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preferential treatment to others with mod status

  • 31-01-2009 9:52pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Dudess wrote: »

    Are you actually for real? I mean, seriously? You're saying if the OP was Irish, people would be ok with him hogging the bathroom and wasting electricity? Please, get off your high horse. Everyone else is having a go at him because his behaviour is selfish and inconsiderate, nothing else. It's only you that has made an issue of him being foreign. Oh yeah, one person asked for confirmation that English wasn't his first language, due to his rather unusual style of writing.

    I'll throw that accusation right back at ya and ask if YOU are for real. It's pretty obvious I was referring to people making fun of his writing style and nothing to do with the shower problem.
    And moderators are members like anyone else when they're posting outside of the forum(s) they moderate.

    And again I'm going to throw your accusation right back at ya because there's no way mods of any board don't given preferential treatment to others with mod status. You see people on boards with mod status making much rattier posts to people than ordinary members would dare without risking sanctions. So YOU get off your high horse.

    Re. the money issue: I don't think its necessarily too big of a deal as for all we know others in the house are adding much more to the bill with heaters in their rooms or high-powered hifis or laptops running all day long.

    Also, I have to agree with the posters calling this girl a nut. For anyone who has read all of Eric's posts, he's made it clear that other room-mates have a problem with her generally cranky attitude too. And I also agree with the person who said they should call a house meeting to discuss issues like this. Even as a one-off. I know many's the girl who would have called the police straight away if he'd done to her what she'd done to him. Its cranky woman vs selfish man here. Neither are totally in the right but she has overstepped the mark a lot further.
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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    And again I'm going to throw your accusation right back at ya because there's no way mods of any board don't given preferential treatment to others with mod status. You see people on boards with mod status making much rattier posts to people than ordinary members would dare without risking sanctions. So YOU get off your high horse.

    Let's be clear about this right now - NOBODY gets preferential treatment on this forum, regardless of their status on Boards. If one of the Admins posted something deemed inappropriate for the forum there's not a single moderator here who would have any hesitation in banning them. Failure to do so undermines this forum and the confidence people have in it that they can come here and seek advice. One of the current PI mods was herself banned from the forum not so long ago. She also moderates a number of other forums and had in fact been a previous PI mod who had stepped down at the time of her banning. We don't play favourites here, if you have a particular issue with a post, report it and it will be dealt with, but don't start hurling around accusations on the thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Zaph wrote: »
    Let's be clear about this right now - NOBODY gets preferential treatment on this forum, regardless of their status on Boards. If one of the Admins posted something deemed inappropriate for the forum there's not a single moderator here who would have any hesitation in banning them. Failure to do so undermines this forum and the confidence people have in it that they can come here and seek advice. One of the current PI mods was herself banned from the forum not so long ago. She also moderates a number of other forums and had in fact been a previous PI mod who had stepped down at the time of her banning. We don't play favourites here, if you have a particular issue with a post, report it and it will be dealt with, but don't start hurling around accusations on the thread.

    Fair enough, I'll take your word for that. I was referring to other parts of boards where I've seen it and didn't have any reason to believe it would be any different here. You now have the benefit of my doubt until something convinces me otherwise!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Moved from PI, unbelievible an unreggie OP derailing thier own thread.
    Be glad zaph got there first for I would have locked the thread as you are unreggie
    and can't be infracted or banned for arguing with a mod about a mod action in the forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,553 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    If its of any help I can tell you that I have banned 2 moderators from forums I mod.

    Unfortunately I was also banned myself from another forum :o


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I can... umm... see this going places.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I can... umm... see this going places.
    I have ridden the Forum Worm, and have seen a great many things.
    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Moved from PI, unbelievible an unreggie OP derailing thier own thread.
    Be glad zaph got there first for I would have locked the thread as you are unreggie
    and can't be infracted or banned for arguing with a mod about a mod action in the forum.
    Ah cheer up, it means they cant retort without giving themselves up.

    ....so can we bully the unreg?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    muffler wrote: »
    If its of any help I can tell you that I have banned 2 moderators from forums I mod.

