What would you do if you were a forum moderator?

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Tell us and win a prize!

Nothing specific. I would just keep an eye on things.

Now you're wondering what the prizes are?

First Place

A new mod

Second Place
More friends for my facebook

Third Place
A trip to cyberspace

and Fourth Place
post increase!

I'd read a lot more forums, that's for sure.

I'd spend more time on the forum.

I'd be more polite and diplomatic.

I would change my signature to "On the contrary: I've gone mad with all too real power."

I was born to rule .

I could not be a moderator. I am not good at being in charge and I fear retaliation.

Ban everybody

Probably post a lot less.


M.

I'd ban someone on the first day just for the cred.

nothing why would i? everything is going smooth of course i would ban trolls that come randomly but just after discussing with another mod if it inst clearly violating rules (some of u might remember "bathtub girl") EDIT: yes i would also helping developing html codes i have been doing some coding in zm game also which uses html codes in animations

I'd put tim_tex on post moderation to filter out the useless ones.

I moderated a forum once years ago. It was a god forsaken task. People tended to disagree with each other and it sometimes got personal between them. Where do you draw the line with a flame war? If you delete one persons post but not the other then you are accused of taking sides. However if you moderate too hard then that annoys everyone. It is often hard to say that one person or the other started a flame war because there is just a gradual escalation from a civilised disagreement to a full blown flame war. All you can do is delete the thread or posts and warn the posters not to continue. The other problem is off topic posting. This doesn't seem to be so much of a problem with wp, but with a topic based forum where do you draw the line - people tend to drift off on to other topics, it is human nature, but without some sort of restrictions it just becomes a chat forum.

One thing I do know. If a forum is heavily moderated people leave and the forum dies. I know one in particular that claims to have tens of thousands of members but in reality only has around 50 active at any one time. People get fed up with their posts being deleted for trivialities and just stop visiting or posting to the forum after a few months.

I would outlaw this new person from posting...

I would ban everyone for being a dipshit.