Burgeoning Battle Gamma Cmiller Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hey, i was wondering if Jeff pays the Admins and GMs of this forum. Or are you guys just volunteering your own time and life to spiderweb software. Its not like i "need" to know, but just as a curiosity question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 hahahahaha i wish We're an all-volunteer staff. The only kind of compensation we get is free copies of Spiderweb games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 How can you volunteer if the admins ask you You have to be accepted into the mods BEFORE you volunteer. Do you only volunteer? I volunteer to be a mod. Give me my blue name, free game, and muting-powers-that-arn't-lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Lilith The only kind of compensation we get is free copies of Spiderweb games. That, and the thrill of watching the lowly peasant class squirm under their dominion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Actaeon watching the lowly peasant class squirm under their dominion. Help! I'm being repressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I'm still pretty wrinkled. I could use a little repressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Mods are also automatically guaranteed to be 20% sexier than their plebeian subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Harehunter I'm still pretty wrinkled. I could use a little repressing. Only Harehunter would take a perfectly good Monty Python reference and, instead of carrying on the schtick, use it to make a pun instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Well you know my motto, and carry a big Schtick. Maybe I'd better take up some slacks and get the shirt out here before I make a spectacle of myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I Originally Posted By: Captain TrEnToN. How can you volunteer if the admins ask you It's not like they make you an offer you can't refuse. Edit: In theory, I mean. I don't remember anyone who refused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I think Student of Trinity said he refused the first time it was offered because of work taking up his time. But a few more slaves, I mean graduate students, to do the grunt work frees up time. The free games part is recent. Before that mods had to beta test to get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Lilith We're an all-volunteer staff. The only kind of compensation we get is free copies of Spiderweb games. A Nightwatcher that sits under a tree, watching jealously as darkness slowly seeps the afternoon, turning it into night, where the moon (Jeff) shines above all, It's red, shining name, being seen at every angle, It's moonlight (games), being appreciated by citizens of Spiderweb Forums, And it's very treasure, drops to Spiderweb's grounds, with the nobles, dressed in rich, fancy robes and armors, receiving the moonlight, freely, with neither spells nor equipment, at every generation, out comes a new kind moonlight. Where they will receive more and more, While the lowly, plain citizens, have to buy spells or magic, equipment and mirrors, potions and potions, Just to get a moonlight. Anyway, mods do not get payment. After all, every moonlight is received by the nobles. That is a treasure. ----------- -A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Getting paid in free games is a pretty good way to get paid, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 It's $20 a year or so. More when the games were $25, less now that you can pick them up a little bit later but cheaper through Steam, the App Store, and other distributors. But you also get the backlog of games, if you don't have them already. All in all, it's lousy pay for time, but great for doing something we'd do for free! —Alorael, who wouldn't say the mods here are volunteering their time and life to Spiderweb. No more than everyone else on the forums, anyway. If you're going to read and talk, moderating takes relatively little effort most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Alorael who wouldn't say the mods here are volunteering their time and life to Spiderweb. No more than everyone else on the forums, anyway. If you're going to read and talk, moderating takes relatively little effort most of the time. That is until some silly rabbit hops up on the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Alorael moderating takes relatively little effort most of the time Yes but when you're a mod you have to behave yourself (at least more than you would do if you weren't a mod) and make sure that your moderating of others' posts is free from any personal bias. Phew. Originally Posted By: Grand Spiderweb Poll mods and admins are more likely to vote in favour of servile equality Does this mean that moderating a forum eventually affects the way you think in games, and possibly real life, also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: BMA Does this mean that moderating a forum eventually affects the way you think in games, and possibly real life, also. It's more likely that the way you think in real life effects the way you think in games and how you behave on the forums which then determines whether you get selected to be a mod. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk The Reincarnated Baron von Steuben Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Scuttlebutt has it that you are not recruiting at this time. Would I be correct? Also, are there any regular mods (Green) not Global (Blue) like Dikiyoba, Slarty, and Randomizer, (and of course Alorael). Also, is it possible to volunteer unofficially? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Babster30 Scuttlebutt has it that you are not recruiting at this time. Would I be correct? Also, are there any regular mods (Green) not Global (Blue) like Dikiyoba, Slarty, and Randomizer, (and of course Alorael). There are a small number of mods who weren't converted to global mods with the switch to the new forum software, because they'd either basically retired from the forums at that point or were only active in one forum. They still have their forum mod status if they ever return. We're not actively looking for new mods at the moment. Quote: Also, is it possible to volunteer unofficially? I pretty much became a mod by asking "hey, can I become a mod", but I've been around here since forever and had served as a moderator before. For obvious reasons, moderators are generally selected from long-term members who have built up a good reputation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 We gave up making new green mods some years ago, though you might very rarely see one of the old-timers drop round for a visit. Green mods can only moderate particular sub-boards, and it was getting to be too much trouble to keep finding people to look after them individually. Or something. I don't think we need more moderators right now, and since it's a bit of a pain figuring out whom to pick, we don't think about it unless we need to. Normally we take people who have been around a while, because if they've successfully concealed their madness through a few thousand posts, we're optimistic that they'll be able to keep up the act. Also they probably have enough of a feel for how things are supposed to go that we won't have to try to explain it. We don't think of the moderator job as a reward, and so we don't really make much effort to hand it out fairly to the people who most