I only want to be a mod so I can ban all the stupid lieberals and dumbocraps! Women too.

eddyatwork: I only want to be a mod so I can ban all the stupid lieberals and dumbocraps! Women too.

And people out of work. Seriously, fark those guys. McDonalds is hiring.

As long as its not YouTube or MLive, sign me up.

Weaver95: I don't think I'd want to be a fark moderator. it seems a thankless job.

Thanks aren't needed, the limitless power is compensation enough.
I keed cause I love
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casual disregard: 80k isn't bad in exchange for dealing with the dregs of various webs. We get plenty of that here just by being Fark Lieberals when the Hateful Rightists emerge from their crypts.

Hmm. There's at least one ignored user in this thread, no doubt expressing butthurt.

I always assumed they got unpaid interns to do that sort of thing.

FarkMods all suck gigantic, Donkey Kong-sized testicles. Except for the flamingly gay ones. They all munch hairy vaginas.

casual disregard: 80k? I was expecting maybe a notch over minimum wage.

Well, TFA says this is heading offshore, so it won't last long.

It'll be interesting (in the Chinese curse sense) to see the failure modes from that - a foreign mod may not understand why asking for recipes in a cat lovers forum might be a bit inflammatory.

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I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

stiletto_the_wise: I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

Spend some time at sites like 4chan, then get back to us ;)

SpinStopper: stiletto_the_wise: I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

Spend some time at sites like 4chan, then get back to us ;)

You candle-sniffing fark-fence. Go climb a wall of dicks.

stiletto_the_wise: I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

If were were allowed to say fark or show pictures of breasts uncensored, the assholes who advertise zombie themed knock-offs might take their business to a more proper forum.

That's why censorship (unrelated to government/constitutional issues) threads are so fun. Most farkers will cry and cry about it, not realizing that they support a highly conservative (not politically) website

rorypk: stiletto_the_wise: I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

If were were allowed to say fark or show pictures of breasts uncensored, the assholes who advertise zombie themed knock-offs might take their business to a more proper forum.

That's why censorship (unrelated to government/constitutional issues) threads are so fun. Most farkers will cry and cry about it, not realizing that they support a highly conservative (not politically) website

I think the advertising argument for censorship is bullshiat; twitter is not censored beyond illegal content and people are plenty willing to advertise and allow customers to contact them on twitter, even if they say fark.

SpinStopper: Spend some time at sites like 4chan, then get back to us ;)

I have. Ooooh they say the N-word and post pictures of naked people. The horror.

Actually, I would say the mods here on Fark let a lot of stuff fly that most other sites wouldn't. As long as it is at least a little funny, you can insult either gender, any ethnicity, midgets, the gheys, the straights, people who wnet to crappy schools, people who earned liberal arts degrees, how people with engineering degrees can't get laid, and so on. Probably the only exception is if you say something just outrageously over-the-top.

The only posts I have ever had deleted were actually pretty benign and the only reason I can think of why the moderator deleted them was because s/he disagreed with what I said on philosophical grounds. Just didn't agree with my POV regarding GSEs and nuked my posts because of it.

Not many people can make it past the micropenis requirement.

I guess that is why, as the article says, most mods are middle aged women. They are also hard to shock and have no problem scolding those who misbehave.

Well, TFA says this is heading offshore, so it won't last long.

Offshore moderation will probably have the same success as offshore phone helplines. A lot at first, due to the low cost, and then less and less as people realize that they are getting what they are paying for and no more.

stiletto_the_wise: I don't really understand the need for comment moderators (A.K.A. censors) on most sites (including here). I guess if you're the Chinese government or something, having them makes sense, but I've always thought why have a damn forum if you're just going to erase comments you don't like?

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, off-topic posts, and spam.

Of course, what's "off-topic" somewhere like PriusChat may be fine somewhere like Fark.

To those commenting about mods getting paid minimum wage: Think about the kind of people that would apply for that job at minimum wage. You really want that pimply-faced little a-hole from Micky D's moderating a website like NPR, Yahoo, or Moms-To-Be? Ha!

Higher pay = better candidates, something many companies these days have forgotten

Saborlas: I wasn't expecting to beat all the Fark mods in here. I was expecting them to block all non-mod comments until they'd all had a chance to demand that Drew start paying them.
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you say that as if it doesn't happen for some people already.

Hmmmm, I was the modmin for 5 years at a smaller forum for free......$80K a year, I may have to apply :D

rorypk: That's why censorship (unrelated to government/constitutional issues) threads are so fun. Most farkers will cry and cry about it, not realizing that they support a highly conservative (not politically) website

Fark actually has a pretty hands-off moderating approach, at least compared to some forums I've seen. The mods are usually fairly objective and enforce only the rules that are written down.

I've seen forums where mods are given the authority to apply much more subjective criteria, deleting posts or reprimanding people for off-topic, low-content, inflammatory, or otherwise disagreeable stuff.

baorao 2011-12-04 01:05:08 PM As long as its not YouTube or MLive, sign me up.
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What about a far-right conservative website?

Like... freepers? You REALLY want that job?

Course, unless you were a far-right conservative yourself, they wouldn't hire you.

/Also, yahoo. Just pick a yahoo news article at random and read the comments. They make youtube seem like rainbows and unicorns.

sign me up (as long $80K is involved). i've never had a God-complex before. I think all that power sounds super-fun.

/i'd still do it for half that

Are they they trying to make it seem like Gawker is some unmoderated Wild West governed only by page views? What a load of crap... It's one of the most heavily, and poorly, moderated group of sites on the internet. I thought it was great when I discovered them, but found out pretty quickly that they're some of the most self-promoting, thin-skinned, elitist prick asshats out there.

Fark mods are some of the bravest, warmest, kindest, most wonderful people I have ever known in my life.

how much are they getting at ESPN?

/what i stepped in earlier > Tebow?

Gulper Eel: Lord help the forum that ever let me moderate.

The people who fark up you're/your and their/they're/there would be first to feel the wrath of the banhammer. I might even track them down and send a squad of English teachers over to waterboard them and not let them back into polite society until they get their linguistic shiat together.

I would of done the same thing.

Don't admit you can do your $80k a year job from a cabana in Mexico. You'll be replaced by someone making $5k a year in a sweat shop in Bangladesh.

I think the salary for a Gaia Online moderator is a t-shirt autographed by Lanzer and two boxes of Ding-Dongs.

Oh, and Marketplace stock options.