View Full Version : Why do most moderaters have dark and mysterious avatars?
That question has been making me think for a long time. All moderaters (not assistant moderators) seem to have assasin MTW or RTW avatars, but why? There is a nice selection, they don't all have to look mean? So why do they do it?
Thankyou.
Banquo's Ghost
09-25-2006, 08:27
They are mean. And they mean you to know they're mean.
:wink:
I believe it's just a tradition, that's all.
LeftEyeNine
09-25-2006, 09:50
You always have to point at me yelling "Haaaalf-liiing, haaalf-liiing!", don't you?
:disappointed:
Franconicus
09-25-2006, 10:41
I agree, their souls are dark and mysterious, And they want everybody to see this! :laugh4:
LEN, if you try harder, one day you may be dark enough!:sweatdrop:
All of the moderators are in fact the last of the mysterious cult of the hashishin, believed to have been wiped out centuries ago. They regularly assassinate the members they don't like, which is why I'm currently in hiding in the mountains. In fact I shouldn't even be telling you this...
**sees the curtain move slightly**
**runs**
Mithrandir
09-25-2006, 16:54
... They regularly assassinate the members they don't like, ...
read the instagib topic in this forum...like our new tool ? ~D.
I could answer your question, bu then I'd have to instagib you, and I don't want to do that...just now.
edyzmedieval
09-25-2006, 16:58
I wish I could InstaGib once Mithradir. ~D
I have dark thoughts. ~D
UltraWar
09-25-2006, 17:11
I wish I could have a dark and mysterious avatar, but I wouldn't know what to do with it.
Reenk Roink
09-25-2006, 18:15
Their beauty is blinding...
Prince Cobra
09-25-2006, 18:16
Interesting topic. Caravel, interesting explanation. I will have it in mind. Probably you will save my life. I currently prefer to be in the Mead hall which is often said to be ' quiet place' ( there is not many people there, really ( compared to the other subforums). Iwill be careful :2thumbsup:.
P.S. I like this trend. It is quite unique
read the instagib topic in this forum...like our new tool ? ~D.
I could answer your question, but then I'd have to instagib you, and I don't want to do that...just now.
Is that suposed to sound threatening? Anyway, answer so then you can Instagib me! Thing is I would have to start again as a Junior Member with 0 posts! But at least I would know...
Rob The Bastard
09-25-2006, 19:00
It was the choice that was offered when I accepted the role of moderator, I had to trade my civvy clothes for an assassin's and swear to obey the Moderator rules.
I think Tosa had a thing for veiled threats ( thats us :laugh4: ) and equality...
My soul is certainly dark and mysterious... and I have the compassion of a rock.
edyzmedieval
09-25-2006, 19:34
I wish I could be a moderator...
I wish I could be a moderator...
Don't we all.
No, we don't! Don't you know about the initiation ceremony?! *shudders*
Dutch_guy
09-25-2006, 20:35
No, we don't! Don't you know about the initiation ceremony?! *shudders*
I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about that....cermonies involving hot iron pokers, leather wips and low quality beer don't sound ...inviting...
:balloon2:
GeneralHankerchief
09-25-2006, 20:41
Although if they wanted to be threatening they could do a lot better.
http://home.comcast.net/~general_hankerchief/onlinestorage/GeneralHcustom.gif
Ssssssword Dojo... Sssssssasssssaki....
It was the choice that was offered when I accepted the role of moderator, I had to trade my civvy clothes for an assassin's and swear to obey the Moderator rules.
I think Tosa had a thing for veiled threats ( thats us :laugh4: ) and equality...
My soul is certainly dark and mysterious... and I have the compassion of a rock.
So if I was to become a moderator then I would have to trade my lovely avatar that looks almost exactly like me (except for the bald head) for that of an assassins? Thats not fair, you should start a public group that aims to change moderator sign up policies...
I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about that....cermonies involving hot iron pokers, leather wips and low quality beer don't sound ...inviting...
