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    "The only way to really become popular here is to get modded."

    Discuss the above statement with others, and bring as many points as you want into this.
     
    I think people with that mentality read into the whole moderator thing too much. It's a responsibility, not a title.
    ... Well, it is a title, but I mean it in a different way.

    If you're looking to make a mess of friends, just be a nice, friendly person.
    When I first joined PC I made a lot of friends by helping out others in the ROM Hacking Section by writing a tutorial/joining teams. But you shouldn't be friendly or help others just because you want a lot of people to know you name or to be popular, rather just do it because you want to do something for others.
    When others see you care about them, blah blah blah you get the rest.

    Unfortunately a lot of people think if they befriend moderators they'll become one too, which is part of the reason why the Moderator title has become more of a popularity contest rather than someone who makes sure a section is kept nice and tidy.
     
    Well, the more social you are, the more popular you're likely to become on this website. If members feel that they can easily interact with you and they look forward to your posts, then you are 'popular'. But, you don't have to be a moderator on here to be popular. It certainly helps, but it's not essential. For example, Toujours and Shining Raichu. I was a bit late to the party in witnessing their rise to prominence, but to me, they are the standout examples of my theory. It was proven long before they were respectively modded that the memberbase loved them and worshiped them and that they were popular among the members. Did anyone honestly feel shocked when those two were promoted? Honestly? I sure didn't. They are simply two great members who had risen above others socially and intellectually and subsequently earned their respectful places in the moderation community. So, I don't believe you have to be a moderator to be popular on here. You've just got to have a good social game.
     
    I may not be a member of staff yet, but I am still popular. Especially in Other Trivia.

    I became popular cos of my coining of the term "Cute Oshawottz" and my current avatar and signature showing how devious I am. When I saw several members here get promoted (especially AlexOzzyCake, Toujours, Shining Raichu and Olli97) it sometimes came as a shock but I did congratulate them.

    The popularity relating to me was also my massive friendlist and the random jokes I insert in some of my posts in the Other Trivia section.

    I may not have good social skills in reality but at PC it's a different story.
     
    Honestly, a few months after joining, I did want to be "PC popular," and I thought to become PC popular, I either needed to be modded or talk to the moderators/popular members. So, I tried. I've talked to a few, but never really kept talking to them, save for a couple. Then I eventually started to just be outright afraid to talk to any popular members, because they intimidated me (they still do, actually). Nowadays, I don't care about getting popular. I guess I'm popular in my own way; quite a bit of members know me, hence why they're my friends. Of course, no one really talks to me anymore. That could be because my friends on here either left, I'm just always inactive, or I just never try to start conversation. Most likely all three. I blame my social awkwardness.

    But, yeah. tl;dr, I don't really believe that statement anymore. Yes, it does happen to make you more popular, but I don't believe to become popular, you must become a moderator.
     
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    Hmmm.... for that statement, I don't think I agree. One doesn't have to be a mod to be popular in a section. Of course, being a mod does make you a bit more popular because people know whom to turn to and talk to to get some help. But no, just because one is a mod doesn't mean he/she is popular. In each section, people who are active, talk a lot, help others out and are generally good at what they do are 'popular'.

    Overall I completely agree with Harlequin. You need good social skills to become popular too.
     
    I don't agree with that.

    Once anyone is modded they're popular for about a day, or however long it takes for the VMs to stream in. Past that it depends on themselves as a person, rather than their position. For example, PC's had some staff members who were completely overlooked, despite their positions. It depends on the effort that you put out, and no colored username is going to hand you a position of automatic popularity. It might be easier to pick you out in a crowd, but that doesn't automatically mean that you'll be genuinely liked or appreciated. You have to work at that. :/
     
    Popularity and moderatorship are very much mutually exclusive. Using things like VM count and number of profile views as barometers of popularity, I've seen popular members here that aren't mods and I've seen mods that aren't particularly popular.

