Where actually are the Mods?
 

What happened to the Mods? did they actually go on vacation or are they just taking a break from the forums? are they ignoring everything or what? Just someone give me a straightforward answer instead of spamming me about useless **** or acting like a 'super mature 12 year old' and doing dumb stuff like saying I'm a child and should take a vacation cause I asked a simple question and spoke against the oppressor and stuff blah blah yadda yadda just answer me and go.

Why would we know? It's anybody's guess.

They have lives and have moved on for the most part. What we really need is a new string of mods.

I'm on here all the time. If they put out a Mod draft, I guess I won't flee to Canada... :tlol:

Its summer. Most of them are likely on vacation.

They're at Hawaii sitting on beaches taking in the sunset. Others have gone to the carribean or Florida. Also many of them are adults with their own families and kids.

Vacation time.

Why aren't YOU a mod? You're on here all the time... :tgrin:

Because people like me should never hold the reigns of power. Otherwise you turn into Donald Trump.

They're older with real responsabilities, Krang doesn't care enough to come either for the same reason to get to know users and be able to name new mods who can actually do the job that an active forum requires so all hell breaks lose in one section.


I'm surprised knowing this that it hasn't spread to other sections, now that would be really bad. if it spread into other sections because there is no one to stop it so let's hope it just doesn't spread into the other sections into the forum and make this the wild west since there is nothing anyone can do.

Is it really that bad? For the most part it's just folks goofing off. Any fights happen, then resolve... Why do we need mods right now? Nothing too crazy has happened, aside from some fun **** posting. We're okay, we're grown ups, we're fine.

All the TMNT sections have fairly good posts except the Platinum Dunes section. I don't see any bad threads posted in the general, Nick, 4kids, or comic sections at all.

Likewise the TV, current events, videogame, comic, everything else etc. are all fine too.

Where are you guys seeing bad threads outside of you-know-where?

But that's ALL it is. Goofing off occassionaly is perfectly fine (y'know, if it's actually funny) but some of the cob nobblers here make it their mission to turn every thread into a cuhrazzy wacky joke time.

Then you have the ultra serious political threads where fights are breaking out constantly. It sours the mood when you start to hear everyones dumb opinions in one thread and in the next wondering if Will Smith should be in TMNT 3. Papenbrook needs to be f*cking banned too. Just thought I'd say that.


I'd go as far to say that this place is pretty much unfixable. Krang isn't going to come back and take the time to elect new mods, or atleast I don't think he will.

I'm not excluding myself from the problem. I've gone a little too far in some places, and I admit that. I think you can too, especially with the BvS thread. Some of the sh*t throwing (over capesh*t) in there was uncalled for, and you know it.

I've looked through a lot of older threads here from the 2001-2010 years and they're a lot different. Everyone seemed to be a lot less cynical and only poked fun at each other. Everyone seemed like they were friends for the most part. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe it's always been the way it is now, but that's the vibe I got.

Everyone tries so hard these days, trying to carve an internet personality instead of just chilling and hanging out (Mew, Mewtwo, and Etsy). I don't know if what I wrote made any sense, but it's just the way I feel, and attempting to write out those feelings.

EDIT- Cubed has a point. My post is generally directed at the non-tmnt parts of the forum, but I guess it can apply

Most of the old forums users from 2001-2008 or so are gone except for a few. They largely left after the 2k3 era ended.

I get that. Gettin' adult and having responsibilites. But I wouldn't rule out that some people saw where this place was going, or logged back on to find all their old friends were gone.

Most of them are 30 year old adults now. In the early 2000's, well...that was 16 years ago. Many of them were teenagers then and then were 20 year olds and so on and so forth. I was one of those people but I'm still around.

Makes sense. The kids from the 80's and 90's of the original TMNT fad then came online as teenagers in the early 2000's, and then from 2000-2010 or so became adults and moved on with their lives.

That's why you look at the ages of all the original fans they're around 25-30+ year olds now.

