Had a moderator ever gone rogue on boards?

Donald Trump

Being inspired by the apparently pissed mod on the other thread, I was wondering whether, in the history of boards, a moderator or administrator has ever gone "Colonel Kurtz" on us here



What would you do if you had a few hours with full access to anything on the system. What would be the most entertaining, yet destructive thing you could think of doing?





Me, I'd ban the lot of yiz. Especially the poster in post #3 below. What an absolute cunt and miserable excuse for a human




Or maybe I'd just write some crap slandering Dennis O'Brien and KPMG partners and MCD all in the one post.

freshpopcorn

As a moderator I haven't always being the best behaved around the Louise O'Neill thread tittle.

jaxxx

That old spiderman line, "with great power comes great responsibility comes to mind"

I've seen one or two mods let said power get to their heads alright. Though not for a few years.

Omackeral

Donald Trump wrote: »

Or maybe I'd just write some crap slandering Dennis O'Brien and KPMG partners and MCD all in the one post.

My dad's a partner at KPMG!

Purple Mountain

freshpopcorn wrote: »

As a moderator I haven't always being the best behaved around the Louise O'Neill thread tittle.

That's because you are in love with her.

jaxxx

Purple Mountain wrote: »

That's because you are in love with her.

#StillABetterLoveStoryThanTwilight

Omackeral

The Moderator Putinbot may or may not have inflated a poll result recently 1000000% in favour of a certain Russian diplomat.

The Backwards Man

Two words;

CD burner.

jaxxx

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Two words;

CD burner.

WTF is a CD?

The Backwards Man

jaxxx wrote: »

WTF is a CD?

Fcuk I'm old

redblaze

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Two words;

CD burner.

Go on ....

AfterLife

Purple Mountain wrote: »

That's because you are in love with her.

Judging by the meltdown of the regulars in that thread when she got a fella I'd say there wasn't a dry pillow in any of their mothers houses.

The Backwards Man

redblaze wrote: »

Go on ....

I'm saying no more.

Well I'll say one more thing.

It was gas.

Omackeral

AfterLife wrote: »

Judging by the meltdown of the regulars in that thread when she got a fella I'd say there wasn't a dry pillow in any of their mothers houses.

The irony is that she lives in her mother's house.

redblaze

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Two words;

CD burner.

Ah!

I remember now. A certain member and what he got upto offline.

He's probably the most infamous Boardsie ever but I'm actually glad I've forgotten his name

AfterLife

Omackeral wrote: »

The irony is that she lives in her mother's house.

Don't worry, it's not lost on me. Birds of a feather cry together.

Donald Trump

jaxxx wrote: »

WTF is a CD?

Cross-Dresser

The Backwards Man

Gordon was a badass back in the day too, I always thought of him as a Scottish Gordon Lightfoot.

AfterLife

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Gordon was a badass back in the day too, I always thought of him as a Scottish Gordon Lightfoot.

Terry was a good laugh. I don't remember how he went out but he was an end of an era for After Hours anyway.

The Backwards Man

Zaph is the boards Pennywise, mention his name and he's sure to appear.

Are Am Eye

redblaze wrote: »

Ah!

I remember now. A certain member and what he got upto offline.

He's probably the most infamous Boardsie ever but I'm actually glad I've forgotten his name

Bubbles.

Insect Overlord

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Bubbles.

In an era where Ops on IRC was like wielding Thor's hammer...

The Backwards Man

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Bubbles.

Jesus keep your voice down, I know a boardsie mentioned him once, he's servicing wind turbines on the Mongolian steppes now.

r93kaey5p2izun

I vaguely remember some scandal involving an AH mod a long time ago. I thought it had something to do with the horse racing forum but I was never clear on the details. Certainly he was banned anyway and I think a load of others were banned at the time too. It was all drama at the time.

pleas advice

what other thread OP?

bilbot79

jaxxx wrote: »

That old spiderman line, "with great power comes great responsibility comes to mind"

I've seen one or two mods let said power get to their heads alright. Though not for a few years.

I'm afraid you're post no 3

Annasopra

jaxxx wrote: »

WTF is a CD?

Cross dresser

TheValeyard

There was one lad who rent rogue and posted internal mod discussions on another site. Not sure if he was found out or not. Maybe the admins had him killed.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I moderated on four different boards forum, there's not a whole lot you can do to screw the system.

You can lock, move or delete threads in your forum. Warn, infract or ban members in your forum too.

You can look through the moderators forum, but there's nothing really there.

You can check and see who's been reporting your posts before and after you're a moderator and that's about it.

Being a moderator is a pain in the hole on a quiet forum, I can't imagine what its like on AH.. Putting in hours of work for fvck all. Looking back now I must have been an idiot to work for free.

Then everything you do is questioned by some other idiot with another stupid user name, screw that.

You can't really go too rogue'ish.

sexmag

Being a mod is pointless unless you're bored,have loads of time and love a power trip as its a thankless job. Ultimately they can't do much,maybe a category mods have more power I don't know.

There's a couple in a few "sensitive" forums that jump on any and all posts they don't like that need to be taken down a peg or two.

arybvtcw0eolkf

sexmag wrote: »

Being a mod is pointless unless you're bored,have loads of time and love a power trip as its a thankless job. Ultimately they can't do much,maybe a category mods have more power I don't know..

That's about it, an utterly thankless job.

And if you think other moderators or esp Cmods have your back, forget it.

Much more enjoyable being an ordinary boards.ie user, you've a hell of a lot more freedom.

McMurphy

I briefly recall this lad (a mod at the time) causing a bit of a sh1t storm over various posts, threads and forums.

He was a bundle of joy alright.

