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Admins vs. Mods
December 31, 2013 at 7:15 pm
How exactly do the responsibilities of a moderator differ from that of an administrator?
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
December 31, 2013 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2013 at 7:53 pm by Tonus.)
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Oh, sorry. You said responsibilities. I was thinking of the other end. >.<
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
December 31, 2013 at 9:25 pm
(December 31, 2013 at 7:52 pm)Tonus Wrote: Admin:
Oh, sorry. You said responsibilities. I was thinking of the other end. >.<
What the bloody hell is this?
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
December 31, 2013 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2013 at 9:41 pm by wolf39us.)
My guess would be Moderators would take care of the front lines. Spammers, Trolls, Bots etc. Moderators on most forums are also mostly responsible for the overall "morale" of the forum and keeping things moving smoothly.
Admins are usually a couple of tiers. There's usually a couple who have access to the root files and do all of or most of the programming. The other admins are the ones who poke around in the admin panels... they have access to control groups, permissions, forum themes, forum names/titles, mass emails etc
This is the way AF.com is run (I am the one who does most of the programming) :-)
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 12:38 am
(December 31, 2013 at 9:39 pm)wolf39us Wrote: My guess would be Moderators would take care of the front lines. Spammers, Trolls, Bots etc. Moderators on most forums are also mostly responsible for the overall "morale" of the forum and keeping things moving smoothly.
Admins are usually a couple of tiers. There's usually a couple who have access to the root files and do all of or most of the programming. The other admins are the ones who poke around in the admin panels... they have access to control groups, permissions, forum themes, forum names/titles, mass emails etc
This is the way AF.com is run (I am the one who does most of the programming) :-)
Here's my perspective after 20 months on staff -
Mods here take care of moderating posts, handling reports, dealing with trolls, spammers, and other general mayhem. We can issue warnings and bans with a sufficient consensus of staff. Also various other stuff, moving, splitting, locking threads and such. We don't have access to any personal information other than IP addresses. By policy, with a few exceptions, non-routine actions require a certain level of consensus before mods (and admins) are authorized to act. There's enough oversight that mistakes are uncommon, and they get corrected when they happen.
Admins help out with the above, and also have access to tools to create subforums, and are able to view pretty much anything on the forum as well as access the forum configuration. As far as most day-to-day operations go, admin powers aren't required, as far as I can see. Perhaps on of the admins will comment.
Tiberius and Moros Synackaon have access to the server and database and make patches and code changes as needed. Not sure about Darwinian.
Barring the occasional forum blowup, things from my perspective are fairly routine. We tend to moderate lightly as much as possible.
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 1:27 am
(December 31, 2013 at 7:52 pm)Tonus Wrote: Moderator:
Admin:
Oh, sorry. You said responsibilities. I was thinking of the other end. >.<
Is the second one supposed to be a toy? That would imply something interesting.
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 4:46 am
(January 1, 2014 at 12:38 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Tiberius and Moros Synackaon have access to the server and database and make patches and code changes as needed. Not sure about Darwinian.
And I'm the man for stealing peoples' names from their email addresses. 
Calm down, guys. I'm kidding.
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm
In Admin vs. Mod deathmatch, the mods always pwn the admins - but that's because we camp the spawnpoints.
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 7:48 pm
(January 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: In Admin vs. Mod deathmatch, the mods always pwn the admins - but that's because we camp the spawnpoints.
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RE: Admins vs. Mods
January 1, 2014 at 7:55 pm
(December 31, 2013 at 7:15 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: How exactly do the responsibilities of a moderator differ from that of an administrator?
Depends on the Mod and the Admin in question.
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