Be Excellent To Each Other

Let me clear this up Craster is the Sock Puppet, I'm the Cock Puppet.

Now pull my banjo string!

Oh man, I can't wait to dish all the dirt once I'm back on Civvy Street!

Well my campaign such as it is, is pretty simple.

I've modded places a lot bigger than this.
I'm here all the bloody time.
I think we'd all agree I've got no problem making myself a little unpopular if I have to.

This place doesn't need a lot of changes, Grim...'s right about a limited amount of copyrighted stuff, I'd like to get rid of the subforums that are all but empty because no-one sees the threads (and there's bugger all of them) and I need better access to beat gaywood till the front page happens.

Shit, I haven't thought this through. 90% of the visible progress over there wasn't even me, it was Jasmine and Devilman (although I did spend a thankless 10 hours or so copy/pasting articles over and fixing up the presentation). Drifting off topic, we need the accounts syncing stuff to work so we can nominate sub-eds from here to distribute the uploading-content task.

I definitely don't want to be a moderator. I'm waaaaaaaaaay to lazy for that shit. I'd also be a malignant moderator, kicking people out for whimsical reasons.

mod·er·ate (mdr-t)
adj.
1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price.
2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate.
3.
a. Of medium or average quantity or extent.
b. Of limited or average quality; mediocre.
4. Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.
n.
One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.
v. (md-rt) mod·er·at·ed, mod·er·at·ing, mod·er·ates
v.tr.
1. To lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of.
2. To preside over: She was chosen to moderate the convention.
v.intr.
1. To become less violent, severe, or extreme; abate.
2. To act as a moderator.

OOooooOOOooo


Join the club.


True, cunt.


Whatever, Dick.

As I don't know any of you personal I shall be able to act impartially and in the interests of all. Or to put it another way - as I dislike everyone equally I shall be equally biased against everyone. Including myself.

That took ten hours?

If you vote for me in I'll do the basic expectation of any moderator. Clip spam, fix broken tags, general mundane maintenance. I don't think 'policies' beyond a few basic rules need anything more than a quick chat between mods ot reach a consensus. Errr, and that's pretty much it.

No really, this is the sum total of my pitch.

It felt like 10 days but was very dull; I'm estimating based on that. It probably was more like five hours spent with the laptop infront of the telly whilst also chatting on IM etc. Not exactly flat out.

However if you add in the time I spent drawing up the site structure, familiarising myself with Joomla, unsuccessfully looking for themes, and sorting out all the category hierarchies and it probably wasn't far off ten hours.

I did about a third of the reviews forum I think, maybe a bit more.

If I vote for you I want you to eviscerate the people on here who annoy me, when they annoy me, 'k

I think you know Meems pretty well, thus we've caught you lying in your campaign already.

Unless you're saying you hate Mimi.

PM me and we can arrange something privately

I shall start keeping notes

I wouldn't mind if the current moderators were all in charge again, but I've put myself forward anyway. I've moderated many forums before on Jolt.co.uk, as well as being a public server admin on their CS servers for a good few years. And I'm here all of the time. Although, I don't really post that much.

Hullo.

If you vote for me, I will pretty much enforce whatever Grim... wants, with a writ here and a strongly worded letter there. I will also provide free legal advice to forum members*, and ice cream.

Basically - vote Mr Chris for a more attractive and articulate Sarah Palin to Grim...'s warhero

Ps Craster kills kittens for fun. And hates you all.


*legal advice may not be based upon up to date English law, or indeed anything other than whatever whimsy is in my head at the time. But it will be convincing, and will scare your enemies into submission, which is the main thing.

Apart from her.

It was whether to have a link to the phpbb database or not that rather stopped me in my tracks as I didn't want to put too much work into it if it had to be undone at some point anyway. There might not be a need to link the databases at all - if mods want to do content uploading, accounts can be easily enough created in the Joomla backend.

