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Tex

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4,130 Posts

4 Oct 2009, 4:05am

OMG.... As some may remember I was a super mod here a few years ago.

Talk about a culture shock. I have been active on the worlds largest free dating site in the world for a few years. Posted actively in their "forums".

Larger then the next 4 largest paid sites combined. 10 million members. They have a forum with 100,000 active forum posters a day. Hundreds of thousands of posts a day.

Three friggin volunteer mods with lives and careers. I'm one. (long sigh...)

It's like being a kindergarten teacher and all your students are lobotomy rejects on crack.

Un friggin real. I just keep shaking my head.

I want to install breathalyzers on members keyboards. May be the biggest mistake I ever made accepting this gig. I am already going nutz ! LMAO.

They have multiple hate sites for the mods on the internet! NO JOKE! People have nothing better to do then setup sites just to have forums to diss the mods from there??? WTF ???

I keep saying this is the crazziest thing I have ever done. And of course all my old friends lol and say uhhh NOOOOOO! Thats not the craziest thing you have ever done! (don't ya just hate it when old friends do that ---- wink)

I feel like a zoo keeper that has no tranquilizer darts left for his gun when I get up each day I swear and the gorrila's are swarming for another attack.

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Tex edited : 4 Oct 2009 at 4:15am .

fatcat

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4 Oct 2009, 4:35am

cool story bro

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Buddy J

Dept. of Propaganda

7,440 Posts

4 Oct 2009, 5:00am

Maybe it's because it's a dating site. Too many hormones raging and people thinking with the wrong head. You know what I'm sayin?

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MAGIC

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2,079 Posts

4 Oct 2009, 5:03am

Quoting Buddy J

Maybe it's because it's a dating site. Too many hormones raging and people thinking with the wrong head. You know what I'm sayin?

Hah, dicks, I get it!

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Crazy Joe

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4 Oct 2009, 6:32am

Quoting MAGIC

Hah, dicks, I get it!

I don't get it.

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primesuspect

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27,798 Posts

4 Oct 2009, 7:07am

That stuff just always makes me appreciate the haven of sanity that is Icrontic

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ardichoke

King Banana Spanner

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4 Oct 2009, 8:38am

Yep, I don't even bother venturing into the veritable wasteland that is most forums. Especially the one on the "dating" (I use that word loosely) site that I go to occasionally. From what I've seen it's naught but a hive of scum and villainy.

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lunchb0x

lol unmanaged

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4 Oct 2009, 8:45am

Quoting ardichoke

Yep, I don't even bother venturing into the veritable wasteland that is most forums. Especially the one on the "dating" (I use that word loosely) site that I go to occasionally. From what I've seen it's naught but a hive of scum and villainy.

Liar. I know you goto 4chan at work

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GnomeWizardd

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4 Oct 2009, 1:37pm

Craziness that is Dating sites, Blah, BTW hey Bro Been a while I remember runnin around here with you!

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Leonardo

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4 Oct 2009, 7:37pm

Keep us updated, Tex, this is a perfect topic for the the Pub.

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ardichoke

King Banana Spanner

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4 Oct 2009, 10:45pm

Quoting lunchb0x

Liar. I know you goto 4chan at work

4chan is an image board. I don't count that as a forum. Also, LIES AND SLANDER!

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Shorty

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9,543 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 7:59am

When there are dedicated sites to complain about the mods on another site, that's got problems!

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Tex

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5 Oct 2009, 11:32am

shorty this is also on the strictest forum I have ever seen. They literaly have a mission statement regarding the purpose of the forums and forbid redundant threads. Meaning your supposed to search and always add your question onto an older thread if it exists. Uhhhhh on a huge forum can you imagine how many threads thus get deleted a day? They consider it an archive or database of dating questions/answers. So topics must be searchable in their subject line. Or they are to be deleted.

You must ALWAYS reply to the OP's "topic" and never to another poster. No chit chat or friendly banter allowed at all.

Like I said... It's way different then any other forum I have ever posted on. Right now I ban more people each day there then I ever even deleted posts here.

Tex

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kryyst

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5,161 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 2:12pm

Now I'm trying to understand if you are a) surprised by this and b) hopefully getting paid for this because I can't fathom why you'd volunteer for it otherwise.

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Tex

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5 Oct 2009, 4:04pm

Quoting kryyst

Now I'm trying to understand if you are a) surprised by this and b) hopefully getting paid for this because I can't fathom why you'd volunteer for it otherwise.

Because I was a friend of another mod. One had recently left the site leaving only him. His mother died and he had no time to moderate and the forum was quickly turning into a free for all shambles.

Tex

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kryyst

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5 Oct 2009, 4:40pm

Must have been a good friend. I can't pretend for a second I'd put up with that kind of madness. Hats off to you for that.

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_k_

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5 Oct 2009, 4:43pm

Whats a friend?

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Tex

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5 Oct 2009, 5:26pm

Quoting kryyst

Must have been a good friend.

Actually I had actively been posting there for 3 years and he was just a forum friend like you and many others on this forum.

