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i nominate Will Robinson to mod EC! Will Robinson in 2004! Woohoo!

I'll drink to that.

Or I would, if drinking were legal for me.

I'll nominate Lothar.

Well, I'll nominate Will... he's non-partisan enough.

But, really, I'd accept almost any active poster here to fulfill the role.

We're all mature, rational adults, aren't we? (psst, esp. now that Rican is gone)

will is the first person i thought of as well. sting ray mentioned in px-ho that he was getting to busy to mod... i told him i couldn't do it because i'd prolly delete posts while being drunk and that just wouldn't be fair.

I would love to do it but you wouldnâ??t want me. I would make Stingy look like fair. I would delete posts simply because I donâ??t agree with them. So yeah, I vote for Will.

I'd suggest having more than one moderator, simply because it allows for one to take a break. This is probably the only forum we have that really needs 2 mods.

I'll jump on the bandwagon and vote for Will, as well, if he's willing. (That was some amazing accidental alliteration... wow...)

I say we outsource to another country and let Flabby Chick do it. He seems to be a mature, level headed kinda dude.

Yeah Will would be perfect. Flabby Chick would do well as well. Those would be the two I would go for.

will is our man

I kinda wanted people to do this ...you know... like I asked. By sending me a private message and letting me figure it out. I want you to nominate yourself, and I will decide if you are right for the job.

But this way works just as good I guess.

I see an overwealming nomination for willie though. And I kinda agree. I'll let this go for a couple more days and tally the votes.

Lothar wrote:and vote for Will, as well, if he's willing. (That was some amazing accidental alliteration... wow...)

Just stop, Lothar. Please. Just stop.

But Lothar's advice about having a couple mods might be a good idea.

First The Cops suggested I take StingRays place, then I saw this thread this morning and didn't have time to respond.
I returned from work much later and checked it fully expecting some other people to have replaced me as a more fitting candidate. Then my family dragged me off to dinner before I could respond. So now I'm back and I have to admit I'm flattered by the support, but I do have some reservations, some selfish, some practical.

First the selfish:
To me this place is where I go to shoot the shi7 as we say. It's like the guys around the campfire or something. I don't have many people to discuss politics etc. with. My kids are too young, my wife is not into it and discussing it with customers isn't really good for business or just not practical....so I pop in here to get my fix or vent.
I'm afraid if I add responsibility to it it may not be fun anymore.

Second, the practical:
Although it may seem I'm here a lot I actually read very few threads. If I'm a moderator wouldn't I need to actually read all of them? If so there's just no way I'll do it, too much like work
Plus my business is picking up bigtime right now, everyone wants their AC's running and their ice machines freezing. I put in ten solid hours today and odds are good I'll hit at least one service call tonight before I go to bed...

If someone wants me to delete or redirect flagrant flaming and/or vulgarity when it pops up I'll be glad to help in that regard but I really don't think of myself as an old school DBB'er, in fact I never even played D2 or D1... In my mind I'm an outsider who lurks and takes potshots at other peoples flawed logic, or just posts funny crap to amuse myself I don't really feel qualified to do anything in an official capacity.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, out of respect and appreciation of my fellow DBB'ers I would fill in as an interim chaperone but I'd personally vote for a number of others who I think would do the job better than I as a permanent solution.

Not going to try and name all of them, and not in any particular order, but off the top of my head:
MehYam, Dedman, Krom, index_html, Bold Deciever, Lothar, TheCops, Palzon, Vander

...I just realized how dificult it is to name some and feel I'm insulting others just because their name didn't come to mind right away so I'll stop and just say there are many more.

Do we have any Swiss members?
We do seem to swing to the right a bit these days maybe Tricord could lend a little ying to our yang

Anyway, thanx for the vote of confidence.

I'm on the same page as Will here, there are a lot of people I can think of who I think would do a superb job moderating this forum.

