Young Writers Society

So just to preface by saying I love 90% of being a mod so the vast majority is a lot of fun - some challenging parts though:

1) arguing on the internet feels more intense because you can brood over the responses and don't have the context of tone to help soften things and then afterwards there your fight is enshrined for the next 10 years. So although it doesn't happen often, and 99% time things can be easily resolved, when things do get disagreeable that's been tough and has this icky permanent feeling about it even after resolution.

2) going with the "rule" at the detriment of personal opinion can be hard. When moderating it's not really about enforcing what we think individually would be the best option some of the time - but what we think the "rules" of the site say - and sometimes those conflict! That can be a little internally tough. And I never want to seem unempathetic or disconnected - but once in a while a tough call must be made because of how moderating works, and I just hope people know I'm not trying to be a meany. :3

3) the turn-over rate of people! The internet is of course a fast-moving and fast-changing place, every month yws gets new people and every couple months we get new moderators, and though the seasons rotate with some comfortable consistently of familiarity (ie. seasons of Spring- NaPo / Summer / Fall-RevMo + Birthday Week / December-Holiday) it can be a little sad to watch things change so quickly sometimes and especially to lose track of people who float away. Definitely miss a lot of the folks that were active when I first started moderating who've floated away from the site.

4) less philosophically -> what concrete task do I enjoy the least? deleting spam + checking the YWS email account. :] too tedious. fries my brain.