Cos there's not enough of us here to be that big headed..........or is there? 

ROFL..... too right Aimee

*Agrees* 

Sprout has the runs?! ! 

True....and changing to nuts doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Meh! what's new? 

Oops....haha! I didn't know that Aimee was going to say me....honest!

uhoh, that's me barred for life ! ! 

Between Aimee sending us all to the tower and The Sprouty One ruling the place with a rod of iron (between visits ) there's not much fun around here anymore!

Look  nuts! There's a uniform for you and everything ! 

http://www.modcloth.com/shop/d.../sprout-it-out-dress

Oh drat Slinki. It's out of stock!  

I think kimota's ordered the last one for you ! 

She's already bought it. That's why it says that it's not available any-more!

LOL!

You know, this started out as a serious fred and we've taken it way off beam. Sorry Ted 

Nah, twasn't me. They didn't have my size left 

woops yeh, sorry! 

I agree though, the " appoint a mod" idea probably isn't the best.

http://wists.com/zoom/558f477b...109becfba53ede9ce891

How about this one?

Not to worry Pam, you can borrow mine - well, mine's not actually got been bean sprouts on it, but it looks similar, from a distance.

Nah, not keen on that one. It shows me arms a bit too much. I'm arm concious 

C'mon nuts, there's a limit to how many frocks out there combine the words " sprout" and " mod" y'know! ! 

PMSL! try for a pair of pants and a tabbard........and......

Ted...........moderate this fred will ya and sort em all out 

umm.. yeah, that didn't work, but I found this.. 

Can I ask Ted a question please?

In all seriousness Ted, why do you think we need a mod?

99% of the time we are all halo'd up

or is it to cope with numptys like me who keep getting locked out

Don't like that.

I think we moderate ourselves.

I feel this is the only workable solution to the mod question.

Ted, we are all very grateful for your provision of this site and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect us to do some of the work but appointing mods from within the ranks of those here is unworkable. We are thankful for Lori putting in a lot of hard work modding us as a favour.

This will probably sound ungrateful and contraversial but, I believe that a lot of the problems that happened when this site opened were down to not only previously held grudges that were waiting for an opportunity to be vented but also (and this is the contraversial bit) because the your team there got very friendly with a couple of vindictive fms who had very large axes to grind.

As someone who was on the receiving end of a lot of the nastiness, I felt at the time that the mods were taking sides and a lot of fms felt the same way. The situation sorted itself out and since then I can only say that Lori is fair and sensible with her decisions

I chose to stick around but everyone else left and if you were to appoint mods from within then I think you find that some of the few fms left here now would leave.

Perhaps, as Joe suggests, you could get someone from another site to mod here and some of us could mod there in an exchange

You want fun? i sentence you to 2 weeks at GaGa towers 

I agree, big no from me. .too much history form long before this place opened.. 

noooooooo, sorry fluffs but,  we'd all get banned for bad grammar or spelling something wrong. .. 

This.

I think Veggie's suggestion is the closest you'll get to something workable for  us.  There are a few on here who could make good mods .....but not on here.  As has been said the history runs deep.

I'm curious to see if any mental would actually want the job.

Talk about a poison chalice in a place where two people disagreeing with one is a clique and three is bullying.  

I think you should lock us in and let us fight to the death Ted.

Lol i'm just thinking after rereading this thread that they are going to find it hard to get someone from outside to do it We're all mad

hmmm *thinks about changing the style of the forum to eye piercing gold*

Maybe it's just me but I think the mods posting on the forum was a big mistake. Ch4 was good because they were anonymous. 

Saying that I'd love to do it but then if I was having a bad day you'd all be banned and the forum wiped off the www 

I am slightly surprised, but very pleased that virtually everyone on this thread seems to feel the same.  Sorry Ted, but IMO letting ANY FM on here become a mod is a very bad idea, as virtually everyone on here has had some beef with someone at some time, ... on here AND on the Ch 4 site; under old and previous usernames - but I would say that everyone has had a bad time with SOMEONE.  

Whilst I get on with many people on here; several FMs detest me, and just post negative and snide comments to just about everything I write.  Either that, or they just ignore the thread (if I start one.)  I am OK with people debating and saying that they disagree with me, (I don't expect to post controversial shit and people say nothing!) but several FMs here just pick apart everything and critisize for the sake of it, when they wouldn't do it if it were someone else.  And it's ALWAYS the same 3 or 4 people/usernames.  And one in particular always baits, but I do ignore them (much to their disgust!)  And yes, I know *I* am not perfect, but certain people on here do troll my threads sometimes and post snide remarks, deliberately baiting me.

Like a few have said, I wouldn't vote for one single person to be a mod, because even if *I* get on OK with them, like I said, everyone has had some beef with someone at one time.  And like someone said above ^^^ certain members have been close to mods in the past, and claimed to be close to one particular mod or another, and they have tried to lord it over people, like some kind of 'piss me off and I will report you' kind of blackmail.  

Moreover, the FMs that have apparently left and disappeared many moons ago, who fell out with some existing members here, could well be still here under new usernames.  Apart from the same small handful of regular posters who appear to despise me; I have had some pretty nasty comments aimed at me from a couple of usernames who rarely post unless they want to have a dig, and they always imply I am a certain poster from the past.. amongst other snide comments...  

So I genuinely believe that nobody here has never fallen out with someone.  I can honestly say that if an FM here became a mod, I think I would probably leave, because several people detest me, and several times they have posted, I have seen 3 or 4 other FMs at the time 'siding' with them.  So any FM becoming a mod would make me seriously consider not posting anymore.  It has not happened for a few months as one of the mods warned them last time, but still, that doesn't change the fact that they loathe me.  And the feeling is mutual!

Isn't the 'report button' sufficient Ted?  There is always a FEW members on here at any time of day; so if any FM thinks there is something out of order going on, they can report it..  I mean, whoever chose to go for the job, would have to be on here a lot, and I don't know about others, but sometimes I don't come on for 2 or 3 days.

There is also the problem of 'power corrupting' so it would be a no from me as to having FM modding here although I like the idea of an exchange from another community.

What do you mean by that hun?    Do you mean, the power would corrupt people?