Rant & Rave !!!
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Some of the mods do also have a pretty "flexible" sleeping pattern, so we might be awake when asia (or any other distant timezone is awake) and uploading torrents.
I'm from the uk and i got up 10 min ago
(its almost 3am my time)sgmusuk
Ps. That was to prove one of F00F points
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I wasn't suggesting that mod's stay up all hours of the night - what I was trying to say is that it was annoying for me to watch mod's comjng and going without approving my torrent.
In other words regardless of the hour I would have thought mod's should be checking for any torrents waiting approval. Which did not happen with me this time.
This is why I think something like rewarding a good seeder with a "whitelist" would work.
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From my point of view, the problem is that all the mods are from the US and Western Europe only where are limited in a few time zones and their working time is the others members' sleeping time. The number of members from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America is blossoming, why don't we add some more mods from Asia (Australia, China,…), Latin America? We have a category named Latino here but only one staff member's from there. How unfair! No white list's needed if we have at least one mod online at anytime to approve torrents. I'm not saying that we need a mod for each time zone but once you're online, you stay there for at least 2 or 3 hours, that's enough. Of course, we must choose the mods carefully but as a matter of fact, we need more of them.
You do know that Latin america is included in the US timezones?
There's a mod from "Latin America", more nitpicky from Brazil.
We also have a category called "shemale", but afaik we do lack shemales in the staff too. Sorry but your reasoning fails.
Out of the top 25 countries, only 5 were from asia (and/or in similar timezones), with around 4-4.5k users in total (most from Australia).
I don't agree that we need more mods. Maybe one from asia/australia. I stay around as long as there's something I can do, being "forced" to stay a set amount of hours is… eh... for lack of better word: bleh. Some of the mods do also have a pretty "flexible" sleeping pattern, so we might be awake when asia (or any other distant timezone is awake) and uploading torrents.
There's amazingly not 239428349024 torrents queued up and waiting for approval. At the time of writing only two are seeded, but the uploaders have other torrents active and there's 21 "invisible" aka unseeded torrents in the list.(The views in this post are my own and not necessary the views of the rest of the mods/staff.
Yes I know that Latin America is included in the US timezones. You don't need to be forced to stay online so long if you don't want to. If you have more people to share the load of work with you, is it better? Some of the mods have flexible sleeping time but not all of them do and they can sleep and wake up late like anybody else. I don't say that you are not good in moderating but why not force yourself so much? You love GT.ru and so do I.
@FOOF:Out of the top 25 countries, only 5 were from asia (and/or in similar timezones), with around 4-4.5k users in total (most from Australia).
They are not many right now but the number is rising and why not prepare for the prospective members from Asia? GT.ru's growing, it may not have 239428349024 torrents queued up now but how about tomorrow? If a guy from Mongolia (for example) wants to upload a torrent, he has to wait for the mods in the US and Europe to wake up and approve his torrent. How unfair! There are gays in Asia and there are many many of them and not only gays from US and Europe can upload a torrent, right? No offense, bro but you seem to under appreciate us in the Asia.
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If a guy from Mongolia (for example) wants to upload a torrent, he has to wait for the mods in the US and Europe to wake up and approve his torrent. How unfair! There are gays in Asia and there are many many of them and not only gays from US and Europe can upload a torrent, right? No offense, bro but you seem to under appreciate us in the Asia.
If vyou have a look at our home page, you will see
@Home:We need french, Asia/East Europe moderators!
and if you follow the link you'll see this thread. Now it's your turn to guess how many have reacted on our plea. We might have a bet - if you lose you have to apply for a mod :lol:
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I started to like being a mod and then suddenly, I read the last line of your topic mgr. LOL 'cos I'm a full time student. Besides that, I've got to confess that I have not much information about Bit Torrent around the world. In Vietnam, Bit Torrent still is strange to many people, they want to download files directly, not sharing them. It's gonna change soon, that's why I said you need more Asian mods to help spread Bit Torrent in Asia.
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…and then suddenly, I read the last line of your topic mgr.
At first let me tell you - it's not my topic but raphjd's. And for asian languages… - even ( :-)) a student might apply if he can write and understand asian laguage - we might overlook quite some things
The real topic is that work/school/education has to come fist - not that you may not be a moderator.
In Vietnam, Bit Torrent still is strange to many people, they want to download files directly, not sharing them.
Another reason to get a moderator with one of asian's language-knowledge, or at least someone who can translate some of our texts but I won't tell them - would'nt want to scare you off
…you need more Asian mods to help spread Bit Torrent in Asia.
Invitation to apply still stands, seriously.
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Tom and I decided that it would be best not to have students as moderators because of the school work issue.
HOWEVER, if you think you can handle being a mod, without affecting your education, then feel free to apply.
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I totally agree with Tom and raphjd that if you are a student, that is enough of a burden. You only have one shot at your education, so don't go putting obstacles in the way of maximizing that opportunity! You would not have the time to spend on the site that we would expect and do justice to your education at the same time.
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Just thought I would move this topic up so it doesn't get auto-locked for not being used.
Maybe mods could make it sticky.
TR
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Does that mean you consider to apply to become moderator here ::)
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I must have forgotten this thread when I redid the forums.
If you want to Rant & Rave, you can do it here til your heart is content; http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?board=77.0
