Was: New forum posting rules Now:PC explains JSA

[WTFH]

lickspittle.

Excellent word. Haven't heard it since the passing of Sir Terry

[cojak]

Not been following this, but on the subject of mods in general on the wider internet it's a recognised phenomenon. I was a member of a popular, ahem, file sharing site a few years ago, who had a notorious hierachy of mods/admins. To be fair the ones lower down were always helpful, would explain things and help with technical issues etc. But the ones higher up formed a tightknit group of "untouchables" who would ban or remove priveleges for the slightest infraction, or merely having the audacity to question any decision they made. You weren't allowed to raise an issue with one mod with another, or you'd face a ban etc..

One of these mods in particular demonstated a skill for pursuing members over the wider internet, using their IPs to trace their Facebooks and the like, was quite worrying. At the end of the day it's just a power/control thing.

Those who act like twunts will lack this 'power' elsewhere (job, relationship, perhaps their finances, health, family etc.) so being able to excert what in their mind is 'power' on an anonymous message board gives them what they feel is missing in their lives.

So that fact this post hasn't been removed, that you haven't been infracted or banned and I really am not interested your IP address or Facebook account means that we don't really GAS unless you disrupt the flow of the forum.

Then we do GAS.

(But the IP address and Facebook stuff is too geeky and we don't care that much, we just infracted and ban).

[NotAllThere]

Quick comment from me regarding "untouchables"...
As part of the initiation ceremony (the welts are going down now, Cojak, and I can stop taking the drugs for that rash, NAT), I was not advised of anyone being untouchable.


But seriously... if users don't report a post and we don't spot it, how are we supposed to moderate ignore it?

FTFY.

[Bee]

And there was me thinking this thread couldn't get an worse.

Shut up your f**g ...

[cojak]

Shut up your f**g ...

Now that made I larf!

[Old Greg]

This. Let's not get in to the details of the claim again. Let's get back to the original topic of PC being a whiny ****.

FTFY

[Old Greg]

So that fact this post hasn't been removed, that you haven't been infracted or banned and I really am not interested your IP address or Facebook account means that we don't really GAS unless you disrupt the flow of the forum.

Then we do GAS.

(But the IP address and Facebook stuff is too geeky and we don't care that much, we just infracted and ban).

Like we GAS if you GAS.

[Bee]

Like we GAS if you GAS.

That stinks.

[BrilloPad]

That stinks.

[mudskipper]

That stinks.

Wrong sort of gas.