Aestu wrote:
I think a good start would be to distribute power and have Zaryi/React/Tuhl/Henq and maybe even Baneleaf and Myrrar and Seribus gain more moderator powers and generally try to talk about the site more.
The only major thing that the other mods can't do but I can is ban people. So far, the ban feature has only been used (in complete seriousness aka more than a 2 hour ban) once. Mods correct my mistakes constantly (ex. unlocking/renaming threads). In fact, the only real difference between me and the other mods (besides the ban power) is the color of my name.
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by doing what the forums no longer do, which is being relevant to player concerns by celebrating our triumphs, talking through disagreements and issues and drama and such, and by ostracizing ninjas and idiots.
celebrating our triumphs - A very large portion of this community has either quit wow or takes it incredibly casually. There have been threads on here before about it, but its 4.0, what do you want? Everything's been cleared and there really isn't much to talk about that's going on in WoW right now besides bitching about 4.0.
talking through disagreements/drama - I'm pretty sure we do this already. The
MAIN point of this site is for (practically) unregulated content. Almost all of the threads that have been locked are due to the violation of our whole 2 rules or because there are duplicates of that thread on the front page. What I'm getting from this is that if you were in my shoes, you'd be willing to lock some of the more vibrant and heated arguments in favor for order, which is exactly what blizzard did and why many of us are here.
ostracizing idiots/ninjas - This already happens within the community and doesn't need the backing of the moderation. Not to mention that everyone gets a free pass when they join FUBU anyways. Not to mention that if mods start singling out people for what they feel is "bad content" (which is entirely subjective, btw), why would people bother coming to the site at all?
As for the people who are saying I'm a bad spokesman, maybe I am. For the people that I've been friendly with in the game, I feel like I'm a pretty nice guy. However, I'm an asshole that's definitely got too short of a fuse when it comes to generic brain aids. If people read my posts and go 'Oh man, mayo's a dick, why bother posting?', are we really losing any quality people? Even if people flat out don't like me and they KNOW I don't like them, that hasn't really stopped even people like Spure and Nechrachilles from posting here.
I don't really think my name has much to do with it, especially since I wasn't nearly as outspoken and as well known during wotlk as I was during tbc. If people don't come, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. We already have quality threads with a healthy amount of posters anyways. While I'm always liking the idea of getting more people in the pot, I'm not especially willing to change our "mission statement".
One of the major things I've taken away from being admin here is that no matter what you do, someone's going to be pissed off. Right now, I'd rather make the site vets happy as opposed to start changing the site into god knows what in hopes to grasp a couple hearts of people that nobody knows.
), handbra threads, misc posts about junk food, etc.
