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» The *REAL* truth about Mini-Modding »

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This thread was originally a response to a thread about mini-modding by Creepah . To see the original thread, click the link below:
http://www.mcgamer.net/threads/my-view-on-mini-mods.206455/
Made a couple of additions to the thread in this, so no need to lock <3

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Before people flame on me, please actually hear my opinion first.

In my opinion, I hate mini-modding. It's just something that can just straight-up irritate for these reasons:
  1. Person: You know what? I want my application process to be easier because this is so hard! SO WHY DON'T I SUCK UP AS MUCH AS I CAN SO PEOPLE CAN LOVE ME?

If there is something that you should know about me, I hate suck ups. They say things that in many cases, they don't even mean, just to get in the good side of people. Frankly, I find it annoying and cringe-worthy when I see people like these putting this horrid idea in action. Because isn't it just obvious that they are doing it for the mod?

"I just want to help the community!"

Isn't that what Report Abuses, /Report and much more! And what aboutapplying for mod? OH YAH! You're sucking up for the mod! Oh yah -.-
  • When people actually have a job for this


This might not make sense but allow me to explain:

Moderators have chosen to live up to a duty under an oath (the agreement) to enforce the MC-Gamer rules in such ways as Warnings and XKMB [Xime-Kick-Mute-Ban], and frankly, the respect the people that mini-mod in some aspects, but there are people who are trained to deal with things, and just /Report or Report Abuse them!

One of the problems with mini-mods is that many mini-mods are so arrogant in enforcing the rules that it just makes this mini-mod community's reputation go to an all-time low because of the ones who choose to go to extreme in enforcing rules. Again, this might not sound bad, but at full glance, it can become the worst thing you might just see.
  • The extremist.
As I previously mentioned in the last point, there are certain kinds of mini-mods called the extremist mini-mods. These aren't your everyday mini mods: these are the hardcore mini mods who will cross the line just to be the staff's little pet. They will venture to things such as:

-Spying
-Very deceptive manipulation
-Get information out of them to get them in trouble (kind of adding on to the last one :p)
-and more.

These people I have sadly met before. In the past, I met this person who added me on Skype and claimed to be a big fan of my forum posts, and then, this person started asking me these very odd questions which I won't mention on here. I later removed the person from Skype, and then I added 2 and 2 together to figure out that this person was trying to frame me in every way possible. Was he/she recording? Maybe; maybe not, but at least nothing was told the person to get their way.

Im a "Mini-Moderator" myself but i do it to help the community i once prevented a ddoser from DDosing other moderators when he DDosed Amber, so im not in it for the mod rank i just want to help out others to the best of my abilities without the rank.
Ok, please enlighten me:
How do you stop someone from DDoSing a person. The only real way I can imagine preventing a DDoS attack is by putting protection but that would be under the jurisdiction of Amber, though telling her to put the protection would make sense, but even then, how would that be done?

However, if you're doing it purely for the fact that you want to get mod and constantly correct moderators or attempt to give out warnings with moderators, it gets irritating.
And here is the problem with this age of mini-modding: This is only reason why minimodding is a thing!

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Ok, so here's the point:

Mini-modding annoys me but the ones who say "STFU" or "F*** off F*****!" really shouldn't say that because they're humans (I think, idk ;-;), and if they choose to protect the community in such a way, then we should "respect" them.I don't like mini-modding, but I am forced to respect in such an environment as MCSG to avoid such trouble and fuss!

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how are people gonna get mod, w/o mini modding
 

TheMangoTiger

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how are people gonna get mod, w/o mini modding
It is easily possible but it's just people who 'mini-mod' excessively are usually newer to the community and don't realise that there are other ways to show the snr staff you would make a good mod. For example attending cleansweeps, community events, having previous experience, making report abuses, and just generally having experiece of playing this server (idk i've never been mod but it's obvious these things would all clearly help you if you want to apply)

The problem is that as more people see other people mini mod, they start doing it too, and although they might think they are helping they don't realise how they are coming across to the general community. When I say 'mini-mod' I don't mean just helping and answering questions, I mean copying and pasting the same replies, acting like they are generally above the rest of the people ingame and saying that they 'only want to help!' when clearly they just want the red name. I know they are only helping and not actually doing anything bad but mostly they just come across as arrogant and a bit pretentious and I personally dislike those types of people.

ok rant over
 

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To be honest in my opinion, sometimes people can mini-mod correctly and it isn't annoying. I guess those people may or may not end up eventually applying for moderator ;)
 

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