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Originally Posted by griddlebone
(Post 3383196)
It gets to the point where the bad points outweigh the good and the job becomes more of a millstone than anything else.
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Liv is spot on. Modding sucks the joy out of this website. After awhile, the site becomes a chore and a job.
Cynicism sets in after a while when you can see the user pages of everyone blazened with their past sins and you only see the shitty parts of life via the reports that you deal with. When you see enough people you liked/trusted doing things like encouraging people to self harm or flaming people only because they got board, it is very hard to have a positive outlook.
Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” It is very true. I spent too much time and energy trying to track down banned editors who were socking, subtle trolls and the like. In that process I became little better than them. If you look through my posts, especially in mod land, I became less and less civil and quicker and quicker to judgement. I went from being a mod who argued for leniency to one of the mods who was fairly willing to use bans liberally. This happens to most mods near the end of their cycle who became
too involved with the behind the scenes part of the site.
I guess what I am trying to say is modding can, and does, suck. Sure there are great things about the job. Both teams are like your family and you come to rely on them but that does not outweigh all of the ****ing negatives of the job. That is why long term mods leave their positions many of them leave the site. I did when I RageQuit®.
Some, come back after a vacation from RYL.
A small group return to modding. Most of these zombie mods, like myself, last for a bit but they don't last. A wide man one said, "'It is impossible to love again anything you have truly ceased to love.' Members who return after retirement, or after a wearied or bitter departure, may post again, but never with the same passion they once brought to the community. Each successive return will be with diminished dedication and shorter duration." I was a zombie mod.
Some mods emerti come back from their vacation (or their second) and go into lighter staff roles or just as a normal community member, sometimes under a not well known username.
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Originally Posted by Eccentrics
(Post 3382960)
I know they weren't leaving RYL for good, I just can't find the right word right now.
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I am neither here or there. This is my first time on RYL in a 4 weeks or so. I am trying to get around finishing revising for my chem and philosophy exams.
Sorry for the TL;DR wall of text. I should go back to revising, rugby, uni life, wikipedia, reddit and beer. Have a good one.
