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#31 AleHop

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 12:05 AM

Hello everybody. I'm back for the 2012 season, car launches, etc.

I'm a moderator wanabe.


I hate mods. :meh:

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As we were saying yesterday...
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Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "as we were saying yesterday..."

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 12:52 AM

View PostMassa, on 21 January 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:

Appreciate that Brad, and agree, I would be happy with this plan as long as it has Wes' blessing.  I think Insider will do a great job for this forum and I certainly hope I can do the same (if nothing else, I can just bore the spambots with NASCAR talk such that they just go away on their own :lol:).  Cheers.

EDIT: Just saw Andrés' post, and would agree that if Craig wants to be added, he would be one of the best to be on the team.
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#33 HandyNZL

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 03:19 AM

I'll do it with Sean and Eric....just so I can boot that damn NASCAR lover outta here :P  (jokes)





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#34 BradSpeedMan

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 12:01 PM

I really think we have a great team of moderators...

Handy, Eric, Shaun ...good luck
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Posted 22 January 2012 - 12:35 PM

3 moderators for 10 forum members? we should rotate moderator every month.
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Posted 27 January 2012 - 07:35 PM

So is this actually going to happen or...?
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 03:48 AM

View PostJHS18, on 27 January 2012 - 07:35 PM, said:

So is this actually going to happen or...?


I hate your avatar pic :P

Anyway, you b#####ds. My boobs could moderate this place. See previous page as to why I made this comment.
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 09:02 AM

I vote for Stephs boobies.

Who will second the motion?

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 11:47 AM

View PostKopite Girl, on 28 January 2012 - 03:48 AM, said:

I hate your avatar pic :P

Haha, you preferred the lemon? N'aww, neve knew you had feelings like that before. :P
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 06:56 AM

Don't worry James...she's just having you on....she does really like him....like REALLY REALLY like him...she's always screaming out his name during sex....or is that just when she does it with me?!?!?!?!? :eusa_think:

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 04:30 PM

View PostHandyNZL, on 29 January 2012 - 06:56 AM, said:

Don't worry James...she's just having you on....she does really like him....like REALLY REALLY like him...she's always screaming out his name during sex....or is that just when she does it with me?!?!?!?!? :eusa_think:


Well. Vettel is quick.... ;)
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#42 HandyNZL

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 07:57 PM

You were saying something about being on pole weren't you....???


:D

Edited by HandyNZL, 29 January 2012 - 08:02 PM.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 08:03 PM

I know I haven't been on as much (at all) lately but would love to be a moderator :) I promise I won't abuse my powers :P
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#44 BradSpeedMan

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 08:14 PM

View Postmikathegreat2, on 09 February 2012 - 08:03 PM, said:

I promise I won't abuse my powers :P
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"Vettel is a champion. That’s not referring to his achievements, but rather to his approach to everything he does. He wins. All the time. His preparation is meticulous, his attention to detail reminiscent of Michael Schumacher at his peak, and his performance on the track is almost always flawless. Vettel is capable only of domination. He knows no other way... Vettel is not in Formula One to be liked. He is there to win. And in the words of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest of all Formula One drivers, “Nice men don’t win.”"
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 10:42 PM

Despite my long absences, I do care about this musty corner of the internets and all us fools who post here. There isn't a forum out there that can match what Wes, and we, have built here. We're immature, sincere, knowledgeable, biased, fair, brilliant and irreverent. We're the old uncle in the smelly sports jacket that has a house filled with unique and odd things and when you're visiting you can cuss up a blue streak and he wont care, as long as you have a bit of respect. We're a comfortable pub in the middle of a crazy internet that takes all comers and lets them be who they are, even if they occasionally hang themselves with their own rope.

It's essential that whomever is chosen to moderate be someone that will leave everything alone unless people start abusing one another over and above our normal level of loving abuse. A heavy-handed moderator will kill this cozy, crazy, pub.

