I have been here for at least 2 months now.But I dont get how to become cids knight could someone please tell me.
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I have been here for at least 2 months now.But I dont get how to become cids knight could someone please tell me.
http://www.eyesonff.com/forums/misc....aq&page=3#mods
Basically the site staff decides if someone should be a Cid's Knight, just like Big D just became one.
Cid's Knights are basically what would be super moderators at other forums - they have the same extra priviledges and tasks to do as what super moderators at other places would do. When we decide we need more of them to help look after the forums, we get in touch with whoever we think would make good candidates from what they're like on the forums and give them the choice, not ask openly to the whole board who would like to be one :p
Yea thnx I'll try to be as helpful as I can but it must be hard cause Big D has been helping people for a while!
Just a word of advice from one who's walked that path before: Trying to become a Knight is probably the surest way to ensure that you'll fail. ;)
Um... yeah. You probably don't really want to be a Knight... there's a hell of a lot more drama involved in working on a message board staff than you can imagine. Trust me, I've been staff at three different still-extant message boards before :P
im still gonna try:aimdumb:
Then good freakin' luck.
You're gonna need it.
well thnx i guess:hat:
The site staff don't make the decision, they're only people who have contributed to the main pages of EoFF, and only have titles, and no direct power on the board.Quote:
Originally posted by Flying Mullet
Basically the site staff decides if someone should be a Cid's Knight, just like Big D just became one.
Sorry, I meant site staff as a general term, not the actual title "Site Staff".Quote:
Originally posted by Shoyku
The site staff don't make the decision, they're only people who have contributed to the main pages of EoFF, and only have titles, and no direct power on the board.
Forum staff then, since some of us don't have anything to do with the front site :p
Oy, I give up!Quote:
Originally posted by crono_logical
Forum staff then, since some of us don't have anything to do with the front site :p
I'm betting it's more work than they let on.
Yes and no, it sort of goes by waves.
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Originally posted by The Man
Um... yeah. You probably don't really want to be a Knight... there's a hell of a lot more drama involved in working on a message board staff than you can imagine. Although usually it's caused directly by me.
Linus has been here two years and he's not a Knight. Of course, I think he would probably impale me with a harpoon if I asked him to be one, but that's a whole different story.
And yeah, Knighthood is definitely on a "don't call us, we'll call you" basis. The decision's made by the entire staff (So there's no one person you can kiss up to, and over half of the staff will dislike you for kissing up to them anyways), usually based on a member's personality; You can train a monkey to open or close threads, it's the person who makes a good or bad moderator.
I can also confirm what The Man said. He missed out becoming a Knight by one vote, but someone leaked that to him and he's been trying to run the board for us ever since, so now I don't think he'd get a single vote if someone nominated him for Knight ;)
omgg u dye nwo *stabstab*Quote:
Originally posted by BOU
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Hell, Linus has been here longer than two years, no? He was ancient when I showed up, and I've been here for sixteen months. xP
It was more than one someone. It was practically half the entire staff. ;) And I've never recovered from it, I don't think. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
I can also confirm what The Man said. He missed out becoming a Knight by one vote, but someone leaked that to him and he's been trying to run the board for us ever since, so now I don't think he'd get a single vote if someone nominated him for Knight ;)
The moral of this story: Don't tell people what the staff is saying about them (at least if it's good) ;)
There's a very good rule that we follow in another forum:
If you ask, you don't get. Ever.
That's what I think. :pQuote:
Originally posted by Pureghetto
There's a very good rule that we follow in another forum:
If you ask, you don't get. Ever.
Although before I was knighted, I would ask to be one. But only jokingly. I never expected to become one. :p
Actually, it was balanced right out; The decision to Knight you had been made, and then another staffer took me aside for a private little talk and told me something that worried me rather a lot, so I changed my vote, and at that point, one vote was enough to reverse the decision. The staff was split right down the middle.Quote:
Originally posted by The Man
omgg u dye nwo *stabstab*
Hell, Linus has been here longer than two years, no? He was ancient when I showed up, and I've been here for sixteen months. xP
It was more than one someone. It was practically half the entire staff. ;) And I've never recovered from it, I don't think. ;)
The moral of this story: Don't tell people what the staff is saying about them (at least if it's good) ;)
I don't think we've EVER had as hot a discussion about whether or not to mod anyone before or after. Usually everybody either agrees or everybody shoots the mod down. (Well, I guess there was BoB, there was a lot of discussion there, and he actually wasn't Knighted until quite a while after that big discussion. but still...)
I really wish I could have seen the staff discussion about that. Heh.
