Conversation started Jan 21, 2014 at 2:08.
user43095
Jan 21, 2014 02:08
Would I make a bad moderator?
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
@JeffreyLin Well, you're name isn't ArdaXi so you've got that going for you.
user43095
@LessPop_MoreFizz What happened to him?
Sterno
Sterno
Don't know you well enough to say!
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
@JeffreyLin But more to the point, you're asking the wrong question. It's not "Would I be bad at this," it's "would I be good at this?" that matters.
user43095
@LessPop_MoreFizz Would I make a good moderator?
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
Jan 21, 2014 02:10
@JeffreyLin He's going to make a terrible mod.
Sterno
Sterno
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A: The Memes of Arqade and its Chat

badpMeme: Arda is going to make a terrible mod Originator: Mana Cultural Height: Terrible Background The chat conversation that brought us this fundamental truth, and Arda's acceptance thereof. Related murder

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@JeffreyLin Well, that's the question isn't it? As for the answer... well, fundamentally, the first question you need to answer is "Why do I want to be a mod," and just as importantly, "why do I need to be a mod to do that?"
spugsley
spugsley
@Fluttershy you around?
user43095
@LessPop_MoreFizz gaming.stackexchange.com/election/4?noredirect=1#post-151650
Fluttershy
Fluttershy
@spugsley For a brief moment. I'm about to go get dinner. What's up?
spugsley
spugsley
Jan 21, 2014 02:13
@OrigamiRobot wants to know why he can't open the last armory on RoR. He has the keycard and he's opened the rest
user43095
I think I did a pretty bad job of convincing people.
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
I'm sure you'd be a perfectly adequate flag-handler, but honestly, we as a community expect more from our moderators than that they be mere internet-janitors.
> I'm going to flat-out say that I probably won't make a good moderator for this site.
Krazer
Krazer
@JeffreyLin have more confidence
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
That's not a very good way to convince me that you're going to be a good moderator.
I have no reason not to take you at your word on that statement.
And if I take you on your word, then why on earth would I vote for you?
Fluttershy
Fluttershy
@spugsley It's buggy. Both of you walk away from the door, then have him walk back by himself to try it. Otherwise, I honestly don't know. I've not been able to work out a cause. :(
Sterno
Sterno
Jan 21, 2014 02:15
@JeffreyLin Yes. I don't know you and all I got out of your nom is that you think you'd suck at it and that you admitted to being an age I'm not even sure is allowed for a regular user.
spugsley
spugsley
@Fluttershy I'm not playing I died
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LessPop_MoreFizz
@JeffreyLin As written, your statement tells me that as a moderator, you will take even less of a role in moderating the site. That's... not encouraging.
@Sterno 13 is the minimum.
Sterno
Sterno
Age comment retracted!
user43095
@LessPop_MoreFizz Well, I see being a moderator as sort of dangerous
user43095
You have the ability to screw something up.
user43095
Jan 21, 2014 02:17
And it's irreversible.
user15026
@JeffreyLin Generally not true.
Sterno
Sterno
Most things are reversible.
Braiam
Braiam
actually not
arrg...
user43095
Yes, but things mods do are "binding"
user15026
@JeffreyLin That just means when we vote to close, it closes, not like things can't be reopened or whatever.
Frank
Frank
Jan 21, 2014 02:18
Okay. Continuum season finale was pretty darn good.
user43095
@AshleyNunn Yes, that.
user43095
Okay, I need to think about this.
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
@JeffreyLin That's true. But that's kind of the point of being a mod. The community is entrusting you with that ability, because you are the person they believe can and will use it properly.
user15026
@LessPop_MoreFizz This.
Frank
Frank
cc @kalina
Ktash
Ktash
Jan 21, 2014 02:20
Why is the mothership only firing 1 kind of lazer? That seems rather ineffective. What if someone has a type immunity to that lazer?
Sterno
Sterno
It's really only a problem if you keep overriding the community's will with your binding vote.
LessPop_MoreFizz
LessPop_MoreFizz
@JeffreyLin basically, I don't think you fully understand what the role of a moderator is, or why you'd want to be one, you've simply tossed your hat into the ring because... reasons?
If that's not the case, you need to more fully articulate your vision of what that role is, and why you believe you're the appropriate person to fill it.
Sterno
Sterno
Well, it is fun to win things.
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Conversation ended Jan 21, 2014 at 2:21.