There is a reason this forum was recommended in a British newspaper a while back. The new moderator should be someone who knows that reason.

Choose wisely.

(For my part, I nominate Steve-o and Russ.)

Edited by Autumnpuma, 09 February 2012 - 10:42 PM.

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#46 BradSpeedMan

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 11:04 PM

ah, Mike's back.... again...

wb Mike :)


edit: btw, we trust those we nominated, Russ is never around and we'de like to build this forum up to it's former glory. and we would nominate Steve too, but now there's a problem that there's too many

Edited by BradSpeedMan, 09 February 2012 - 11:10 PM.

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"Vettel is a champion. That’s not referring to his achievements, but rather to his approach to everything he does. He wins. All the time. His preparation is meticulous, his attention to detail reminiscent of Michael Schumacher at his peak, and his performance on the track is almost always flawless. Vettel is capable only of domination. He knows no other way... Vettel is not in Formula One to be liked. He is there to win. And in the words of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest of all Formula One drivers, “Nice men don’t win.”"
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 11:17 PM

View PostBradSpeedMan, on 09 February 2012 - 11:04 PM, said:

ah, Mike's back.... again...

wb Mike :)


edit: btw, we trust those we nominated, Russ is never around and we'de like to build this forum up to it's former glory. and we would nominate Steve too, but now there's a problem that there's too many

Thanks. I wasn't knocking anyone nominated so far, and all of them would probably be good choices, but I would humbly ask that those actually considering the post reflect on what I wrote.

And I do seem to vanish for long stretches of time. I suppose the excuse of getting my skull drilled into explains my latest disappearance. No monkey-brain inserted, tho, so I'm still as ignorant as I was before.

Edited by Autumnpuma, 09 February 2012 - 11:19 PM.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 12:25 AM

I believe this forum really only needs one rule: respect.  Respect the fellow posters and respect the board itself (i.e. not using it for spam).  99.99% of what needs moderation here, in my eyes, falls into that second category (or no category at all, in the case of moving or merging threads posted in error).  The .01% that doesn't is almost universally resolved with a quick, friendly reminder to be courteous if it is not simply resolved by the members involved before that.
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 12:47 AM

View PostMassa, on 10 February 2012 - 12:25 AM, said:

I believe this forum really only needs one rule: respect.  Respect the fellow posters and respect the board itself (i.e. not using it for spam).  99.99% of what needs moderation here, in my eyes, falls into that second category (or no category at all, in the case of moving or merging threads posted in error).  The .01% that doesn't is almost universally resolved with a quick, friendly reminder to be courteous if it is not simply resolved by the members involved before that.

That's what worries me. Respect and courtesy are up to individual interpretation. What I call 'shooting straight' someone else might call 'discourteous'. Too much fuss about 'respect and courtesy' will kill a lively, honest conversation. Even the seemingly obvious 'step in only when there are personal attacks' can be abused. Some clever insults have been flung about this place between members who disagree and 99% of those have resolved themselves without need of moderation. None of this is a disagreement with what you've posted, just throwing some additional thoughts out there.

Actually, Eric, you'd do a good job.
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 01:36 AM

Appreciate that and agree that it's never precise.  I think it helps that the core posters all really know each other well enough to have a sense of tone.  The best a moderator can do, in my opinion, is to never act too quickly.  Let discussions play out.  The questionable thing usually passes on its own.  There's no reason to act, I'd think, unless the questionable thing is still a focus of discussion posts later and other posters beyond the moderator seem hung up over it.  Even then, I'd find it best to simply try to give the conversation a friendly nudge toward wherever it was going before whatever held it up.  If you wait to act, and you act gently when you do, it's a lot easier to fix any mistakes being made.  I'd like to think of it more as forum janitor, cleaning up spam, than a moderator of discussion because really, we are all moderators of our own discussions by making quality posts that generate discussion and not replying to "dead-end" posts, and that's why this place works.  I'd have to go back years to find non-spam posts I would have deleted, let alone given someone time off for, and I suspect they would have been my own. :lol:

Edited by Massa, 10 February 2012 - 01:44 AM.