Is that true?! Scary, lets hope they don't find out where we all live. I would dread to see what happens...
All of the moderators are in fact the last of the mysterious cult of the hashishin, believed to have been wiped out centuries ago. They regularly assassinate the members they don't like, which is why I'm currently in hiding in the mountains. In fact I shouldn't even be telling you this...
**sees the curtain move slightly**
**runs**
So a moderator could be hiding behind my curtains in my study now waiting to strike. Ooh scary....
Perhaps we should move this to the Mead Hall. A thread to make up scary stories about where the moderators are from. Actually that would be a very interesting and mystical thread...
LOL General! You just need to add some red glowing eyes and I'm sure some mod would pick it up ~:)
I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about that....cermonies involving hot iron pokers, leather wips and low quality beer don't sound ...inviting...
:balloon2:
And I was almost a moderator until they realized I was enjoying all of it
LeftEyeNine
09-26-2006, 02:01
Aahh initiation to being an Ast. Mod includes the cleaning of a toilet as if it was in a house where 25 elephants came back from a full mouth plant eating contest.
..You can't imagine it..Just stay clean and ordinary..I miss those days..Oh damn I forgot to wash out the mop..Eeewwww..
Gregoshi
09-26-2006, 02:37
The ninja avatars for the moderators are meant to scare the sheet out of you.
I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about that....cermonies involving hot iron pokers, leather wips and low quality beer don't sound ...inviting...
:balloon2:
I don't know about that. If it wasn't for the cheap beer, I'd be all over it! [whistles innocently]
Byzantine Prince
09-26-2006, 06:26
I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about that....cermonies involving hot iron pokers, leather wips and low quality beer
.... anal. :help:
When looking at the avatar lists I found some avatars that were in a separate category. These categories were MOD_F, Mod_M and Admin_M. All of these categories had either ninja style avatars or MTW assassin style avatars. Are these the only avatars that moderators can get?
Rob The Bastard
09-26-2006, 19:09
A few moderators have had the skill to create their own avatar, or been persuasive enough to convince Tosa to allow something different...
Soly, Myrddraal, frogbeastegg, Epistolary Richard...
Every new staff member gets to clean the Org toilets... the practice was already established when I became moderator. I think it teaches us how to cope with unpleasant tasks ( if you can cope with the Org toilets you can cope with anything!
http://wise.net.nz/users/robm/dirty toilet.jpg
Compared to the Org toilets, the task of keeping the forums clean and safe for humans to use is easy. ( why don't you guys flush? )
:laugh4:
edyzmedieval
09-26-2006, 19:22
Eeeewwww.... :skull:
And other question, maybe it isnt on topic but
Who moderates a foum who doesnt have moderators?
edyzmedieval
09-26-2006, 19:26
The administrator.
He is a moderator on all forums.
A few moderators have had the skill to create their own avatar, or been persuasive enough to convince Tosa to allow something different...
Soly, Myrddraal, frogbeastegg, Epistolary Richard...
Every new staff member gets to clean the Org toilets... the practice was already established when I became moderator. I think it teaches us how to cope with unpleasant tasks ( if you can cope with the Org toilets you can cope with anything!
Compared to the Org toilets, the task of keeping the forums clean and safe for humans to use is easy. ( why don't you guys flush? )
:laugh4:
Right so that is the legendry initiation ceremony, cleaning a load of toilets... DISCUSTING, as far as I can recall about my primary school days even those horrible, discusting, smelly toilets weren't that bad. Thing is who uses the .Org toilets. Members don't, and even the Moderators can't make that much mess! You should hire a (very good) cleaner or get Kim and Aggy (How Clean is Your House) in!
A few moderators have had the skill to create their own avatar, or been persuasive enough to convince Tosa to allow something different...
Soly, Myrddraal, frogbeastegg, Epistolary Richard...