Times a bitch. I can't believe 2006 was really 10 years ago. I can't even look at the original star wars cast today without tearing up. Can you believe in a few years time we'll have no WW2 vets? Crazy. If I could, I'd live from 2001-2011 and just repeat those years over. Goddamnit Cubed you're actually making me cry.

You'll find that was the case on most corners of the web.

The world, & internet, has changed a lot since then, the youth especially.

You've got those in your age group who just discovered 4chan, all in a race to see who can be the most like Filthy Frank, not realizing that cancer ass personality exists to mock & profit off idiots like them, not encourage similar behavior. Others of my generation are on that polar opposite Tumblr SJW ish, so you wind up drowning in a sea of extremes, which sucks. Normal ass geek types aren't so common these days, folks always feel compelled to align themselves with a vocal outfit of doofs. Nobody is pushing the envelope or crushing oppression, they're just making society worse. :tlol: The only other third party with decent numbers is that of the average dope, who asks obvious/stupid/easily Googled questions or states opinions as facts, then gets huffy when called out for it. Back then, it was mostly reclusive types who turned to the web for interaction. Lonely nerds looking for like-minded individuals. When you're in need of friends, you've got every reason to keep it mellow. Now, everyone's on their phones all the time, so you get many different kinds of people interacting online, bringing about certain tensions (but also sometimes adding diversity, which can be welcome).

+ you find a lot of outright mentally unstable people who are either lacking in self awareness, outwardly hostile, really creepy, or all of the above. It can be hard to tell who has legitimate issues or is just a troll at times.

I couldn't agree more. I'm pretty happy none of the reddit/youtube "dank meme culture" reached my small, tightly knit school. In a couple months I'm going to high school and to be completely honest, I'm f*cking worried. I thought that sh*t was funny 2 years ago, and suddenly NOW it's big?

youtube didn't even come out till 2005. Even then youtube is a good place as long as you ignore all the youtube people and just watch videos based on stuff you're interested in.

There's really no good content. Every non-gaming based channel talks about "creating content" yet all they do is talk about youtube drama. It's dumb.

The only channels that I watch and look forward to are Redlettermedia, Ashens, Cinemassacre, and Jontron. Besides those guys that's about it. Sure there's the occassional tutorial/educational video, documentaries, and music but I don't think those would count as "channels".

Are you me? :tlol: Same, all the way. I have a bunch of other subs, of course, but none of them are on that same level, really. Little bits & bobs of music, beta/glitch material, etc. YT "personalities" are mostly a total cancer.

Great minds think alike dude.

I've been thinking of starting a youtube channel, but not until I have a good idea of what I'd be doing. I think if I had good cameras, sets, and put work into writing scripts I can do something pretty cool.

A good example of youtube being used to it's full potential is Jesse Ridgeway (aka mcjuggernuggets). He staged for nearly 5 years an entire story that revolved around him and his family. 1-2 one hour videos a day, all planned, all plotted, with character developement and foreshadowing and everything. The quality of his series only went up as he got more popular. His final video came out a couple weeks ago (so I can't say I look forward to watching him), where "he" as a character had a final showdown witth his father. It was creative and nothing matched or matches up to it. If you're bored, and have a day to kill, look up his channel and click on the "Psycho Series Playlist", which has all the important episodes.

So, you're not even in high school yet?

You read a lot older, but maybe that's why you're suggesting the forum needs the moderation.

I guess, if we're being really honest, I'm sick of the policing this generation wants so badly. My generation fought against a police state, and feared the potential of a 1984; y'all are clamoring for it, which is baffling (no not all, but there's a frighteningly loud percentage).

Yeah, I go off, but who hasn't? I fought in the BVS thread, not so much because he liked a thing, and I didn't, but because he's argumentative and so am I, and we happened to hold opposing views. It happened. So what? No one is getting hurt, really. He'll come back at some point, or he won't. The movie looked stupid, he didn't agree, the movie opened, He was wrong, the end. 27% is, well, 27%.
It's a movie, though, ya? I'm sure he'll get over it, if he hasn't already. He's still a funny guy with razor sharp wit. I'm still an overtired SOB. He still has an account.

