum. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:32 am Post subject: |
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I can appreciate and understand that reasoning, but why wasn't it simply locked instead?
edit: I just got a PM explaining the situation about why it disappeared from one of the mods which seemed quite reasonable.
Last edited by Cthulhu on Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:36 am; edited 1 time in total |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| I'm happy about getting rid of the spammers and appreciate the mods work, though a perfectly reasonable thread commenting on the situation disappeared without a trace from the general discussion forum. |
Sorry, think that was me. I wanted to keep comments about the issue to here... apologies. Should have locked. Then again, at one point, all forums had comments... |
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CurlyQ
Joined: 25 May 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| Well, it wasn't me, but it's my understanding that there is no point in having two threads in different forums that are pretty much discussing the same thing. I think that is probably why it got the boot. |
Yeah I must admit that it would be kinder to write a post by the mods stating:, "this subject is already being discussed on --- forum, kindly refer to that". Sometimes just the " THIS IS BLOCKED, MOVED, etc. seems a bit cold. Hey you could even copy something into " Word" that would be more polite. Just a suggestion...  |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:39 am Post subject: |
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I thought that it was a civilian casualty in our little board war ... lots of rapid fire deleting going on!!!
Edit: Curly Q - can we be forgiven for a mishap under heavy troll fire? We do have std procedures we follow for when we delete (and why we delete) but we're human |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah I must admit that it would be kinder to write a post by the mods stating:, "this subject is already being discussed on --- forum, kindly refer to that". Sometimes just the " THIS IS BLOCKED, MOVED, etc. seems a bit cold. Hey you could even copy something into " Word" that would be more polite. Just a suggestion... |
I don't think s/he is refering to tonight, just in general. I agree with CurlyQ here... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:50 am Post subject: |
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I'm happy here. An unmoderated board would be so tedious.
Why do people want to be so rude to strangers? I don't understand the thrill of it.
I prefer to behave on a board the way i would in real-life. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
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| Yeah I must admit that it would be kinder to write a post by the mods stating:, "this subject is already being discussed on --- forum, kindly refer to that". Sometimes just the " THIS IS BLOCKED, MOVED, etc. seems a bit cold. Hey you could even copy something into " Word" that would be more polite. Just a suggestion... |
I don't think s/he is refering to tonight, just in general. I agree with CurlyQ here... |
Lemon - I told you I wasn't catching the details tonight! Re-read that post of Curly's properly. Yes, you're right Curly Q. Sometimes the messages are a bit cold (and I won't go into reasons for that one  ) but yes, heads up on that... I actually got a PM the other day from a user who thanked me for saying please or thanks in a thread I locked |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Oi Girl! Wish you didn't have to notice... but there's often someone out to spoil the party.
Mosely, you seem very determined to ensure that the mods aren't launching a censorship crackdown on the board. So let me assure you, we were deleting the extremely vulgar and witless posts from a well known troll... the threads being posted were in regards to who is having anal sex with who or what, unflattering comments about a number of posters (not just the mods), personal threats, anit-canadian statements and various other bits and pieces. Should have logged on a bit earlier, eh?
I'm sure you'll forgive me for not posting the 300+ posts removed, as what would be the point of removing them??? |
I don't even know what anal sex is.
HTH |
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Dan
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Sunny Glendale, CA
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| come on over, i'll explain it thoroughly inside and out |
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kimcheeking
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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I was online at that time, all the posts being deleted had only a subject line. Very crass and vulgar. content was just 3-5 random letters. This was a 100% spam attack on the board.
The Mods did a good job.
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