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Ningmaster

A volunteer moderator on the Nerdfighter Ning who served three-month terms, featuring content and running its forums.

Early context: John announces that a few volunteer Ningmasters will soon feature new content on the Ning's main page, organize and moderate its forums and raise its awesomeness. — Before Looking for Alaska… 00:02:09

in-group term (role-coinage) · in 14 videos, 2009–2012 · peak 2009 (7 videos) · last heard 2012

Videos per year: 2009: 7 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 3 · 2012: 1

Forms heard

How the speakers say this one item, as transcribed from the videos, in order of first appearance.

form videos first heard last heard
“ning-masters” 1 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… 00:02:09
“ningmasters” 3 2009-02-18 · Winners and Winners and Ningmasters 00:01:19 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! 00:01:54
“ning master” 1 2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! 00:01:47
“ning masters” 2 2009-09-12 · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:01:36 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) 00:02:11
“ningmaster” 1 2009-11-10 · ChartJackers, Chris, Touring and Duckies 00:01:38

Every video

2009

date video use what is said
2009-01-27 Before Looking for Alaska… 00:02:09 mention John announces that a few volunteer Ningmasters will soon feature new content on the Ning's main page, organize and moderate its forums and raise its awesomeness. · “ning-masters”
2009-02-18 Winners and Winners and Ningmasters 00:01:19 mention Hank announces, for himself and John, that the Ningmasters have been selected.
2009-03-24 Peeps! Prom! Puppy! 00:01:47 mention John says Ningmaster Tom has done a great job of finding pictures on the Nerdfighter Ning, and shares some.
2009-09-12 Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:01:36 mention John announces Ningmaster Tom is now officially the senior executive nerdfighter, head of the Ning, who will improve it since the brothers have failed; he urges everyone to go to nerdfighters.com. · “ning masters”
2009-09-28 Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters 00:00:06 mention John announces that Senior Executive Ningmaster Tom has recruited new Ningmasters for the forum, images, chat, books, blogs, anti-worldsuck and 'Ducky's', and, for the first time, the wiki.
2009-11-10 ChartJackers, Chris, Touring and Duckies 00:01:38 mention Hank highlights a Ningmaster on the Nerdfighter Ning who makes a rubber duck of whoever wins the weekly ducky contest.
2009-12-06 LOSERS!!!! 00:01:54 mention John thanks the Ningmasters at Nerdfighters.com, who worked hard sorting leads and confirming balloons.

2010

date video use what is said
2010-03-01 The Marriage Ref SUCKS 00:00:00 mention John reports Ningmaster Tom is conscious and has spoken to his family but has a long way to go in recovery; the community will be with him throughout.
2010-06-11 Mmmm....PARTS 00:01:52 mention Ningmaster Tom, comatose the last time he appeared in a video, is fine: he has problems with his left eye but is doing much better and is grateful for Nerdfighters' support.
2010-08-16 Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:00:42 mention At Piccadilly Circus John met Ningmaster Tom, Lidewij and Nerdfighter Tobias, to whom his half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson is dedicated; they went to Funland, mostly simulated murder.

2011

date video use what is said
2011-02-09 NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) 00:02:11 mention John says Nerdfighteria needs better ways to interact: YouTube comments don't lend themselves to relationships or collaboration, and the Ning confuses new users, though Ningmasters are working on it. · “ning masters”
2011-02-23 WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD 00:00:10 mention A year ago today, John notes, their friend Ningmaster Tom almost died in a bicycle accident and was long in a coma, but survived and is here.
2011-08-15 HANKLERFISH! 00:03:24 mention Hank's shirt reads 'Don't talk to me about my shirt or I will put forks in you', a line from a really old Vlogbrothers video, made by Ningmaster Tom; John says they have inside jokes even he doesn't get.

2012

date video use what is said
2012-06-22 Hank is Maybe Crazy 00:01:37 mention Hank shows a shirt from Ningmaster Tom that mixes a video-game code with quark names, and an art-history video-game nerd shirt.