It was more to clear up confusion as several players throughout the game thought he was female because his name isn't a clear indicator of gender. :hugesmile:

'k

Agreed that its totally pointless but mods should be made to always appear online.

During The Mole I appear offline because otherwise they can see stuff I'm doing for tasks etc.

But you can rest assured at least one of us will be online at any given time. For example I'm usually online between midnight and 7am. :)

I agree with every single one of the above posts.

Mods should always appear online.

When a thread is closed - no further comments should be allowed. At all.

Point in case:

http://thisisbigbrother.com/forums/s...6&postcount=85

Forget the obvious gang pack mentality.... just home in on one particular member..................... after the thread has been closed

Then during any game I'll run from now on, I'll step down from my mod position whilst running it. I personally don't see the big issue with appearing online, I see it as another excuse to have a pop at us. When I was a member it did not bother me one iota if a mod appeared online because you generally know that at least one will be there at any given time as there are so many of us...

I still cant think of any reason why it would be a problem for mods to appear offline...

As I said, reports still come through as usual, and are dealt with as usual.

And I cant think of any 'emergency' or anything that would require a PM straight back. Or any other reason why you would need to know which mod is online :/

Exactly. Although for some reason it seems to bother certain members. I'd like to know the reason why though.

It's a secret :idc:

I know it can be reported and will get dealt with ASAP but if for instance, someone posted personal information about another, I'd like to know and see there was someone around who could deal with it immediately rather than having to sit around to see if it happened

Don't know why you should appear offline though? i find it easier when Mods are viewable online then you actually know they'll reply then rather then guessing that they are going to be online.. and as for the game bit surely you can just go offline to do the actually task and then back to online afterwards instead of remaining offline for the entire game which is probably frustrating for the contestants as well when they want to get hold of you.

Shape up Mods. :idc:

Example

Mods/admin all offline

Member gets their name/address posted on here by another member who knows them

Now - do they feel safe in the knowledge that at some point someone will be around to delete it? Or do they feel safe seeing another mod IS online to do so?

I do it because when I used to appear online, people would moan about what I was doing. No joke.

If they had reported something and I viewed a different thread for a while, I would have them moaning on about me not dealing with the report immediately, even though I had not seen the report thread.

Why should anyone appear offline?

But if a mod was online, they would delete it. And if they werent, obviously it would be when the next mod gets online. Im not quite getting the point here :/

My point is it's reassuring to see that mods are about

Fair enough, I did miss the point then :tongue:

Discourages spammers and old members rejoining too. Who's likely to pull a fast one if they see mods/admin online?

:)

Trust me, mods being online does not discourage spammers and banned members :p

You would think it would, but not here :S

Oh :/

I get emails when somebody reports something or PMs me. So I would usually come on once that happens. Appearing offline as a host of a game, like Ben does is good because people can track what he does to get a leg up on a task.

Does that not work both ways? For tasks I mean? Mod's can see WHO people are PMing for instance. Members can't.

But that is just 'an ability' that we have with the MOD status. I can't change that?

Ugh, I know. And fine when not abused to the advantage of mods only (NOT all I know!)

Anyway. I'm off. Night/morning people x

I don't know what you mean there sorry