    Unfortunately I was also banned myself from another forum :o


    ha ha ha thats fair funy.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Nobody gets preferential treatment, have been banned as a mod. meh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Zaph wrote: »
    Let's be clear about this right now - NOBODY gets preferential treatment on this forum, regardless of their status on Boards. .

    why is pighead and others allowed to make fun on people in the prison forums then and others cannot?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    nuxxx wrote: »
    why is pighead and others allowed to make fun on people in the prison forums then and others cannot?

    I've never seen Pighead do anything but attempt to rehabilitate and guide the poor misguided souls haunting the prison forum.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    that is clearly not the point, hes not a moderator


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    nuxxx wrote: »
    that is clearly not the point, hes not a moderator

    Moderators do not generally have access to the prison forum.
    If you have a problem with a specific post use the "report post" function and the mods of the Prison forum will be notified as to your specific objections.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Pighead has nothing to do with PI, which is where this thread started. His access to the Prison forum was granted by the Admins or SMods, if you want to discuss it further I suggest you take it up with one of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    I suggest we pre-emptively ban Henry Watson Fowler, since the post in question does read like a parody of the examples given in the "General Principles" section of Chapter 1 of The King's English, so I'm sure he would have had a go too. Hell, given how often he had a go at The Times, The Telegraph and even Kipling I'm sure he wouldn't have held back on a web forum.

    Indeed, let's preëmptively ban the bastard for what he said about Kipling, it's unjust to complain at his foreign adoptions when they were so effective and the passage of time proved Kipling right about morale at least.

    I know we have a thing about not preëmptively (Fowler would probably hate my preference for the New Yorker Magazine spelling of preëmptively as well, I suppose) banning, but since he's been dead 75 years he's unlikely to make too much of a fuss in the Prison forum.

    I did start with a relevant point, but I got distracted defending Kipling. Anyway, sod it, if I keep to it I can't move on to George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language". Copyright Law's irregularities around jurisdiction mean it's legal to read on the web if the website is from some countries (Australia, Russia and Canada) but you can only save your own copy if you are in one of those countries.

    Kate Beaton made a really good cartoon about George Orwell, but I'm trying to be really good about pictures in Feedback threads and besides it's not really relevant to the originating post and much more relevant to the lack of sleep combined with a bit more than half a bottle of a rather nice Châteauneuf-du-Pape (I drunk it too young really, but I needed a treat and quickly). So just go to http://www.katebeaton.com/Site/History_Project_2_files/orwell.jpg if you're interested.

    Oh look! Squirrels!

    /Edit:

    Oh yes. The fact that the English was bad in a way that takes more effort than good English - it is not Orwell's "packet of aspirins always at one's elbow", but quite deliberate - reflects the PI thread's OP being full of himself, and is therefore relevant (I almost wrote "not entirely irrelevant", the packet of aspirins again). Hence, there is indeed a point in attacking it.

    I knew I had some point when I started this post.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Talliesin, your lovely.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,859 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Zaph wrote: »
    Let's be clear about this right now - NOBODY gets preferential treatment on this forum, regardless of their status on Boards. If one of the Admins posted something deemed inappropriate for the forum there's not a single moderator here who would have any hesitation in banning them.

    Have you ever tried to ban an admin? I tried banning DeV from poker once for the craic (he dared me to try) and you could certainly say it was unsuccessfuk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    5starpool wrote: »
    Have you ever tried to ban an admin? I tried banning DeV from poker once for the craic (he dared me to try) and you could certainly say it was unsuccessfuk.
    Its official: vBulletin is smarter than Windows.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Dudess is well known for her powers of persuasion among the mod fraternity.

    Once she asked another mod for the starbucks coffee he just bought and he handed it over without blinking. THEN she took another mods car without asking and he didn't call the police.

    She has also been known to get the admins to switch the website off at 4am in the morning so she can go through all the threads she wants and edit and delete posts without anyone noticing.

    And I heard she weighs the same as a duck. I dunno if it is true, but I heard it....


