Please welcome our 'NEW' super moderator!
- Thread starter Plainview
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No. No large avatars. They already got banners damn it. I already feel like i failed in life. If only i could sugarcoat sh!t and hold my emotions back i coulda been a mod someday. I don't care about the powers, i just want all the perks. I could settle on a banner that reads "Pinnacle of posters".
lol, j/k of course. Here's how it really went down.
I got fed up, I quit. PV and Showers made it clear that I was welcome back, if I wanted to. I think they sensed (rightly) that I was approaching my mod duties too seriously, had burnt myself out, and that I might return after a break. PV invited me to participate in the discussions about new mods and then opened the new mod forums to me.
Over the intervening month, I had time to "recover," so to speak, and to get back to being my old self on the forum. I thought about how I had approached the task, and how I had made things more onerous for myself than I needed to. Most of my annoyance was self-created, as it usually is. I played around with the idea of returning, and I developed some rules for myself, so that if I returned, it would be in a different, less serious and diligent way. I have a problem with over-responsibility in my life, and I needed to back off of that. The list of rules is sitting on my desk next to me right now.
Eventually, I felt confident that I could return without repeating what happened before. Having 4 new mods also reassured me that I wouldn't get into the same rut. Having access to the mod forum reminded me how I liked being a part of those discussions. So I asked PV if he'd take me back as a mod, and he accepted without any discussion. That's about it.
I think I can see the upsides and downsides better now. I like being a mod, but I wouldn't have a problem giving it up, either -- there is more freedom in being a normal member.
Anyhow, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
I got fed up, I quit. PV and Showers made it clear that I was welcome back, if I wanted to. I think they sensed (rightly) that I was approaching my mod duties too seriously, had burnt myself out, and that I might return after a break. PV invited me to participate in the discussions about new mods and then opened the new mod forums to me.
Over the intervening month, I had time to "recover," so to speak, and to get back to being my old self on the forum. I thought about how I had approached the task, and how I had made things more onerous for myself than I needed to. Most of my annoyance was self-created, as it usually is. I played around with the idea of returning, and I developed some rules for myself, so that if I returned, it would be in a different, less serious and diligent way. I have a problem with over-responsibility in my life, and I needed to back off of that. The list of rules is sitting on my desk next to me right now.
Eventually, I felt confident that I could return without repeating what happened before. Having 4 new mods also reassured me that I wouldn't get into the same rut. Having access to the mod forum reminded me how I liked being a part of those discussions. So I asked PV if he'd take me back as a mod, and he accepted without any discussion. That's about it.
I think I can see the upsides and downsides better now. I like being a mod, but I wouldn't have a problem giving it up, either -- there is more freedom in being a normal member.
Anyhow, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Oh, okay.
I wasn't sure, since I see that as the "cool story, bro" face. I thought maybe I went on too long (who me?).
