Moderating India Community on orkut

In orkut there is a India community which more than 280K members in it. Two months back, I was offered moderator privileges for that community. Never thought I will be offered as I left participating in that community due to many reasons. Anyway, I accepted it and soon I became the moderator of the community.

Next day, a friend of mine who was active that time in the community was shocked to see me as moderator and did lot of protests and said many things. He did that because he believed he deserved the post of a moderator. Anyway, he is also a moderator now.

First week went banning the spammers, the abusers, the fake profiles, the hate threads and all. When most of the junk was cleared, there remained few members with real profile spreading hate. It was difficult to ban them but later their mistakes helped us.

As we were about to settle down, a thread came up- 'Amarnath- The Moderator' and that became a perfect place to bash the moderators. We were criticized a lot for 3 days. Reason- Removing a member(warn) for abusing!

It went for few days but then came 3 more moderators. That cooled down things a lot. It was not easy for members to bash the new moderators. Again as the community was getting stable, a
new thread was created- 'AJAY- The moderator'. Same thing happened and for a similar reason.

Few days passed and the members started liking the way we moderate. We used to be criticized for everything wrong in the community but then members started realizing how difficult our job is. Things were going fine in the community but I have my studies. I decided to step down to concentrate more on studies and I did.

When I left, it was interesting to see people appreciating instead of abusing/criticizing. It was something different. From the day I joined, I was abused, criticized, threatened, called names and when I was leaving, I was appreciated!

That is all for now, in my next blog I will say how it is to be a moderator of India community. Stay Tuned...

Back to blogging!

Well, I am back to blogging. Its about 6 months back that I left this place but on request of a friend of mine, I have decide to come back and this time be a bit more regular in updating my blogs.

A lot of things happened in the last 6 months, including a spectacular 1st semester examination. I don't think I will be able to tell my experience about those things as it does help me in experiencing nightmares!

Anyway, life is back on track and these days I am enjoying as much as I can because I don't know how much I will be able to enjoy after my results are out!

That is all for now, will update my blog as soon as I get enough time to waste:P