Most people don't realize that I am a moderator of a few online forums, one is a local forum where I mod a specific section, and then there's a mom/parenting forum, and then there's a work forum.
I do all of them because I was asked by the owners of each one of those forums to do it because of my availability, and because I listen and do what I'm asked to do.
Being stuck at home, I have tons of time to do stuff on the net, but it's not always fun, as a matter of fact, 99.9% of the time, it sucks big time.
I would quit doing it if I wouldn't be letting people down, and I have quit modding other forums because it just got to be way too much emotionally for me to do anymore.
Like I said though, I do it because I was asked, and with the work forum, I was asked to do it by the owners, and I post what I'm told to post, and yes, sometimes what I'm told to post is the wrong information, but I always come back and correct that information with the correct information when it's told to me that a mistake was made.
Right now I'm being blamed because someone is quitting work because of a post on those work forums.
There is a certain way that people are told to ask for work, and a certain way that work is assigned.
If people post their work request in the wrong way, I am told to remind them how work is assigned.
People can say that I'm reprimanding them, but I'm not, I have been told to remind people how to request work and how work is assigned.
Yelling, posting in caps, posting reasons for wanting/needing work are not allowed.
Why?
Because everyone wants/needs work, everyone has their reasons for needing money, and if everyone posted their reasons for why they need money, the work requests would be the most depressing things to read ever, and no one wants to read all of those depressing reasons.
If I had responded the way 1 person thinks I should have, I would have gotten taken to task for telling them that their work sucks, instead of being taken to task because they felt that I reprimanded them for using excessive punctuation, and reminding them how work is given out.
Was I supposed to say, "Well maybe you should post more often than when you have an assignment? You have huge gaps in the dates of your posts, each 1 of your posts is the bare minimum word count, they are like 1 paragraph each, they each have 1 link, they look spammy."
Is that how I should have responded?
Sorry, not my place or my job.
My job is to simply remind people how to ask for work, and how work is assigned, and to not yell or give reasons for needing work.
I'd be damned no matter how I responded, but I responded the way that I am supposed to.
Blame me all you want for deciding to quit, but maybe you should read the internal messages that say no banners for other companies, and read the messages that tell you to write more and more often, to not make it look like a spam fest, instead of blaming me for doing the job that I was asked and told to do.
I didn't appoint myself as anything.
I was asked to do that job and I do it exactly as I was told to do it.
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I do all of them because I was asked by the owners of each one of those forums to do it because of my availability, and because I listen and do what I'm asked to do.
Being stuck at home, I have tons of time to do stuff on the net, but it's not always fun, as a matter of fact, 99.9% of the time, it sucks big time.
I would quit doing it if I wouldn't be letting people down, and I have quit modding other forums because it just got to be way too much emotionally for me to do anymore.
Like I said though, I do it because I was asked, and with the work forum, I was asked to do it by the owners, and I post what I'm told to post, and yes, sometimes what I'm told to post is the wrong information, but I always come back and correct that information with the correct information when it's told to me that a mistake was made.
Right now I'm being blamed because someone is quitting work because of a post on those work forums.
There is a certain way that people are told to ask for work, and a certain way that work is assigned.
If people post their work request in the wrong way, I am told to remind them how work is assigned.
People can say that I'm reprimanding them, but I'm not, I have been told to remind people how to request work and how work is assigned.
Yelling, posting in caps, posting reasons for wanting/needing work are not allowed.
Why?
Because everyone wants/needs work, everyone has their reasons for needing money, and if everyone posted their reasons for why they need money, the work requests would be the most depressing things to read ever, and no one wants to read all of those depressing reasons.
If I had responded the way 1 person thinks I should have, I would have gotten taken to task for telling them that their work sucks, instead of being taken to task because they felt that I reprimanded them for using excessive punctuation, and reminding them how work is given out.
Was I supposed to say, "Well maybe you should post more often than when you have an assignment? You have huge gaps in the dates of your posts, each 1 of your posts is the bare minimum word count, they are like 1 paragraph each, they each have 1 link, they look spammy."
Is that how I should have responded?
Sorry, not my place or my job.
My job is to simply remind people how to ask for work, and how work is assigned, and to not yell or give reasons for needing work.
I'd be damned no matter how I responded, but I responded the way that I am supposed to.
Blame me all you want for deciding to quit, but maybe you should read the internal messages that say no banners for other companies, and read the messages that tell you to write more and more often, to not make it look like a spam fest, instead of blaming me for doing the job that I was asked and told to do.
I didn't appoint myself as anything.
I was asked to do that job and I do it exactly as I was told to do it.
Good grief.. I can't believe how some people are. It sounds to me like someone needs to get over themselves if they are going to quit over something like that.
You do a great job moderating that forum and you are one of the most helpful people there. You didn't sound like you were reprimanding anyone.
Some people are jerks. Most people appreciate what you do. It's not your fault that some people have to be such wankers about things.
Hey, you stated the facts and that's pretty much all you can do. Being in "charge" of something is always going to have at least someone mad at you for it. Just have to deal with those things I guess.. I think you did the right thing.
No good deed goes unpunished.