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Ridley Starsmore
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I am not sure I would qualify... as much as I'd have the time to move threads about when I'm on, and I don't keep people on my block list ever, so I'd see everyone.
I think I had a formal warning about something once? I can't remember. And I'm not sure I report enough either... I atone for having my sig disabled once by reporting any sig violations I see, though.
Plus... hmm... pink names draw attention... I don't mind having the attention of you folks when I'm saying something I think is worth hearing... but... in general? Hmm.
Good to see some folks doing the hard yards though.
Edit: Sometimes I really wish I could be an FA specifically for the Q&A forum... I often try to redirect people in there, it'd be so much quicker to just be able to relocate their thread for them to the correct area so they could get help quicker.
Well...I have been warned a couple times, had my signature disabled, told to change my avvie due to it being too adult and been banned.
Yet...here I am?
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If you make the effort, you can can do it. But it has to be a sincere effort.
We all know you slipped them sexy photos of yourself.
I tried. The admin responding tossed their cookies. It was horrible.
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If there is ONE thing I can say about the FA stuff, it's that I have to be careful about half the jokes that go through my head.
Not that they are bad, but can be easily misunderstood. I was talking to a mod about an issue, and we kept crossing paths and missing each other. And it made me laugh a little and I made a comment about it. But another staff member thought I was laughing at the mod, and not the cruel irony of me trying to find someone, and missing each other by a couple seconds going either way.
Had to explain that a bit. And it makes me think about how often something I've said can be taken the wrong way even if I intended no harm about it. And while I am sure some of that I could have applied to just being a regular Gaian, I actually put some thought into it as staff.
You have no idea how...weird that is for me. I'm not normally known to restrain myself that way.
For some folks, it can be an incredibly easy job. There are some FAs (I cite Winter as an example) who are very polite to others, and make the job look really easy. And I give them props for that. But I look at it like I do anything else. I practice what it takes, and I will get better.
So when someone says "I don't think I am cut out to be an FA/Mod/Whatever" I would say to them "Do not sell yourself short. If I can do it, you can do it. Just takes doing the work, and making the effort."