MetaTalk posts tagged with mods and admins

looking for a blog post 'users are the problem'

the man of twists and turns — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:17:11 -0800

I remember a blog post somewhere advocating for strong moderation, with the theme 'users are the problem.' But now I can't find it. It was from several years ago, and I think I saw it on Metafilter. Many rounds of googling and mefi-searching have been fruitless. The example story was a MUD, in which the players had no oversight, and eventually demanded that the developers step in as moderators and administrators to deal with resultant problems. Does anyone else remember this?

Though now they are giants, once they were just like us.

ocherdraco — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:22 -0800

What were the mods like (on Metafilter) before they were mods? Please point me to notable posts by Jessamyn, Cortex, et al from when they were just some schmo on MeFi like you or me. This query inspired by Matt's blog post reflecting on 10 years of Metafilter.

Europe Admin Needed

Jimbob — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:53:01 -0800

Hey Matt and Jess, how's about promoting a mod from Europe, or dare I say Australia, so we can kill crap like this before we give the self-promoting little jerk a soapbox? (I'm only half kidding.)

Contacting the Admins

spaghetti — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:46:33 -0800

There seems to be no clear way to contact the administrators for users who are not familiar with the site. Could we add a contact link up in the top nav section, or somewhere obvious?

MeFi admin double standard for posts?

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:13:00 -0800

At the same time that mathowie posts a site hosting game ROMs from the 1980s, my link to a BitTorrent file of a 1950s and -60s recording of a 19th century classical work was removed. Funny ol' world...

Shoutout for the Mods

orthogonality — Sat, 07 May 2005 15:45:55 -0800

I'd be remiss after publicly joining in the criticism of silent edits by the admins if I didn't publicly thank jessamyn for demonstrating that she does listen to complaints. Thanks jessamyn!

Thanks, Mods!

anastasiav — Tue, 03 May 2005 10:46:02 -0800

I'm not completely sure who is babysitting Metafilter while Matt has way more important things going on, but I just wanted to say "Thanks" to whomever is keeping an eye on things and also "Thanks" to the community for (apparently) keeping the chaos to a minimum while he's away.