Any of you ever wonder why the moderators seem grumpy or give smart ass answers some times? Let me see if I can explain a little. Our job is kinda like being a cop. We police the board looking for issues like misplaced posts, no pricing on cars, fights, and inappropriate posts. We have to step in and try to take care of those issues. At times we have to act like judge and jury when things get out of hand. When a board member won't listen to a mod then we have to call in the admin to help. There are more than a few times where one of us gets stomped on by an OP and we need back up. This doesn't happen very often thank goodness.
Just imagine going through a lot of posts where you see the same thing over the years, and sometimes over several days. Monotonous, right? Better believe it. We do this as unpaid volunteers trying to help out. How many of you work with the boy or girl scouts? Maybe you're shriners? We get very little recognition for what we do but we do get a lot of grief at times. We even get calls from other mods on issues to help them. This can happen from standard time to pacific time so there's several hours difference when it happens.
We like to have fun just like the rest of you and sometimes that means that we make fun of someone. I've got a group of members that I'm friends with and will tease them and they do the same to me. Sometimes we do get rough but it's all in good fun.
We do the same to some of the members when they post something just because we're in that kind of mood. Sometimes it's done for a reason though. We always get the new guy that jumps in over his/her head and things their car will easily be made into a 10 second screamer with nothing more than a turbo or maybe some exhaust work. We've all seen this before and after 30 or so of these posts it gets old. We will all raz them to some degree. It's part of being a newby on any board.
We very seldom over step and get nasty though. It's part of being a mod. I helped in 1 feedback thread a while ago that Jay got into. It was a fight between 2 very well known members and it wasn't getting any better. Several other members jumped in trying to aggravate the situation and that's when Jay stepped in. I was watching the thread to see if it really got out of hand. It did I'm sorry to say. After Jay posted that it was between the 2 members several others posted so I jumped in and told everyone that wasn't involved to get the hell out. Needless to say, one member had to jump in about 30 minutes later and smarted off. I killed his post and suggested to Jay that he needed a time out. Since Jay didn't catch what was posted I suggested 3 months and Jay ave him a temporary ban. The guy was so upset that he PM'd me on GNttype as well as TBs.
I explained exactly what had happened and told him to take the ban and deal with it. What happened next? He didn't like the answer so he tries to appeal to Jay and Shane to get back on the board. Now I get 2 emails asking WTF, so I have to explain to Shane what was going on and send more info to Jay about this. Now he somehow got my email and I start getting emails from this idiot. I forward them as well as my response to both Jay and Shane. The former member goes from threatening me to trying to be nice and friendly. I finally copied what I posted about getting out and his smart ass response and email it to him along with Shane and Jay. I think if Jay could've gone through his puter screen he would've decked him, but instead he was banned permanently.
This isn't a normal thing but it does happen and this is why the mods may become asses at times. What I posted above has happened to me several times over the years and that's a basic example. I'm sure the other mods have their own nightmares that they've had to deal with and since most of our members don't see things like this happen I thought I might give you guys and gals an idea of what we actually do on the board as well as why we may be like we are.
We make no money for doing this or get any special benefits from it so keep that in mind. We do this for free just like the admin on this site.
Just imagine going through a lot of posts where you see the same thing over the years, and sometimes over several days. Monotonous, right? Better believe it. We do this as unpaid volunteers trying to help out. How many of you work with the boy or girl scouts? Maybe you're shriners? We get very little recognition for what we do but we do get a lot of grief at times. We even get calls from other mods on issues to help them. This can happen from standard time to pacific time so there's several hours difference when it happens.
We like to have fun just like the rest of you and sometimes that means that we make fun of someone. I've got a group of members that I'm friends with and will tease them and they do the same to me. Sometimes we do get rough but it's all in good fun.
We do the same to some of the members when they post something just because we're in that kind of mood. Sometimes it's done for a reason though. We always get the new guy that jumps in over his/her head and things their car will easily be made into a 10 second screamer with nothing more than a turbo or maybe some exhaust work. We've all seen this before and after 30 or so of these posts it gets old. We will all raz them to some degree. It's part of being a newby on any board. We very seldom over step and get nasty though. It's part of being a mod. I helped in 1 feedback thread a while ago that Jay got into. It was a fight between 2 very well known members and it wasn't getting any better. Several other members jumped in trying to aggravate the situation and that's when Jay stepped in. I was watching the thread to see if it really got out of hand. It did I'm sorry to say. After Jay posted that it was between the 2 members several others posted so I jumped in and told everyone that wasn't involved to get the hell out. Needless to say, one member had to jump in about 30 minutes later and smarted off. I killed his post and suggested to Jay that he needed a time out. Since Jay didn't catch what was posted I suggested 3 months and Jay ave him a temporary ban. The guy was so upset that he PM'd me on GNttype as well as TBs.
I explained exactly what had happened and told him to take the ban and deal with it. What happened next? He didn't like the answer so he tries to appeal to Jay and Shane to get back on the board. Now I get 2 emails asking WTF, so I have to explain to Shane what was going on and send more info to Jay about this. Now he somehow got my email and I start getting emails from this idiot. I forward them as well as my response to both Jay and Shane. The former member goes from threatening me to trying to be nice and friendly. I finally copied what I posted about getting out and his smart ass response and email it to him along with Shane and Jay. I think if Jay could've gone through his puter screen he would've decked him, but instead he was banned permanently.
This isn't a normal thing but it does happen and this is why the mods may become asses at times. What I posted above has happened to me several times over the years and that's a basic example. I'm sure the other mods have their own nightmares that they've had to deal with and since most of our members don't see things like this happen I thought I might give you guys and gals an idea of what we actually do on the board as well as why we may be like we are.
We make no money for doing this or get any special benefits from it so keep that in mind. We do this for free just like the admin on this site.
