So you think you can moderate

[Varda]

(He is actually in love with you)

[Anti-Flag]

I would like to moderate Varda.

Admit it; moderate wasn't the first word you thought of for that sentence.

[Kittamaru]

OMG! You're second one I'm seconding.
Kit, you'd make a brilliant mod for SF&F.

You missed some of your qualifications: rational, fair (to a fault sometimes), sense of humour and definitely balanced.

PS I'm not in love with you.

Heh, I appreciate the vote of confidence Dywyddyr... even if I have to stop, stare at your name, then my keyboard, and then your name again for a minute before I can type it

[Bebelina]

i like to moderate bebelina

Many have tried and failed.

I would like to point out to our current moderators how Gustav, that you have so much trouble with, becomes docile and obedient like a lamb whenever I am present.

If you make me moderator this could become a normal behaviour for him.

[NMSquirrel]

um..duh..I want to moderate Religion, Free thoughts if needed..

i have been here long enough for all to see how i work,
i also think i have expressed in detail in other threads my qualifications and desires for moderatorship.

[GeoffP]

I wouldn't mind picking up Human Science. I mean, it's what I'm supposed to be bloody doing, it seems. Without giving anything away, I'm submitting two articles on human science in the next month or so. So I like humans, and their science, and science that pertains to them, because I love large datasets freely given to examine dubious ideas. And who doesn't love that? Well, Australians, obviously, but none of the rest of us. Anyway, I can separate shit from sugar, or have so far here and elsewhere. Anyway: I get Human Science, and I understand also the array of models from which we draw our impressions, insofar as biology goeth.

My heart does cry out for Parapsychology and other forms of madness tho; not because I can believe in it, but because I so desperately want to. Ye gods, what beloved madness brings the youth of Man, where a monster waits in every wood and aliens prowl the stars? Where ghostly apparations stalk their own graves and even Elvis might see fish fall from the sky from his porch in a secluded Alabama retirement home?

I mean, it's only too bad it's all bollocks so near as anyone can tell, except for the falling fish. But wouldn't it be nice if that sense of mystery could be fed, somehow? So long as no one goes round sacrificing people to Cthulu, I mean. We've been down that road once too often, to my mind.

Or Sci-Fi also. I reads a bit of it, I does; the usual round of dubious characters.

Now on to slagging the other candidates.


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Edit: In my haste, I neglected to cover a few of James' areas.

I'm interested in Moderating because I think there's a great deal SF could do: as a semi-science forum with a wide range of targeted zones, SF is in an enviable position for growth and development. I believe that SF is really only at its outset, and that it presents a very interesting base for such growth. I don't have many definite ideas on this at present; I think it would be necessary first to see SF "from the other side" as it were.

Subforum-wise, I were to run Human Science, problems would be dealt with fairly and equitably: in short, scientifically. I'm willing to let people run with arguments so long as there is suitable intellectual or published backing. Flame-outs would be shut down after a reasonable interlude, but the first step would be to post in the thread to try and calm things, taking arguments from either side. I think this might produce the environment that some have alluded a need for. I think I have pretty wide acceptance herein; there are only a few individuals with which it is really impossible to achieve rapport of some kind. Why, my even-handedness is simply legendary.

If I were to run Pseudoscience, problems would be dealt with by writing the monikers of each combatant on a piece of paper, crumpling them up into tiny balls and then throwing them in the air while standing in the middle of a 4' diameter circle. Anyone whose name landed within the circle would be adjuged reasonable and anyone outside the circle unreasonable and ostracized accordingly, except on randomly selected weekly "Backwards Days" identified by a series of bootstrapped random integer passes using Excel.

Or, more likely, just the method described above for Human Science, excepting that the bounds of reasonability would have to be stretched to include... well, the mind shudders, really. 'More loose thresholds for acceptance', I guess, relative to other parapsychological arguments, and 'rude laughter', I guess, compared to non-parapsychological arguments. Seriously, though, I suppose that, secretly harbouring a love of the stuff, that I should be slightly 'over-fair' to produce a treatment of the matter suitable for those consuming the sub-forum. And why not? That's what it's supposed to be.

[Emil]

I wouldn't mind picking up Human Science. I mean, it's what I'm supposed to be bloody doing, it seems. Without giving anything away, I'm submitting two articles on human science in the next month or so. So I like humans, and their science, and science that pertains to them, because I love large datasets freely given to examine dubious ideas. And who doesn't love that? Well, Australians, obviously, but none of the rest of us. Anyway, I can separate shit from sugar, or have so far here and elsewhere. Anyway: I get Human Science, and I understand also the array of models from which we draw our impressions, insofar as biology goeth.

My heart does cry out for Parapsychology and other forms of madness tho; not because I can believe in it, but because I so desperately want to. Ye gods, what beloved madness brings the youth of Man, where a monster waits in every wood and aliens prowl the stars? Where ghostly apparations stalk their own graves and even Elvis might see fish fall from the sky from his porch in a secluded Alabama retirement home?

