Current Events > I am a GameFAQs Influencer.

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Because you turn away from GameFAQs 360
degrees and walk away

I smashed Lan's Subscribe button. ;)

I have been influenced

I tipped you 5 karmies.

BAN

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LAN

caps

I have been influenced

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Dont let Fandom win, tbh

You actually are. Whether you like to admit it or not as a moderator the regulars will look to mimic your behavior.

This can be particularly troublesome if a moderator has a strong controversial opinion towards a subject or individual user. Of course, as community members of GameFaqs your going to have just as wide a range of opinions and emmotions as everyone else, but say for instance a moderator expresses displeasure towards an individual user, game, or entity (like Fandom) its going to subconsciously encourage the regular userbase to dogpile on.

Even if that was not the moderators intent, and the initial piece of content that the moderator contributed was not made with malicious intentthe users who will dogpile on might cross the ToS, into harassment or trolling territory.

Of course, moderators dont just influence bad behavior, in fact they mostly influence good behavior. They lead by example.

Its why moderators, despite being a volunteer position, give up some community privledges in exchange for a smidge of professionalism.

Its not to say they have to fully exit the community or give up on having strong opinionsit just means they need to be cognizant of how their behavior can influence others.

Ive used the following analogy before, and Ill use it again because I think it fitsbut being a moderator is not quite Spider-Man levels of with great power comes great responsibility but it does come with some degree of self-awareness. In general, I think the vast majority of the moderation team does a good job in this regard.

Im very critical of the moderation system in general, but over the course of 20+ years of moderators volunteering their time, it is particularly rare to encounter one that actually cognitively makes an effort to use their influence at all. If it happens its usually on accident.

It is however why I think the hellhole board should be purged. I get thats its meant to be a bit of a social club for moderators, but unless its made into a community board where those moderations dont affect your greater standing its not good to keep operationalbecause regular users go to it and observe the leadership team joshing around, and they start to mimick them.

Thats unfortunately how the confusion regarding howmemes that if said in the wrong board lead to suspensionsshenanigans/confusion start to materialize.

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You actually are. Whether you like to admit it or not as a moderator the regulars will look to mimic your behavior.

This can be particularly troublesome if a moderator has a strong controversial opinion towards a subject or individual user. Of course, as community members of GameFaqs your going to have just as wide a range of opinions and emmotions as everyone else, but say for instance a moderator expresses displeasure towards an individual user, game, or entity (like Fandom) its going to subconsciously encourage the regular userbase to dogpile on.

Even if that was not the moderators intent, and the initial piece of content that the moderator contributed was not made with malicious intentthe users who will dogpile on might cross the ToS, into harassment or trolling territory.

Of course, moderators dont just influence bad behavior, in fact they mostly influence good behavior. They lead by example.

Its why moderators, despite being a volunteer position, give up some community privledges in exchange for a smidge of professionalism.

Its not to say they have to fully exit the community or give up on having strong opinionsit just means they need to be cognizant of how their behavior can influence others.

Ive used the following analogy before, and Ill use it again because I think it fitsbut being a moderator is not quite Spider-Man levels of with great power comes great responsibility but it does come with some degree of self-awareness. In general, I think the vast majority of the moderation team does a good job in this regard.

Im very critical of the moderation system in general, but over the course of 20+ years of moderators volunteering their time, it is particularly rare to encounter one that actually cognitively makes an effort to use their influence at all. If it happens its usually on accident.

It is however why I think the hellhole board should be purged. I get thats its meant to be a bit of a social club for moderators, but unless its made into a community board where those moderations dont affect your greater standing its not good to keep operationalbecause regular users go to it and observe the leadership team joshing around, and they start to mimick them.

Thats unfortunately how the confusion regarding howmemes that if said in the wrong board lead to suspensionsshenanigans/confusion start to materialize.

You actually are. Whether you like to admit it or not as a moderator the regulars will look to mimic your behavior.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e22f111e.jpg

You can't, sorry.

Fuck off.

Thats unfortunately how the confusion regarding howmemes that if said in the wrong board lead to suspensionsshenanigans/confusion start to materialize.

Oh for the love of God. Get a hobby. Try craft brewing. Or crossfit. Something else to fit your "nobody asked" personality.

Im fighting on a boxing PPV event in London on June 15th.

Does that count?

I'd do the whole "sir, This is a Wendy's." type thing, but the way you act tells me you never go outside.

This can be particularly troublesome if a moderator has a strong controversial opinion towards a subject or individual user. Of course, as community members of GameFaqs your going to have just as wide a range of opinions and emmotions as everyone else, but say for instance a moderator expresses displeasure towards an individual user, game, or entity (like Fandom) its going to subconsciously encourage the regular userbase to dogpile on.

Even if that was not the moderators intent, and the initial piece of content that the moderator contributed was not made with malicious intentthe users who will dogpile on might cross the ToS, into harassment or trolling territory.

Its why moderators, despite being a volunteer position, give up some community privledges in exchange for a smidge of professionalism.

Oh no, please understand, there's no confusion on my end.

Fuck off. If you don't like me saying it, feel free to report this message.

Did you ring my notification bell?

You actually are. Whether you like to admit it or not as a moderator the regulars will look to mimic your behavior.

This can be particularly troublesome if a moderator has a strong controversial opinion towards a subject or individual user. Of course, as community members of GameFaqs your going to have just as wide a range of opinions and emmotions as everyone else, but say for instance a moderator expresses displeasure towards an individual user, game, or entity (like Fandom) its going to subconsciously encourage the regular userbase to dogpile on.

Even if that was not the moderators intent, and the initial piece of content that the moderator contributed was not made with malicious intentthe users who will dogpile on might cross the ToS, into harassment or trolling territory.

Of course, moderators dont just influence bad behavior, in fact they mostly influence good behavior. They lead by example.

Its why moderators, despite being a volunteer position, give up some community privledges in exchange for a smidge of professionalism.

Its not to say they have to fully exit the community or give up on having strong opinionsit just means they need to be cognizant of how their behavior can influence others.

Ive used the following analogy before, and Ill use it again because I think it fitsbut being a moderator is not quite Spider-Man levels of with great power comes great responsibility but it does come with some degree of self-awareness. In general, I think the vast majority of the moderation team does a good job in this regard.

Im very critical of the moderation system in general, but over the course of 20+ years of moderators volunteering their time, it is particularly rare to encounter one that actually cognitively makes an effort to use their influence at all. If it happens its usually on accident.

It is however why I think the hellhole board should be purged. I get thats its meant to be a bit of a social club for moderators, but unless its made into a community board where those moderations dont affect your greater standing its not good to keep operationalbecause regular users go to it and observe the leadership team joshing around, and they start to mimick them.

Thats unfortunately how the confusion regarding howmemes that if said in the wrong board lead to suspensionsshenanigans/confusion start to materialize.

I am an avid subscriber to #BanTheLan. Always was, always will be. I enjoyed our windups and of course as part of Batch 16 you probably saw a lot of it. I just checked and wow, you and Lazy are the only two left from our batch.

Would love to share some of the tags I still have for you guys. @Optimus_Magnus is still called "Maggie". Love you bro <3

Also, when I was a mod my signature was "HELLO I ARE GAMEFAQ MODERATER PLEESED TO MEAT U". I wish I influenced people to be more light-hearted.

I sure did. ;D

lol lan

Mimic deez nutz!