You don't go over to a police officer and start yelling at him, make stupid dances around him and ultimately try to moon him... do you? Enough said there I think...
Well, some of that would get you arrested for ruining the peace, and mooning would most likely get you fined for, what's it called... *shrug*
Still, I think a mod deserves respect, simply because they (mods) earned it in the first place when they (AG) turned him into one!
Which leads me to... I think I am doing modding wrong. I have yet to get a hate account created and an angry thread about my stupidity and presumed sexual preferences like all the other mods.
Wow, that was like an entrance mat for spammers saying 'flame the mods!'. I mean, if they flame you, they probably still would get banned or seriously warned, but you make it sound like flaming a mod is not punished as severely as flaming an innocent user.
Not really. I think it is pretty much the same (most users have a tolerance of -50), so unless people are actually cursing and hating and hope we die, it would most likely result in a warning either way. It all depends.
There is a fine line between genius and stupidity
Actually, it is a fine line between genius and insanity. Which usually means that true geniuses have one or more mental illnesses.
Actual ban story:
Mod get a lot of swears and ends up with getting the "GET A LIFE!!" comment. Mod bans user with a "No U!"
From this we can assume that mods don't take flaming all to hard, because someone who actually cares enough to flame obviously is the one needing a life, just like circumventing a ban multiple times and challenging mods in the posts is the ultimate show of "I have absolutely no life."
On other news, I got a job today, and apparently being a mod is a good thing to tell about, because it shows commitment and a sense of order.
Aaaand, back to topic.
I still don't like the idea of a chat. The experience I have with such things, even with responsible users, is that it will degrade to the low grade chat in a few weeks, because it is as fast as it is. While these forums give you the time to think about what you write (if you are into thinking), chats often breaks into chat speak and stupid comments because the topic changes so incredibly fast and the (assumed) discussion moves faster than the users.
These modern web 2.0 times ruins the human nature, and brings forth the worst of us. Usually it will end up being the same few people talking to the same few people, while other go "derp" in the background, and I think it would work just as well with another messenger programme because of this behaviour.
