New moderator joining the team!

[AdamG]

Oh great. He's going to have a very nasty happy surprise when he wakes up and logs in.

He already knows about the Sentance. I mean promotion. He said that he needs to sleep on it. We figured it was an English way of saying yes.

 

[GD Fan]

He already knows about the Sentance. I mean promotion. He said that he needs to sleep on it. We figured it was an English way of saying yes.

Or just setting expectations early?

 

[Keith_W]

Congratulations, Jim. It's about time we get a new moderator, given that we have seen less of @BDWoody given what has been happening. I sincerely hope he is doing well. I blame the ASR community for giving BDWoody a heart attack. Let's look after the remaining moderators and try not to kill them off too quickly, shall we?

 

[TLEDDY]

Welcome to a rather thankless task! ‘Moderation’ contains the word “moderate” (sort-of) which means, essentially, to not let the verbal pot boil over .

Thank you (belying my above caveat) and I pray you enjoy your tenure…

Tillman

 

[voodooless]

He is sleeping by the way....

Sleeping on the job? That doesn’t sound like a good start

… but seriously . @Jimbob54 , happy to have you as mod. You’ll probably do an excellent job!

 

[Newman]

pics or it didn't happen

 

[voodooless]

pics or it didn't happen

Do you want Amir to publish delta wave measurements of the mods? I’m not sure the AP can do that…

 

[phoenixdogfan]

Is jimbob an idiot? I pledge my full support until he moderates something I don't agree with. Welcome jimbob54.

What happened to those 53 other guys?

Met the same fate as Sam Rockwell's character in Moon, no doubt.

 

[LightninBoy]

 

[raif71]

Met the same fate as Sam Rockwell's character in Moon, no doubt.

Or... the other jimbob was not an effective team with BDWoody similar to Oblivion ... this version too remains to be seen. Now don't let the Architect have a say about the various Neo in the The Matrix.

 

[kemmler3D]

Thanks for stepping up, @Jimbob54 - this place is a resource for many, not just a place for nerds to argue, and the mods are how it stays that way. Thanks in advance for your valiant efforts.

 

[MacCali]

Howdy @Jimbob54 let me show you around the office, thanks for volunteering and wish you the best on your endeavor

 

[sweetchaos]

You get a mod, you get a mod, everybody gets a mod!

Congrats on growing the team!

 

[Jimbob54]

Thanks all. I shall endeavour to maintain standards*.

* when I figure out if there ever was any.

 

[CapMan]

Thanks for joining the team @Jimbob54, and good luck !

 

[B.A.T.]

Great news, greetings @Jimbob54.

A little bit different topic but I experience some random slow down on the site since a while. Sometimes it's unreachable. Maybe some issue with crawler bots? I don't know but a server hardening would be a good idea.

 

[TheHighContemplator]

Cheers!

 

[BDWoody]

Congratulations, Jim. It's about time we get a new moderator, given that we have seen less of @BDWoody given what has been happening. I sincerely hope he is doing well. I blame the ASR community for giving BDWoody a heart attack. Let's look after the remaining moderators and try not to kill them off too quickly, shall we?

I am doing great, thank you for the kind thoughts.

I certainly can't blame ASR for my health issues, but the task that Adam faced after I was knocked back a step was huge. Trying to manage this place on your own is quite daunting, and while we have both 'covered' for each other in the normal ebb and flow of life, as we got bigger and bigger that was going to become less and less tenable.

We are both very relieved to have gotten Jim to sign up for this job of service, and are very confident that his history in the forum as a respected member will serve him well as he takes on this new challenge, and the fact that he is active in the early morning hours is a huge bonus. Knowing that Adam is going to be able to take a deep breath once in a while when I am out of pocket, or vice versa (although that almost never happens to be honest...Adam is just a workhorse) is worth more than I can say.

Thanks to Jimbo for signing up for this, and to Adam for everything up to and including the recruiting effort. This is a special place, and we do our best to keep it that way. As we grow, adding like minded people to the moderation team will be part of the deal, so we hope the membership can help him not to feel like he made the biggest mistake of his life!

 

[BDWoody]

Thanks all. I shall endeavour to maintain standards*.

* when I figure out if there ever was any.

We make it up as we go. It's easier that way.

 

[Soniclife]

Sleeping on the job? That doesn’t sound like a good start

The first moderator was drinking on the job, so this sounds like an improvement.