Mod on the rampage!!!!

MagicMarker

What's the story here?

Talk about over reaction! Is this a bad case of PMS or what?

Making a mistake is fine, misinterpreting a post is fine, but when someone pulls you up on it the right thing to do is realise your mistake and correct it, but instead it's ignored and then that person is banned.

Beyond ridiculous.

eVeNtInE

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Harpy

+1 on this total joke..talk about power trip!

MagicMarker

eVeNtInE wrote: »

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While i agree that technically the rule was broken and the ban was ''justifiable'', sometimes a bit of cop on is required, and it's seriously lacking here.

Hagar

Harpy wrote: »

+1 on this total joke..talk about power trip!

Couldn't agree more.
I mean that Thaedydiddle chap is a meglomaniac.
Who cares if a paniced 20 year old comes here for help from people he thinks he can rely on?
We should all take the p1$$ now while he's at his most vulnerable.

Harpy

Hagar wrote: »

Couldn't agree more.
I mean that Thaedydiddle chap is a meglomaniac.
Who cares if a paniced 20 year old comes here for help from people he thinks he can rely on?
We should all take the p1$$ now while he's at his most vulnerable.

haha thats not what i meant at all ok.. i think magic marker said it better in the post aboce yours than i did..

stevenmu

MagicMarker wrote: »

While i agree that technically the rule was broken and the ban was ''justifiable'', sometimes a bit of cop on is required, and it's seriously lacking here.

A bit of cop on was required by the posters in that thread, and was seriously lacking. Hence the moderator acted.

PI is strictly moderated for very good reasons, always has been and always will be.

And despite popular opinion, moderators generally don't get any pleasure out of warning or banning people.

MagicMarker

stevenmu wrote: »

A bit of cop on was required by the posters in that thread, and was seriously lacking. Hence the moderator acted.

PI is strictly moderated for very good reasons, always has been and always will be.

And despite popular opinion, moderators generally don't get any pleasure out of warning or banning people.

I'm not talking about the banning here, it's part of it but the most ridiculous aspect of the thread was the warning. That's not strict moderation, it's harebrained and completely erroneous.

mike65

PI is modding heaven or hell (delete as applicable)

Mike

Hobbes

Who can save us from modzilla!

fred funk }{

Harpy wrote: »

+1 on this total joke..talk about power trip!

+2

Orion

MagicMarker wrote: »

Talk about over reaction! Is this a bad case of PMS or what?

Thaed doesn't get PMS - she gets even

LittleMissLogic wrote:

If she said ye were careful then you probably were.

Clearly you don't remember much but she probably has a better idea of what happened that night than you.

She OBVIOUSLY doesn't want to get pregant either like so....

Well, not obviously but.... did she seem abnormal in any way??

I agree with the warning. Read the post again.
1: "Clearly you don't remember much" - yet he does - and he rang her to see if she was on the pill, offered to pay for the MAP. He remembered that he may have had unprotected sex - that's the important thing.

2: Note the gratuitious use of CAPSLOCK - OBVIOUSLY SHE IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU!!!!111oneeleven :rolleyes:

Atari Jaguar: And WFT with the 'abnormal' remark?

It was a warning from the mod. Totally deserved. And it's not a ban or infraction so why do you care?

MagicMarker

Macros42 wrote: »

I agree with the warning. Read the post again.
1: "Clearly you don't remember much" - yet he does - and he rang her to see if she was on the pill, offered to pay for the MAP. He remembered that he may have had unprotected sex - that's the important thing.

2: Note the gratuitious use of CAPSLOCK - OBVIOUSLY SHE IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU!!!!111oneeleven :rolleyes:

Atari Jaguar: And WFT with the 'abnormal' remark?

It was a warning from the mod. Totally deserved. And it's not a ban or infraction so why do you care?

Oh please, what utter shíte!

There are posts ten times less helpful, ten times more patronising and ten times more worthy of a warning posted on PI everyday that are left alone. I know this for a fact because I fúcking post them!

The warning was completely uncalled for. I can empathize with the PI mods, i'm sure keeping track of everything is a bítch, but it's the stupid stuff like this that lets them down and the fact Theyadayaa can't even admit her shortcomings only magnifies the problem.

