aimeeandbeatles
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How many "retired moderators" are there on CFC?
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Synobun
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Not enough.
It's a vanity tag 
No actual reward for those (not meaning myself, just happens to be about ME too) in the top 13 contributors of gfx files for mods
No actual reward for those (not meaning myself, just happens to be about ME too) in the top 13 contributors of gfx files for mods
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More like a brand, tbh. No choice, permanently marred.It's a vanity tag
No actual reward for those (not meaning myself, just happens to be about ME too) in the top 13 contributors of gfx files for mods
aimeeandbeatles
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Could you ask the administrators to remove it from your profile?
I don't think you know what happiness is
.And this is not power metal either
.Try the bands Powerwolf, Gloryhammer, Alestorm or Lordi, that's more like it
.(Lordi might not count as PowerMetal, but still)
We got initially asked if we wanted to be in this user group, and some of the ones which didn't respond didn't get the upgrade.
(this only got visible since a group message from the vbulletin system got converted into this private thread here)
Chukchi Husky
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No. Never. Not at all.
They normally seem unhappy, don't they
I'd rather bet on power metal ^^.
I was told that it was scientifically proven that the happiest people are those who listen to death metal. I've only heard of problems with the fans of power metal, although the worst genre of heavy metal is supposed to be doom metal.
I don't think you know what happiness is
And this is not power metal either
Try the bands Powerwolf, Gloryhammer, Alestorm or Lordi, that's more like it
(Lordi might not count as PowerMetal, but still)
Powerwolf is meant to be terrible and Alestorm too hard to listen to after a song or two.
Not likely. I'd be curious to see an actual reference to this in some journal. Is this idea from those friends of yours who also espouse other wrong things?
H4run
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Happy is a mood isn't it not a personality? There is no such thing as "happy people", because everyone once in a while was/is/will feeling happy, if someone feel constantly happy then (s)he is not achieving anything except being un-usually weird.
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Depends on what you define as happy, probably?
I define it as feeling generally fulfilled and as though you're looking forward to the next day. If someone meets those two conditions, I wouldn't consider them weird, as it's ideally not an unusual state of being.
If you define happiness as never being worried, always being bubbly, etc, then yeah, weird. But I think happy people can feel worried and down, so long as the trend continues pointing up for them internally.
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Well for me, happy is an opposite of sad, it's an emotion when generally something is happening according or exceeding (y)our expectation. Which I think both emotion, happy or sad, are inevitable in our existence, having or not having what we want, hoping or fearing what might befall us, are always result in either of these two emotion.
So it's understandable that in Budhism, when one want to avoid sufferings (sadness, anxiety, any negative emotion) one must be less attached in this world, which consequently also collateral to the other side of the coin, which is the happiness.
Of course you can define it like that, but we can also call this contentment. For me the pursue of happiness and contentment is somewhat another source of discontent, happiness is a mood not a life's goal.
Having said that I agree with you, the constant feeling of discontent is indeed exist and some people suffer that not by choice, and this cannot be trivialized, my deep condolences for anyone who suffer that.
But what I meant in my post here is, if I spend my 24 hours of my day smiling and cheering up all the time, people would thing I smoke something a little bit too much, you got what I mean?
So it's understandable that in Budhism, when one want to avoid sufferings (sadness, anxiety, any negative emotion) one must be less attached in this world, which consequently also collateral to the other side of the coin, which is the happiness.
Of course you can define it like that, but we can also call this contentment. For me the pursue of happiness and contentment is somewhat another source of discontent, happiness is a mood not a life's goal.
Having said that I agree with you, the constant feeling of discontent is indeed exist and some people suffer that not by choice, and this cannot be trivialized, my deep condolences for anyone who suffer that.
But what I meant in my post here is, if I spend my 24 hours of my day smiling and cheering up all the time, people would thing I smoke something a little bit too much, you got what I mean?
It's not easy to be happy - and I doubt any half-sane person is happy all the time.
It is a known aspiration, however, to be just happy or when not happy be content.
I like Syn's way of defining the state by referring to the person waking up and feeling good to be alive and looking forward to the day. That is optimal, I think - may it happen to me ^_^
It is a known aspiration, however, to be just happy or when not happy be content.
I like Syn's way of defining the state by referring to the person waking up and feeling good to be alive and looking forward to the day. That is optimal, I think - may it happen to me ^_^
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I just read some University student wrote, not very long time ago because she was in national news at that time, whenever she woke up she was thinking "what kind of mess I'll experience today?" and she went back to sleep again for another hours.
I don't know if there is a recipe or a way out for someone wake up feeling great and happy, especially during the time like this, when the problem is not about a state of mind or mentality, no one feel happy waking up facing tons of law-firm and client who wish to refund their money (edit: due to covid), however I think if we wake up and we know what to do this day, it might motivates us and gives us hope.
For a very long time, I never consciously aim to make myself happy. Because no matter suck the year is/was, there will be a moment when I feel happy and laugh. Happiness is something that happened not planned.
There is a famous french novel, "The Chants of Maldoror", containing the phrase: "I wake up from the horrible nightmare, only to remember that my reality is three times worse!"
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There is a famous french novel, "The Chants of Maldoror", containing the phrase: "I wake up from the horrible nightmare, only to remember that my reality is three times worse!"
I read it on her blog, she's a prestigious student in one of the best University here, but lost her job due to Covid so do her source of income. Later on she come to a point when she went hungry for days. Until one day she and her boy-friend committed a crime, robbing and killing a man that she seduced in online date app. I must say this lock-down and global wide corporation efficiency turned many people's life upside down.
Well, in my view you are no longer to be poignantly identified as a victim, once you turned others into victims (in this case, killed someone)!
H4run
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That's should goes without saying.
Not all have the badge. Some just quit and either left the forum or faded into obscurity.
You think more should retire, or more who are "retired" should have the badge?
As I recall, it was explained to me as a sort of "thank you for past services to the forum", which was a nice thing. I seem to recall some perk or other, like more PM space, which was also nice. It wasn't mandatory.It's a vanity tag
However... it seems that when the migration to XenForo happened, our particular usergroup got forgotten when the new permission masks were being done (for those who have never admin'd a forum, this means toggling on/off what accesses specific usergroups are allowed in which forums/subforums... is it read-only, read/reply, can they post images, is it visible at all?... and so on. Different types of forums have different levels of detail for this, but the basics are the same, no matter if it's an Invision, vBulletin, or other type of forum (I have never seen the admin panel for XenForo so I'm not sure what it looks like).
Anyway, we were forgotten in a few places for awhile. It drove me nuts, seeing references to forums and threads I couldn't see, but regular members could. It got fixed, though.
Of course. All it takes is being switched from the Retired Moderators usergroup and placed in whatever they call the group for regular members. Not that we have any extra perks now that the rest of the non-staff have, but it's how the badge system works (not just in XenForo; this is how any forum system works).
Some actively said no, as I recall. They just wanted to leave their moderator days behind them.
I don't know if the newly-retired ones are asked now, or if it's assumed?
What I'm curious about are the retired Admins. They should get some kind of badge as well, so people know not to PM them about forum issues.
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