In any case, if I'd been informed of what happened WHEN it happened, instead of going on carrying on the illusion that I was "about to be knighted" for four months, I think an awful lot of drama would've been averted, but it's all water under the bridge. Still, I think it'd be awful cool to see "Cid's Knight" under my name, but eh, whatyagonnado. I don't post here often enough to make a good mod anymore anyway, and it certainly wasn't nearly as fun for me modding at FFWA as I'd imagined it would be, so whatever =P I have to say, I do enjoy running my own board though ;)
As opposed to when Britt made a thread about me possibly becoming a mod again oh...maybe a 10 or so months ago, I believe(maybe more, I forget), and one person said, "eh, we'll see" and then it died. :oQuote:
Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
I don't think we've EVER had as hot a discussion about whether or not to mod anyone before or after. Usually everybody either agrees or everybody shoots the mod down.
heck, I'm surprised they didn't re-Knight you whenever you came back, but that's just me.
You still have "Cid's Knight" under your name, though, you sod ;)
That was Britt's idea of a joke.
EDIT: oh, and they didn't reknight me because I'll just go away again in a few months out of sheer irritation at this place, which would probably only be sped up by having access to the Staff forum. >=P
A rare inside glimpse of the tumultuous decisions of the EoFF staff. Come get your share now here.
haha, I think every forum's staff has a hell of a lot more drama involved in it than the public sees. I know ours does. xD
It does? *looks* I can't find it. I see only Proto going after Div's sister.
Eh, I suppose it hasn't really, lately. There was all that crap with Devolution and Apocalypse Weapon awhile back, though, and there was a lot of stuff that never actually made it onto the message board, but wound up being a problem between members for awhile until it was actually resolved. There's a lot that goes on that even the staff doesn't see, I think. xP
Edit: Oh, and most of the recent drama that DID make it onto the board was in the admin forum, which would explain why you can't find it. ;)
I was joking, Aaron. *pat pat* :D
ok, good, I wasn't entirely sure you were sane, but I didn't want to say anything ;)
So put it under your name at FG and turn on the EoFF theme :)Quote:
Originally posted by The Man
I really wish I could have seen the staff discussion about that. Heh.
In any case, if I'd been informed of what happened WHEN it happened, instead of going on carrying on the illusion that I was "about to be knighted" for four months, I think an awful lot of drama would've been averted, but it's all water under the bridge. Still, I think it'd be awful cool to see "Cid's Knight" under my name, but eh, whatyagonnado. I don't post here often enough to make a good mod anymore anyway, and it certainly wasn't nearly as fun for me modding at FFWA as I'd imagined it would be, so whatever =P I have to say, I do enjoy running my own board though ;)
The only reason I ever became a Cid's Knight was becasue I registered on the first day and Cid was basically giving out moderator positions to the first people that asked for them.
Ditto.Quote:
Originally posted by RSL
The only reason I ever became a Cid's Knight was becasue I registered on the first day and Cid was basically giving out moderator positions to the first people that asked for them.
Blast it, RSL, you shouldn't kill the glamour of being an EoFF legend like that.
this thread is awesome
hai hai
*pouts* That's what you get for listening to incorrect information instead of actually asking.Quote:
Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
(Well, I guess there was BoB, there was a lot of discussion there, and he actually wasn't Knighted until quite a while after that big discussion. but still...)
And regarding The Man stuff, geez, nobody should ever be knighted if even quarter of Staff disagree, last time I checked. So I think he wouldn't've made it anyways =O I don't get that big thing though. Oh well. Dramas? I'm so happy that 95% of the things that go on in Staff are basically just all of us saying "Gee, what would The Man do? Let's not do that." "Yeah."
95%? That happened ONCE. And it was funny. I can't even remember what pr00t suggested, and BOU said "OMG GET THE MAN OUT OF THE STAFF FORUM"
Basically being the operative word >=O
That's freakin' hilarious. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
95%? That happened ONCE. And it was funny. I can't even remember what pr00t suggested, and BOU said "OMG GET THE MAN OUT OF THE STAFF FORUM"
BOU is comedy.
for once, BOU and I agree ;)Quote:
Originally posted by BOU
this thread is awesome
haha, I'm associated with drama in staff these days? haha, I never WANTED to cause any of that, it amuses me to no end that I wound up screwing things up so much XD
I was unaware of any glamour.Quote:
Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
Blast it, RSL, you shouldn't kill the glamour of being an EoFF legend like that.
*updates link to An Inside Glimpse of the EoFF Staff* :D
I like BOU's Avatar.:greenie:
I think this thread has died :p