how d'you become a mod and all.

please read my previous post first if you haven't.

or you might also want to read another rant about the same subject. (i know. it just bothers me, y'know. slightly different subject matter, anyhow.)

this is inspired by a fellow player mod steve. we are mutual strangers, but respect isn't a commodity necessarily bought by familiarity.

i had meant to cover this in my previous post, but for obvious reasons that wasn't possible. really it's only because my previous post seemed long enough to be a stand alone post as it was. here, anyway, is my take on the issue.

similarly, i cannot and will not disclose any information i should not. in other words, i'm not going to be telling you anything outside of what you'll be able to find in the knowledge base, anyway. so if you're looking to become a mod, please read my previous post . if you're back again after reading it, you're not going to find out anything you shouldn't. so if that's what you're here for, bail now.

the best advice i can give you is: you don't need to consciously want it. don't focus your entire gameplay and attitude on that want.

just be yourself. if you aren't genuinely like that, please don't try to fake it. you'll need to fake so much if you do become a mod, that way, and that's practically impossible. sometimes i need to be less genuine than i feel, but i do it, and did it, not because i wanted to be a mod, but because i'd have done it anyway. in doing that, i was being myself. i'd have done it because i'd have know, and i know, it was the right thing to do. do what you would have done anyway. that's a part of being yourself.

i'll look at this issue from my perspective because it's the best, if not only way i'll be able. this is what i did and what i believe. it'll probably not work for you, we're all different, but it's always worth knowing.

it's not all about being rule-conscious, but about doing what's right. sticking by the rules helps though. i did not go all out ananlysing the rules, i read them once through, and skimmed through those i knew enough of. thereafter, i went about doing what i thought was right. or, to be precise, what is right according to my religion, which would be Christianity. it's for this reason that i don't like philosophy. religion pretty much explains it all. on the other hand, just common sense morality might work. in that i don't mean logic, i mean conscience.

it's a hard thing to describe, that concept just floating there. what's right. so reading through the rules, and seeing if they align with what you believe helps too. if they do, then more's the better. if they don't, tough luck. you'll have to stick it, it's jagex's game. for my part, i pretty much agreed with every rule. what i didn't agree with was what should be against the rules that was not, and that didn't make much of a difference. i just acted as i would have, anyhow.

it's about how you act. ingame behaviour. reports matter (only) to some extent. how you act, after all, who you are, and how you go about doing things are reflected in what you report. going crazy with the report button might work, but please understand it isn't all there is to being a mod. of course, do report rulebreaking as you see it.

i guess that's all.

steve mentioned something about tests, of a sort. i've been wracking my brains, and some things do come to mind. on the other hand, these are everyday things. it's something that's just done, all the time, and that's why i don't think it matters, at all.

what matters, ultimately, is not whether you become a mod. it's whether you do what is expected of a mod, and more.

it's how you go about your life. how you live it.

that, after all, is what really counts.