If you're not keen on political debates, cool, that's alright, but the thing is, everyone here, who lives in the US, will or will someday have a vote. It's way more important, to know what's happening in you country, than what's happening to Bayturtles, Paul Feig, or at Comic-con. You can say the system's rigged, and to an extent it is, or that it doesn't really change anything, and maybe some feel that way, but the truth is, The world you're looking at today, compared to 16 years ago, is different, primarily because of the politics, of the last 16 years. The snark is just a symptom of a diseased culture.

We joke about Brexit, about Google searches the following day primarily being "What does it mean to leave the E.U." We're not that different. Cops are shooting innocent folks in the street, and half the world is playing Pokemon.
That really happened.

We're not nice, anymore. We're mean bullies, angry and malcontent. Mods won't "fix" that, other than to just silence non-conformists. No ones's going around posting hate speech or porn, or anything truly disturbing (okay maybe the Bugs bunny gif...definitely yeah...) but honestly, with so little TMNT to talk about, what's left to talk about?

We've all talked it to death, which if I had a guess, would be the most likely reason the old members are gone.

I used to be really excited about new JonTrons, but my interest in him has deflated slowly but surely... I suffered through that Star Wars series he did, and was excited to see him return to his core show, except now his budget is way higher than it was before, and it's gotten to his head.
So instead of a goofball and his bird sitting in a chair, making commentary, it's now huge skits where's he's dragging live animals around and bringing in other actors... it's not as stupidly simple as it used to be.

It's funny how most of the YT channels I pay attention to are video game-related, even though I really don't play video games at all. PBG, Eggbusters, etc. Their commentary is always really funny though.

As for the quality of the Technodrome - I don't think it'll ever recover. We've grown way too used to sh!tposting in recent years - especially in the PD section - and when the whole community is ready and willing to partake in that, I think all hope is lost. Sometimes we're pretty good about moderating when a joke or trend has gone too far, but sometimes we aren't.
Like the "Should ___ be in TMNT 3" threads. The first few were pretty funny, and it should have ended there. But then it turned into a Reddit situation where everyone (myself included) tried to cash in on the meme/trend and be Mr. Funny for a day. That shouldn't happen.

Some high-quality navel-gazing going on right here.

Who says we're not all friends? Maybe we're just really really dysfunctional people.

Spats happen; tempers flare. Adults.

However, C42, I do think we need a level of moderation to prevent out-and-out anarchy. True small government, though such a thing rarely exists.

As you're the expert, I'll take that as a compliment.


@Cylon - I won't lie, I'm a fan of less is more.

Oh, absolutely. I think the mods are mostly needed to keep Youtube/download links squelched, ban Goku's reincarnations, take care of crap like when Megashredder went on his little nerd rampage of "viruses" and whatnot, and step in to ban members who post death threats and whatever.

None of that happens very often, so other than that, self-policing. Which honestly sounds like the current situation already.

The mods are in honolulu. How many times do I have to say it?

They all went on a group vacation to Hawaii. Krang paid their expenses and they all went with their families all at once for the entire summer. They are sipping drinks on the Hawaii sun and sitting on beaches without a care in the world.

That's where you're wrong, Cubed. :tshifty:

I've already said too much...

This is where all the mods are:

http://www.a2zhawaii.com/wp-content/...kiki-beach.jpg

I don't see them.

I wish....

You're adults....well mostly...and the "Should __ be in TMNT 3" threads are mostly harmless. If any real trouble breaks out...we'll get reports.

Jester take your family to a resort:

http://www.travelchannel.com/content...m.616.462.jpeg

You and your family deserve a vacation.

I've been without internet for over a month, and just got it back tonight and came to 40 reported posts and a bazillion PMs... :tgrumble:

Like Jester said, I don't want to be goose-stepping through the forums, but there are SERIOUSLY some people who are gonna be smacked for taking things too far.

Quick, MB, smash your router with a hammer. :trazz:

I think I should be a mod.

Stop.

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*gets back from 1-month ban*

"I think I should be a mod."

I was actually joking. I have no chance at becoming a moderator.

You'd look terrible with a dorky little mustache.

We do not fear that you will turn into Machias Kampf.