Welcome the new Moderators!
 

Dear (Insert Member Name Here),

You are hereby required to congratulate the following members:

shesus
abaya
JustJess
little_tippler

Reason: These members have joined the moderator team!

Please make your congratulatory post below in an orderly fashion.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
(Enter Supervising Staff Member Name Here)

Seems random, but congrats! :)

It's so random it has purpose.

Congratulations!

The correct response is: I understand and will comply.

Congratulations!

4 brilliant women. I'm sure they will do a fantastic job.

congrats!!!!!!! welcome aboard!

I understand and will comply.

Congratulations!

(and having strong women on the team will only make the whole place better)

Seems like we have too many moderators. Who will moderate the moderators now? What was the criteria in choosing them?

For myself, it was my breasts. Thus the need for more of them.

Actually, this was part of an overall cleanup - clearing out old mods who aren't here anymore, and balancing things so it's not so man-heavy. Or is that boy-heavy?

Perhaps you wanted me to answer you totally seriously. I don't think I can do that just now. :)

And thanks for the congrats!

We have the same number of moderators that we did last week. The new ones replaced ones who rotated off the staff.

Congrats to you ladies!

You moderate us when you question what we're doing. We moderate you when we refuse to answer your questions. Any questions?

Of course, by answering your question, I'm violating the nature of my own answer, which in turn nullifies my answer thus making it moot. That brings us to your question. If my answer nullifies itself simply by answering, then it should follow that your question nullifies itself simply by asking. That brings us to a situation that means your question cannot be answered by definition of the question itself. Therefore, asking your question automatically rejects the notion of the question rendering your question obsolete. Your question becomes void, making any answer from us unnecessary. Since your question no longer exists, I no longer have to answer it.

Clear?

Ah got it, thanks for the clarification folks. That makes sense to me now. I Don't mean to be surly or crabby, but I figured someone has to *scowls at everyone*.

So then,

Congratulations ladies!

You better do a good job! :) *shakes fist*
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Ah, how very meta-transcendental.

By the way, I was never here nor do I exist.

Skadoosh....

Congrats!! I think you will all do a fantastic job. :D

Excellent choices - I'd forgotten that we were rotating moderators - but this seems a fine crop. Congratulations to everyone in their new found positions. Moderate away! :)

Thank you all! :)

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...edtothemod.jpg

I better start behaving at home now :D

Congrats to all the ladies!

Oh and Jess, please tell Quadro to contact me so that we can start our First Spouses club. We can do charity stuff and whatnot.

Oh, I love my husband. :icare:

Thanks, all!

Congratulations! :)

Did I miss the application announcement somewhere?

congrats y'all

Congratulations, ladies. You are fine additions to the moderating team. :icare:

They're all mad, mad with power!

Wow, a slate that couldn't be better. You all rock.

This was more or less an executive decision that went from announcement to decision in a matter of about 4 days, and was interrupted by the upgrade over the weekend.

JustJess, huh?

Bad idea...

Congrats, all!

(ktspktsp, does this club involve wife sharing?)

She's already redecorating everything back here in all girlie stuff. Our Star Wars curtains are already down and have been replaced with Strawberry Shortcake crap.

Strawberry Shortcake? Come on!!

That's an interesting idea Quadro. I shall file motion M497-A and we will take a secret raised hand vote on it.

Perhaps we need to start a "Support Group for Husbands of Mods" thread. I can think of at least 4 members that probably need to do some venting off the top of my head.

And, um, isn't "Married to the Mob" about infedility or has it just been too many years since 1992 when I last saw it?

I only remembered the title of the movie, so I don't recall what it was about :).

Quadro, motion M566C: we should watch "Married to the mob" and produce an extensive report. Also, motion M566C.1: we must provide a sufficient amount of pop corn, salted, no butter.

Someone needs to give ktspktsp and quadro shiny new "ModSpouse" badges...

Congratulations!

Duly noted and recorded in the TFP FSC Manual!

Why do I think Quadro and kstp are more excited than we are??

Congrats ladies. And husbands... this means you have to keep your noses extra clean... one more area for the ladies to get their own way, and if you don't comply, they simply make you comply. If that still doesn't work they can just go in and edit your stuff to say what they want you to say!!

So once again.... CONGRATS!!!


ps. the mod team just got a whole lot hotter!

Should have picked me - I would have simply dusted off the star wars curtains and hung a few posters of concept art.

