I was briefly a moderator for a big Minecraft YouTuber. It was all right, but there was a lot of drama over a new server being made when I joined.
Yeah, long time ago.
Yeah, long time ago.
Then they brought in some guy named Sean, iirc, and was pretty clueless. He wanted the boards to be liked Reddit - whatever that meant.
Then since he didn't want much to do with the boards, he elevated some mods to a type of council and he called the whole thing a "beerocracy". And that didn't sit right with me. It used to be that all mods were equal. And then they weren't.
The boards were never that important to IGN. They kept making it harder and harder to access the boards from the front page. And they rarely had engineers assigned to fixing or improving the boards.
I had the same thing at one point. We ended up disabling the ability to add images across the network with a hot fix. The shit I saw in the live feed before it hit the site. Fuck, that shit stays with you.I did on a THQ/EA forum for many years. I liked it when I was still passionate about the game, after that I quit. They both had outdated boards so when some troll ran some porn spam bot, I had to deleted everything manually for hours. And he could get around their bans in minutes. It was pretty terrible.
EA didn't upgrade shit until I threatened to quit, then they finally put up some new boards.
You could report them to the Discord Health and Safety Team and make a rule that that sort of talk isn't allowed. As someone who personally had to deal with that kind of talk daily. . .it's really difficult to keep your own mental health in check. You're not a professional so don't feel bad for deferring and straight up just not allowing it.
I really get this because I have no idea how to handle stuff like this either.The main downsides are the mental fatigue (from keeping track of all the chatter and having to act like a babysitter for immature people) and dealing with the people who have serious mental health issues. It's an online community and naturally these tend to attract lonely people that feel like they have no other place to go for venting their mental health struggles, but man it does get tiresome/worrisome seeing it day after day. None of us mods are trained therapists. I still haven't figured out exactly what to do when people come in and start talking about suicidal thoughts and self-harm, or have meltdowns that freeze the conversation in a channel because it scares everyone else away.
Hey, man! Was a mod around the same time you were on Gamespot...mostly OT, 311Music was my username. Nice to see an old face!I was a moderator on the old Gamespot forums for...four or five years, maybe?
I didn't mind it much, although I probably didn't take it as seriously as I should have. I remember plowing through the moderation queue and ignoring most of the things people had reported because they were pathetic, wimpy complaints.
Did have a number of eye-gouging account suicides to clean up, but it wasn't too bad overall.
Greg (Kasavin) and Alex (Navarro) were probably the staff members who were most active with us, which was nice.
That's definitely the thing about twitch chats is they can be really good as long as they're handled well like that.I was a mod for a pretty popular twitch channel for a couple of years.
And it honestly wasn't that bad since the streamer was cool with straight up permabanning assholes.
This ended up creating a great culture where modding was hardly needed, usually just spam links and backseating.
It did make me paranoid that people only thought my jokes were funny because I was a mod though lol
What was your user nameI was a "Super Moderator" on a terrible, drama-filled Final Fantasy message board (that I loved dearly) about 20 years ago called Final Fantasy Alpha. It was... more drama than it was worth, in hindsight.