Credentials or experience to moderate a message board?
Welcome to the Jean van Voorhies Internet Message Board Moderation Correspondence Course.
Jean van Voorhies started with a dream. The dream of teaching gunsmithing and veterinary medicine to people unqualified to perform even the simplest tasks involving either firearms or animals... through the MAIL! Now he teaches you the rewarding trade of internet forum moderation.
You'll learn Net Lingo 101: Learn common internet acronyms like LOL (laughing out loud), LMAO (laughing my ass off), brb (be right back), and YMSYESIMBTNWYPSOMLAOFAIGYTCATYKAF (your myspace says you're eighteen so it must be true, now will you please sit on my lap and/or face and I'll give you the candy and toys you keep asking for).
Conflict Management: Occasionally, people on the internet will disagree, sometimes culminating in good-natured and witty verbal jousting between well-informed and highly educated combatants; the rest of the time it's escaped, emotionally-scarred research monkeys hurling faeces at one another. You'll learn to lock the cages and clean poo with thread locking and IP Bans.
Yep, that's about it.
