>>2508 ✔
Most moderation time is just spent monitoring the board really.
I (maybe stupidly) piled more work on myself by memorizing/writing down hashes of bakers, great researchers, shills, bots, etc. Baker checks meant I had to be more attentive to bakers, and make sure dough steals didn't happen. I would help anons protect their privacy by deleting images for them if they exposed too much of their personal info. I created the notables.html and qposts.html which could only have been updated by me, which meant they would pile up when I was afk, and it was a pain in the ass to open every bread and copy/paste notables over. You can see why I would be thankful for tools that could automate the process. BVs would delete garbage threads (Things that should end up in general) then repost them in TTDDTOT to prevent bumping good threads off the catalog.
It's not a hard job by any means, however this requires 24/7 attention to the board. I've missed birthdays of my brothers, nephews, cousins weddings. I kept out of touch with my IRL friends. I still haven't seen any of my IRL friends since 2017 (but have kept in touch). I put aside learning new things, and was always unfocused at my day job. I stopped going to the gym. All just to sit here and stare at the screen, all day, to ensure the wheels keep spinning.
I have had 6 BVs now who came across as genuine people who wanted to help the board, that eventually went fucking psychotic, or turned out to be incompetent. I hope you'll forgive me for having trust issues when it comes to hiring helping hands. For now, I'd like to operate alone.
That being said, you guys as a community have been doing most of the serious work, baking the breads, setting the standards for baking, grouping in to topical threads, etc. Off-site, people have done a lot too, sharing Qposts on twitter, gathering together for POTUS tweets, creating website aggregators for Q posts or notables, storing large caches of memes on clouds.
You guys have all be helping the entire time. Just do me a favor and realize that you guys are the stars of the movement. Do not blow smoke up my ass, and let me become one of those egotistical pricks.
Well yeah I mean a bunch of bakers already have pastebin accounts to store all their previous bakes, so just do that then. I remember when checking NightBaker, I would ask for a paste and he would post a new paste of his handoff request from that bread. That worked too.
Potential for abuse again though, plus I would have to be there to add the tripcode right away or else they would be stuck unverified while I'm afk.