Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation
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I originally mentioned this in Tales from Stack Exchange - Coworker is lying about having kids. What should I do?
, but I thought it deserved a wider audience...
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said:Moderators are supposed to be exemplars of 99% good community behavior, and part of good community behavior is recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own!
recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own
recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own
recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own
recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own
Filed under: Did he seriously write that? The irony is strong with this one.
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@DoctorJones Like I said in the other thread: Jeff was an administrator / founder, not a moderator.
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@JBert do as I say, not as I do. I'm different!
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/looks at present day moderator list.
No problems with that here, nosiree!
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@DoctorJones said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
said:Moderators are supposed to be exemplars of 99% good community behavior, and part of good community behavior is recognizing problem behaviors -- even your own!
Alanis Morissette called. She wants her irony back.
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@JBert said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
That's different.
So, Jeff is a mobile?
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@TimeBandit said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
@JBert said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
That's different.
So, Jeff is a mobile?
If so, he's an iFĂĽn.
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@TimeBandit said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
So, Jeff is a mobile?
I thought he was more like a car?
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@TimeBandit said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
@JBert said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
That's different.
So, Jeff is a mobile?
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@djls45 From the famous Jeff excuse of "Oh, mobile. That's different" (or something like that)
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@TimeBandit Yeah, I know that. I was recontextualizing it. :)
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@Weng said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
/looks at present day moderator list.
No problems with that here, nosiree!
Nope, there aren't any problems with it. ;)
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@Luhmann said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
@TimeBandit said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
So, Jeff is a mobile?
I thought he was more like a car?
If we're going for car analogies I would compare him to a BMW SUV driver: rage inducing, always plowing straight ahead until, without blinking, he turns left.
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@JBert said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
@Luhmann said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
@TimeBandit said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
So, Jeff is a mobile?
I thought he was more like a car?
If we're going for car analogies I would compare him to a BMW SUV driver: rage inducing, always plowing straight ahead until, without blinking, he turns left.
from the far right lane.
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@DoctorJones said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
The irony is strong with this one.
The self-awareness is not.
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@JBert said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
I would compare him to a BMW SUV driver
No, someone who spends all his money on a custom paint job, gold-plated wheels and (fake luxury brand) badge, "sports car" exhaust resonators, and a sound system that shakes the fenders off, for a car with 3 cylinders, bad suspension, and no brakes (but that doesn't matter, because it doesn't run anyway).
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@Weng said in Tales from Stack Exchange - A lesson from Jeff about moderation:
/looks at present day moderator list.
No problems with that here, nosiree!
"Problem behaviours" would first require any behaviours
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@hungrier
is a behaviou?r. It's a passive behaviou?r, but it is a behaviou?r.
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