If you think about it I really didn't do it just for him. I did it for the forums itself and all my many friends on there as the forum was going downhill and turning into a nut house fast. Something that had been built over years was being trashed in a few weeks time in front of my eyes. I don't have the time to stay long term. It's to exhausting and abusive to be honest. But I will hold the fort until other mods are able to step in.

Tex

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ardichoke

King Banana Spanner

1,089 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 5:28pm

Quoting _k_

Whats a friend?

According to American Dad? Someone you use to get something you want.

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_k_

deep in the bush

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5 Oct 2009, 5:37pm

Whats a Dad?

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ardichoke

King Banana Spanner

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5 Oct 2009, 5:51pm

Quoting _k_

Whats a Dad?

I have no idea, someone else want to handle this one?

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lunchb0x

lol unmanaged

122 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 7:04pm

Quoting ardichoke

I have no idea, someone else want to handle this one?

Well when two people who love each other very much...

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kryyst

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5,161 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 7:10pm

Quoting Tex

Actually I had actively been posting there for 3 years and he was just a forum friend like you and many others on this forum.

If you think about it I really didn't do it just for him. I did it for the forums itself and all my many friends on there as the forum was going downhill and turning into a nut house fast. Something that had been built over years was being trashed in a few weeks time in front of my eyes. I don't have the time to stay long term. It's to exhausting and abusive to be honest. But I will hold the fort until other mods are able to step in.

Tex

I can appreciate that mentality. I've seen it happen a number of times, good forums dying from the rot that's not being culled out. Never had to deal with it on that scale of a forum though.

Hopefully you aren't beaten down to much that you lose what you like about the forum in the first place. I've also seen that happen a number of times. Boards being shutdown because the people that put the love into it no longer felt they were getting any love out of it.

There is of course the other option of rebooting the forum. Now on the scale that your dealing with that's a little different then say a 1k or 10k or even a 100k forum site. But I know of other boards that have had great success in doing so.

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Leonardo

F@H Reign of Terror is back!

14,696 Posts

5 Oct 2009, 7:12pm

When there are dedicated sites to complain about the mods on another site, that's got problems!

No, just a high number of members who are drama queens and flakes without lives. At least for those people, it's the Internet equivalent of TV soap operas.

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Koreish

Agent of Chaos

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5 Oct 2009, 8:47pm

Quoting _k_

Whats a Dad?

It's the one with the penis.

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Tex

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4,130 Posts

7 Oct 2009, 7:32pm

I just read this...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...ne_billion.php

1.2 BILLION page views a month. 500,000 unique member logins a day. 30 grand a day from adsense.

Tex

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primesuspect

The Icrontic Guy

27,798 Posts

7 Oct 2009, 8:01pm

Better get a piece of that pie, Tex!

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Buddy J

Dept. of Propaganda

7,440 Posts

7 Oct 2009, 10:52pm

I wouldn't be volunteering at that point. I'd be requesting shares.

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TBonZ

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8 Oct 2009, 12:43am

I want to see YOUR hate site Tex.

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Tex

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8 Oct 2009, 10:40am

I am sure you can google for it if you want to post....

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TBonZ

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8 Oct 2009, 3:25pm

No, no, you got me all wrong. Was just curious as to how absurd the discussions on these sites would be.

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Kwitko

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8 Oct 2009, 4:41pm

wink grin lmao

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Tex

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8 Oct 2009, 4:44pm

my dating site is plentyoffish.com. We call it POF. Largest free dating site in the world by far. Bigger they say then cupid, match, eharmony etc.. combined. And by being free of course we get more problems...

there are tons of pof hate sites. google for something like POF sucks. Not hard to locate.

Just a bunch of whiners who got banned at some time. Nothing interesting really.

Sad people mostly. What a life when you have to resort to that for entertainment.

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Tex edited : 8 Oct 2009 at 4:50pm .

Leonardo

F@H Reign of Terror is back!

14,696 Posts

9 Oct 2009, 6:09am

Sad people mostly. What a life when you have to resort to that for entertainment.

agreed

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Tex

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4,130 Posts

12 Oct 2009, 2:27am

Quoting primesuspect

Better get a piece of that pie, Tex!

I don't get a penny. You do it for the forums and people just as I did here before.

I loved these forums and all of you.

Tex

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primesuspect

The Icrontic Guy

27,798 Posts

12 Oct 2009, 3:34am

If this forum made millions of dollars, I swear to whatever you want me to swear to that each staff member would get actual cash.

You read it here first.

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TiberiusLazarus

I Miss Keebler

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12 Oct 2009, 4:07am

We obviously just need a dating forum.

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Tex

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4,130 Posts

12 Oct 2009, 9:25am

he isn't making money from the forums.... (lmao) I think it's more that he is making money despite them.

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Tex

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4,130 Posts

2 Nov 2009, 11:40pm

Just read this. Anyone know if this is true?

Plenty of Fish
has most hookups

AVancouver non-franchise dating service - Plenty of Fish - is the world's most visited Internet site, according to Internet media metrics giant ComScore Inc. . According to ComScore, daters visited Plenty of Fish's website 76.8 million times in July. That's more than twice as many as the 33.4 million global visits that second-ranked Meetic attracted.

I knew the website had a lot of traffic but I would of thought someone like google or yahoo would be bigger

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