If you get on IRC, we can talk about it if you want it public :V.

Also, Ciaotime pops up and reveals his story with no sugar coating but a little mystery...

[15:46] <@ChrisDom> K shoot ciao.
[15:46] <CiaoTime> legit reason why I left smod
[15:46] <CiaoTime> at the time the place was collapsing
[15:46] <CiaoTime> this was December '09
[15:47] == mode/#interview [+v CiaoTime] by ChrisDom
[15:47] <+CiaoTime> we had too many idiots in the higher echelons
[15:47] == mode/#interview [+m] by ChrisDom
[15:47] <+CiaoTime> Parrot was going down, I wasn't being productive as smod, and overall had much better things to do with my life
[15:47] <+CiaoTime> jalis says like gman
[15:47] <+CiaoTime> I disagree
[15:47] <+CiaoTime> gman was actually useful
[15:47] <@ChrisDom> definitely
[15:48] <@ChrisDom> Who was an idiot in the higher echelon?
[15:48] <+CiaoTime> so that's basically it
[15:48] <+CiaoTime> well
[15:48] <+CiaoTime> There were a few idiotic decisions made
[15:48] <+CiaoTime> I won't say what or who
[15:48] <+CiaoTime> and we're fine with eachother now
[15:49] <@ChrisDom> (kitfox)
[15:49] <+CiaoTime> no
[15:49] <@ChrisDom> oh ok
[15:49] <+CiaoTime> he wasn't higher echelon att
[15:49] <@ChrisDom> Are we talking A-Team at the time
[15:49] <+CiaoTime> Ehh... not really, no
[15:49] <@ChrisDom> hmmm...
[15:49] <@ChrisDom> ok
[15:50] <+CiaoTime> we had the wrong people for the wrong job
[15:50] <@ChrisDom> And it's better now right?
[15:50] <+CiaoTime> Honestly, I don't know
[15:50] <+CiaoTime> I haven't been in the community since last year
[15:50] <+CiaoTime> With the obvious exception of IRC, most newer people won't know me there
[15:51] <@ChrisDom> well thanks ciao
[15:51] <+CiaoTime> I'm so interesting, eh
[15:51] <@ChrisDom> so far, yeah
[15:51] <+CiaoTime> I'm like siku junior
[15:51] <+CiaoTime> so ace.
[15:51] <@ChrisDom> you gave me a mystery to solve
[15:51] <+CiaoTime> want a clue, watson?
[15:52] <+CiaoTime> ask the russians
[15:52] <@ChrisDom> OH

ask the russians.

AlexOwnz joined the chat room.
[4:55pm] Nathan: Hello AlexOwnz
[4:55pm] AlexOwnz: Sup Nathan
[4:55pm] Nathan: Now, how long have you been a smod?
[4:56pm] AlexOwnz: I've been an smod since New Years, 2010.
[4:56pm] Nathan: Cool
[4:56pm] Nathan: You seem to be one of the.. chiller smods
[4:56pm] Nathan: Would you say this is true?
[4:57pm] AlexOwnz: I suppose you could say that. I don't take everything super seriously, but still get the job done.
[4:57pm] Nathan: What's your usual routine for doing things that smods do on the forums?
[4:58pm] Nathan: The answer to this is, our should be
[4:58pm] Nathan: Fairly diverse for a lot of the smods
[4:59pm] AlexOwnz: Basically I just run through any undone reports, and run quick scans through the forums to make sure everything is alright.
[4:59pm] Nathan: Such as Nirs or Chozo, who do lots of work that the community can't see, or smods who infract and the likes every day
[4:59pm] Nathan: Mm
[4:59pm] Nathan: Okay
[4:59pm] Nathan: How many times have you been angrily confronted about an infraction or ban?
[5:00pm] AlexOwnz: Hah. Too many.
[5:00pm] Nathan: Mm
[5:00pm] Nathan: This must annoy you a lot, right?
[5:01pm] AlexOwnz: Not as much as one would think actually
[5:01pm] Nathan: Mm
[5:01pm] Nathan: Mm
[5:01pm] Nathan: Mm
[5:01pm] Nathan: I see
[5:02pm] Nathan: What would you say the upside of being a smod is?
[5:02pm] Nathan: It obviously comes with benefits
[5:03pm] AlexOwnz: It's a good feeling to help clean up the mess people leave behind on the forums, I guess.
[5:03pm] AlexOwnz: It's not so much about being higher than everyone else.
[5:03pm] Nathan: Mm
[5:04pm] Nathan: Sorry I keep saying that
[5:04pm] Nathan: Muscle memory
[5:04pm] Nathan: Anyways
[5:04pm] AlexOwnz: Well, it does.
[5:04pm] AlexOwnz: You're right there
[5:04pm] Nathan: Would you ever want to be an admin?
[5:05pm] AlexOwnz: Absolutely, anything to further my assistance here.
[5:06pm] Nathan: Do you see yourself as being a smod in 6 months?
[5:06pm] AlexOwnz: I intend to keep my activity high, and yes I see myself as that.
[5:07pm] Nathan: Cool.
[5:08pm] Nathan: What do you think about the current bunch of smods?
[5:08pm] AlexOwnz: Not fond of all them, but they are mostly a good bunch.
[5:10pm] Nathan: Mmkay
[5:10pm] Nathan: That wraps it up I guess

