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CattleRustler
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Quote: "Bah, I'm disheartened by some of those choices made.. but then again it is upto rich afterall. Personally I would have chosen top, middle and bottom on that list. "


Does that mean your list would be: DavidT, CattleRustler, VanB ?

Its ok to say who, and why, specifically.
Just curious


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Laggy, I'm sure that Mouse would not abuse his authority in any respect as far as you are concerned. If he were to do that, and Rich found out, he'd be de-modded very quickly.

You guys should let bygones be bygones and shake each others' hands. Yes, I expect to see you both shaking each other's hands on this thread extremely shortly. Who will be a gentleman and offer to shake first of all?

Philip

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Was just curious, thanks for the vote. I am sure our buddy Mouse will do a fine job as well as all the others. So some of us have begun emailing Rich but no new fancy title next to nick name as of yet...

Now whats all this about us new mods having to do some blood-letting trial-by-fire TGC mod initiation ritual, or something? Can I sacrafice a chicken by my PC? *looks around sees no chickens, except for Zone Chicken, but that wouldnt be nice* Will a cat do?

who said that? *cats run and hide*




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CR, Jimmy, Exeat.

If you ever want more UKers I say VanB & Spooky.


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Arguing and disagreeing with someone is not a cause for concern. Mods are not supposed to be the "pilars of forum society", they're supposed to keep this place ticking over nicely - and of that I am confident they'll all do a great job. I've known Mouse for years and trust him explicitly not to abuse his mod powers or my faith in him. Same goes for the rest of the new mods (with the exception of MikeS and Jeku really, who I have far less personal dealings with, but am trusting on everyone elses comments here).

Mods don't ever "delete" posts anyway, they just get flagged to not display. All mod actions are logged into an audit and anyone who is banned can be as easily unbanned. So at the very worst, even if a mod did go totally rogue, it would be a minor affair to clean up after them.

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Van B
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Thanks guys

Bring on the numpties!, with at least 1 moderator online most of the time, we should have a nice clean forum.

I gotta agree with Philip about Jimmy, he's the funniest guy here - but some people can be over-sensitive.


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Posted: 6th Sep 2004 22:26 Edited at: 7th Sep 2004 09:15
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UK - VanB, DavidT
US - MikeS, Cattlerustler

Fart buttocks, I'm too late .

Exeat - Done, sorry cattlerustler, should be obvious by your name, I was just going by previous posts (which I obviously didn't read that thoroughly ).

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Posted: 6th Sep 2004 22:44 Edited at: 6th Sep 2004 22:44
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how could we forget Hamish?

I knew there was somebody else

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You may want to review those locations as well Hamish.


Quote: "with the exception of MikeS and Jeku really, who I have far less personal dealings with, but am trusting on everyone elses comments here)."


In case you didn't realise, MikeS used to be Yellow and he's been around here for quite a while, you just have to wander into the Newcomers forum to see how much of a favour he's doing to the community.


Quote: "Mods don't ever "delete" posts anyway, they just get flagged to not display."


Yeah, I've noticed I can go into a thread that I've had bookmarked even once it's been deleted.


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Posted: 6th Sep 2004 23:30
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Quote: "Yeah, I've noticed I can go into a thread that I've had bookmarked even once it's been deleted"


Yup, it's bloody handy! and also means we can pass information onto any law agency that may request it.

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Posted: 6th Sep 2004 23:33 Edited at: 6th Sep 2004 23:37
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Thanks for activating it I got a parse error once, then refreshing did the trick.

A suggestion, you might want to make the WMD just hide the posts, not delete them so it's undoable. I feel a bit jittery having the option sitting there and I might click it by mistake.

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Ok I have activated DavidT, Exeat, Van B and Cattledude - you all need to login again to get full privs. The rest will show as mods but it won't work fully until they are awake and email me their new passwords

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Oh, I edited my above post while you were rpelying - you might not have seen it. Bump.

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Yay! - now we just need to learn the secret moderator handshake and the way into the mod-cave and we'll be jammin .


Van-B


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Van - press the thumb into the palm of the hand you're shaking, and middle finger into the back of the hand.

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lol.

is anyone else confused?


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Posted: 6th Sep 2004 23:50
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Quote: "A suggestion, you might want to make the WMD just hide the posts, not delete them so it's undoable. I feel a bit jittery having the option sitting there and I might click it by mistake."


