New Moderator...?

Discussion in 'Linguistics' started by Fraggle Rocker, Mar 13, 2007.

  1. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

    Messages:
    24,690
    I just discovered the weirdest thing about SciForums. If they start a new forum and after a week or two they discover that you've posted on every thread in it, they make you the moderator.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!



    I was happy to see the Linguistics Forum appear. This was a hot topic when I first found SciForums six or seven years ago. It lost critical mass for a long time, but interest has revived.

    I'm new at this moderating thing, in fact no one would have ever called me "moderate." About the only personal twist I'll bring to Linguistics is my desire to make SciForums more attractive to people who stumble onto it from a Google search of a topic. We need to revive our membership and I certainly want to see more people here with an interest in linguistics. So no flaming will be tolerated; this is not Free Thoughts or even Politics.

    If you do feel the need to insult someone, just don't do it in a language I can read.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!



    Let's have some fun!
     
  2. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  3. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

    Messages:
    10,581
    Hello Fraggle, what languages do you speak?
     
    Last edited: Mar 13, 2007
  4. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  5. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

    Messages:
    6,618
    Nick, do you know any language?
     
  6. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  7. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,989
    Feel free to move any irrelevant comments to Free Thoughts if you would like.
     
  8. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

    Messages:
    24,690
    Speak, or read? There's already a thread on this forum in which we all confessed to our speaking ability.
     
  9. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    5,060
    Awesome. I'm sure you'll do great.
     
  10. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

    Messages:
    24,690
    Thanks! I appreciate your support.
    Using my own powers-of-three scale on which I'm 8.5 in English: 7.5 in Spanish and Esperanto, 7 in German, 6.5 in French and Portuguese. 3,000 words, that's about the threshold of "fluency," beneath that you're just "the precocious foreigner who's picking up our language so be careful what you say around him." And I have a bunch of those, from Catalan to Mandarin to Yiddish.
    I'm not so concerned with irrelevance, this is your forum and you should be able to enjoy yourselves. I'm just specifically tough on flaming--and, I suppose, egregious racism--because I really do want people who drop in from a Google hit to not be put off.

    After all, if your post uses language, isn't it relevant?

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  11. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

    Messages:
    8,213
    je kan in nederlands praat?
     
  12. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

    Messages:
    24,066
    Kan jij dat?
     
    Last edited: Mar 15, 2007
  13. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    9,072
    Eep op ork ak ak beedeep tweet.
     
  14. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    2,385
    wow you know babyspeak as well, jeg kan kan læse hollansk
     
  15. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

    Messages:
    8,213
    nee.
    ik ben een kinderlijk flikker.
     
  16. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    12,738
    How can a true Rocker ever become a Mod?
     
  17. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

    Messages:
    24,690
    Fraggles have their own social customs. I have owned both scooters and motorcycles.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    43,184
    Ya right

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     

Share This Page