Every new staff member gets to clean the Org toilets... the practice was already established when I became moderator. I think it teaches us how to cope with unpleasant tasks ( if you can cope with the Org toilets you can cope with anything!
Compared to the Org toilets, the task of keeping the forums clean and safe for humans to use is easy. ( why don't you guys flush? )
:laugh4:
Right so that is the legendry initiation ceremony, cleaning a load of toilets... DISCUSTING, as far as I can recall about my primary school days even those horrible, disgusting, smelly toilets weren't that bad. Thing is who uses the .Org toilets. Members don't, and even the Moderators can't make that much mess! You should hire a (very good) cleaner or get Kim and Aggie (How Clean is Your House) in!
LeftEyeNine
09-26-2006, 20:07
A few moderators have had the skill to create their own avatar, or been persuasive enough to convince Tosa to allow something different...
Soly, Myrddraal, frogbeastegg, Epistolary Richard...
Every new staff member gets to clean the Org toilets... the practice was already established when I became moderator. I think it teaches us how to cope with unpleasant tasks ( if you can cope with the Org toilets you can cope with anything!
http://wise.net.nz/users/robm/dirty toilet.jpg
Compared to the Org toilets, the task of keeping the forums clean and safe for humans to use is easy. ( why don't you guys flush? )
:laugh4:
That's how it looks after 19 hours of non stop toilet cleaning by Tamur and me.
..Ah mrs. kek only feeds the cats; sexual discrimination among the staff is not always unpleasant.
Sidenote: Elephants don't flush, Rob.
therother
09-26-2006, 20:18
Wow, what have you guys done to the toilet? Looked like this when I left:
https://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3346/toliethandle3xu.jpg
Lovley toilet therother, I wish the staff toilets were like that...
The Wizard
09-26-2006, 22:11
The initiation rituals for moderators involve cleaning up after the senior members, admins, and other mods... amongst many other sinister and dark things. Tosa wants utter devotion from you, young grasshopper...
Dol Guldur
09-26-2006, 23:41
Yep the toilet has gone down the pan a little, but something really needs to be done about the location too....
https://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e166/dubhdara/66TX-Conway-Exit_85-Outhouse.jpg
(This image has been enhanced with the Prometheus grass mod)
Papewaio
09-27-2006, 01:10
Supposedly the robes were easier to remove the blood stains.
But apparently bathing in blood of the backroom is hard to remove, and castrating with bricks really makes a mess that just doesn't wash out with ease.
edyzmedieval
09-27-2006, 10:22
:laugh4:
Nice one Pape.
My friend's critical appraisal of school staff toilets in English Secondry Schools:
Hi I don't have a clue what to say. I am Matthius' fellow teacher and have been at this school 3 years now. I can't wait to leave these damn kids. Nice toilets by the way - they're nearly as clean as the ones at our school when the cleaners have finished. Bye!!!!
Katherone of this river Rhine
Our staff toilets that we have to use are nearly as bad as the ones posted by Rob the Bastard and thats AFTER they have been cleaned! However the location is better, I don't have to walk over hill and dale and into a grassy swamp to get there.
So when I typed that she said to me:
It's a school - there is no worse location than our school where we work!
You can instantly tell by what she said that staff toilets in schools are disgusting! Terrible, smelly and horrible. Cleaning them would be more of a chore that cleaning the Org ones. And belive me it would be....
Samurai Waki
09-27-2006, 12:52
I think the next Moderator Avatar should be Chuck Norris.
LeftEyeNine
09-27-2006, 14:10
I think the next Moderator Avatar should be Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris can't be trapped in pixels.
Chuck Norris can't be trapped in pixels.
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:
Best response I've seen all day, LEN!
Using GeneralHankerchief's picture and Tamur's suggestion I have made three avatars specially for moderators:
https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5299/evilavatarju1.gif https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5752/evilavatarwitheyesea5.gif https://img124.imageshack.us/img124/7111/avataroffiresy8.gif
Ahhh there so cute. :D
I guess the scary avatars are to stop members from bad posts and SPAM but it doesn't work very well. Though I guess that's why they gave Beirut that axe.....hmm should have given him a leaf blower would have been better.