Yeah, I was just looking at it under Rich's profile... my finger almost slipped...


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Great to see some new moderators, I think these are the first moderators I've seen elected. All great choices.

Although It'd be quite funny to have Jummy as a mod.

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oh, and the author of the forum banner that has all the mod avatars in it needs to update it

and really, I am confused with the control thing at the bottom the page (me is afraid and touches nothing)


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It seems pretty easy to me.

Top dropdowns are options for posts.

Bottom dropdowns are options for the whole topic.

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ahhh, wasnt sure. thanks.
(me still touches nothing)


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Quote: "oh, and the author of the forum banner that has all the mod avatars in it needs to update it "


Lol, I'd like to see Zen fit all 16 mods (including Rich, Lee and Mike) on that tiny thing lol.


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I just waiting for new guys to post stuff that has to be accepted

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yeah me too.


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Rejecting bugs can be fun.

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Guys you can't erase or ban other mods It would have failed if you'd tried it, but just to make it clear I have now hidden it if you view a mods profile.

If you have questions about what does what, email me.

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didn't read the whole thread

but i vote walaber

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What's the policy with bugs? If something's proven not to be a bug, is it rejected?

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Great choices rich.

Next year I going to go though this same ordeal of getting more mods .


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Quote: "mouse hates raven and frequently annoys him in irc"
Mouse hates alot of people, me in perticular(of course, I'm not sure why). He'd be a good mod for noobs, but I think someone should keep an eye on him.

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Quote: "If something's proven not to be a bug, is it rejected?"


Be VERY careful in the Bug Reports Forum. Only if you know for a fact that reported bug has either already been fixed (and can provide a link showing that), or contains errors that are code related and not DBPro related, should you reject it.

Both Mike and Lee use the contents of the Bug Reports forum to build new Updates. If perfectly valid bugs are accidentally rejected, it won't help anyone.

So yes - feel free to reject, but only if you can explain why in that thread first.

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Quote: " or contains errors that are code related and not DBPro related, should you reject it."


Ah yes that's fine. Somebody did have a code error.

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Could we have a picture of the mod control-panel ?


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Here what it is

Moderator Functions
Check All - Uncheck all - Delete - Lock


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RPG - you mean that's all YOU use

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heh.

Rich the post by froogle I deleted was only a test. We were in irc and I said half-jokingly "Hey, someone post something stoopid so I can practice locking a post". Well he did, but the title didnt strike me as funny so I locked then deleted. Just so you know.

DavidT, damn you were fast! Were you in the irc under a different name? Sheesh! Quickdraw. I literally followed froogle here from irc and you still beat me. Damn good work


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Quote: "DavidT, damn you were fast! Were you in the irc under a different name? Sheesh! Quickdraw. I literally followed froogle here from irc and you still beat me. Damn good work "


And I had time to open the smily window and get the cow smily.

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roflmao


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Where did that topic go anyway?

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deleted.
me thinks only Rich can see it now as it is in the nether.


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Bah, at least I find existing threads to test on.

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Wow, this is pretty cool .

Thank you very much, peeps who voted for me and Rich. It's an honor -- you have my solemn promise that spammage and trollage will not last as long with me around .

Congrats to all the other mods . IMHO, you'll all be fantastic.


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Quote: "Could we have a picture of the mod control-panel ?"


It's nothing exciting, all that happens is that there are checkboxes next to each thread / each post in a thread, and at the bottom of the page there are "SET" and "UNSET" comboboxes with options like Lock, Stick, Delete, Mark Flamebait, Mark Offensive and Mark Announcement.

When we view a user's profile page, there is a "Ban" button with a date and reason text box, and an "Erase All" button which deletes all posts and threads by that user.


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And there's also the weapon of mass destruction hidden there too. Much to Dubya's annoyance

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Can I just check the complete list of mods then:

RPG Gamer
Indi
RobK
IanM
TCA
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CattleRustler
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Or are there any others I have forgotten?


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You've forgotten Jess! How could you?

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... and Rich. And he's the most important mod of them all. Sort of the God Mod.

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Jess and one other missing (there were 7 new ones)

Edit: Jeku too

So Rob's list + Jess, and Jeku


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Lots of time zones there if I'm not mistaken. With how much some of us visit this board is probably monitored almost 24/7... nice and safe from teh spammage.


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You forgot MikeS as well. Thanks everyone, and especially Rich.



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