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[nox]

I just have a question; to be a moderator, do you need to be retired? just curious, since i noitced that STM is only a private member now.

Edited by nox, 20 October 2006 - 01:34 PM.

[Waser Lave]

No, they're completely seperate ranks.

[Tetiel]

I just have a question; to be a moderator, do you need to be retired? just curious, since i noitced that STM is only a private member now.

Oh, goodness no. In fact currently a lot of moderators are NOT retired (the ones most recently promoted). Brkn, Joe, nor Zulfi are retired, they still have to be nominated and voted in and all that jazz.

[Frizzle]

Nah mods are voted in, smods get it automatically.

[redlion]

Nah mods are voted in, smods get it automatically.

Yeah, but Smods are usually retired and mod first anyway. At least recently.

[Plew]

whats the difference between smod and mod?

[Silk]

Everyone's said it all really. Thanks guys for explaining it!
Basically, no prerequisites are required at all to become a Moderator.

I'll move this to Forum Help anyway, as that's where this sort of thing belongs.
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Plew, to answer your question.
SMods lead Mods, and generally point us in the right direction when needed. They have more control over the running of the board, editting capabilities etc.
Your guide to the ranks of Neocodex:
http://www.neocodex....showtopic=25375

[redlion]

whats the difference between smod and mod?

Smods have more forums to administrate For instance, they can see both the Advanced Graphics Section and the Private Leader section of the board, even though they have no buisiness being there. (Smod stamp of approval my arse )

Mods are restricted to moderating forums they can already see.

[cara]

... Simon quit codex, dear.

[Shin]

Mods are restricted to moderating forums they can already see.

I didn't know that. I always thought Mod and SMod were the same, except for the tags.

[Mr. Hobo]

SMods can ban people, mods can only put them on Preview

[Shin]

May I ask the difference between Admin and Smod?

[Mr. Hobo]

Admins can edit board files and promote people. More stuff that I'm probally unaware of too

[Tetiel]

May I ask the difference between Admin and Smod?

Admins have full power over Admin CP and can change the board around as they please. Oh, and Hobo... smods can promote people too. I've annoyed Pyke a lot with promotions for GFX team

[Mr. Hobo]

Ya but can't admins only promote staff or can they just promote people to smods?

[redlion]

Admins have full power over Admin CP and can change the board around as they please. Oh, and Hobo... smods can promote people too. I've annoyed Pyke a lot with promotions for GFX team

Ya but can't admins only promote staff or can they just promote people to smods?

Technically, Smods are supposed to keep their nosy little bums out of aCP without admin permission, but since they were given access to it to relieve some of the pressure of admins, they sort of have to.

Smods can promote people, demote people, ban people, etc.

Admins have full access to every section of the board (besides root access, which is still hydro only (?)) and have authoritarian power. Yes, I know that's not exactly the nicest of terms, but its basically true. While the adminstration lets private play our democracy games (), they still have the power to overrule any decision by anyone on the board.

[Raui]

Accually its quite the oppisite. Its known as the 'Retired Curse'. Once your in Retired you've got the curse like everyone else and the curse is that Retireds don't seem to give staff positions, its probly just a coincidence.

So you don't have to be Retired to get Mod

[ShadowLink64]

(besides root access, which is still hydro only (?))

Not really. Every single admin gets root access... how do you think I do maintenance on the site?
There's really isn't such thing as "different administrator levels" here, other than Hydro owning rights to the hosting.

May I ask the difference between Admin and Smod?

Administrators have full access to the Admin CP (SMods only have partial access to ACP, the parts having to do with editing members), full access to cPanel (including databases and FTP) and Invision Power Services updates.

I just have a question; to be a moderator, do you need to be retired? just curious, since i noitced that STM is only a private member now.

Nope, retired is not a requirement (I see it's been answered many times already in here, lol).

[Grizzly]

You don't even have to be private to be moderator. I believe there was one past mod that wasn't.

[Dan]

Lol, is anyone actually being voted into retired anymore?

No recent promotions seen here

[redlion]

Aye. Sorry about the mixup SL. I keep thinking of it like a Unix pc instead of a network. :\

Lol, is anyone actually being voted into retired anymore?

No recent promotions seen here

Actually, we promote people semi-often. Eric got in september, gargar in august, and I the month before that. Pretty high rates for retired, actually.

And Freak, that has happened in the past (cody wasn't voted into private the first time) but they're given private perms. When we had the artmoney team, a lot of them got promoted solely on that skill. Noit

[redlion]

Kim was another who was never voted into Priv.

And look where she ended up

Speaking of, where has kimmy been?