Moderator name changes

Mr. Presentable · 22-04-2008 1:15pm #1

If they are going to police the site, moderators should be restricted from changing their usernames. How are we to hide from them if we don't know who they are?

Ron DMC · 22-04-2008 1:17pm

You can't hide. They're everywhere. Aaaaaagh.

6th · 22-04-2008 1:20pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

If they are going to police the site, moderators should be restricted from changing their usernames. How are we to hide from them if we don't know who they are?

I completely agree!

Keano · 22-04-2008 1:21pm

Will they not always have those lovely moderator stars so it is easy spot them lurking in the bushes??!

stevenmu · 22-04-2008 1:25pm

Yes, they will.

Those sneaky mod b**tards !

monkeyfudge · 22-04-2008 1:26pm

....

Lieutenant Valeris wrote:

400 years ago on the planet Earth, when workers felt threatened by automation, they flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them, thus coining the word "sabotage.

Beruthiel · 22-04-2008 1:26pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

If they are going to police the site, moderators should be restricted from changing their usernames. How are we to hide from them if we don't know who they are?

Just take it for granted that we are omnipotent.
Act accordingly and you may survice.

Nevyn · 22-04-2008 1:30pm

ok then I propose all mod accounts be called Cesar and all non mod accounts be called plebs, just so we all know where we stand.

Oryx · 22-04-2008 1:36pm

Thaedydal wrote: »

ok then I propose all mod accounts be called Cesar and all non mod accounts be called plebs, just so we all know where we stand.

It has been thus in all but name, since I joined.

You know what happened to caesar, dont you?

Sherifu · 22-04-2008 1:42pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

If they are going to police the site, moderators should be restricted from changing their usernames. How are we to hide from them if we don't know who they are?

Who can't you recognise? /stalk

Marksie · 22-04-2008 1:50pm

KtK wrote: »

You know what happened to caesar, dont you?

His huge ego took a walk, hence the origin of the sayinG

"beware the Ids that march"*

*I'll get me coat

The Hill Billy · 22-04-2008 2:13pm

Marksie wrote: »

His huge ego took a walk, hence the origin of the sayinG

"beware the Ids that march"*

*I'll get me coat

* groans *

Nerin · 22-04-2008 2:16pm

sherifu wrote:

the only good mod is a dead mod

hmmm

the taglines should be

mods=imperial dark enforcers

users=peasants

admins=royal holy elders

Subscribers=anything they want. perhaps aristocrats

Oryx · 22-04-2008 2:30pm

Marksie wrote: »

His huge ego took a walk, hence the origin of the sayinG

"beware the Ids that march"*

*I'll get me coat

Et tu, brutal pun.:p

Rb · 22-04-2008 4:20pm

Wtf? bring back 6th!

shakin · 22-04-2008 4:21pm

how does one become a moderator

Sherifu · 22-04-2008 4:22pm

shakin wrote: »

how does one become a moderator

Agent Smith · 22-04-2008 4:22pm

Amp test tbh

Agent Smith · 22-04-2008 4:23pm

Sherifu wrote: »

agent smith wrote: »

Amp test tbh

spooky

Sherifu · 22-04-2008 4:23pm

agent smith wrote: »

spooky

To the Paranormal forum! /Scrapes ectoplasm off the van, drives off

6th · 22-04-2008 4:24pm

rb_ie wrote: »

Wtf? bring back 6th!

He's locked in my basement!

Bob the Builder · 22-04-2008 4:27pm

meh, i dunno... don't think it should be restricted.. just capped off as to how often they can change username..

hullaballoo · 22-04-2008 4:28pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

If they are going to police the site, moderators should be restricted from changing their usernames. How are we to hide from them if we don't know who they are?

When I first saw the thread title and until I read beyond your first sentence, I actually agreed with you. I also had some manner of logic to back up my reasoning.

However, once I read your second sentence, my brain began to melt and I completely forgot whatever rationale I had behind agreeing with you in the first place.

Do you have any valid reason for this thread, or is this thread just the same rubbishy mush you've just turned what was once a magnificent brain into?

Gurgle · 22-04-2008 4:38pm

Beruthiel wrote: »

Just take it for granted that we are omnipotent.
Act accordingly and you may survice.

Not omnispelliant unfortunately

Rb · 22-04-2008 5:08pm

Sabotage wrote: »

He's locked in my basement!

I'll trade you 10 asian kids who are very good at making runners for his release

Nevyn · 22-04-2008 5:38pm

KtK wrote: »

It has been thus in all but name, since I joined.

You know what happened to caesar, dont you?

Yes, they made him a God.

Oryx · 22-04-2008 5:43pm

Thaedydal wrote: »

Yes, they made him a God.