Ravenger!

[16:55] <@ChrisDom> So, rave
[16:55] <@ChrisDom> you've been around for a bit right
[16:55] <+brorave> Yeah
[16:55] <+brorave> late january of 2007 actually
[16:55] <@ChrisDom> How long?
[16:55] <@ChrisDom> oh
[16:56] == Enzu [[email protected]] has joined #interview
[16:56] <+brorave> I think I played in december though
[16:56] <@ChrisDom> and what positions have you had so far?
[16:56] <+brorave> hmm
[16:56] <+brorave> I've had TA twice, PT, Torishop admin for a night, and right now I'm M-Squad
[16:57] <@ChrisDom> No smod or admin powers right?
[16:57] <@ChrisDom> besides market
[16:57] <+brorave> nah
[16:57] <+brorave> I just have infraction abilities in the Market board
[16:58] <@ChrisDom> Would you ever like to be an smod?
[16:58] <@ChrisDom> or does it seem like too much work?
[16:58] <+brorave> I guess yeah
[16:58] <+brorave> I've been here awhile and I've held almost everything in the book so I guess the next step would be SMod
[16:59] <@ChrisDom> So you are confident you would be able to be an smod with that knowledge right
[16:59] <+brorave> Probably, I can't apply anytime soon though
[17:00] <+brorave> (away for the next 30/50 days)
[17:00] <@ChrisDom> Do you think you could handle admin powers?
[17:00] <+brorave> that's a tough thing to gauge, I guess so
[17:00] <+brorave> I don't know if I'd like to be admin though
[17:01] <+brorave> seems like too much work
[17:01] <@ChrisDom> Right.
[17:01] <@ChrisDom> So do you enjoy being market squad
[17:01] <+brorave> Yeah, I enjoy working with the Market
[17:01] <@ChrisDom> Market seems to have tons more work than other parts of the forum
[17:02] <+brorave> Eh, it depends on the part I guess
[17:02] <+brorave> I mainly lurk the Items board, where there (usually) isn't that much going on
[17:02] <+brorave> but Art/Textures seems to have a lot to do; I should probably browse that more
[17:03] <@ChrisDom> probably, that sounded like you were dodging work :V
[17:03] <+brorave> <__<
[17:03] <+brorave> I've just never made any art
[17:03] <@ChrisDom> oh that makes sense.
[17:03] <+brorave> doesn't interest me as much as the items board
[17:04] <@ChrisDom> what do you think about the current mod team?
[17:04] <+brorave> I think it's pretty good
[17:04] <@ChrisDom> Any changes you would make?
[17:04] <+brorave> hmm
[17:04] <+brorave> I don't think I would
[17:05] <+brorave> only thing I would do would be implement more SMods before the wii version comes out
[17:05] <@ChrisDom> I thought the wii version wasn't going to be linked to this version
[17:06] <+brorave> honestly, I have no idea
[17:06] <+brorave> I thought it was but
[17:06] <@ChrisDom> sounds like a good change if it happens to be linked.
[17:06] <@ChrisDom> Anything you want to add bro?
[17:07] <+brorave> oh I forgot to say I was an authorised youshop holder
[17:07] <@ChrisDom> Man of 1000 jobs
[17:07]  * brorave shrugs
[17:07] <@ChrisDom> one last thing
[17:07] <@ChrisDom> and i've never known for sure this whole time.
[17:07] <@ChrisDom> ARE YOU MALE OR FEMALE
[17:08] <+brorave> ahahaha
[17:08] <+brorave> Male
[17:08] <@ChrisDom> k, I get you confused with someone
[17:08] <@ChrisDom> thanks bro.
[17:08] <+brorave> I can't remember why, but Shin-Ryuu changed my title to "certified girl" once
[17:08] <+brorave> yeah, no problem

I seriously NEVER knew for sure. But yeah so far,
Last year was more interesting than this year.