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Posted 10 February 2012 - 06:12 AM

Hey. Lets not get too crazy and talk of all this jazz of sprucing the place up. Main reason mods are needed is to combat the spambots from posting (and possibly registering). Think wisely. You need a lot of time. I know this, I was elected admin for a while on another forum.

If you can honestly say that every day, you'd get home from college/work, go shower, have dinner, do homework/study/prepwork, sort out kids if you have them, cook/clean/iron and give up your leisure time (including posting here) to do mod work then go for it. That's what it was like for me with just 50-100 spambots a day. In the end, I give it up. I don't mean to killjoy the fun, but that's what it's about. Mod is a great title to have but it amounts to nothing if you don't do anything.
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 02:16 PM

Hi Guys

1000 apologies for starting this thread then (seemingly) abandoning it!

I had every intention to add the Mods a while back (honest!)

Anyway, I have added the nominated 3 (HandyNZL, Massa & Insider (correct me if I am wrong)) - round of applause. I would also like to add Kopite Girl if she is keen as she has some good experience...

Thanks everyone for being so democratic about it, was great to see.

Now, I am not looking to the Mods to be heavy handed or stifle conversation etc, more to take care of the spammers and spam bots and generally look after the place (as I don't get a lot of time to actively participate in the forums (as you have probably gathered)).

Let me know of any issues etc.

thanks heaps
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 03:50 PM

View Postadmin, on 12 February 2012 - 02:16 PM, said:

Hi Guys

1000 apologies for starting this thread then (seemingly) abandoning it!

I had every intention to add the Mods a while back (honest!)

Anyway, I have added the nominated 3 (HandyNZL, Massa & Insider (correct me if I am wrong)) - round of applause. I would also like to add Kopite Girl if she is keen as she has some good experience...

Thanks everyone for being so democratic about it, was great to see.

Now, I am not looking to the Mods to be heavy handed or stifle conversation etc, more to take care of the spammers and spam bots and generally look after the place (as I don't get a lot of time to actively participate in the forums (as you have probably gathered)).

Let me know of any issues etc.

thanks heaps
Wes

PS Roll on March!
YAY!!!  - another round of applause!!!!


Congratulations and do us proud guys!

Edited by BradSpeedMan, 12 February 2012 - 03:51 PM.

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 04:04 PM

hahahaha Eric, I see you glow blue :lol:
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Chris Cameron-Dow

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Posted 12 February 2012 - 04:10 PM

Thanks again.  Hopefully we'll make thing easier on Wes.  As I said, I see myself as more of a janitor than a moderator...

...but you know I'm sensitive when it comes to comments about stock car racing. :lol:

No, seriously, cheers, glad I could help.
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 04:41 PM

Congratulations to the new moderators (or two moderators and the janitor :P), I'm sure you'll do a great job.

I'm just p1ssed SuperKimi didn't get chosen. :P j/k
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 05:11 PM

Eric a moderator? My George! What have we done? :D

(Now seriously, for a change)Thanks Wes, I concur that you have placed the forum in safe hands, Congrats Eric, Craig, Sean and Steph! I am sure Bruce must be smiling happy to know as well, wherever the old b#####d is now.
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 06:03 PM

Glad the mod issue is sorted. I'll have to remember not to criticise Button, American racing/America in general, or make sheep shagging jokes.
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 06:57 PM

View Post#46, on 12 February 2012 - 06:03 PM, said:

American racing/America in general

Whatever you do, do NOT criticise the Mazda RX8s in Grand Am in any way. They're a sore subject.

Just kidding. :P
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 07:53 PM

View PostJHS18, on 12 February 2012 - 04:41 PM, said:

the janitor :P

Easy, tiger.  I prefer "sanitation engineer." ;)
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