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[HoloYolo]

Is it true that after you get a 1000 rep that your rep just explodes from there? I've gotten 160 rep from November to now, something that took me way longer when I started here.

[Gaarst]

11 minutes ago, HoloYolo said:

Is it true that after you get a 1000 rep that your rep just explodes from there? I've gotten 160 rep from November to now, something that took me way longer when I started here.

It depends: do you get any better after you reach 1000 rep?

[HoloYolo]

Just now, Gaarst said:

It depends: do you get any better after you reach 1000 rep?

Maybe an ego boost, I'm not sure though.

[Red Iron Crown]

16 minutes ago, HoloYolo said:

Is it true that after you get a 1000 rep that your rep just explodes from there? I've gotten 160 rep from November to now, something that took me way longer when I started here.

I don't think it has to do with any set rep number, just that you've been subtly conditioned by the rep system to make posts that people like.

[Dman979]

2 hours ago, HoloYolo said:

Is it true that after you get a 1000 rep that your rep just explodes from there? I've gotten 160 rep from November to now, something that took me way longer when I started here.

Yes. I only rep posts by users with over 1000 points.

2 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I don't think it has to do with any set rep number, just that you've been subtly conditioned by the rep system to make posts that people like.

I wouldn't call it "subtle." There's bells, visual cues, and "User Liked this" when someone reps your post. It's a variable ratio schedule, just like gambling. And just like gambling, when you know the system, it makes it easier to get rewards.

[Red Iron Crown]

14 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

I wouldn't call it "subtle." There's bells, visual cues, and "User Liked this" when someone reps your post. It's a variable ratio schedule, just like gambling. And just like gambling, when you know the system, it makes it easier to get rewards.

Does the house always win, then?

[Dman979]

Just now, Red Iron Crown said:

Does the house always win, then?

Yeah, because it keeps people coming back here. The house winning isn't always a a bad thing.

[monstah]

9 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

Does the house always win, then?

Aren't you supposed to be the one answering questions?

[adsii1970]

2 hours ago, monstah said:

Aren't you supposed to be the one answering questions?

The beginning of knowledge is asking about the things you don't know. The beginning of wisdom is knowing you don't know everything.

Therefore, @Red Iron Crown is wise...

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

15 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

Does the house always win, then?

@SQUAD has 18,865 rep.  I'd say yes.  

[Dman979]

4 hours ago, adsii1970 said:

@Red Iron CrownThe beginning of knowledge is asking about the things you don't know. The beginning of wisdom is knowing you don't know everything.

What if you don't know whether or not you know everything?

[Mister Dilsby]

26 minutes ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

@SQUAD has 18,865 rep.  I'd say yes.  

I'm getting there, I'm getting there...

[Deddly]

What was the topic again?

[Dman979]

1 hour ago, Deddly said:

What was the topic again?

No, we're supposed to ask you questions about the forums.

What's the happiest you've made someone as a moderator?

[Garrett Kerman]

I just skimmed the entire thread, and now I can imagine the moderators have a secret thread where they chat for a while.

A few questions:

1. How many moderators are there?

2. How old are the fourms?

3. What are your favorite threads?

Thank you for all the work you do helping the community!

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

30 minutes ago, Garrett Kerman said:

I just skimmed the entire thread, and now I can imagine the moderators have a secret thread where they chat for a while.

A few questions:

1. How many moderators are there?

2. How old are the fourms?

3. What are your favorite threads?

Thank you for all the work you do helping the community!

1. 29, according to this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/staff/ 
2. The first post is from June 19, 2011: 

[/NOTAMOD]

[Vanamonde]

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I just skimmed the entire thread, and now I can imagine the moderators have a secret thread where they chat for a while. 

We have a private subforum and an IRC chat. 

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1. How many moderators are there? 

It's hard to say, since several people are on leave and may or may not come back, depending on real world events. There is this list, though.

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3. What are your favorite threads? 

I usually read a bit here and a bit there. I rarely follow specific threads closely because there are so many. 

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Thank you for all the work you do helping the community! 

It's actually fun, most of the time. When the arguments are not overly bitter. You're welcome. 

[Red Iron Crown]

10 hours ago, Garrett Kerman said:

3. What are your favorite threads?

This one is my absolute favorite, people sharing what they do in KSP and exchanging ideas about it, it's what I like best about the KSP forum distilled into one thread:

Also the MQDB, but that's a mods-only thing.  

[monstah]

14 hours ago, Garrett Kerman said:

Thank you for all the work you do helping the community!

11 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

It's actually fun, most of the time. When the arguments are not overly bitter. You're welcome. 

It's true, it's fun. And when it's not fun for Vanamonde, he makes angry faces, and that is fun for the rest of us.

14 hours ago, Garrett Kerman said:

3. What are your favorite threads?

Personally, this one and this one.

[Snark]

On 12/19/2016 at 4:44 PM, Garrett Kerman said:

3. What are your favorite threads?

I actually don't have any favorite threads-- can't.  That's because to have a particular favorite thread, it needs to be a long-lived (i.e. long) one, and my favorite threads are short ones that have just started.  Interesting ones pop up all the time, and when the post count is low (under 20), it's when I find things most interesting.

When the thread expands into many pages... that's when I find it less interesting, I just figure that "most of what one can say has been said", it's hard to hold the whole conversation in my head, so I tend to just cruise right on by.

 

...Well, except for this one.    I always find this thread interesting.

[Vanamonde]

@Red Iron Crown, the first rule of MQDB is, you do not talk about MQDB. 

[Diazo]

I apparently have work on the brain.

I read that as MSQLDB and went "of course the forum runs on Microsoft SQL Server Database, why's that a moderator secret?"

After a second look I realized it was MQDB instead and now I'm wondering....

Moderators Quietly Drinking Beer?

D.

[Dman979]

15 hours ago, monstah said:

It's true, it's fun. And when it's not fun for Vanamonde, he makes angry faces, and that is fun for the rest of us.

38 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

This is where it gets fun, right @monstah?

 

[VaPaL]

What's the hierarchy in the forums? I imagine something like:

1-SQUAD
2-SQUAD Staff
3-Global moderator
4-Moderator
5-Users

Is it right? And if so, who is SQUAD? I mean, somebody is behind it.
What 'power' and responsibilities each one have?

 

Thanks!

[Red Iron Crown]

The Squad account isn't a person, it's a communal account sometimes used for announcements and such. It doesn't have any real power.

Squad staff varies, too. There are a variety of positions and a hierarchy of its own there.

Global mods are nominally above regular mods in the hierarchy, but in practice this matters little. We try to moderate by consensus, and the newest mods' voices are just as important as the veterans for that.