Orion

Just because other **** is posted that deserves warnings doesn't mean that warnable posts shouldn't get one. That post highly deserved a warning. A young guy is concerned that he may have had unprotected sex and was looking for help/reassurance and the first reply was complete bollox.

Nevyn

MagicMarker wrote: »

Oh please, what utter shíte!

There are posts ten times less helpful, ten times more patronising and ten times more worthy of a warning posted on PI everyday that are left alone. I know this for a fact because I fúcking post them!

Are you asking for a ban from the forum to prevent you from doing that ?
And if you do see post then why aren't you reporting them ?

MagicMarker wrote: »

The warning was completely uncalled for. I can empathize with the PI mods, i'm sure keeping track of everything is a bítch, but it's the stupid stuff like this that lets them down and the fact Theyadayaa can't even admit her shortcomings only magnifies the problem.

The warning stands, they also help to stop the thread from possible derailment, anyone reading the thread then will see that it is being watched
and failure to post with in the rules after a mod warning is imho inexcusable.

Nerin

MagicMarker wrote: »

Oh please, what utter shíte!

There are posts ten times less helpful, ten times more patronising and ten times more worthy of a warning posted on PI everyday that are left alone. I know this for a fact because I fúcking post them!

The warning was completely uncalled for. I can empathize with the PI mods, i'm sure keeping track of everything is a bítch, but it's the stupid stuff like this that lets them down and the fact Theyadayaa can't even admit her shortcomings only magnifies the problem.

Maybe admit your own first

tSubh Dearg

Does anyone else get "Man on the Run" into their heads when they see the thread title? Only with man replaced with mod?

Or am I just a little bit drunk?

Nerin

tSubh Dearg wrote: »

Does anyone else get "Man on the Run" into their heads when they see the thread title? Only with man replaced with mod?

Or am I just a little bit drunk?

I imagined her stepping on a little model japanese city,with little model people running or pointing in horror. I'm disappointed. Misleading tread title,think he should be site banned for ever!

MagicMarker

Macros42 wrote: »

Just because other **** is posted that deserves warnings doesn't mean that warnable posts shouldn't get one. That post highly deserved a warning. A young guy is concerned that he may have had unprotected sex and was looking for help/reassurance and the first reply was complete bollox.

This wasn't a ''warnable'' post though. You can believe otherwise all you want.

And yes, it does matter what is and is not warned, if theyadayal believes this post truly deserved a warning then it's up to her and the other mods to ensure all posts like this (which is a lot) are warned, if you have a rule then you can't just pick and choose who it applies to when you feel like it.

Orion

It's also up to other posters to report **** posts. No point complaining about them later if you don't. Mods are volunteers - they're not always about.

And that post was warnable - you can believe otherwise all you want. Just read my first post on this thread again for why - I can't be arsed repeating myself to someone who has his head up his arse.

metrovelvet

MagicMarker wrote: »

if you have a rule then you can't just pick and choose who it applies to when you feel like it.

What rock have you been living under? That is exactly what moderation on boreds.ie is.

MagicMarker

Thaedydal wrote: »

Are you asking for a ban from the forum to prevent you from doing that ?
And if you do see post then why aren't you reporting them ?

I never said they deserved a warning, I said i see posts ten times more deserving of a warning, in comparison to the post in the thread we're discussing.

Thaedydal wrote: »

The warning stands, they also help to stop the thread from possible derailment, anyone reading the thread then will see that it is being watched
and failure to post with in the rules after a mod warning is imho inexcusable.

After one tame response the thread was not even on a course to derailment, no one would have even thought twice about the post you warned. The only derailment was when someone questioned your modding so your masterplan quickly backfired.

Nerin

Lol master plan.

tSubh Dearg

Nerin wrote: »

I imagined her stepping on a little model japanese city,with little model people running or pointing in horror. I'm disappointed. Misleading tread title,think he should be site banned for ever!

Oh Man! That would have been so cool and totally imaginable!

/me goes to make Mod Rampage film, set in Little Tokyo

MagicMarker

Macros42 wrote: »

It's also up to other posters to report **** posts. No point complaining about them later if you don't. Mods are volunteers - they're not always about.

And that post was warnable - you can believe otherwise all you want. Just read my first post on this thread again for why - I can't be arsed repeating myself to someone who has his head up his arse.

LittleMissLogic wrote: »

If she said ye were careful then you probably were.

