ANNOUNCEMENT: new moderator: Oldhand

***drifit*** · 12-13-2007, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by Loh

Does it mean we'll not hear from you? Your humour? Your naughtiness? Your jibes? Your ............? Lest you get banned yourself?

Thank you for helping out in the onerous work!
Enjoy!

BTW, Can I tag along on your VIP pass to the Beijing Olympics?

great power comes with great responsibilities...........

Oldhand,
just keep out your old-hand from shivering.......

**pjswift** · 12-13-2007, 02:02 AM

Am of 2 minds here. First, congrats! Second, are we going to miss half your wit? Or you are going to be the new style mod and continue your input like before?

**Loh** · 12-13-2007, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by pjswift

Am of 2 minds here. First, congrats! Second, are we going to miss half your wit? Or you are going to be the new style mod and continue your input like before?

Maybe that's one option to keep Oldhand out of mischief!

**george@chongwei** · 12-13-2007, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by eaglehelang

LOL, you're always good with words, wrote any books? Most prob they think you old & wise enuf to be mod.

ya...oldhand use to post with some good words or some poem....
do you write any books??

**wilfredlgf** · 12-13-2007, 08:30 AM

Great kid. Don't get cocky!

***Oldhand*** · 12-13-2007, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by eaglehelang

LOL, you're always good with words, wrote any books? Most prob they think you old & wise enuf to be mod.

Originally Posted by george@chongwei

ya...oldhand use to post with some good words or some poem....
do you write any books??

If it interests you, I write a lot of legal contracts

No books yet... but there's enough written work that could fill quite a few

But it's unlikely anyone will pay to read any of it

I'm now trying to find out if JK Rowling plays badminton

If she does, I could give her a few tips on badminton... and she could teach me the secrets of authoring commercial literature

(PS: This is Off-Topic, isn't it?)

***kwun*** · 12-13-2007, 10:53 AM

to clarify some confusion, Oldhand and future moderators are hand picked and invited by the current moderator staff. you can always apply but you will only get in if we believe you have the right qualities we are looking for.

Oldhand as i have mentioned to him, will still be Oldhand after he became moderator. however, he will also need a new hand to handle some moderation tasks.

***Oldhand*** · 12-13-2007, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by kwun

to clarify some confusion, Oldhand and future moderators are hand picked and invited by the current moderator staff. you can always apply but you will only get in if we believe you have the right qualities we are looking for.

Oldhand as i have mentioned to him, will still be Oldhand after he became moderator. however, he will also need a new hand to handle some moderation tasks.

... make that 'several hands'

I'm just getting adjusted to a new meaning for 'time management'

I guess kwun's post answers the queries posted by many of us

As for my take on the sweep of a mod's tasks, check out the title of the dystopian sci-fi story Harlan Ellison wrote in a single night in 1966

**ctjcad** · 12-13-2007, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by kwun

to clarify some confusion, Oldhand and future moderators are hand picked and invited by the current moderator staff. you can always apply but you will only get in if we believe you have the right qualities we are looking for.

..well, let's see, based on Oldhand's qualities:
- must have a good sense of humor..
- must be "old" enough..
- must have enough free time..
- must be neutral enough..
- and did i mention, must have a good sense of humor??..

Oldhand as i have mentioned to him, will still be Oldhand after he became moderator. however, he will also need a new hand to handle some moderation tasks

Originally Posted by Oldhand

... make that 'several hands'

I'm just getting adjusted to a new meaning for 'time management'

..hmm, new hand or handle-name??...If a new handle-name, may i suggest, based on Oldhand's link to his "picture" (on previous page).........................Mr. Clooney?!

***Oldhand*** · 12-13-2007, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by ctjcad

[...]If a new handle-name, may i suggest, based on Oldhand's link to his "picture" (on previous page).........................Mr. Clooney?!

I'm grateful that you didn't suggest 'Clowney'

Oldhand is good enough, sir

**wilfredlgf** · 12-13-2007, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by Oldhand

I guess kwun's post answers the queries posted by many of us

As for my take on the sweep of a mod's tasks, check out the title of the dystopian sci-fi story Harlan Ellison wrote in a single night in 1966

Ahh, a dystopian society, dreamt subconsciously by the souls of those who seek to solve the imperfections of life and create a world of nearest utopia.

Reader of HG Wells' The Time Machine however would advise caution and seek to look for balance the struggle between humanity and nature.

**demolidor** · 12-15-2007, 05:40 AM

Congrats

. Was about time a new mod was installed

. First task is already waiting for you: clean up the buy & sell and after that the video sharing section

.

**koo_fan** · 12-15-2007, 08:21 AM

so after this,anyone of us can make a request n let the other moderators n adminstrator to decide?

its their job now?choosing the new moderators.

**wilfredlgf** · 12-15-2007, 11:56 AM

This isn't a public owned site - there is no choosing of the moderators by popular demand.

***Oldhand*** · 12-15-2007, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by demolidor

Congrats

. Was about time a new mod was installed

. First task is already waiting for you: clean up the buy & sell and after that the video sharing section

.

The Aegean Stables

Originally Posted by koo_fan

so after this,anyone of us can make a request n let the other moderators n adminstrator to decide?
its their job now?choosing the new moderators.

Er, it has always been their job to choose

Originally Posted by wilfredlgf

This isn't a public owned site - there is no choosing of the moderators by popular demand.

Now, that's an idea...

**eaglehelang** · 12-16-2007, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by Oldhand

If it interests you, I write a lot of legal contracts

No books yet... but there's enough written work that could fill quite a few

But it's unlikely anyone will pay to read any of it

I'm now trying to find out if JK Rowling plays badminton

If she does, I could give her a few tips on badminton... and she could teach me the secrets of authoring commercial literature

(PS: This is Off-Topic, isn't it?)

That's a good one

. While you try your hand at this 'new' job, try your other hand at writing to hmmm "Chicken Soup for....." My ehemm authoring skills arent good enuf yet for mat salleh standard.. so let ol & wise fellas like you go first.

JK Rowling is not your cup of tea, more of "Shogun" or Robert Ludlum, and the author of "One Flies Over The Cuckoo's Nest"