how hard is it to be moderators

[mcwh1950 2]

Default The problems the Moderators have

This one has been around for a while but when I saw it on another forum today I thought it was worth repeating. The person who posted it apparently found it on yet another forum!

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This is a blatant theft from another forum.

How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb

has been changed

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and

how the light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

1 to move it to the Lighting section

2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about

changing light bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"

... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the

proper term is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and

that "light bulb" is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to

please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all

use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to

this forum

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is

superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of

light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands

are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different

light bulbs

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then

post the corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are

relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to

this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety

including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post

because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time

ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting

questions about light bulbs"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months

from now and start it all over again.

[T-Mo-(Moderator) 4,345]

I've seen this before. It is funny and almost entirely accurate. This is the nature of the beast of forums. We all have opinions and some aren't shy to "share" those opinions. Hence, a scenario almost as bad as that posted above may occur.

[BairleaFarm 339]

LMAO. being a mod on another site thats exactly what its like too. Thanks For posting.

[KyBlue 652]

Seen it before too, but its still good!

We need a good Lightbulb emoticon!

[Duff 206]

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Duff :banghead: