I noticed that the ratings of various moderators keep dropping.
AdamR and others
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Why would becoming a moderator impact your rating?
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- Moderators have been using OGS for many years
- There are reasons to think that the OGS rating system has become harder these last few years
- People who have been playing go for many years generally don’t improve anymore, or only very slowly.
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!!!1111!!! all Moderators are Sandbagger in conspiracy !!!11111!!! SCNR
On a serious note: I noticed that many play much correspondence. Perhaps there is a natural effect of each recruting their own. Or correspondence players having a bigger inclination to becomming a mod. But perhaps it’s easy as a moderator to slip into discussions in random games by complaining users and there is a (unconscious) tendency to avoid it. If I would be a mod I would want an alt-account for sure. And perhaps there is a difference in the rating pools of live and correspondence games.
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(full moderators have received death threats and other nastiness from outraged or trollish users).
My rating would also decrease if I received death threats.
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For my particular case - I was rather inactive for a long time, so my rank might be a bit off/volatile until it settles again, but I don’t think it is too inacurate.
I probably play less as a mod than I would otherwise, but other than that, I am not aware about any serious curse for us 
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Even if I receive death threats, that person doesn’t know where I am, after all.
I get sworn at quite often on OGS.
Unless you pay attention to conceal your identity, people may guess it and find where you live. Moderators on OGS or other platforms/forums may receive various threats, probably most of them are not serious but you never know, there are crazy people everywhere.
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It is absolutely a fact that OGS moderators have received threats from time to time, from users who’s intent is clearly to actually scare and or harm us.
This is not theoretical.
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The stress of dealing with trolls turns your brain to mush?
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What a strange post
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That’s true. But most people hide their identities, don’t they? You wouldn’t face an actual threat over a trivial issue on a website.
Well, I think I’d be scared too if someone threatened to hack me.
It seems to me that you aren’t getting much Go practice done because you’re busy moderating the OGS chat.
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No, they don’t.
Especially in a hobby that has a real-life component to it.
A normal person would think so, and yet … it happens.
Wherever people gather, there are people like this among them. An esoteric hobby like Go is no exception.
The fact that most users here are unaware is nice - but it’s because “moderation mostly works” not because “users of a Go site are all nice”.
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