04-05-2004 07:09									#1
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quote: In 2004, Mercatore Uno will make you his dog.

Obscure gaming references aside, Mercator is now my second in command. Just like me, he gets to almost never move threads, almost never delete posts, and almost never sticky announcements. You will pretend to pay him at least as much respect as you pretend to pay me. There is no other way.

Anyhoo... Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

	04-05-2004 07:10									#2
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: In 2004, Mercatore Uno will make you his dog. Obscure gaming references aside, Mercator is now my second in command. Just like me, he gets to almost never move threads, almost never delete posts, and almost never sticky announcements. You will pretend to pay him at least as much respect as you pretend to pay me. There is no other way. Anyhoo... Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

splain' please.

	04-05-2004 07:14									#3
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Mercatore Uno is now moderator of the Sleague and PBEM forums. Also, because the gods of Apolyton are mean and don't like me gathering mods like some people gather stamps, they have demoted Techumseh, WarVoid, and DarthVeda.

	04-05-2004 07:17									#4
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Mercatore Uno is now moderator of the Sleague and PBEM forums. Also, because the gods of Apolyton are mean and don't like me gathering mods like some people gather stamps, they have demoted Techumseh, WarVoid, and DarthVeda.

Well crap, we might get something done then. What says the new Mod?

	04-05-2004 07:20									#5
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Congrats Merc. Does this mean we have to read your announcements as closely as your utility readmes?

	04-05-2004 13:47									#6
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Well done Mercatore!

BTW whatever happened to techumseh/warvoid/darthveda?

I haven't seen them post in ages.

	04-05-2004 14:05									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Boco Congrats Merc. Does this mean we have to read your announcements as closely as your utility readmes?

Congrats, Mercatore!

	04-05-2004 15:41									#8
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Congratulations Merc.

Do Mark and Dan now split the site's profits with you?

quote: Just like me, he gets to almost never move threads, almost never delete posts, and almost never sticky announcements.

If you want more excitment, why don't you abuse your powers and become a tinpot dictator? In the period before everbody leaves for CDG you can have the time of your life by correcting everybody's grammar and imposing bans for improper use of apostrophises .

Anyway, based on my experiance, the best kind of moderating is the kind where you do almost nothing. The worst kind is when you've got a lot to do: this inevitably means that you spend a lot of time arguing with nut jobs and smart-arsed 14 year olds.

	04-05-2004 16:04									#9
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quote: Anyway, based on my experiance, the best kind of moderating is the kind where you do almost nothing. The worst kind is when you've got a lot to do: this inevitably means that you spend a lot of time arguing with nut jobs and smart-arsed 14 year olds.

Yes, it's fairly civilized here nowadays. We play nice; it's so civilized (no pun intended) here as to be boring sometimes!

I miss the Soundwave era. He certainly livened the place up with controversy, and made the moderators earn their money. I think they actually had to lock a thread that time!

	04-05-2004 22:56									#10
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What the hell?! I'm as surprised as you all are.

Well, um, great, I guess. Thanks! There isn't a whole lot to do here (luckily), but the occasional thread moving/topping of threads will come in handy.

And it looks like I can also post civgroup news, but I'll try to leave (most of) that to Harry Tuttle.

You don't have to expect any announcements from me yet either. But when I do...

If you need something to read, read this:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...threadid=114076


Just one thing though, I've hardly ever even visited the PBEM forum, and I don't really follow all of the scenario threads over here. So I think a more scenario-inclined civer would be more appropriate for that... I'd suggest someone, but I know too little about the PBEM forum to be able to even name anyone.

Now, let me just delete all those nasty "scenario" and "graphics" threads...

	04-05-2004 23:38									#11
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Does this mean we'll have to post in Hex from now on?

Congratulations Mercatore!

Last edited by fairline on 05-05-2004 at 02:08

	05-05-2004 01:48									#12
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Way to go Merc.

	05-05-2004 07:07									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Mercatore Uno And it looks like I can also post civgroup news, but I'll try to leave (most of) that to Harry Tuttle.

Good, I can hand a story or two off to you when I'm too sloshed to edit.

Congrats Merc.

Why don't you start with a nice little news blip about your recent "promotion"?

	05-05-2004 12:53									#14
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Hail to the new prince of darkness!

	05-05-2004 16:29									#15
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Congratulations Mercatore, you can't wonder how much I envy you

	05-05-2004 23:21									#16
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quote: Originally posted by curtsibling Hail to the new prince of darkness!

Indeed! Congrats Mercator!

	06-05-2004 01:35									#17
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Congratulations

Do you know that every new moderator has the right to three murders?

	06-05-2004 04:02									#18
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quote: Originally posted by fairline Does this mean we'll have to post in Hex from now on?

No... Lots of fancy HTML code will do.

quote: Originally posted by Harry Tuttle Good, I can hand a story or two off to you when I'm too sloshed to edit.

Don't you dare!

quote: Why don't you start with a nice little news blip about your recent "promotion"?

Now there's an idea...

Thanks everyone! I almost feel like it's my birthday.

and St Leo

I'm very tempted to close this thread with a "case closed" ... But I won't. Not until you're all done applauding me anyway.

Bow before me!

	06-05-2004 10:14									#19
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Well done, Merc. Congrats!

	07-05-2004 04:28									#20
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Oh sure. Congrats to you, another +1 to me.

Who's next?

	08-05-2004 18:49									#21
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