Cids Knight

[Citizen Bleys]

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

[The Man]

Originally posted by BOU
fixed

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

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

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)

[Peegee]

There's a very good rule that we follow in another forum:

If you ask, you don't get. Ever.

[m4tt]

Originally posted by Pureghetto
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.

Although before I was knighted, I would ask to be one. But only jokingly. I never expected to become one.

[Citizen Bleys]

Originally posted by The Man
omgg u dye nwo *stabstab*

Hell, Linus has been here longer than two years, no? He was <I>ancient</I> 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: <I>Don't tell people what the staff is saying about them</I> (at least if it's good)

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.

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...)

[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

[Raistlin]

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.

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. :o

[The Man]

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

[Raistlin]

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

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[The Man]

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

[Raistlin]

It does? *looks* I can't find it. I see only Proto going after Div's sister.

[The Man]

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.

[Raistlin]

I was joking, Aaron. *pat pat*

[The Man]

ok, good, I wasn't entirely sure you were sane, but I didn't want to say anything