What's the likelihood that your help cut into the moderator's own sales?
I'm an admin on a technical forum. It was a friendly place when I got there some seven years ago, and is still a friendly place. Ask a question about the system and you will receive a nice, friendly response. Ask a dumb question and you'll get the same, and a poke in the ribs. Cop an attitude and you'll still get a friendly response; but maintain the attitude and you'll find your queries will eventually go unanswered. Yes, people do sometimes show up extremely--and obviously--frustrated; but they melt pretty quickly.
I can't remember the last time we banned someone. A spammer usually gets one post up before one of us deletes that user and his single post.
Some people just have an overinflated sense of their self worth.
If it'll help, here're lyrics I wrote the other day to a well-known melody (and adapted to this theme). It's a sardonic musical oxymoron: grim, depressing lyrics sung to a heartening, harmonious air.
I'm an admin on a technical forum. It was a friendly place when I got there some seven years ago, and is still a friendly place. Ask a question about the system and you will receive a nice, friendly response. Ask a dumb question and you'll get the same, and a poke in the ribs. Cop an attitude and you'll still get a friendly response; but maintain the attitude and you'll find your queries will eventually go unanswered. Yes, people do sometimes show up extremely--and obviously--frustrated; but they melt pretty quickly.
I can't remember the last time we banned someone. A spammer usually gets one post up before one of us deletes that user and his single post.
Some people just have an overinflated sense of their self worth.
If it'll help, here're lyrics I wrote the other day to a well-known melody (and adapted to this theme). It's a sardonic musical oxymoron: grim, depressing lyrics sung to a heartening, harmonious air.
Goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
We don't really like it 'cause we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum with dread.
This is tough,
teachin' all this stuff.
And the mods all act like big peacocks.
We wanna quit; it's not allowed.
So we'll never be free from all these boors.
And so we're goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
We don't really like it 'cause we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum with dread.
Egos blare
and tempers flare.
Yet we'll be here forever more.
We can't revolt; it wouldn't do.
So we'll never be free from all these boors.
And so we're goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum where we're gonna be harried.
We don't really like it 'cause we're gonna be harried.
Goin' to the forum with dread.
(no no no no)
Goin' to the forum with dread.
(no no no no)
Goin' to the forum with dread.
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