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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton Personally I've never been in a position of power, great or small; but if I were? I'd have the moral fortitude to do the right thing. From being imbued with Kryptonian strength and flight to simply being made head fire warden where I work I'd strive to do the right thing and do right by everyone I met. However if I were ever made the moderator of a message board or wikipedia? Oh you KNOW the power would go straight to my head and I would make any little shitstain who veered from my strict policies of misusing emoticons rue the day they ever bought a 48k modem.  There's something about the power of moderation that sends people a little bit doolally I've found. There seems to be a pretty thin line between making sure the message board/wiki page you're looking after isn't trampled over by mindless cretins and turning it into an Orwellian nightmare where anyone you don't like the look of gets shoved into the Memory Hole and this is the thread to post some examples. PLEASE keep examples from off-site. From the one example posted in the Game Devs Trolls thread I think this topic has some hilarious potential so PLEASE no Something Awful related drama. Thank you. I'll throw up some mild examples first. I used to post on a Slasher board years ago and got a warning for disliking Fraggle Rock of all things. Used to post on a Hellraiser website. It was generally a Clive Barker site in general, really and if you know anything about the mad Scouse twat you'll know his work is very, VERY sexualised. Homo-eroticism, BDSM, the whole lot. So imagine the chaos that ensued when the guy who ran the place got a new girlfriend who was incredibly repressed sexually and gave her the power of head moderator. In less than a week almost every thread had been locked and almost every regular member had been banned. Got banned from a Silent Hill forum for talking about Pyramid Head and sexual imagery portrayed... And here's the Silent Hill themed inspiration for the entire thread. 7c Nickel posted:Power-mad Mods and Silent Hill you say? Lizard Wizard posted:Highlights, please? Regalingualius posted:-Someone points out to noted Silent Hill LPer VoidBurger that some loonie is editing in anti-circumcision rants into the article for one of the characters from 4.  I can't even imagine this is the tip of the madness iceberg that is crazed moderation. I don't go to any other websites bar SA these day, but if you do and you know of any mad stories please share them with us.
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It's kind of ironic that you've made a thread that will immediately need intervention from a mod.  E: Future-proofing because this shortly won't make sense, the thread was originally PTF Power Mad Mods. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 21, 2015 12:44
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AlphaKretin posted:It's kind of ironic that you've made a thread that will immediately need intervention from a mod. If I were a mod I'd ban you for sass-mouth. >  I kid, I kid. However... ChogsEnhour posted:PLEASE keep examples from off-site. From the one example posted in the Gave Devs Trolls thread I think this topic has some hilarious potential so PLEASE no Something Awful related drama. Thank you. Just to re-iterate.
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Dec 21, 2015 13:06
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I'm pretty sure he's talking about your proclivity for typos reaching the title...
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Dec 21, 2015 14:43
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I think he got that but not unfairly interpreted needing SA mod intervention being ironic as implying that SA mods would be mentioned. I was going to disclaim that but it would have cluttered up the joke. E: Just noticed you also missed "Gave Dev Trolls Thread" AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 15:02 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 21, 2015 14:49
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God drat it. I didn't even see that when I re-read it looking for a typo. 
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Dec 21, 2015 14:59
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Post Thy Favorite ( ) ( ) Power Mad Mods, My Lord!
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Dec 21, 2015 15:04
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Greetings.
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Dec 21, 2015 15:05
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AlphaKretin posted:E: Just noticed you also missed "Gave Dev Trolls Thread" Cheers. I blame this on me being in work and keeping on eye on my boss as I read about Silent Hill circumcisions and also on me being an idiot. FactsAreUseless posted:Greetings. Of all the power man mods you're the best... Er, any chance of fixing the title, sir? 
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Dec 21, 2015 15:39
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I can't do anything in PYF.
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Dec 21, 2015 15:43
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FactsAreUseless posted:I can't do anything in PYF. Some power man mod you are.
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Dec 21, 2015 15:57
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FactsAreUseless posted:I can't do anything in PYF. not with that attitude
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Dec 21, 2015 15:59
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FactsAreUseless posted:I can't do anything in PYF. we are here for u
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Dec 21, 2015 16:46
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You warm our hearts. What more can we ask of you?