Translation: If she said you were carefully then she was probably sober enough to remember the fact

LittleMissLogic wrote: »

Clearly you don't remember much but she probably has a better idea of what happened that night than you.

Translation: It's obvious from your post that you were too hammered to remember a thing, and once again, she probably does remember.

LittleMissLogic wrote: »

She OBVIOUSLY doesn't want to get pregant either like so....

Well, not obviously but.... did she seem abnormal in any way??

Translation: She's a young single girl, she OBVIOUSLY doesn't want to get pregnant, like any other girl her age. Did she seem abnormal in any way? Was she nervous about possibly being pregnant?

Oh yeah, what a horrifying post! Defo a site ban needed there, how could one be so cold!!!! :rolleyes:

Gordon

MagicMarker wrote: »

What's the story here?

Talk about over reaction! Is this a bad case of PMS or what?

What's wrong with the thread, have your balls shrunk or what?

Kinetic^

Gordon wrote: »

have your balls shrunk or what?

Dude, it's seriously cold out these days. Shrinkage is a given.

Overheal

>_>

<_<

Yeah ok im bored of the Canned off-topic warning myself but its nothing to get in a knot about. If you're told to stay on topic, well, stay on topic? The poster was welcome to keep posting. It wasnt even a yellow card. But said poster decided to question the mod decision, and not politely either: that deserved a response.

I found the post incoherent, but not off topic. My own opinion.

MagicMarker wrote: »

This wasn't a ''warnable'' post though. You can believe otherwise all you want.

And yes, it does matter what is and is not warned, if theyadayal believes this post truly deserved a warning then it's up to her and the other mods to ensure all posts like this (which is a lot) are warned, if you have a rule then you can't just pick and choose who it applies to when you feel like it.

Are you a Cylon? Flexibility is a grand thing to have. I can't blame a mod for using a short leash with new posters though.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Gordon wrote: »

What's wrong with the thread, have your balls shrunk or what?

Ah here , that's below the belt and bang out of order!

311

Whats the point in trying to create a place of moral righteousness on the internet ,it is only the internet for christ sake.

Overheal

311 wrote: »

Whats the point in trying to create a place of moral righteousness on the internet ,it is only the internet for christ sake.

Clearly you've never watched Ghost in the Shell. Or the Matrix for that matter.

Nerin

tSubh Dearg wrote: »

Oh Man! That would have been so cool and totally imaginable!

/me goes to make Mod Rampage film, set in Little Tokyo

I request a cameo appearance

Daithi McGee

Nerin wrote: »

I request a cameo appearance

With your head so far up thaeds ass you already had one.

Nerin

Daithi McGee wrote: »

With your head so far up thaeds ass you already had one.

Lol. Youre still here?

MagicMarker

Overheal wrote: »

Yeah ok im bored of the Canned off-topic warning myself but its nothing to get in a knot about. If you're told to stay on topic, well, stay on topic? The poster was welcome to keep posting. It wasnt even a yellow card. But said poster decided to question the mod decision, and not politely either: that deserved a response.

It was a different poster who questioned the mod. The poster who received the original warning never went off topic, in fact it wasn't even unhelpful, as the warning suggested.

Overheal wrote: »

Are you a Cylon? Flexibility is a grand thing to have. I can't blame a mod for using a short leash with new posters though.

Ah yes, what a perfect way to welcome new users and to encourage them to continue posting. Makes perfect sense!

EKRIUQ

+1
That's some power trip Thaedydal is on, talk about trying to stop people from visiting the PI threads when you can be banned so easily, Sme PI mods needs a good douse of cop on

Look at this post which I think is worse and nothing!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57909790&postcount=14

mike65

All together now

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
She pulls the sh1t-stirring PI posters down

Helpless people lurking
Scream bug-eyed as she looks in on them

She picks up a poster and she throws him back down
As she wades through the forums toward the center of town

Oh no, they say shes got to go
Go go Modzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes tokyo
Go go Modzilla, yeah

Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Modzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan ****e kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan ****e kudasai!

Oh no, they say shes got to go
Go go Modzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Boarsds-io
Go go Modzilla, yeah

History shows again and again
How Boards points up the folly of men
Modzilla!

With thanks to the Blue Oyster Cult

Mike

Nevyn

MagicMarker wrote: »

It was a different poster who questioned the mod. The poster who received the original warning never went off topic, in fact it wasn't even unhelpful, as the warning suggested.

