How does one become a moderator?

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How does someone become a moderator on the forums?

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Slow and painful way:

  1. Join
  2. NEVER act like a child
  3. gain good rep
  4. always be helpful
  5. be on the forums for 10+ years
  6. Ask nicely

Fast way:

  1. Get hired by the unity team
  2. join
  3. tada!
  4. BAN BAN BAN

I’m afraid I will never be a mod. As for some members even describe me as “A bot trying to get his post count up”.

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Periodically, the UT employees round up a number of forum members (usually about 10 or so), and throw them into a deep pit. The forum members must then fight to the death in this pit. Whoever is last to survive becomes a moderator.

–Eric

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0_o then how do you become admin?

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You have to say no to your family, friends, health, hobbies. You have to sit on pc 24/7 eating bread and water and monitoring the forum for trolls.

Just kidding. I don’t know, only seen 2 moderators around.

EDIT:
ha you guys beat me to it.
Lol’d at Eric :smile:

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I could tell you, but then I’d…well, you know the rest. You’re better off not knowing, believe me.

–Eric

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oh…my…god…

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You must kill atleast 3 family members?

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You must finish Ninja Gaiden 2 in Hard mode without using a single continue.

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Now that’s just too far. Surely they aren’t that cruel.

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Id rather fight in the pit.

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I heard you had to listen to the Britney Spears discography…

So, where’s this pit? :slight_smile:

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I don’t believe you can be a mod unless you work with them or are related to services with them.

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“To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams

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Most of the moderators are UT employees. There are a few other people with mod status, but they have been granted this for one-off reasons related to something they were doing for the community. We don’t have any scheme for members of the community to become mods, but we will always consider new ideas. Would a scheme like this be of interest to anyone?

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Why would you want to become moderator?

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He just said that to get his post count up.

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I’m not sure who you think is trying to get their post count up, but you do realize that ‘Groucho Marx’ is a dead actor/comedian, right?

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A good moderator doesn’t really want to be a moderator, he just wished everyone behaved on its own, so the forum is in peace. It’s a lot of work to keep a forum friendly and nice.

So people who asks to be a moderator usually just want to feel da powa :stuck_out_tongue: They usually go through a lot of trouble postulating and asking everyone to vote for them, so they can later on be assholes about it, and abuse their power.

I like the moderators here, they don’t bully the users by closing threads just because they’re getting a little too long, or there are already one or two of the same topic somewhere so you should have searched before posting.

EDIT:
I mean, I never understood that, unless there’s so many that it’s spam, what’s wrong if there’s a couple of threads with the same topic, sometimes its even a good thing to start a discussion on a fresh start, there’s no need to close it. And if the thread’s getting too long or going out of topic, is that such a bad thing they have to close the thread? That’s just abuse of power, man. Bad mods just LOVE to use their power, they’re just waiting for it, i hate that. You know you have a good moderator when sometimes he or she don’t even seem to be around, but they’re watching constantly, and when there’s trouble, they come to save us all and destroy the bad guys with lasers, hell yeah. That’s very unlike people who became mods just so they feel a bit of power in their lives, constantly warning threating everyone to ‘behave’.

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The scheme of fighting it out in a pit or finishing Ninja Gaiden 2?