what do you have to do to become a rpg moderator, judge, or what ever supreme names this forum has?
it seems really cool and it takes a lot of responsibility i bet. i would love to be one of those one day but its just a dream. * mom comes and wakes kris up* :huh:

This topic is kinda pointless...and spammy...

It seems you want to be a moderator or administrator, let me tell you this, first you're not going to get anyway with topics like these. Second it will take you a long time and you need to be trustworthy. Contacts in the right place also helps. It took me over a year at another forum before I became a moderator, you need to be active and not noobish. *cough*

how come ur not an rpg member or anything?

First not everyone has to be a RPG member, Jammer herself [head-admin] isn't a RPG member, and so aren't alot of other people.

I don't have the time or interest really to be in a RPG, I'm the kind of person who gets on the computer at whatever time he is available. I play CSS but I'm not in any clans because I like to roam among servers, there isn't a specific server I play, I just play whatever map I feel like playing. Most of all I don't like being tacked to someone else's schedule, I like determining my own. Time is really why, I have a to-do list that is very long, for years now it's never been empty and I cannot truly say I'm bored. [even excluding the nesscities like going out with friends]

You have to be evil.

And mean like tilly... :blink:

wat forum was that before

Know the right people, like I did :D Get a friend who runs an online hosting company, have your sister tell him about the board in question, if all works out well that friend should then volunteer to host the board on their servers and the current head-Admin will agree. That friend will then become an Admin as well, and when the former head-Admin becomes less and less active the friend will begin to take over until he’s pretty much recognized as the head-Admin. Board goes down for maintenance and BOOM! Next thing you know you're getting an IM from your friend asking if you want to be an Admin B)

Eventually the friend becomes less and less liked, slowly abandoning the board. You begin to take over just as your friend had before, and next thing you know the friend drops the board from their server and so you make another, freely hosted, board to move everything to. You rule as head-Admin there before it gets hacked, and so you move to a better free host and again rule as head-Admin. Life begins to show its pressures however, and just like the two head-Admins before you you slowly drop your title as well, giving way to yet another person.

And so the cycle continues... I wonder who the next will be... God can only hope Duero (my friend) doesn’t suddenly come back again...

That is unlikely Zelos (the DT part that is)...

Yeah.. I mainly got my break through knowing some people well.. but that's not all, I also was a good person on the board, respected well enough in the rpg, not that that was nessesary, but it helped. I also never spammed, one day, Duowolf, an admin back in the day (the good old days..) offered me a position as a mod after the first board crash (first time the original Invision ZE crashed, rebuilt in Invision, almost 2 years ago). I continued as I was, apparently I was a good mod.. and Zelos actually offered me the admin position, I had no goal or big dream to be an admin like some.. but I took it because I could do the job and it was needed, as far as I can tell, I'm doing good.

So, there's my story of rising from average member to high seat in the staff over a period of 2 years, yes, 2 years. If you ever want to get a good place at a board where you can do something useful like that, be patient, it takes time.

I'm a very active member, I don't spam, I start lots of topics to contribute to the longevity of the board, and I'd like to think I'm reasonably mature as well. I think it was these factors that enabled me to become a mod...

I think its also keen to mention that all the mods here, (RPG or otherwise) have all been here for a long time. This way, the board gurus get to know you and make you a mod.

Being a responsible, helpful, active member helps. I believe that one shouldn't go looking for a job as a moderator, but if one shows enough promise, the staff will choose to add that person. At least that's how it went for me.

I started out as a regular member when Zoids Evolution Forums first started. I tried to be helpful and friendly and Duowolf gave me a moderator position. After Zelos got in charge of the board I was added as an admin, and then ended up being promoted to head-admin. I never asked for any of the positions, so I'm quite honored that people liked me that much. I feel bad lately, as I've been busy with college and not as active as I'd like to be, especially as an admin, but I'm not ready to leave yet. XD

Hmm, I wonder who'll have the head-admin position in the future?

Looking at the admin staff, I have a feeling it might be me, next to you (despite your busy-ness) I am the most active admin.. truthfully, I don't know if I'd want to be the head of the whole board, but if I was next in line and had to, I guess I'd do it.. well, we'll see in the future.

Let's see. Zelos appearantly does not know half of it.

I'm a decent person whom offered Duowolf a better forum, gave it. Crashed once due to my fault, then got hacked. Had it up again, then everybody rebelled against me because I actually enforced the rules :o . New forum was created, hacked in the first day, a little fix by me, and there goes ZE on its new good streak.

:D I'm so nice. Stupid rebels.

Oh you mean big long ranty type topics? :lol:

@König Warrior *cough*givingobvioussignsofwantingtobeheadadmin*

@JammerLea you're giving up your position? I think you should stay, you're still a good head adminie

Wow, Duero, do you have some kind of sensor attached to the forums that tells you whenever someone posts your name :P Or do you secretly spend all your time on here... Hmm...