It was in my opinion and so I issued a generic warning, I didn't even infract warning, get over it, it wasn't you.

MagicMarker wrote: »

Ah yes, what a perfect way to welcome new users and to encourage them to continue posting. Makes perfect sense!

PI is not like the rest of the site, they have to learn that and to learn to read the charters. Plenty of noobs get the benefit of the doubt from me, but if they ignore a warning on the threads, and the fact someone else had been already banned then tough.

Nevyn

Namesco wrote: »

+1
That's some power trip Thaedydal is on, talk about trying to stop people from visiting the PI threads when you can be banned so easily, Sme PI mods needs a good douse of cop on

Look at this post which I think is worse and nothing!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57909790&postcount=14

Cheers for that I am only just online this morning, post dealt with.
Shame neither you or Magicmarker didn't use the report post function to alert all the PI mods to it.
Don't bitch about inconsistency in modding with posts being missing if you are not reporting them.

Nevyn

Overheal wrote: »

Yeah ok im bored of the Canned off-topic warning myself but its nothing to get in a knot about.

It saves time and show the warning is not personal.

Overheal wrote: »

I found the post incoherent, but not off topic. My own opinion.

If it is incoherent then it is not helpful.

EKRIUQ

Thaedydal wrote: »

Cheers for that I am only just online this morning, post dealt with.
Shame neither you or Magicmarker didn't use the report post function to alert all the PI mods to it.

O I'm so sorry:eek: that's going to put my moderator apprenticeship back a couple of years:rolleyes:.

Good to see you have your ban hammer back out

311

Did I misread something a while back ,about some people creating threads on PI and replying to them themselves?

I'd ban psycho's for doing stuff like that.

Stercus Accidit

The initial warning of the first reply, the normal reply that was on topic, was ridiculous.

It was pointless and a mistake, it was a perfectly normal reply on topic with the posters advice, isnt that what that bloody forum is for? If you warn a normal posters reply, other posters wont want to bloody reply at all, then the forum is just going to be replied to by the "regulars" with the same old responses.

Hell, just make it a bunch of stickied FAQ's and lock all the threads if ordinary "new" posters are such an issue.

FFS, welcome to PI, ask for opinions on your problem, and receive a load of nonsense thread micro management.

The first warning was ott, other posters said this, thread goes to shite. Looks pretty clear cut to me, people being comfortable to respond on topic is important for that place to function.

Chucky the tree

Is it always the same 2 or 3 posters who spend all there time in feedback to defend a mod when there is a complaint about them no matter what?


I suppose the 2 or 3 take it a rotational system so there will always be someone around to blindly defend a mod from a bit of fair criticism. I think we can all guess who takes the night shift anyway..

RoundyMooney

Boring/predictable isn't it?

Nerin

Post = incoherent. Incoherent=unhelpful. Unhelpful=banned. Fairly clean cut really. Oh-incoherent=needing someone to translate the post.

zuroph

Nerin wrote: »

Post = incoherent. Incoherent=unhelpful. Unhelpful=banned. Fairly clean cut really. Oh-incoherent=needing someone to translate the post.

and ur japanese fanstasy of giants is on topic and helpful..... :rolleyes:

Nerin

zuroph wrote: »

and ur japanese fanstasy of giants is on topic and helpful..... :rolleyes:

We're talking about pi. If you have a problem with my and others posts in this feedback thread,i suggest you use the report post function,or start a thread in helpdesk. Failing that,you can feel free to pm me. Pi is modded stricter than other forums due to the nature of the forum.

zuroph

first post deserved a clearer explanation of why it was "off-topic", seemed like a perfectly fair response to me...

Nerin

zuroph wrote: »

first post deserved a clearer explanation of why it was "off-topic", seemed like a perfectly fair response to me...

Which one? Linky?

zuroph

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57905984&postcount=2

and the responce...
LittleMissLogic
Unhelpful and off-topic posting will get you banned from this forum.
Do take time to read the charter which contains the rules and abide by them.
Have a nice day.
Thaedydal
____________


clearly little misslogic is under the impression from the first post that he was quite drunk, and by the girls responses it seems she remembers more than he does.

now I know Thae was polite about it, but it seems condescending against a post where there seems to be no infraction.