Board mood meter disabled

QUOTE:

I don't take on the 'role model' capacity




MA.


With 50,000 points and over 4000 posts to your credit ,you are looked up to, and respected as a roll model by the newer members, whether you want to be or not.

Originally posted by Tassadar
The Conspiracy Related Topics should require 500 characters per post.
This way, members will not have to use words...

":_)@, %+-^^& $#@! %$#@ ++])(>,.!@^.

:+-)&%^#$!!!!!






Just kidding Tass.

I think some of your ideas here are good refinements.

Oh, I thought you were cussing me out...
crap, I meant they won't be using small little words such as "Fury is a cack, he likes dogs and your mom".
I didn't realize it read like that, you have to understand that was the last post I made before going to sleep even though I was already half way there...
Sorry, thanks for pointing it out,
- Tass

MA, I applaud your response. However, as was stated directly after your reponse, yes, with the high level of informative posts, high points, and writer status, as well as your well thought out posts, you are, by association, a role model. You may not like it, but that is how things work both on message boards, and in the real world. Hell, I look up to you and I have been here about the same length of time.

As far as mods enforcing rules, they do a good job. YOu have to take a lot of things into account. Number of members, posts, forums, visitors. Also, the validity of information etc. They do seem to keep very well with everything considering volume. William also does great with the performance.

There is a major difference between MODERATING and BABYSITTING. These guys are MODERATORS. They are to keep things in line. Babysitters are usually hated, they are paid and they are quite often A$$holes. Moderators are unpaid, and generally easy to get along with. Yet, if problems are pointed out, they respond correctly.

Most of the problems here (as fars as chit chat stuff in non chit chat forums) would be quickly resolved by NONMODERATORS by pointing out the little issues to the poster. If they were not corrected, a U2U to a mod would correct it.

I like ATS as is. I do NOT want to see another TBATS style group try what the TBATS did. I remember the chaos from that. It's nice to NOT have that around here.

So lets all start leading by example, weather we feel we are "role models" or not. Everyone else will catch on.

[Edited on 25-9-2003 by ImAlreadyPsycho]

The mood calculation programming is now much more efficient, and runs in the background on a scheduled basis... so it no longer imposes a performance hit on the forum home page.

It seemed as though everyone was floundering in the wilderness, not knowing what the overall mood of the ATS community was on a day-to-day basis.

ImAlreadyPsycho - I wouldn't be so keen on using points and status (look at mine) to even partially indicate seniority. Quality post content, yes, anything else? Hell no.