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Topic Started: May 8 2006, 01:21 PM (938 Views)
justme
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HOLY CARP!!!



I can't handle being a moderator anymore. It's costing me too much emotionally. I have lots of stress going on in my life right now and I just can't handle anymore. I'm way too sensitive.

Anyone who's interested in the job, please, let me and jgoo know.

:help: :help:
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Peggy,

Let me congratulate you on one thing.. you have such a light touch at this that I was unaware you were the moderator. To be able to operate with such a deft hand is a gift.

Thanks for your efforts!
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
I'm sorry, to hear that, Peggy, really I am. :(

Moderating is a thankless, often stressful job. When things are going well, people forget you even have the job, but when you have to enforce it, you know you're doing it well when you start to get hate mail.

You've been doing a great job so far, and we're all lucky to have you.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
Thanks for all your work.
I appreciate it.

Moderator is a thankless job.

:hug:
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Jolly
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Mikhailoh
May 8 2006, 03:24 PM
Peggy,

Let me congratulate you on one thing.. you have such a light touch at this that I was unaware you were the moderator. To be able to operate with such a deft hand is a gift.

Thanks for your efforts!

Absolute truth.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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AlbertaCrude
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Peggy you do what is is best for you.

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justme
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HOLY CARP!!!
Thanks, guys.

Just to be clear. I haven't gotten any hate mail. Everyone has been super supportive and wonderful.

I just have a lot going on in my real life right now.

Moderating takes a lot of thought and consideration. Nothing is ever black and white. I have learned NOT to try and please everybody but to ALWAYS please jgoo. He's busy himself and I've tried to keep his spirit here.

It's not that difficult a job and anyone can do it. But I take things too personally and I'm way too sensitive.

I'm surprised I've lasted this long. Why do you think I linger in the song and word association threads. they're never controversial.

Please, someone, consider the job.

:help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
I'm glad to hear you weren't getting hate mail, I couldn't imagine why you would.

Thanks for all you've done, Peggy. :hug:
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ivorythumper
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DivaDeb
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Absolutely Peggy, you do a great job but it sure isn't worth you undergoing ANY stress on our behalf. It is truly a thankless job (even though we're all saying thank-you...not many of us would have thought to say it unless you said you were quitting, shame on us!) but that's not really the point. Nobody should do it if it worries them, stresses them or makes their life difficult either from a standpoint of taking too much time or monkeying with how you feel. That is NOT WORTH IT for a well loved member of the community (one of the best, in fact)

I was so burned out after moderating the opera forum for 10 years that I dropped out completely for almost 3 years and am just now going back to my friends there (dear friends...people all over the world with whom I've eaten dinner, attended performances, sung with, even stayed in their homes and had them in mine!) just because I was so overcooked from the responsbility of moderating. Take some time off or quit...somebody else can/will do it. Just whatever you do, don't continue to do it until you can't stand the sight of the forum like I did. That was dumb, I should have quit the job, not the forum, a long time before I got that sick of it.
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George K
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This place IS you and jgoo! You've both done a spectacular job in guidance and leadership. Anyone who's had a position that involves telling other people what to do/what not to do will agree that it's thankless. I've done it.

So, for you we won't let it be thankless.

Thanks from me! :heart:
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Larry
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Peg, you do an excellent job as a moderator. In fact, your's is a style worthy of emulation. But I can understand the emotional side of it wearing you down - you've got a lot on you in real life, and you're one of those "nice" people who takes things deep inside when you have to do something like moderate a post. You get emotional over it, and that's good, for that's you.

Whoever it is that ends up the next moderator, I hope they can show the same widsom and restraint that you have shown.

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katie
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You're a good person Peggy.
You've done a great job .. :yes:
I hope someone will step up and do a good job for jgoo as well.
:)

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QuirtEvans
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As I was reading the title of this thread, Peggy, I thought to myself, she does a great job, but she's too sensitive, it's got to be too hard for her.

And then you said it yourself.

All I can say is, you'll be missed. You leave huge shoes to fill, I doubt anyone will be able to do the job as gracefully.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Mikhailoh
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Let me be moderator! I will be fair and even handed and deal once and for all with all these nancy boys and these left-wing towelhead-loving motherf....

Oh, never mind. I don't have time anyway. <_<
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mikhailoh
May 8 2006, 06:55 PM
Let me be moderator! I will be fair and even handed and deal once and for all with all these nancy boys and these left-wing towelhead-loving motherf....

Oh, never mind. I don't have time anyway. <_<

*snicker
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kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
Peggy

Just become a bitch.
A jerk.
A meanie.

Nurture hate in your heart.
Tell yourself that deep down we all want to be abused.

Get in touch with your inner masochist. :P
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justme
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HOLY CARP!!!
kenny
May 8 2006, 07:09 PM
Peggy

Just become a bitch.
A jerk.
A meanie.

Nurture hate in your heart.
Tell yourself that deep down we all want to be abused.

Get in touch with your inner masochist. :P

:devilgrin: :devilgrin: :devilgrin:

I do enjoy the POWER :devilgrin: :devilgrin: :devilgrin:
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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kenny
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That's more like it girl. :thumb:

Now go moderate all those republicans.

:lol:
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s54mo827
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justme - just continue.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I won't volunteer, but I will do it for a fee. Highest bidder. $10 min per edit; $20 for removal; $100 per ban.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
ivorythumper
May 8 2006, 03:33 PM
I won't volunteer, but I will do it for a fee. Highest bidder. $10 min per edit; $20 for removal; $100 per ban.

But righties have more money than lefties.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
kenny
May 8 2006, 04:56 PM
ivorythumper
May 8 2006, 03:33 PM
I won't volunteer, but I will do it for a fee.  Highest bidder. $10 min per edit; $20 for removal; $100 per ban.

But righties have more money than lefties.

It you gay childless liberals who have all the discretionary income -- the conservative Christian breeding theocrats are busy buying diapers and mini vans. :lol:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Luke's Dad
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ivorythumper
May 8 2006, 08:03 PM
kenny
May 8 2006, 04:56 PM
ivorythumper
May 8 2006, 03:33 PM
I won't volunteer, but I will do it for a fee.  Highest bidder. $10 min per edit; $20 for removal; $100 per ban.

But righties have more money than lefties.

It you gay childless liberals who have all the discretionary income -- the conservative Christian breeding theocrats are busy buying diapers and mini vans. :lol:

Hey! I resemble that remark!
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Anonymous
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justme, great decision.

I am ecstatic.
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