I mean, it's only too bad it's all bollocks so near as anyone can tell, except for the falling fish. But wouldn't it be nice if that sense of mystery could be fed, somehow? So long as no one goes round sacrificing people to Cthulu, I mean. We've been down that road once too often, to my mind.

Or Sci-Fi also. I reads a bit of it, I does; the usual round of dubious characters.

Now on to slagging the other candidates.


************************************************** ************************************************** *******

Edit: In my haste, I neglected to cover a few of James' areas.

I'm interested in Moderating because I think there's a great deal SF could do: as a semi-science forum with a wide range of targeted zones, SF is in an enviable position for growth and development. I believe that SF is really only at its outset, and that it presents a very interesting base for such growth. I don't have many definite ideas on this at present; I think it would be necessary first to see SF "from the other side" as it were.

Subforum-wise, I were to run Human Science, problems would be dealt with fairly and equitably: in short, scientifically. I'm willing to let people run with arguments so long as there is suitable intellectual or published backing. Flame-outs would be shut down after a reasonable interlude, but the first step would be to post in the thread to try and calm things, taking arguments from either side. I think this might produce the environment that some have alluded a need for. I think I have pretty wide acceptance herein; there are only a few individuals with which it is really impossible to achieve rapport of some kind. Why, my even-handedness is simply legendary.

If I were to run Pseudoscience, problems would be dealt with by writing the monikers of each combatant on a piece of paper, crumpling them up into tiny balls and then throwing them in the air while standing in the middle of a 4' diameter circle. Anyone whose name landed within the circle would be adjuged reasonable and anyone outside the circle unreasonable and ostracized accordingly, except on randomly selected weekly "Backwards Days" identified by a series of bootstrapped random integer passes using Excel.

Or, more likely, just the method described above for Human Science, excepting that the bounds of reasonability would have to be stretched to include... well, the mind shudders, really. 'More loose thresholds for acceptance', I guess, relative to other parapsychological arguments, and 'rude laughter', I guess, compared to non-parapsychological arguments. Seriously, though, I suppose that, secretly harbouring a love of the stuff, that I should be slightly 'over-fair' to produce a treatment of the matter suitable for those consuming the sub-forum. And why not? That's what it's supposed to be.

You have my vote.

[GeoffP]

Thanks Emil.

[kira]

Bells was a good mod for Human Science and so was S.A.M. for Biology & Genetic. Maybe they can be reinstated to join the existing mods in that forums.

Good = fair, balance, and well qualified. Also, they are women (there are no women on the mods squad now, come on, SF!)

p.s.: no, I am not nominating myself. I have no time, no patient, etc.

[Enmos]

Bells was a good mod for Human Science and so was S.A.M. for Biology & Genetic. Maybe they can be reinstated to join the existing mods in that forums.

Good = fair, balance, and well qualified. Also, they are women (there are no women on the mods squad now, come on, SF!)

p.s.: no, I am not nominating myself. I have no time, no patient, no interest, etc.

Bells quit on her own though. Also, she isn't too flattered by the women argument.

[kira]

Bells quit on her own though. Also, she isn't too flattered by the women argument.

I know. I don't say she should be chosen because she is a woman, I just wanted to say that in addition to all necessary quality needed, she is a woman, which is good to balance the mod squads. It doesn't matter if Bells and Sam happened to be men, in my opinion they still make good mods.

Also, it wasn't the first time Bells gave up the mod position, maybe she would change her mind.

[Tach]

I would like to moderate Physics & Math. I promise to clean the forum of sockpuppets , cranks and posers.

[kira]

I retract my statement, I just noticed after I read the OP again, this thread is not to nominate others. So, they can nominate themselves. Sorry for that.

[Emil]

I would like to moderate Physics & Math. I promise to clean the forum of sockpuppets , cranks and posers.

LOL...clean the forum of posters?
Only moderators between them....LOL

[Tach]

LOL...clean the forum of posters?

Learn how to read : POSERS.

[superstring01]

Kitt for SciFi / About Members.

I third it.

~String

[Anti-Flag]

Bells was a good mod for Human Science and so was S.A.M. for Biology & Genetic. Maybe they can be reinstated to join the existing mods in that forums.

Good = fair, balance, and well qualified. Also, they are women (there are no women on the mods squad now, come on, SF!)

p.s.: no, I am not nominating myself. I have no time, no patient, etc.

As I recall there was a reason SAM was removed, and that Bells left because of things behind the scenes between the mods. Bells was indeed a good mod.

[Kittamaru]

Kitt for SciFi / About Members.

I third it.

~String

Thanks for the support superstring

[GeoffP]

Hell, I'll fourth it.

...Who are you again?

[Believe]

I would like to moderate Varda.

I nominate spidergoat for the religion forum