Re: The official save me the time of having to find you you already know your getting
We get paid nothing for being a mod and it takes the right kind of person to be a mod. You have to be a pretty selfless person and be ready to be called everything but that by people who think they know shit.
You have to be willing to work hours a day for little to nothing and do it well people point and call you names because they think they know more then you. You have to look out for the best interest of the masses and the forum its self all at the same time. All well getting shit on by one group of people who think they can do your job better and then looked up to by another group. The rest of your time you spend answering the same questions 300 times a hour and then having 298 of them people go and do what ever the feel like doing anyway. You have to keep your self safe, the site safe, and the members safe well trying to explain why to the 10 people who think they know better. You have to brake up fights and some times pick a side knowing the other side will hate you for it. You have to be ready to literally have thousands of people out there on the net "hate your guts" because they think you are not good enough, or because you band them for braking the rules and many other reasons. Be ready to have people try to call every 3 letter agency in the book on you and try to get you in trouble for thing they think you are doing or hope you are doing.
As a moderator, one of your jobs is to enforce the guidelines, standards, rules, whatever of the community that have been put in place for good reasons and these reasons will get questioned "daily". So then you your self are held to a higher standard and must always follow these rules and be ready to defend them ( here on elite will ban you if you question them sorry we got no time to pamper you)
Mods do get lazy, Mods forget or – worse – mods some times think they are entitled to forget the rules because they are moderators. This is completely backwards. ANd at elite we never allow it. We have cheks and balances to prevent it.
I’ve known people who have become a moderator (on sites I didn’t manage) who had the attitude that it was their actions as a member that earned them a moderator role and, as such, they were going to keep doing what they have always done. The fun line is something like “I’m not going to change who I am.”
Not on my fucking team!!!!!!!!!!
Problem is, who you are has nothing to do with it. For example, you probably act and dress different at your home than you do at your job. Are either of those people “not you”? No, they are both you, just different kinds of you. when you as a mod sign into this forum as a part of this team you are held to the standards of the site, my self and this team.
When you step to the moderator level, your existence on a community is changed. You are no longer just another member. What is required of you is higher than normal members. You are a staff member and you must show everyone how an exemplary member in the community participates. You can no longer think of yourself as a normal member. You have to understand and be comfortable with your responsibilities. And do so for no other reason then your love of the site, its members, and the subjects the forum is about. Learn to be upfront without being harsh.
In my house, in order to be picked to be a mod, you have to act like one first: Helping members and answering questions. Getting members started. You do the work first and then I punish you by making you do more of it. and I make you a mod lol.
If you want to be a mod on the elitefitness team then roll up your cyber-sleeves and get ready to work as well as stand by.
your team mates. Not just anyone can be a mod it takes a lot of the following.
being a mod is guiding and showing the the way for other people and helping them work together to find direction. It's getting people to cooperate and do things together. And trust me there is always going to be some one who wants to stop you and get in your way of doing this.
To some people, beaing a mod means means power and respect. To some, including me, it means responsibility.
Sometimes, there is a misconception that when you are a Moderator (like my self) to a certain body or team, you have the power and will gain respect from your lower level mods and team mates.
I know it feels good to be the mod because to some because they are higher, respected, bowed, powerful, etc... But on this team I I look for and I try to be a head mod/mod by it's true meaning - not just by word?
This is just the half of it guys.
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