Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA (Post 1034762)

Tore! Tore Tore Tore! Thank you thank you thank for all you've done at MB! You are a delightful human being: so courteous, so clever, so hard-working, so full of insect trivia. Not at ALL like that Right-Track fellow! :p: You've always had such a bright, cheery attitude, oh kindred scientist spirit and bringer of peace, that I'm sorry you won't be a mod any longer.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: you give me hope for humanity. And that's just due to your presence in a music community! Norway's finest son has graced these Boards as a mod, and I count it as my great fortune to have been here at the same time. If only the planet could be populated by a clone of Tores (and his little rat friends)!

(Am I laying it on too thick??)

Originally Posted by Boozinbloozin (Post 1035363)

your to busy posting in the lounge Duce

Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA (Post 1034762)

Tore! Tore Tore Tore! Thank you thank you thank for all you've done at MB! You are a delightful human being: so courteous, so clever, so hard-working, so full of insect trivia. Not at ALL like that Right-Track fellow! :p: You've always had such a bright, cheery attitude, oh kindred scientist spirit and bringer of peace, that I'm sorry you won't be a mod any longer.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: you give me hope for humanity. And that's just due to your presence in a music community! Norway's finest son has graced these Boards as a mod, and I count it as my great fortune to have been here at the same time. If only the planet could be populated by a clone of Tores (and his little rat friends)!

(Am I laying it on too thick??)

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1035611)

Fixed.

Originally Posted by tore (Post 1034318)

Thanks for the kind words guys!

And grats with the job, Pedestrian :) I'm sure you'll do just fine!

Since it seems this has become my goodbye-mod-team thread, I can add that it's been a pleasure to serve the community and I hope that it's something I can go back to doing in the future should I like to. There are some things I don't like so much about MB, but they're mostly about the administration. I like to improve things and many of the problems on MB are things we can work on, for example by running an album club to make sure there's something here for people who like a certain kind of music, write a guide, change the number of forums or whatever. When there's something I think we should be able to change, but can't because there's no support from admin, then I start to get frustrated. Maybe the site will change hands or administration will change their way of running MB in the future and posibly I might apply for a mod position if that day comes, but for now I'm turning that frustration into productivity elsewhere!

As for the current mod team, they're a keen bunch with a collectively strong sense of morale and I think they do a fine job. I was more of a guide-writing, thread-creating kind of moderator and disciplining wrongdoers is a job I was never good at or fond of doing consistently. It truly is a thankless job while writing guides and so on is generally not, so all the mods really deserve more credit than they get. Although we've had a few disagreements (secret arguments in the mod threads), it's been a pleasure working with you guys!

Even though disciplining members is not easy, it's something the mod team has always done. What's even harder, I think, is coming up with ways to reward the people who make up our community and improve the site beyond mere efforts to keep the peace. That's something I hope Pedestrian can help out with. So, best of luck to Pedestrian and the mod team in the future! :)

Originally Posted by right-track (Post 1035725)

Seeing as we're on the subject of tore stepping down.
One of the hardest working mods I've had the pleasure of modding with.
MB's loss!!!