NYC_SKP has been banned

[Heddi]

903. There were many moderators who were called (by themselves and others) PermaMods

because they never removed themselves from moderating term after term after term, and actually saw themselves as a league apart from "regular posters." The idea of term limits made their stomachs TURN. They fought against it tooth and nail. You'll notice many of the perma-mods were the first to sign up to be hosts in DU3, and have continued to host at least one main forum, and one smaller forum, pretty much continuously. For many people, it's absolutely a power thing.

FOr the record, I modded many terms, often back to back, but after a few I'd sit it out and do other things. Actually interact with people on DU (Mods weren't forbidden from posting on DU, but you had to stay away from hot-topic issues and not cause any nonsense. It was pretty bad if a mod got a post hidden or a thread locked).

Others...modded for YEARS non-stop. And still continue to have a moderator-mentality when it comes to hosting. I saw this myself when I had hosted briefly GD and still am host of LGBT (back when that group had access to the host forum). Lots of lamenting that hosts couldn't ban people like mods did, that hosts didn't have access to poster history like mods did. It's bizarre.

My only interest in modding is keeping the place cleaned up. When I modded, it was LBN until they took away mods being assigned to individual forums and it was all mods for all forums. LBN had easy to understand rules, and I liked keeping clutter off the page.

There are definitely people who see modding/hosting as some kind of badge, like it's a job or something that demonstrates skill or knowledge or something. There was no test for modding. No licensing exam. Submit an application and be approved. Even less "skill" for hosting. Get on a wait list and bide time.