deserve it. There are pillars of the community who just happened to be in a brief period of low visibility when we realized we needed some more mods, and so never got dinged. In a way that's unfair, but my feeling is that if we took modship seriously as this great honor that has to be awarded with justice, we'd be into delusions of grandeur. I'd rather cope with a little arbitrariness in who gets blued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 hey can i become a mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Although you'd expect modly types to favor strict social castes. Perhaps the establishment is actually looking out for us by keeping the megalomaniacs out of power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Actaeon Although you'd expect modly types to favor strict social castes. Perhaps the establishment is actually looking out for us by keeping the megalomaniacs out of power. we were circumspect in our answers in anticipation of a possible sting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Originally Posted By: Actaeon Although you'd expect modly types to favor strict social castes. Perhaps the establishment is actually looking out for us by keeping the megalomaniacs out of power. Or perhaps we just believe that serviles have a right to be megalomaniacs too! Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 dead megalomaniacs. don't encourage the masses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 We believe in rights for serviles, not for forum members. —Alorael, who also believes in rights for fictional entities, not real ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Originally Posted By: Brainpicker We believe in rights for serviles, not for forum members. —Alorael, who also believes in rights for fictional entities, not real ones. Hmm. But aren't our forum identities fictional? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Only the bots like Alorael and Aran at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Does that mean that we've given up on the idea that we're all incarnations of Imban? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Originally Posted By: Actaeon Does that mean that we've given up on the idea that we're all incarnations of Imban? This assumes that Imban isn't another fictional identity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Upon Mars. Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I have a question, who is this Imban to which many "spiderlings" refer to all the time? The name rings a bell and although I feel I'm treading on hollow ground, I'm rather curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 We are all Imban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Upon Mars. Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 You mean simpleton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Imban is an old Spiderwebber who is no longer around, and "everyone is Imban" is a very old Spiderweb meme. Dikiyoba is Imban, and you are Imban too, because old memes never die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Imban is an old Spiderwebber who is no longer around, and "everyone is Imban" is a very old Spiderweb meme. Dikiyoba is Imban, and you are Imban too, because old memes never die. They just fade away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Originally Posted By: Harehunter Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Imban is an old Spiderwebber who is no longer around, and "everyone is Imban" is a very old Spiderweb meme. Dikiyoba is Imban, and you are Imban too, because old memes never die. They just fade away? Not even. You're Imban too. And possibly that guy Zyquex that even I was a bit too late for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Harehunter's so old he's sepia Imban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I am only slightly older than dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Old photos are sepia, or at best black and white. Just because the media of the 1800s had low bandwidth, it's hard not to imagine that reality in the 1800s had the same look and feel as those old pictures. But here is an exhibit that really changed how I thought about the past: color photographs from Tsarist Russia. Shortly before World War I, an inventive photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii toured Russia making color photographs by taking three shots of each scene, using different color filters. His camera recorded the images on glass plates. These plates have survived, and it has proven possible to reproduce full-color images from them. Some of them have weird blurs of color, where the subjects moved a bit between shots, but most of them are pretty good. Those old people in their old-time villages and what not look just like real people. I was really shocked by that, and realized from my shock that I had spent all my life in a fundamental and silly delusion about the past. I didn't actually think it was all sepia-toned or colorless, of course, but subconsciously I didn't fully accept that it was just as real as today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Old photos are sepia, or at best black and white. Just because the media of the 1800s had low bandwidth, it's hard not to imagine that reality in the 1800s had the same look and feel as those old pictures. But here is an exhibit that really changed how I thought about the past: color photographs from Tsarist Russia. That is probably the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. What an incredibly inventive idea for how to get around the limitations of black and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Originally Posted By: Dantius That is probably the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Ditto. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Originally Posted By: Dantius That is probably the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Ditto.Dikiyoba. I'll ACK that. Super cool SoT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 That is one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips. If we had karma ratings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Two of my servers are named Calvin and Hobbes. Click to reveal.. (Bad Rabbit) My dogma likes to go for rides in my karma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Ah, the dog days of summer when we are too lazy to have a pun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Originally Posted By: Bane Ihrno And possibly that guy Zyquex that even I was a bit too late for. I had a dream recently that I met Zxquez. I don't remember what he was like in the dream, but I remember he was "Zoy Zxquez", not just "Zxquez". Actually I don't really remember what he was like in real life either, except that he had multiple accounts and made some BoE scenarios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 All things come back to either Calvin and Hobbes or xkcd. It is known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Originally Posted By: The Almighty Doer of Stuff snip To be fair, all I (thought I) knew was that everybody was him before we were all Imban. Now I'm not even sure that's right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt MMXPERT-seraph of thermodynamics Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 PAY THE MODS PEOPLE! PAY_THE_MODS. There should be a donation button. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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