    I think we should nuke her form orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    nuxxx wrote: »
    why is pighead and others allowed to make fun on people in the prison forums then and others cannot?
    What has that got to do with preferential treatment to mods in PI/fora?

    Pighead has access to Prison because some people have preferential treatment in Prison, I give and take access on a whim, sometimes with good reason and sometimes without reason. It's purely preferential on my part, I am extremely biased and secretive in my ways on the Prison forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    LOLz. Every 2nd or 3rd post is by a mod. And not one post about a mod conspiracy, or that mods are all agreeing to disagree by the usual fruitcakes... :D


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    I've banned more than my fair share of Mods from PI.

    Tallie, I approve of your choice of wine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    GuanYin wrote: »
    Dudess is well known for her powers of persuasion among the mod fraternity.

    Once she asked another mod for the starbucks coffee he just bought and he handed it over without blinking. THEN she took another mods car without asking and he didn't call the police.

    She has also been known to get the admins to switch the website off at 4am in the morning so she can go through all the threads she wants and edit and delete posts without anyone noticing.

    And I heard she weighs the same as a duck. I dunno if it is true, but I heard it....


    I think we should nuke her form orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    I heart this post.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    If one of the Admins posted something deemed inappropriate for the forum there's not a single moderator here who would have any hesitation in banning them

    they could try ban an admin is all but fail iirc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'll throw that accusation right back at ya
    What "accusation"?
    and ask if YOU are for real. It's pretty obvious I was referring to people making fun of his writing style and nothing to do with the shower problem.
    Here is your post:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58829646&postcount=59
    No, it isn't pretty obvious you were referring to people making fun of his writing style. You just said "some of the replies here". And how on earth is making fun of a person's English "racist"? Actually, looking back over the thread, there is one comment on the OP's English - and it's not even making fun, it's simply "please tell me English isn't your first language".
    And again I'm going to throw your accusation right back at ya
    ac·cu·sa·tion
    Pronunciation: \ˌa-kyə-ˈzā-shən, -(ˌ)kyü-\
    Function: noun
    Date: 14th century
    1 : the act of accusing : the state or fact of being accused
    2 : a charge of wrongdoing
    I can't say I see any evidence of the above.
    because there's no way mods of any board don't given preferential treatment to others with mod status.
    Missing the point there. You said "such and such mean thing is being done to the OP" and added the obligatory "including by a number of people with moderator status" (actually it was one moderator). What my response to you meant was: the fact they're moderators is irrelevant because they are not moderators outside of the forums they moderate.
    You see people on boards with mod status making much rattier posts to people than ordinary members would dare without risking sanctions.
    Nonsense. Several non moderators who post utter bile spring to my mind. And yeah, sure, some moderators post aggressively but it's not because they're mods. Moderators are not exempt from being banned. As a moderator, I've been temp banned from Personal Issues and indefinitely banned from The Ladies' Lounge.
    GuanYin wrote:
    And I heard she weighs the same as a duck. I dunno if it is true, but I heard it
    Incorrect. A number of posters have decided I'm obese without ever seeing me, and that makes it true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Dudess wrote: »
    Incorrect. A number of posters have decided I'm obese without ever seeing me, and that makes it true.
    So you weigh the same as a church rather than a duck then? It'll be hard to balance that on the scales next to the pond.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I've banned more than my fair share of Mods from PI.
    Aye, I remember Thaed getting banned for mocking an OP through song :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,553 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Dudess wrote: »
    As a moderator, I've been temp banned from Personal Issues and indefinitely banned from The Ladies' Lounge.
    Fuck that. I always thought you were Mother Theresa reincarnated :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    I can certainly say that mods do not get "preferantial treatment" I've been site banned and pretty much banned from 90% of all forums here for acting the tit.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    You guys have *no idea* how many times I have to unbunch wadded panties and drag two (or more!) mods off each other and settle things. Easily 3-4 times a week across the site.

