User blog:Zacheh/Being a Moderator.

Being a moderator? What is this Zach?

I just wanted to talk about how it can be pretty damn hard to be a moderator of well... anything, really.

For those of you who haven't been a moderator of a site with a lot of people (or a moderator at all), you must think I'm joking. "Getting to give infractions/kick/block/ban to users is hard?" It's not so much that that's hard as it is the users.

Being a moderator is hard (yes Zach, we get it). You have the users who basically just want to do whatever the heck they want and have nothing done to them. These people want basically no rules. I can understand that, I'd be the same way pretty much, if I was a user (unless I was sucking up to become a higher rank). But it's hard to do that. You can't just let things get out of control, enough is enough eventually.

Okay, so what's really so hard? It gets hard when it comes time to kick/ban someone. I'm mainly going to be referring to Xat from here-on-out. Let's say drama is ocurring and you're the only mod online. Okay, no problem. You being a more relaxed mod, you just let it run its course. But what happens when you check back 5 minutes later, and it's still going on and on and on? That's when it's most likely time for some action. So you kick the people involved in the drama. Okay, no problem. However, when they log back in from the kick, you get the "FUCK MODS. U GAIZ SUX IM GOIN 2 ANOTHER CHAT WERE DEY DONT HAZ RUELS". Obviously, you don't want the chat dead because of too much rule enforcing, and obviously, you don't want the chat to just be a drama filled chat with no rule enforcing.

It's pretty hard. I commend the people who put up with this crap. The people who want to enforce the rules, but when they do, they get crap back. It's as if the rules are just a page filler or something.

However, I can understand from a normal users perspective that they don't want a mod constantly enforcing the rules, I would get quite bothered by that myself. You came to the chat to chat, right (let that topic be whatever), and you just get a mod who doesn't care and just only cares about the rules and is constantly enforcing them. I get that.

What do you guys think?