Id rather be a living pleb than a dead god, ty.

Marksie · 22-04-2008 6:05pm

Thaedydal wrote: »

Yes, they made him a God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw

Overheal · 22-04-2008 6:10pm

didnt there used to be a field in the User Profile showing your previous names?

Oryx · 22-04-2008 6:17pm

Overheal wrote: »

didnt there used to be a field in the User Profile showing your previous names?

Still is on mine. Additional information: Previous nicks.

Nevyn · 22-04-2008 6:21pm

KtK wrote: »

Id rather be a living pleb than a dead god, ty.

The Plebs didn't kill him, the plebs loved him.

Overheal · 22-04-2008 6:29pm

KtK wrote: »

Still is on mine. Additional information: Previous nicks.

well its not on Sherifu's... and Sherifu didnt you used to be RKM?

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 22-04-2008 6:29pm

Can mods change their username? Thought it was just if you were a member? How do we go about changing the name...

Overheal · 22-04-2008 6:29pm

you make a request in the help desk and and admin makes the change.

Zaph · 22-04-2008 6:31pm

You can only request a name change if you're a subscriber. Of course if you upset CuLT or any of the admins you may have a name change imposed on you.

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 22-04-2008 6:33pm

Zaph wrote: »

You can only request a name change if you're a subscriber. Of course if you upset CuLT or any of the admins you may have a name change imposed on you.

l,o,g,g,i,n,g, i,n, b,o,s,s,a,r,k,e,y

6th · 22-04-2008 6:36pm

rb_ie wrote: »

I'll trade you 10 asian kids who are very good at making runners for his release

Asians? You're not trading with Hungus here!

Mr. Presentable · 22-04-2008 6:55pm

Marvelous banter chaps, really! Actually, it was the arrival of a new high count user (sabotage) that made me realise how devious you are up there. When one gets a ban and need to PM the mod, but the mod (6th for example - not that he would ban anyone, fine upstanding server of the posters that he is) has changed username. How to find him?

6th · 22-04-2008 7:02pm

Step 1: Log out
Step 2: Go to the forum you are banned from.
Step 3: Look at who the mods are.
Step 4: Take the big jarred labeled "A bit of cop on" out of your magic backpack.
Step 5: Apply liberally.

*Please note that you can replace all the above steps with: Don't be silly enough to get banned.

Mr. Presentable · 22-04-2008 7:04pm

Sabotage wrote: »

Step 1: Log out
Step 2: Go to the forum you are banned from.
Step 3: Look at who the mods are.
Step 4: Take the big jarred labeled "A bit of cop on" out of your magic backpack.
Step 5: Apply liberally.

*Please note that you can replace all the above steps with: Don't be silly enough to get banned.

So... how did you choose your usie, then? Do you have a thing for shoes mr fancy frenchman?

pirelli · 22-04-2008 7:08pm

hullaballú wrote: »

When I first saw the thread title and until I read beyond your first sentence, I actually agreed with you. I also had some manner of logic to back up my reasoning.

However, once I read your second sentence, my brain began to melt and I completely forgot whatever rationale I had behind agreeing with you in the first place.

Do you have any valid reason for this thread, or is this thread just the same rubbishy mush you've just turned what was once a magnificent brain into?

Hmm very cryptic

I think the thread makes as much sense as that post.

The OP is concerned that the "forum marshals " not unlike 'sky marshals' will secretly be hob nobbing with the average user. They will discretly pretend to chat about 'the queue in the chipper' or ' ridiculous things they did whilst drunk' in order to elicit some kind of infraction and then call in the heavy moderators to ban users.

The admin is muled off because his cover as user "donkeyboy" might have been blown.

6th · 22-04-2008 9:10pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

So... how did you choose your usie, then? Do you have a thing for shoes mr fancy frenchman?

Shoes? No.

unkel · 23-04-2008 11:54pm

There should be a designated table within the database, accessible by moderators, with all the handles that have been changed with a change date, change authorised user and change reason

Some moderators seem to change their nick several times per year. Starts to smell of NickGate and it smells brown

randylonghorn · 24-04-2008 12:18am

unkel wrote: »

There should be a designated table within the database, accessible by moderators, with all the handles that have been changed with a change date, change authorised user and change reason

Why should anyone have to give a reason?

What's wrong with "bored with it!" (yeah, I know, potential pun!

) which would probably be the reason given 90% of the time anyway?

And if we are going to be that regimented about it, why should only moderators be able to see users' previous nicks, and not the other way round?

And what happens when a couple of the admins get hit by the mischief bug, and mishandle certain users' handles every second day? Mord and Sparky would need a table all of their own, ffs!