Welcome New Moderators!

[Rawhide]

And there I was, understanding it as somebody who romances using pies...

I thought it was someone who forms a romantic attachment to pies.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more delicious and more filling.

[Tvtyrant]

Congratz to all of you! I for one welcome our new overlords :D

[SiuiS]

Congratulations, friends!

More filling, Rawhide? depends on the pie, I would think.

[Rockphed]

Wait, who let all this riff-raff in? *sigh* Quality standards have really gone to the dogs of late.

I know I've said it before, but congratulations and welcome to the team!

Wait, there used to be quality standards on the mods? Then how did you ever get on the team.

In seriousness, I only know what half of the new mods are by name, though I do recognize avatars. I must really be withdrawing from Giantitp. Which is sad, since this is one of the best places on the internet, in large part thanks to the tireless, and often thankless, efforts of the mods. Go forth young moderators! Ban trolls! Retrack threads! Be mighty in the fight against the innumerable hoards of the spam-bots. Yay, if your ban hammers shed one thousandth the bits that the mighty Rawhide has spilt, then ye are heroes in the fight for civilization!

[Killer Angel]

All hail the new Mods!
Congrats, and good work!

[AtlanteanTroll]

I for one welcome our new new moderator overlords.

[pendell]

Mod, eh? Well I didn't vote for you!

You don't vote for mods
[snip monty python sketch]

Congrats to our new mods! May you be firm but fair, impartial yet compassionate.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Duck999]

Congratz to all of you! I for one welcome our new overlords :D

I for one welcome our new new moderator overlords.

I, for three, welcome them.
Get your numbers right AtlanteanTroll.
Why haven't the mods appeared on the list for each section yet?

[Rockphed]

I, for three, welcome them.
Get your numbers right AtlanteanTroll.
Why haven't the mods appeared on the list for each section yet?

For the same reason there was a call for more volunteers to moderate: the mods, especially the super-mod and administrator, are overworked and paid only in the sunshine and happiness the forum chooses to bestow upon them.

[Douglas]

For the same reason there was a call for more volunteers to moderate: the mods, especially the super-mod and administrator, are overworked and paid only in the sunshine and happiness the forum chooses to bestow upon them.

I've already lost count of the number of spam bots that I, personally, have banned. Over a dozen, easily.

[Vaynor]

Oh, my sweet summer mod, what do you know of bans? Bans are for the spammers, my little mod, when the spam threads fall a hundred feet deep and the bots comes howling out of the north. Bans are for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little playgrounders are born and live and die all in darkness while the FFRPers grow gaunt and hungry, and the spam bots move through the woods.

[Seerow]

I've already lost count of the number of spam bots that I, personally, have banned. Over a dozen, easily.

Honestly being able to ban the spambots sounds like payment for services in of itself.

[The Glyphstone]

Honestly being able to ban the spambots sounds like payment for services in of itself.

It is amazingly cathartic at times, but on the other hand, it can feel like trying to plug holes in a dam with a stack of flyswatters.

[enderlord99]

I'm really happy for you, but there's one way in which this also makes me kind of sad:

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There is now at least one amazing fancomic (Hero's Quest) which the author will forever be too busy to update. Also, another decent one (Angelic Slayer.)

I know, First World Problems and all that...

[137beth]

Congratulations to all new mods!
[QUOTE=pendell;18380115]Mod, eh? Well I didn't vote for you!

You don't vote for mods
[snip monty python sketch]
QUOTE]

Then how do you become mod?
The Lady of the Playground Pond...

[pendell]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing banhammers is no basis for a system of moderation!

*Runs*

Brian P.

[SMEE]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing banhammers is no basis for a system of moderation!

*Runs*

Brian P.

It totally is, and I distribute "ban-weapon-of-choices" to whomever I deem worthy!

[137beth]

I have to say, I'll miss averagejoe, though. He gave me my first infraction. Playground nostalgia, and all that.

It totally is, and I distribute "ban-weapon-of-choices" to whomever I deem worthy!

Your signature has "banner" in it! Does that mean you plan on bannering everyone who reads your posts?

[Savannah]

I'm really happy for you, but there's one way in which this also makes me kind of sad:

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There is now at least one amazing fancomic (Hero's Quest) which the author will forever be too busy to update. Also, another decent one (Angelic Slayer.)

I know, First World Problems and all that...

Aww I'm actually hoping to get back to it once I finish this *(#^#@ Master's thesis (I'm having...issues...at the moment), which will free up some time.

[Haruki-kun]

I'm really happy for you, but there's one way in which this also makes me kind of sad:

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There is now at least one amazing fancomic (Hero's Quest) which the author will forever be too busy to update. Also, another decent one (Angelic Slayer.)

I know, First World Problems and all that...

Oh, awesome! Someone who remembers that.

Well, I stopped working on that years ago, so it's no big change here. The source material has changed a lot over the years.

[Zar Peter]

Congratulations Cassie and Haruki! And all the other moderators. I remember being punted by Cassie when she was that small! And now she's grown up and moderating... I'm proud!

Avatar as celebration by Castaras

[SiuiS]

For the same reason there was a call for more volunteers to moderate: the mods, especially the super-mod and administrator, are overworked and paid only in the sunshine and happiness the forum chooses to bestow upon them.

Oh those poor souls

Honestly being able to ban the spambots sounds like payment for services in of itself.

I'll give you that.

It is amazingly cathartic at times, but on the other hand, it can feel like trying to plug holes in a dam with a stack of flyswatters.

... And that. <_<

Then how do you become mod?
The Lady of the Playground Pond...

Oooh, that's nice. I'll remember that.