I can't elaborate on why people hated you, because truth be told I honestly can't remember much from anytime before you said you were shutting down the forums :blink: Jeeze, and that was only a few years ago? Man, I'm only 16 and I'm already losing my memory...

EDIT: Checked my join date on here, only about a year and a half actually. This is bad...

I never actually hated DT.. but I hated that stupid no rules week idea.. ugh... hurts to think of the days of the n00b rush.

Anyway, Zero, no, I actually don't want to be head admin that much, although I am an admin, the most of what I do is in the rpg, I am also considered the head rpg admin, since Jammer doesn't know much of it (never was in it). Although I do my job on the rest of the board when needed. However as Head Admin, you have to take it a step higher and oversee everything in detail and make sure it's working, although as an Admin I should do that somewhat too, I don't as much as the head.

What I meant in my post was, it seems that if Jammer were to relinquish the position, I am probably next in like for head admin rank, and if the job was given to me, I'd do it because it's an obligation, not because I really want to, which I actually have no desire to.

I can be quite responsible if this forum isn't so dead boring and depressing at the moment. :rolleyes:

I have given moderator and admin priviledges in the past on a few boards, but that was ages ago. I had alot of headaches dealing with incoherent, ignorant retards than most of the events witnessed on ZE.

Actually... enforced... the rules... eh-heheh, excuse me, while I laugh hard enough to require medical attention.

...

Okay, I'm done.

...I had issues during that time, but I didn't hate DT. The board was rather unruly at that point...

I'm not giving up my position yet. It's still pretty easy to get a hold of me in case of an emergency, but it's been pretty quiet lately, so yeah... college. If the board picks up and I really feel I cannot give it the attention it needs, then I'll pass on my title to a more able staff member.

Zelos: Why yes, yes I do.

König Warrior: n00b rush sucked. I didn't spend much time on the board that week.

JammerLea: Yeh, I enforced the rules, except for that week. I was barely on AIM at that time due to the n00bs spamhammering me with "w00t wyd u b@n m3???!!!" The other mods/admins for the most part did too.

At least the moderating team an a few other admins put a stop to the n00b rush, one by stopping that no rule week thing, and closing the board.. even though that version of ZE didn't last much longer anyway, it was deleted intentionally I believe...

Ahyes, I seem to remember an email address being changed to "gof***yourself@unidc.net", not the best way to close the boards, Duero.
Most of us mods were recruited when the boards were closed the first time, for a couple of days. We applied and there was a vote, so if we ever need more staff it'd probably be publicly announced, or people would be selected who fit the job description. We seem to have a few inactive staff at the moment, but there hasn't been any activity to merit getting any more.

Konig: They ended up creating this board. I closed the other boards, then this one got hacked, and then that was the extent of my wokr here.

Capitila: Never changed any email to that, you really ought to know me a bit better than that.

You missed out the part where you got pissed and gave us an hour to get any information we wanted on the forums before you closed and made the boards inaccessible, or more probably they were deleted. And you may or may not want to admit it, but I clearly remember taking note of the changed email address.
Either way, the past is the past, not the topic of this thread. Just dont need to have the truth twisted to make everything all nice and clean-cut, because it wasnt.

Capitila: You'd be pissed too if you just spent over $100 on a vBulletin license. (Which still hasn't been used anywhere else) And no, I did not change my email. That would be somebody else who did it. Would not have had a reason to.

Too bad vBulletin sucks, and you shouldn't have wasted your money! XD

Ahh the good old days, I remember DT complaining to me that he had like 10000 emails this one time... Around the time when the forums went all splat.

*HaTcH noogies DT, ahh we still love yah! :D

<_< >_> no, not in that way.. Stop it! STOP! No!

When did KW become an admin? Guess I missed it since I haven't been here much.

Congrats! ^_^

I object, vBulletin is far superior than Invisionfree.

But no better than Invision Board. :P

*recalls hetman already mentioning this somewhere else*

I like Invision Power Board alot more, it's more user friendly.....I do visit vbulletin forums and I have used the mod panel..and personally..I don't like it from my experience...though I'm plannning to take a look...I know somebody who has the "vBulletin Version 3.5.0 Release Candidate 2" a.k.a. beta RC2...

Well of course vbulletin is superior to Invisionfree...invisionfree uses the last free version of IPB which is many years old, IF uses 1.3 Final while the latest is 2.1.1. v2.1.1 introduces a whole lot of new features and a new admin cp...

You're comparing years old software to vbulletin's newest software.

Whatever I say goes! :p

I never mentioned that anyway nor I was comparing this software with another.

uhh what is that then?

Besides IF is really a service...