Using GeneralHankerchief's picture and Tamur's suggestion I have made three avatars specially for moderators:
https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5299/evilavatarju1.gif https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5752/evilavatarwitheyesea5.gif https://img124.imageshack.us/img124/7111/avataroffiresy8.gif
You can just imagine the harsh rattling breath, the hissing, and that chill that freezes the very marrow, combined with that feeling of losing all hope... :skull:
**owl hoots**
**The sound of hooves in the street below...**
**a dog whines and runs away**
:creep:
ha Matthius, very nicely done ~:)
IrishArmenian
10-10-2006, 05:39
Yes, and I've seen a couple shine every now and then. I think Mydraal's has to be one of the most intimidating. The avatar's mask looks like just a face, making him look like a ghost. Very scary stuff. My wife was looking at the computer and saw something shiny (yes, I married an ADD woman) and so she asked if I would wait for it to go again. Needless to say, it took awhile.
Myrddraal
10-10-2006, 14:58
The Mask is ER's
One of them does twinkle yes :evilgrin:
PS, take a closer look for my eyes
Avicenna
10-10-2006, 15:19
soly's, I believe.
Epistolary Richard
10-10-2006, 19:08
The avatar's mask looks like just a face, making him look like a ghost. Very scary stuff.
Scary? But it's smiling :evilgrin:
Truth be told, I think Epistolary Richard's avatar creeps me out the most. There's something about the emptiness behind the mask's eyes that's positively sinister.... ~:eek:
Myrddraal's is more cool than frightening, at least for me. Then again, I often call him SuperFade in my mind, which always makes me chuckle for some reason. ~D
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/avatars/staff/m/mod/Myrddraal.jpg
Now if you look at Myrddaraals his face looks cold and dead. The hood makes it worse while the black lips just make it terrifying!
AntiochusIII
10-12-2006, 22:48
Come to think of it, his face reminds me of that of The Nameless One from Planescape: Torment.
It's the same gray zombie colour. :2thumbsup:
Antagonist
10-15-2006, 21:48
It would seem that not many of us are familiar with the Wheel of Time. :book:
Anyway, I like the sinister mod avatars, especially ER's. Their unnervingly inscrutable gaze should make one think at least twice about committing any mischief. :no:
Antagonist
UltraWar
10-16-2006, 18:10
I wouldn't mind having to clean the .org toilets. It looks fun! :2thumbsup:
LeftEyeNine
10-19-2006, 15:46
I wouldn't mind having to clean the .org toilets. It looks fun! :2thumbsup:
Did you ever see elephant poo ?
I have just noticed that Epistolary Richard has just gone soft and gotten rid of his ninja avatar:
Old Avatar
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/avatars/staff/m/mod/er8ul.gif
New Avatar
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/avatars/vi/Vik/emissary/emissary47.gif
Are the mods starting to ditch their old mysterious nature?
therother
11-13-2006, 18:32
Richard is coming out of the shadows and living amongst us mere mortals for a little while: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=71972
Richard is coming out of the shadows and living amongst us mere mortals for a little while: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=71972
So there's going to be a free moderator space?
Epistolary Richard
11-13-2006, 21:12
TosaInu is covering for me while I am on low activity.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=72048
Have fun in your time as a mortal. I have noticed that you are still marked as a moderator. What you really need is to be defrocked of your powers and become a member/junior member while. Then you can know what it feels like to be next to the bottom/at the bottom.
*evil laugh*
Epistolary Richard
11-14-2006, 02:56
Errrr... whatever, Matthius Julius.
Errrr... whatever, Matthius Julius.
It's Avlvs Libvrnivs Britannicvs Maximvs now thankyou!
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