In all seriousness, though - CONGRATS, new mods! May the Force be with you.

I'll have you know that I did not get rid of the Star Wars curtains. I simply *added* kitty pictures to go with them. Hmph!

JustJess you didn't!! Adding kitty pictures to Star Wars curtains is the absolute worst blasphemy I have ever heard! It ranks right up there with stealing homeless peoples kidneys while they are sleeping...

They compliment Cyn's kitty pictures.

And I agree, I think the husbands are a lot more excited.

It seems as if i missed this.

You guys (heh) will make great moderators.
Once again, congrats!

They're lolcat pictures.

Congrats to the new mods, and thank you for your service!

New ex-mods: Thanks for all the great work! Keeping riff-raff like me under control is one hairy job!

Good choices all, congrats!

We're just a few chicks away from fulfilling my lifelong dream of re-creating a Busby Berkeley spectacle of dames.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/...821bd742_o.jpg


Congratulations, ladies!

I can't think of anyone, male or female, more deserving of the job.

If it's a naked spectacle, then it's suddenly become my lifelong dream, too.

well, I suppose it could be at that

Now I'm all distracted with Busby Berkley images...

Congrats to all! You all earned it. :)

Does that thing spin and squirt water, too?! Sexy... I wanna be on top! :D

congratulations gals!

i love my chicks, i love my chicks..i love my baby yup yup , i love my chicks

couldnt think of anyone better...well done!

Some men secretly want a women with power. Some men don't even bother keeping that a secret. :D

Congratulations to four deserving women, all of whom I respect tremendously.

Welcome to the team! Congratulations!

I believe that I have the honor of being Shesus' first edit as a moderator, an hour before this announcement appeared. Wheee!

Great choices. Congrats!

I have a question. Does this mean I have to cover my penis from now on?

If so, does anybody have some velvet?

No, but I've got some felt. Nothing like a felt penis....




God, I'm so ashamed I made that pun. It's awful.

Why are there so many moderators/admins/supermods/etc.? I've always wondered that ever since over the past 1-2 years TFP has had a huge amount of staff implemented. I don't see that much flaming going on at TFP or disorderly conduct. And don't give the "you have no idea what mods go through" excuse because I check TFP 50 times a day (literally) and look at just about every section. With this many mods you'd think that we're at an IGN gaming forum or something where every topic is a flame fest. Look at the average thread on TFP that gets a few replies -- half the members that are active on TFP are now moderators. I can see TFP needing maybe 5 active moderators across the board...but 20+?

Too many moderators on the forum spoil the thread?

I would say no. It's best to have too many quality moderators than not enough.

Congratulations, everyone.

I agree. These are quality folks, and some mods have left the building. Why are there so many mods/admins/super mods? There seems to be very little squabble.

Asked and answered. It makes this a good forum.

For a board this size, 20 is easily reasonable.

Each moderator isn't expected to be available online 24/7. Mods don't get paid to do this and the numbers keep the load from being too heavy on one specific Admin or moderator. This is part of what keeps TFP as one of the best forums I've seen out there.

eh I dunno.. maybe we actually have to work sometimes and we can't be online.

if it's not really causing a problem why bother to throw something like this out there?

Think of a moderator as a social lubricator rather than a policeman. We DON'T have flame wars here, but our job isn't just to put people in their place. Moderators are also here to lead the community by taking an active role in the development of discussion and content. We're increasing the number of active moderators because we have a new strategy to increase the quality of discussion here on the TFP, and it takes a little more of a hands-on approach than before. Not only that, but we are expecting an increase in traffic due to the recent technological improvements that we've implemented.

So we were brought on because the TFP is going through menopause? ;)

That makes much more sense. Thanks

This fellow is more apt to listen to/regard/wish to please a female moderator. Besides, powerful and decisive women with agendas and goals and such are hawt. It means things will get done, and done well, and I have a supporting role while gathering rosebuds.

*skips away singing lalalala, pausing to smell the flowers from time to time

mm I definitely want to be in that! I love musicals... :D

Glad to be of help to the TFP...it was unexpected but I am happy.

hey gals, congrats. and don't turn the forum pink :p (/me is wondering if the new mods know that I'm jk)

(We got that.)

And pink is definitely not a concern from me... I'm rather anti-pink, actually. :)

sweet..........a whole whack of hottie moddies

Yeah, I grew up with a bedroom that my mother had painted pink, with pink carpet. I have never hated a color more. :)