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So you know that Lynn is paid? Well that looks like an easy job, moderating 10 posts a day isn't too hard. Also "moding" can not possibly be misspelled since it is not even a word, "mod" is an abbreviation of moderator, and "moding" is an abbreviation of moderating. In this case anyway, the same abbreviations are used for modification and modifying. (Actually mod is a word but it is no longer used and has to do with fashion in the 1960s) Oh, and you misspelled "misspelled", which is very ironic when you are trying to correct someone else's spelling.


I see you are fresh here, and green behind the ears.

Listen, buddy, Lynn is not a Moderator. She does this, because she did it all the time. Larian doesn't have moderators per se. There are staff members, who moderate because they do it. It's work besides to their, work, you see ?

As you can read somewhere, Lynn was originally hired as a graphical artist. I don't know what she's actually doing now, but that was her primary job. She does other work, because it shifted towards that.

At the end of my training as a IT-person, I worked in a *very* small company, less than 10 people. I worked there as a programmer - internship, to be exact - and they had to fire the secretary, because otherwise the company would've died. I was a programmer then, but had to do the duty of being a quasi-Secretary. I had to do it, because someone had to do it..

So now, Lynn does what she does, buddy, because there's someone who has to do it. Do you expect programmers and graphical artists to be proper secretaries and moderators ? Don't expect too much. Marian and Lynn are moderators here, and Rat does the programming, and everyone does some moderating, when there's no-one else available at the moment. They do it, because they did it all the time. And that began long before you have arrived here.

I guess you have never moderated your self. You don't give the impression to me of someone who is trained to do such delicate work. No, I know what I say, and I mean it. It's easy to shout at peple, to throw them out because they behaved not politely, but being polite your self, being the glue of the community, that's what a *real* moderator does and where his or her heart is, what its heart is at.

A soldier knows how to fight. A Seargant knows how to shout. A General knows how to give orders. But if he also knows how to moderate between two parties which are standing on two sides, weapons ready, bloodlust in their eyes, ready to kill one nother, then he or she's a genius. Believe me, proper moderating is an Art, no matter what you think about it right now.

And don't correct me. It's useless. I write like I want to.

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Last edited by AlrikFassbauer; 26/09/04 01:54 PM.

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