I dont know if I personally would be all that good for the job because I was definately enjoying the flame war between bash, MD-2389 and Ferno in that porn thread. Had I been the moderator I probably would have bitched them all out and or closed the thread, which would actually be a shame since after that the discussion picked up and became very intersting again.

Actually I tend to think as long as everyone keeps their head this forum pratically runs itself.

Yeah, the worst thing I would want in this forum is a really active mod.

Glad you enjoyed it Krom.

my philosophy is that mods should take pride in all the effort and hard work they don't put into it.

Thanx for even considering me, i didn't know i was thought of as level headed, i'm touched.

Unfortunatly, summers coming and i'm up to my eyeballs in work so i wouldn't be able to give it my all, so to speak.

Besides that, i know absolutly nothing about American politics, and when Drakloth posts i never understand a bloody word

FC

This forum could be ruined with an over active mod, while it can last (with the occasional flame wars), without a mod. Personally if this was multiplayer, I would of made a comment in the porn thread. Probably split it as Lothar suggested. But prior to that there just wasn't very many threads in here that needed moding.

So I guess, saying that you couldn't "watch it like a hawk," is a good thing for me. But if either of you don't want it, then it should be passed to someone who does. So perhaps SR was right, people should nominate themselves

If you want a mod that'll do absolutely nothing, I'll nominate myself.

will's good.

Tetrad wrote:If you want a mod that'll do absolutely nothing, I'll nominate myself.

I could do that easy, I'm the admin on the D3kBB and I hardly ever do anything (except delete the ocasional double post).

Palzon wrote:my philosophy is that mods should take pride in all the effort and hard work they don't put into it.

There's a definite logic to that argument.

I think it's pretty rare here when threads really go astray. I don't suspect that, being a mod, you'd have police the forum that heavily. It's only when things go over the top, or when verbal jousting becomes nasty, when things need to be investigated.

We've largely done away with the offenders, in that regard.

nobody would mod this place like i would

I'll do it.

I'd be happy to be one.

Anyone who wants to be a mod, should not be one.

I don't want to.

I have to see if I can dodge being a mod or getting a custom title until I reach 10,000 posts and become TEH DBB GRAND MASTAR!!! MWAHAHAHAHA...

Ok I'll stfu now.

Testiculese wrote:Anyone who wants to be a mod, should not be one.

another reason why i like Will. I knew he wouldn't "want" the job

seriously there are lots of people who'd make a good mod. most of them don't want the job. that is a big reason why one of them should be forced to accept it.

I dont think it is all that good of an idea to push the job on someone who doesnt want it. There isnt much difference between someone who cant do the job, and someone who wont do the job if they see it as a burden. Most of us visit this fourm because its fun, you have to find someone who can mod it and still think of it as fun.

Ok, as my last decision as being a moderator, I have decided to just say fu** the poll, I decided for myself who I want to do it.

So, I pass the wand to my good buddy Beowulf.

Do with it what you will Ese... but please, don't give it back.

To all the rest of you, it's been real... real something I'm sure. You guys have improved 100fold since geecan got the big BAN (or quit or whatever). Been great whipping your sorry a**es into shape. So give him your all. I hope he enjoys it as much as I did.

Good luck bro.

And to the rest of you, peace.

actually, i was only joking about making anyone take it. i'm sure beo will do a fine job.

beo does favors.
he will make you look like superman on a forum of 200 people.... so suck up to him.

no offense meant to Beo... but I really don't think he's the right guy for E&C moderatorship.

He would do fine. I have never known him to be controlling, and he wont get his jollies off of modding.

Wake me if it comes to a vote but unless my reading comprehension is off this morning Xciter has rendered a decision to mod this forum himself until which time he decides it needs a mod of its own. Ironically, SR's legacy of absenteeism shows we do a fairly respectable job of modding ourselves.

Your call X. I figure now that certain trouble-makers are gone we can all agree to disagree in a fairly civilized manner, so this place is pretty autonomous as far as MODding itself.

<3 Goob, Pally, and Cops

Test.

It looks like I still got my demigod status

I can live with that. It's been great yo's.