Your first experience as a moderator

I can't sort a lottery win out to keep you, but I can a ticket or two lol

You know lads, Dave had not only never moderated another forum (and he did it very well when he was a mod, and now Admin's even better) he'd never even registered on one before.

 

The only forum I have ever began moderating I really enjoyed and it was webprocafe.com, I knew one of the owners and I asked him if I could be one, I was very happy there until I got banned for owning a competing site, I didnt even want a link to it in my signature and offered to be a normal member, nope didnt happen

 

That just goes to show some people are good at recognizing and promoting talent, others let their personal agenda get in the way of running their forum.

 

When I first got started on Blue Moon as a mod about last year (and this was on Forumotion's DarkBB server), I had to admit it. It was a lot to take in, since I was one of three mods at the time. But I knew that I had to step up my game and do what was needed to be done in order to keep the general populace in line when the admin was away. There were some hardships to endure along the way, but you had to deal with it, be it a small slip up by one of the users to an outright assault on the site. I guess I'm what you call the type of guy who takes it on the chin and gets back up.

 

my first mod post was around 1995 on an IRC chat room based around an Australian web page called 40notout. (A cricket term but it often needed explaining politely to gays searching for kindred spirits)

probably the only reason I was chosen was that I was the other side of the world and could keep an eye on things whilst Australia and America slept.

over 4 years we developed quite a close community and then in 1999 one of the regulars got cancer and died some 6 months later and the spirit of the board just went with him and it died out.

 

my first experience as a mod was when a bigger forum i was on split into 2 seperate forums when the admin fell out. since then one of the original admin has quit, and i was promoted to admin. we also changed from proboards to phpbb cause we thought there would be more things we could do on the forum, and although that meant starting over again and losing our 10000 posts, we are halfway there already

i was really happy when made mod because i always wanted to see what it was like to be a mod

 

The first forum I moderated was a Habbo.co.uk fansite forum which I moderated for a few months before it went down to pot, since then I have moderated and administrated many forums using all sorts of different softwares.

 

lol Habbo, that's gone to pot now. The only good thing about Habbo is all these Retros.