The Tip of the Iceberg...
What the Admins/Moderators do...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 by Jafo | Discussion: Community
Everyone who submits works to Wincustomize.com, or 'needs' to contact an Admin/mod for one reason or another can often assume his/her issue is unique, as it's of importance to his/her enjoyment/participation with the site.
They're not alone.
I have a habit of retaining any/all emails regarding Wincustomize.com....I have a 'folder' in Outlook just for them.
Since March, 2001 and up to June 2005 [more recent aren't moved over yet] I've accumulated 6,589 of them.
All are individually input emails, not auto-generated ones [like you get with an acceptance/rejection], and many have replies and veritable tomes of on-going communications/replies.
That's about 52 months, or 127 emails per month, on average 4 per day, every day, for 4.33 years.
I'm sure if you were to add the 'collections' of other Moderators you'd glean even more..... a lot more.
The Moderators don't post 'State of the nation' or 'what we've been up to' threads as the Site coders/bug hunters do, so I thought it moderately timely to keep people up to speed on the realities of managing a big website, and [maybe even] apologise for some responses going astray, perhaps.
Remember...'ego' is all about 'self' and 'self' is the precursor to 'selfish'.
When it's suggested to "be patient" with regards to the ministrations of the site, remember that even the biggest fish is a tadpole....it's all a matter of Perspective....
BTW....eventually the PSD file size limitation will force me to dump it all entirely ..... probably something MS could look into fixing for Longhorn...
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Reply #42 Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:37 PM
Reply #43 Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:22 PM
not sleeping.
Reply #45 Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:42 PM
Whatever. You're right, of course. Excuse me for breathing. Nice comeback for a 5 year old. |
Excuse me while i go out and buy stock in the kleenex co. With boss carrying on like this i could become rich. Hmm or maybe I could just sell him some cheese to go with his whine?Seriously, THANKS to all, especially the volunteers, yes we (I) don't always say so but your hard work and dedication to this site is to be admired.
Reply #46 Friday, July 22, 2005 1:47 AM
Reply #47 Friday, July 22, 2005 1:51 AM
These admirable people juggle many aspects into their lives: family life; home maintenance; employment/business; travel to &from work; personal skinning projects to be better informed, etc...not to mention vital rest, recreation and sleep.
So let he/she who can juggle all this and do a better WC cast the first stone in criticism, judgement, condemnation.
Oh, I forgot to mention their having to maintain an extremely thick skin in order to responsibly deal with rudeness, arrogance and aggression. That in itself is an admirable quality, and given the time they freely give to be subjected to this petty quibbling, they're heroes rather than villains.
Reply #48 Friday, July 22, 2005 2:02 AM
but still admirable yes...
which doesn't mean we can't discuss about it....
Reply #49 Friday, July 22, 2005 2:59 AM
...by all means, go right ahead.
Whine, Sob, Bitch, Gripe, Enflame, Bait?
...don't bother, you just make yourself look the fool ~and make it difficult on yourself should you have a real problem in the future.
Pity this thread went off track.... [should be edited, and set straight]
Reply #50 Friday, July 22, 2005 7:25 AM
I think various people maybe lost sight of what this thread was all about.
I, as an 'admin' of the site thought it politic and timely to explain what goes on behind the 'facade' of respectable harmony that is Wincustomize.com....what helps make it one of the 'nicer' places to be...while donning the odd new skin or two.
This thread was NOT intended as a sounding board for disparate egos of sedition or praise.
It was a simple and gentle reminder to all and sundry that the admins/moderators of the site that by and large maintain harmony and accord be soberly and silently respected for what they chose to give up in their own personal day to day lives....for the betterment of the 'skinning comunity' at large.
Sure it's nice to get supportive comments....but neither the supportive nor the antagonistic were requested.
It's called a 'heads up', a cognitive awakening, nothing more.
Those who chose this as a platform for asinine dissent do themselves no favour.
As one of the 'longer-serving' admins of the site I simply found it appropriate to show public support [myself] for my fellow moderators who, like me have been subjected to unwarranted discourse at various times here.
Having beeen a volunteer in Motor Racing....being both a FIM and FIA official for over a quarter of a century I am well versed in public perceptions of what people tend to take for granted.
Wincustomize's site admins/moderators are NOT to be taken for granted like street furniture. Without them you would be legless, and posting your works on a personal site...back of Bourke somewhere and famously noticed by the local tumbleweeds.....if you're lucky.
The reality of life at Wincustomize.com is that a private company [Stardock] finances the lion's share of the site to allow its existence, and various people, from coder to eager skin-contributor make it something desirable to be a part of.
The occasional miscreant hell-bent on upsetting the apple cart has no place here, as public opinion will 'demand' a rethink of attitude.
Groucho Marx said "I'd never join a club that would have me as a member"....but the reality is...to be a member you need to pull your weight, bend, rather than break, and strive to fit in. A club is a collective, not an ego.
Hopefully 'some' of this has made sense, though it's friday night, and those who know me are aware that bodes ill for cognitive thinking...
Thanks [on behalf of all the mods] to all those who have been supportive....[the others I cross off my Xmas list]....
Reply #51 Friday, July 22, 2005 11:26 AM
Double Darn!
Reply #53 Friday, July 22, 2005 1:39 PM
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Reply #41 Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:32 PM
Most replies are 'short and sweet'....others take hours to compose...as they require 'investigation' and/or 'political correct' wording....so as not to inflame a 'difficult' situation.
The ratio of WC-related emails to others not related is about 2 to 1 or worse.
Some have anything up to a dozen follow-ups/replies.
And I bet 'everyone you know' are not demanding 'why the hell have you not done so-and-so yet?', but are more likely just 'chill, dude...what's happenin'?'....