    I do that in private though, because I dont air dirty laundry in front a baying mob, its a personal policy :)


    I would LOVE if the mods were one big happy family but the truth is far from it and thats ok too. I've even been taken to task by moderators when I have stumbled in blindly and not read the forum and posted some cardinal sin of a thread. :)
    Even i'm not immune (though I do appreciate vB's anti-admin banning or I'd never see the inside of the poker forum :) )

    DeV.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Anti wrote: »
    I can certainly say that mods do not get "preferantial treatment" I've been site banned and pretty much banned from 90% of all forums here for acting the tit.

    Acting implies you stop at some stage.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    DeVore wrote: »
    I do appreciate vB's anti-admin banning or I'd never see the inside of the poker forum :)

    /goes off to start suggestion thread in Development forum


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I forget who is supposed to be in who's clique etc, I find it hard to keep abreast of it all. I'm old you see.

    Isnt Donegalfella supposed to have been a rabble rouser before his conversion? Can he be our Obama and reach across the divide? He can be the whistle blower on the inside track, no?

    Hows that new brain transplant DF? Comfy?

    DeV.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Boston wrote: »
    Acting implies you stop at some stage.
    yeah, cos you were always a model poster :p

    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    DeVore wrote: »
    yeah, cos you were always a model poster :p

    That in turn implies he's started being one at some point :p

    Best of luck with the modding df.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    This post has been deleted.
    More people than you would think have done so in the past.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    DeVore wrote: »
    yeah, cos you were always a model poster :p

    DeV.

    I am unique, a precious flower, a delicate snow flake. I could never be a model poster because nobody could possibly be like me. I am epic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    When DeV says "model poster" he means one of those Airfix models that you get and try to glue together, ensuing glue everywhere, getting big blobs of glue on the aeroplane, trying to find missing parts that didn't come with the kit and then not being bothered to paint it with the special paint, all in all a pointless waste of time. Not that I think that, I think you're fab, he said it, blame him :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Zaph wrote: »
    Let's be clear about this right now - NOBODY gets preferential treatment on this forum, regardless of their status on Boards. If one of the Admins posted something deemed inappropriate for the forum there's not a single moderator here who would have any hesitation in banning them.

    Ahem -
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=55312474&postcount=15

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055428868

    whistle.gif


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Zaph was talking about the Personal Issues forum, this thread has been moved since he posted that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,553 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    DeVore wrote: »
    You guys have *no idea* how many times I have to unbunch wadded panties and drag two (or more!) mods off each other
    Usually after the mods beers night.

    Trust you to ruin a good orgy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,091 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Boston wrote: »
    I am unique, a precious flower, a delicate snow flake. I could never be a model poster because nobody could possibly like me. I am epic.
    FYP.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Hey, I've it on good authority that I'm hot :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    DeVore wrote: »
    I forget who is supposed to be in who's clique etc,
    Fair enough. I could never even remember who's clique I was supposed to be in myself.

    Meanwhile, what the hell was I on last night? I'm adding Mercury Retrograde to the list of things I'm blaming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Boston wrote: »
    Hey, I've it on good authority that I'm hot :(
    Innit your mammy sweet :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Gordon wrote: »
    When DeV says "model poster" he means one of those Airfix models that you get and try to glue together, ensuing glue everywhere, getting big blobs of glue on the aeroplane, trying to find missing parts that didn't come with the kit and then not being bothered to paint it with the special paint, all in all a pointless waste of time. Not that I think that, I think you're fab, he said it, blame him :)
    What?! :confused:

    Oh, Boston's been getting his glue everywhere again ... >.<


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Boston wrote: »
    Hey, I've it on good authority that I'm hot :(

    You are ;)

    Boston wrote: »
    I am unique, a precious flower, a delicate snow flake.
    I could never be a model poster because nobody could possibly be like me. I am epic.

    Just stop trying to steal my daily mantra.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Dudess wrote: »
    Incorrect. A number of posters have decided I'm obese without ever seeing me, and that makes it true.

    We're gonna need a bigger boat!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    Boston wrote: »
    I am unique, a precious flower, a delicate snow flake. I could never be a model poster because nobody could possibly be like me. I am epic.


    That you are Boston and one day you shall live in Moderator land.


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