That said, if it did authenticate against the users on here, it'd be useful for stuff like the puArcade add-on as it supports thousands of games and has high score support. (I use it on my own site but I've only put a handful of the games on so far as there's a lot of drivel to wade through).

However, if it's just a case of plonking the rest of the content across, I can do that pretty quickly. I think format sub-categories for the Reviews would come in handy though.

Whoever supplies the most Haribo wins.

Subeds will be dealing with the content on the site, not the mods.

My preference is for every account on the forum to be able to submit content into Joomla, then for it to have to go through a subed approval process (basically just to stop spam, clean up any broken HTML, etc). Otherwise there will always be a reliance on manual crapwork where some mod has to copy the stuff from forum to site.

Ok, when I get chance this weekend I'll have another nose at what is available.

Grim.. I assume this board is PHPBB3 not 2?

It is, yeah.

So you admit bias.

Can you trust this man?!

Dudley is right. Well, Craig, you've started with a lie. How can we possibly proceed from here?

I'm quite glad we've not copied the Oxford Union's notorious 'Rule 33', which more or less bans all forms of campaigning.

How much pre-ballot intimidation will there be?

Looks like this should do the trick as I think the version of Joomla installed is 1.0 rather than 1.5.

Can we try and keep this on topic please!

Would you like me to ban them for you Jasmine? It would be a shame to waste my powers.

I am biased only against Mimi, for as somebody I know, she is the only one who I am unbiased against.

I hope that clarifies matters.

See, the truth outs itself!

I am campaigning largely on a "I want to read the mod forum" ticket.

And I will be disappointed if TheAlbinoKid does not campaign on his "De-Mod Myoptika" platform.

Scan anyone who is up for it, they might be a Cylon

Any chance of Dimrill doing a Cylon dimlie I wonder.

That's where they talk about us..... in the nude!

The mod forum is a massive disappointment.

I would like to carry on as a mod because the last six months have, in my view, been pretty decent, and I'd like the next six to be the same.

Any inference that habitual badger touching or kitten killing has any effect on my function as a moderator is a typical attempt by my rivals to take this campaign down to a base level as it is the only level on which they can function.

Any sane person would view any decentness on the board over the last 6 months as being in spite of rather than due to your moderatrixing.

Vote Grim and Chris!

ALL THE MODS TOUCH BADGERS IN THEIR SPECIAL FORUM!!! IN THE NUDE!!!!!

I would also like to state that I will not be standing for this erection.....er... election.

Would you like a job as Director of Communications for the Mr Chris campaign, Chinny? We can pay you in Amstrad shares.

And therefore presumably it would only be sensible to elect people you perceive to touch badgers already, thus giving them a head start in the job.

I like the cut of Dudley's jib.

I think when an issue has run its course, the thread should be moved out into general discussion so we can get a glimpse of how moderator discussions are handled.

No problem. My last communication jobs were devising the TV advert for the GX4000, the CD32 marketing and the 1997 Tory election campaign. All of these were a huge success (subs please check).

New Dudley. New Badger.

Are you thinking what Craster is thinking? BECAUSE HE IS THINKING OF TOUCHING BADGERS!

Now if you'll excuse me I have one Jammy Dodger left in the biscuit tin and I am hungry.

I played metal gear solid 4 for you.

Twenty. Seven. Hours.

I wish I had Jammy Dodgers. All I have are these raisins the rabbit makes.

I'd like to put my name forward for the mod elections but I don't think I am going to.

I mostly wanted to post in this thread to tell Dimrill not to eat the raisins.

I thought people weren't linking to anything untoward because they didn't want to get you, the site owner, in trouble. This is news to me.

I'm not big up on pirating stuff, but you got my vote on this.

(Oh and I'm not standing as if anything I should spend less time here.)

Yeah, something like that an only be a yes if the guy with exposure says so.

Shit, you must be bored.

It's the dullest sub-forum there is. That's including the old Guides one we had.