What exactly does it take to become a mod?

You misunderstand KK. He's applying the principle of moderate excessiveness. (He's ****ing with you )

But in a friendly way like

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Virtual Reality chatter on a movie site? Got endless amounts of it here. Reviews over here

I was just commenting on the fact that he used 'oxymoron' as a noun. Didn't know you could do that?

Am I being a total idiot?

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The Freedom Roads

He's just being playful with the language man. Native speaker's perogative to be ungrammatically correct and that

Fair enough. I wasn't lashing out and I'm sorry if it looked like that. I want to learn this stuff.

KK, when someone mentions an oxymoron they usually mean stuff like "Millitary Intelligence", "Creationist Science" or "President George W. Bush".. Oh wait, that was just a moron.

IMO, it's takes a willingness to read every post, keep your personal feelings out of everything on site as much as possible and listen to every complainer complain.

Which is why I don't want to be a mod!

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Bleacheddecay

Or Microsoft Works.

I know you said, "In your opinion", but I want to reply . . .

I don't think there's a single mod out there that does this. Well, unless their board doesn't get much activity. This board is waaaaay too active for that. Which is a good thing, yep!

I'd hope the bulk of the members here would want to know us a little better than that.
Unless I'm taking this wrong.

Now this I can do. I have a habit of dissecting certain situations, as well. Now don't I!?!

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Well, that's what I was told on some other boards I am on, when people asked me to mod.

As to your post, I'm probably not in the loop of what you are talking about but in any case I got lost.

I'm saying that I've never witness a mod that's read every last post on a board. I doubt any do. Who has that kind of time? Personally, I could only pull something like that off, if I never did all those things in my signature.

This is what I was confused about . . .

keep your personal feelings out of everything on site as much as possible

I assumed you meant that the moderators shouldn't share their opinions on religion, politics, etc . . . Did you mean something else?

I'm just making sure I understand your list.

I'm sure he didn't mean personality... You wouldn't be nearly as entertaining.

Most of the forums I'm on, mods (usually 2 per section) are appointed for certain sections and yes, they are theoretically required to read all the posts in that section.

And yes, they have to walk the fine line between posting like anyone else and keeping their personal feelings to themselves during mod decisions or conflicts.

Well damn, I'm just a loose cannon then.

I hear tell though, that you have mellowed in your *cough* advanced age.

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We are both the source of the problem and the solution, yet we do not see ourselves in this light...

Nope. The other mods chase away trolls before I have time to bait them.

You got that right! My personality is the bulk of who I am, baby!

Are they pop-quizzed, to make sure they're actually reading all of them?

Seriously though, I'm glad that's not a requirement for this board. It's filled with way too many trustworthy people. This is the coolest board on the net!

The mod's on this forum are probably the best I have ever seen. This is not arse kissing as I disagree with most of them some of the time, or is that some of them most of the time? Anyway, there is an eclectic feeling of commradarie that pours forth from "our" mods here. They are, to me, family and they put up with me as such, so yeah, I love our mods.

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

That would be all of us all of the time.

I'd hope so, as much as you make fun of me!

Trying to take my position, eh???

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We can both run roughshod over this joint.