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Dec 21, 2015 17:52
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Not so much malevolent as incompetent, but... A few years ago, Blizzard created an entirely new forums system for WoW. For the most part, it was an improvement over the old one, so people started flocking to it as they started phasing out the old; hell, they even allowed people who had been banned on the old one to post again. Then Blizzard dropped the bombshell: the new forum would soon start to display everyone's real name whenever they posted, in the name of "combating trolling and harassment". What followed was the single biggest flame war they'd ever experienced, with nearly everyone pointing out the many problems with that system. Blizzard... Doubled down, while at the same time stoking the fire even more by saying CMs/mods would be exempt. It eventually came to a head when Bashiok, one of the more respected CMs, decided to post his real name to try to allay everyone's fears. Instead, he was on the receiving end of getting several dozen pizzas delivered to his door, among other things. Not long after that, they quietly announced that they were walking back the planned conversion.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:23
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So is that whole thing the reason why that Voidburger LP stopped? Cause I was really digging it.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:55
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RickVoid posted:So is that whole thing the reason why that Voidburger LP stopped? Cause I was really digging it. Yeah, it's a shame it was cut short like that.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:48
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Fixed the title for you (and added an addendum)  Please be careful to keep this thread limited to off-site material, though, this could go south very quickly.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:53
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beaten by the OP of all things.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:12
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ChogsEnhour posted:I used to post on a Slasher board years ago and got a warning for disliking Fraggle Rock of all things. So did it seem serious? If it was just a warning and seemed humorous I probably would have laughed. Ed: That Silent Hill meltdown is pretty funny, but also, I hope that guy sees a doctor. He's ill. Weldon Pemberton has a new favorite as of 21:40 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 21, 2015 21:20
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Fixed the title for you (and added an addendum)
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Dec 21, 2015 21:44
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FactsAreUseless posted:Wow, more like, LITERALLY, A NAZI. I'm a conure, not an eagle.  e: poo poo that should have been a gas chamber joke LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 21:56 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 21, 2015 21:51
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Conservapedia is an interesting case, in that all the mods there are crazy instant banning psychopaths. Favorites are: Being banned for not being "open minded", i.e. disagreeing with a mod. Banning users for asserting that relativity is real.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:54
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ikanreed posted:Conservapedia is an interesting case, in that all the mods there are crazy instant banning psychopaths. Anyone ever been banned for trying to remove "ragsnaozzle gus gus"?
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Dec 21, 2015 22:23
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I'm a conure, not an eagle.
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Dec 21, 2015 22:59
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I'm taking that as a compliment.
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Dec 21, 2015 23:07
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Thread would be a thousand times more interesting if it allowed SA mods
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Dec 21, 2015 23:54
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When I go mad with power you can post about me here.
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Dec 22, 2015 00:02
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FactsAreUseless posted:I have gone mad with power, you can post about me here.
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Dec 22, 2015 01:36
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RickVoid posted:So is that whole thing the reason why that Voidburger LP stopped? Cause I was really digging it. I tend to always have a big hiatus during my LPs.... bad habit.
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VoidBurger posted:Nope, I've just been really busy with various for like two months straight Sinful. I'm friends with a couple of mods on a Harvest Moon forum, which is as chilled as you would expect so no freakouts from them. They've had good stories about poo poo they've dealt with though. The only other forum besides SA and the Harvest Moon one I've spent a lot of time on is Neopets as a kid, which did have a big problem between mods and users when they deleted the General board. From what I hazily remember (this was a good ten or so years ago), the regulars migrated to the Newbie board and began complaining en masse, causing the mods to mass ban any users who weren't using it for its intended purpose. Eventually things died down, people were unbanned and the Newbie board became the new General board in all but name.
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Dec 22, 2015 12:05
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It been a while since I read through the list but I'm fairly confident that a good number of Wikipedia's lamest edit wars involved inappropriate mod intervention. And if I'm wrong it's an amusing read anyway
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Dec 22, 2015 12:12
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Phy posted:Anyone ever been banned for trying to remove "ragsnaozzle gus gus"? What was that about again?
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I saw r/TMBR (test my belief reddit) was trending a few days ago. Most of the mod team are hardcore MRA, and at least one was a determined rape apologist. Deleted at least one of my posts that made one look stupid, banned me for "testing the belief" they agreed with so much. Sub is basically a platform for MRAs to post their "controversial" opinions and be pleasantly surprised that everyone seems to agree with them.
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Dec 22, 2015 14:13
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Fixed the title for you (and added an addendum) Thank you. You're a star. Weldon Pemberton posted:So did it seem serious? If it was just a warning and seemed humorous I probably would have laughed. They were serious! I just laughed anyway though. This was about 2001 or so though, my memory is hazy so I was probably acting more assholish than I remember... Maybe.
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Long time ago, so I don't remember how much I'm projecting here, but some guy who got promoted to site admin on a webcomic forum got really pissed because people didn't care about his Doom/Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction webcomic that he lost his loving mind and they actually had to close the forum out of damage control. Good times.
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Dec 22, 2015 15:12
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AlphaKretin posted:It been a while since I read through the list but I'm fairly confident that a good number of Wikipedia;s lamest edit wars involved inappropriate mod intervention. Wikipedia posted:Richard Kyanka
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Dec 22, 2015 15:43
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What a weird way of spelling "Lowtax"
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Dec 22, 2015 16:29
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ikanreed posted:Conservapedia is an interesting case, in that all the mods there are crazy instant banning psychopaths. They also tend to delete the user's editing history, which ends up removing any evidence they did anything in the first place. The result is it just looks like some people are banned for no reason out of the blue. Certain sysops would brag about how much banning they do.
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ikanreed posted:What a weird way of spelling "Lowtax" Wikipedia posted:Richard Kyanka
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