    They both happen to require a similar personality profile. That of course being a warm, charismatic, and helpful persona. Despite my history with PC, I'll admit to having a somewhat cold and bland personality and I really have to put in some effort to be helpful instead of downright snarky in my posts. Hence why I'm known, but not particularly popular. XD
     
    And then you have the staff members who are scary and people are afraid of talking to them until they realize they don't bite XD

    Being popular and being staff are two different things. Sometimes some members become so popular they get noticed more easily (Ryan...), sometimes people get modded just because they report a lot and are very knowledgeable in their particular forums, even if nobody knows them anywhere else.
     
    I'd have to agree on what Live_Wire said about charisma since people do tend to like others who show creativity and humor in their posts as well as showing a respectable amount of intelligence and the fact that they are well researched on certain subjects that may end up being popular topics on here. At least that's what I think anyways.
     
    I agree that a staff member is popular when they have been promoted for a bit, because there is a buzz around this user, but I don't think just because you have the title, means you are automatically popular.

    It is safe to say I am not a 'popular' moderator, but it doesn't bother me really. But then, define popular. I am popular in my boards, of course, I am there all the time, but forum wide? I don't think a lot of people realise I am here. Haha.

    Overall, the title doesn't make the person popular, imo.​
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    No I don't think that's true. Like Drew said it's only the first day or two when you get modded that people will notice you because something changed, but after that it will just depend on yourself again, like it also did before. I agree on that people will probably talk to you more than they did before when you're modded, for obvious reasons lol, but even that only goes if people knew you at all before.
     
    That's asinine; people get modded because they've become popular and contributed to the community.
     
    Not true, at least not entirely. There have been many members here who were pretty much popular while having nothing to do with staff. Depends on how social you are as well; the more you talk, the more you are noticed, specially if you always make good points about the discussions; if you are friendly or not, or if you are a bit of a sarcastic troll. If you don't post that much it's less likely that people notice you and talk to you.

    Staff members tend to be popular of course, they're easily noticeable and are the ones who keep the place clean, and were chosen for their spot for a reason. And then there is always people who try to kiss the staff's asses because they're staff, but that's another subject.
     
    Katalyst said:
    Not true, at least not entirely. There have been many members here who were pretty much popular while having nothing to do with staff. Depends on how social you are as well; the more you talk, the more you are noticed, specially if you always make good points about the discussions; if you are friendly or not, or if you are a bit of a sarcastic troll. If you don't post that much it's less likely that people notice you and talk to you.

    Staff members tend to be popular of course, they're easily noticeable and are the ones who keep the place clean, and were chosen for their spot for a reason. And then there is always people who try to kiss the staff's asses because they're staff, but that's another subject.
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    He's right, I may not be a staff member yet but I still get popular in most areas, especially Other Trivia.

    Also, my famous "I herd u liek Cute Oshawottz" slogan got me a lot of fans here.
     
    Hardly anyone ever talks to me on here, so I'm inclined to disagree. :[

    Hikari10 said:
    Also, my famous "I herd u liek Cute Oshawottz" slogan got me a lot of fans here.
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    I've never seen that on here until today.
     
    Forever said:
    "The only way to really become popular here is to get modded."

    Discuss the above statement with others, and bring as many points as you want into this.
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    Or maybe it's the other way around!

    Anyways, I'm not really that popular, and nah, getting mods doesn't gain you popularity all the time; I have seen people make more friends/get more VMs after their modding, but mainly because they were just cool people and modding 'put them on the map', per se. You could call it popularity as a direct result of a promotion, but it isn't exclusively that.
     
    I don't believe popularity goes with being a mod whatsoever, no. The "peak of popularity" for a mod will be when they're modded or promoted; that's when they'll be flooded with messages congratulating them but that hype dies down pretty quickly. It also depends on the person though. I've had friends (in general, not speaking about PC) that didn't want to talk to any mods because they were afraid of the fact that they were mods (lol) and others who felt mods were a lot more fun to talk to than regular members just because of their status.

    But yeahh, it all boils down to personality :3;
     
    Basically what other people said. I feel that it can help, sure, but it is not necessary to be 'popular' (whatever that might mean for you), simple as that.
     
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