Ended up that the wii version isn't going to be linked. Go figure.

I thought veb said that a while ago. Maybe hampa idk.

Good job with the interview. I think you showed the best faces of the people who spoke.

Not like I'm trying to kill peoples' reputation.

From last year! Ishi!

[17:24] <@ChrisDom> k ishi, I interviewed you last year
[17:24] <@ChrisDom> and
[17:24] <@ChrisDom> YOU ARE ADMIN NOW
[17:24] <+ishi> don't expect too much or you will be let down :D
[17:24] <+ishi> ye, i am
[17:24] <+ishi> it happend pretty suddenly
[17:24] <@ChrisDom> Tell me about it.
[17:24] <@ChrisDom> how'd it happen bro?
[17:24] <+ishi> well, i recently got smod back, after i lost it while i was playing anarchy online for 2 weeks straight
[17:25] <+ishi> veb had this thread in wibbles, where people posted, and he did things to their accounts
[17:25] <+ishi> so i posted in it, and got a promotion
[17:25] <+ishi> simple as that
[17:25] <@ChrisDom> Wow
[17:25] <@ChrisDom> I saw that thread too
[17:26] <@ChrisDom> So, has anything changed?
[17:26] <+ishi> well, i do a lot more now
[17:26] <@ChrisDom> like what?
[17:26] <+ishi> i've been doing a few name changes and stuff like that
[17:26] <+ishi> the admin cp is far more powerful than the mod one
[17:26] <+ishi> its pretty amazing
[17:26] <@ChrisDom> sounds sexy
[17:27] <@ChrisDom> Do you think you'd want to be an smod again?
[17:27] <+ishi> it would be hard going back after having more power, i guess, but i wouldn't hate it
[17:27] <+ishi> smods have it better in some ways
[17:27] <@ChrisDom> and what do you think of the current mod team
[17:28] <+ishi> they don't get 300 pm's a day about hackings that are just people forgetting their passwords or they said their passwords out loud :|
[17:28] <+ishi> mm
[17:28] <+ishi> i quite like the team at the moment
[17:28] <@ChrisDom> Any changes you would make?
[17:28] <+ishi> i think we are a nice group of finely honed killing machines
[17:28] <+ishi> well, the local mods
[17:28] <+ishi> things are a bit shaky with them at the moment
[17:28] <@ChrisDom> Does that include me? D:
[17:28] <+ishi> a lot of them are slacking off
[17:28] <+ishi> well
[17:29] <+ishi> you have been gone, so thats ok
[17:29] <@ChrisDom> I wasn't gone... I just wasn't locking as much.
[17:29] <+ishi> but more than inactivity, some of them are just doing their job poorly
[17:29] <+ishi> mostly in the computer chat board
[17:30] <@ChrisDom> Are you going to "revise" any time soon?
[17:30] <+ishi> some changes were made recently though, so it should be a lot smoother
[17:30] <+ishi> well, we will probably revise as we get complaints
[17:30] <+ishi> its hard to track what the locals are doing all the time, so we rely on the users for feedback
[17:31] <@ChrisDom> Fair enough, maybe i'll grab a few locals
[17:31] <@ChrisDom> more info.
[17:31] <@ChrisDom> And what do you think about this year compared to last year
[17:32] <+ishi> well, i think it has been one of the bigest activity jumps we have seen, so many players, clans, and all that
[17:32] <+ishi> but with the good, comes the bad
[17:32] <@ChrisDom> what's bad so far?
[17:32] <+ishi> the quality of the users seems to be going down
[17:33] <+ishi> and by quality i mean
[17:33] <+ishi> most of them are pretty much idiots
[17:33] <@ChrisDom> hmm i kinda see that too
[17:33] <+ishi> but thats okay, since we do have a nice amount of awesome people around
[17:33] <@ChrisDom> Any final thoughts ishishi?
[17:34] <+ishi> hmm
[17:34] <+ishi> actually no time, people bothering me in #support
[17:34] <@ChrisDom> lol enjoy

ishishishishishishishishi.

bunch of humanitarians those smods/admins

not the ninjas though.. i think they are humanitarian in another sense. jk

give a little time to know people and they give out a different side to what you expect

Stickied this thread, because it's fun to read and an interesting concept. But uh

[17:31] <@ChrisDom> Fair enough, maybe i'll grab a few locals

this is silly, just saying

Keep to the rules, no spamming or such, any off-topic posts will be most likely dealt with harshly.

Meh, the ninjas are pretty much the same as last year. Only difference I could think of is kitfox.

More interviews later...