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Mods Etiquette & Mods Forum

  • 06-04-2015 9:23pm
    #1
    Mourinho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 966 ✭✭✭


    Can someone confirm something for me, whatever is said in the mod forum is supposed to be kept confidential between mods and admins isn't it?

    So a mod feeding a regular poster or banned boards member information mentioned in the mod forum would be going against the rules would they?

    If I'm right of the above who do I contact in regards to a mod feeding someone information about what is discussed about certain posters etc in the forum?
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    Hi - yes what's said in the Mods only areas of the site should stay there. If you're aware of someone "leaking" information for lack of a better description, you should PM an admin or drop an email to the office on hello@boards.ie


  • #3
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    With 500(+) mods it's pretty stupid for anyone to expect a non-leaky situation tbh.

    There are also multiple reasons how non-mods can be getting information other than someone purposely leaking it too. House shares, unsecure passwords, unsecure computers, spouses/partners of mods/CMods/Admins using their account etc.

    You'd also need to consider whether or not the person purporting to be receiving the information isn't being malicious in their claims, if they've had a run in with a particular mod what's stopping them telling someone else that that mod is feeding them information in an effort to make that mod look bad.


  • #4
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Mourinho wrote: »
    ...who do I contact in regards to a mod feeding someone information about what is discussed about certain posters etc in the forum?

    Send a PM to Dav.


  • #5
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Mourinho wrote: »
    Can someone confirm something for me, whatever is said in the mod forum is supposed to be kept confidential between mods and admins isn't it?

    So a mod feeding a regular poster or banned boards member information mentioned in the mod forum would be going against the rules would they?
    Correct on both accounts.
    Mourinho wrote: »
    If I'm right of the above who do I contact in regards to a mod feeding someone information about what is discussed about certain posters etc in the forum?
    Mourinho, you could open a thread in the Admin Clinic. Only you, the admins and HQ will see it so you can talk privately there.
    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    With 500(+) mods it's pretty stupid for anyone to expect a non-leaky situation tbh.
    It would be if anyone thought that way, yes.
    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    You'd also need to consider whether or not the person purporting to be receiving the information isn't being malicious in their claims, if they've had a run in with a particular mod what's stopping them telling someone else that that mod is feeding them information in an effort to make that mod look bad.
    Obviously, each case is looked at individually with every possibility considered. This is very much an evidence gathering exercise as no decision can be made without it.


  • #6
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Do non-mods have access to the Admin Clinic?


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  • #7
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Do non-mods have access to the Admin Clinic?

    No.


  • #8
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Probably better for the OP to report such a matter in Help Desk then & the Admins can take it from there.


  • #9
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Spear wrote: »
    No.
    Damn you, Spear, with you being right and all that....

    FYI's the OP has made contact.


  • #10
    Mourinho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 966 ✭✭✭Mourinho


    Thanks lads all I'll say is I'm talking to one of the Admins about it anyway, many thanks :)


  • #11
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Just think of all the things the NSA does and talks about without disclosure, and multiply that by nine hundred thousand billion 9/11's. That's how mean we are in the mod forum.


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  • #12
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,734 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Overheal wrote: »
    Just think of all the things the NSA does and talks about without disclosure, and multiply that by nine hundred thousand billion 9/11's. That's how mean we are in the mod forum.

    Nine hundred thousand billion 9/11's? That's 736,363,636,363,636!


  • #13
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,549 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    There are also multiple reasons how non-mods can be getting information other than someone purposely leaking it too. House shares, unsecure passwords, unsecure computers, spouses/partners of mods/CMods/Admins using their account etc.

    Boards only uses HTTPS for the actual login, so once logged in all traffic is in the clear and can trivially be read using basic open source tools by anyone else on the public wifi you're using, or anyone who has the password to the home/work wifi you're using.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • #14
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Bad Horse wrote: »
    Nine hundred thousand billion 9/11's? That's 736,363,636,363,636!

    Oh, I see you were off studying math when they built the ladder to heaven. la dee da.


  • #15
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    A leak???

    I just want to make it clear that the money was just resting in my account, also I never knew that woman in that photograph. It must have been my long lost identical twin brother.


  • #16
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Holy hell, if the plebs get wind of all our devilish puns every time a new mod is appointed there'll be anarchy! Anarchy I tells ya!


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