Yitzhak Rabin

murpho999

AfterLife wrote: »

Judging by the meltdown of the regulars in that thread when she got a fella I'd say there wasn't a dry pillow in any of their mothers houses.

What thread is this?

Grab All Association

There was an Ulsterman mod who let slip he wanted to return to a pre 1920s Ireland and ban Catholicism.

DONTMATTER

Why do people become mods? What do they get out of it? It seems like a ****ty job.
One mod on a forum I frequent has got so sick of modding that they banned discussion on topics that they didn't like. Just to make their jobs easier.
But why bother becoming a mod at all? Does it make them feel important? Do they get enjoyment out of it?

Donald Trump

oneilla wrote: »

Are you Jerry Sadowitz?

arybvtcw0eolkf

DONTMATTER wrote: »

Why do people become mods? What do they get out of it? It seems like a ****ty job.
One mod on a forum I frequent has got so sick of modding that they banned discussion on topics that they didn't like. Just to make their jobs easier.
But why bother becoming a mod at all? Does it make them feel important? Do they get enjoyment out of it?

I can only speak for myself.

I moderated on the Self Defence and Martial Arts forum and the MMA forum.

I'm interested in both, my background in martial arts is kickboxing and Judo. I still compete in Judo.

Back a long time ago, long before the world ever heard of Conor McGregor I was involved in MMA. The scene was tiny in Ireland and we all basically knew each other.

There was also a time before boards.ie when we discussed martial arts on another forum.

When a Martial Arts forum was opened on board it included both MMA and traditional martial arts (including self defence).

I wanted to promote martial arts through moderating on the old Martial Arts forum here on boards. With the growth of MMA the MMA forum split from the Martial Arts one, and I moderated that for awhile.

But then the MMA forum basically turned to UFC fanboy chat, it looked like the Pro Wrestling forum, I wasn't enjoying it so got out.

Got out of the Dublin City, Military and Martial Arts for a quiet life tbh.

Like I said earlier, moderating is a pain in the hole. You're never seen as an ordinary boards user, even on forums you're not moderating. And when you run into problems you never feel other moderators or Cmods and Admin have your back.

Its just not worth the hassle.

Boards.ie is great, but my advice is to stay away from moderating unless you're completely out of your mind and don't mind giving your time and energies for free.

Why someone would want to moderator AH baffles me. Look at the Mod turn over here, its madness.

deise08

Remember when Dav broke boards for a bit? 😂

mattser

DONTMATTER wrote: »

Why do people become mods? What do they get out of it? It seems like a ****ty job.
One mod on a forum I frequent has got so sick of modding that they banned discussion on topics that they didn't like. Just to make their jobs easier.
But why bother becoming a mod at all? Does it make them feel important? Do they get enjoyment out of it?

Their chance in life to have a bit of power/control. Most likely failed at every other opportunity.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Can’t believe Louise isn’t single anymore. :-(

Franz Von Peppercorn

Katie Straight Trauma wrote: »

I can only speak for myself.

I moderated on the Self Defence and Martial Arts forum and the MMA forum.

I'm interested in both, my background in martial arts is kickboxing and Judo. I still compete in Judo.

Back a long time ago, long before the world ever heard of Conor McGregor I was involved in MMA. The scene was tiny in Ireland and we all basically knew each other.

There was also a time before boards.ie when we discussed martial arts on another forum.

When a Martial Arts forum was opened on board it included both MMA and traditional martial arts (including self defence).

I wanted to promote martial arts through moderating on the old Martial Arts forum here on boards. With the growth of MMA the MMA forum split from the Martial Arts one, and I moderated that for awhile.

But then the MMA forum basically turned to UFC fanboy chat, it looked like the Pro Wrestling forum, I wasn't enjoying it so got out.

Got out of the Dublin City, Military and Martial Arts for a quiet life tbh.

Like I said earlier, moderating is a pain in the hole. You're never seen as an ordinary boards user, even on forums you're not moderating. And when you run into problems you never feel other moderators or Cmods and Admin have your back.

Its just not worth the hassle.

Boards.ie is great, but my advice is to stay away from moderating unless you're completely out of your mind and don't mind giving your time and energies for free.

Why someone would want to moderator AH baffles me. Look at the Mod turn over here, its madness.

Part of the problem is the software. Moderators shouldn’t have anything distinguishing them as mods outside their forum.

McMurphy

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Part of the problem is the software. Moderators shouldn’t have anything distinguishing them as mods outside their forum.

100% agree.

PlaneSpeeking

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Part of the problem is the software. Moderators shouldn’t have anything distinguishing them as mods outside their forum.

What can be done when there's a legitimate gripe about a post and it's made by a Mod on a forum they mod ?

You're screwed right ??

s7ryf3925pivug

Did mercury_tilt not get up to some hi-jinks?
Doing a search for his posts gives zero results. I choose to believe that is the result of censorship because the man

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=31348&sort=newest

Enzo Acidic Anorexic

Enzo Acidic Anorexic wrote: »

Did mercury_tilt not get up to some hi-jinks?
Doing a search for his posts gives zero results. I choose to believe that is the result of censorship because the man

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=31348&sort=newest

Do tell!!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Part of the problem is the software. Moderators shouldn’t have anything distinguishing them as mods outside their forum.

Whilst I agree I suspect a lot of mod's with a little willy complex might not agree

s7ryf3925pivug

Deleted User wrote: »

Do tell!!

Don’t remember.

I was joking about the censorship thing but maybe that is what happened...

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=91937

Thoughtform

Grab All Association wrote: »

There was an Ulsterman mod who let slip he wanted to return to a pre 1920s Ireland and ban Catholicism.

Yeah that's immediately who I thought of when I saw the thread title. I remember that person from a previous life here - Our Man In Havana. Had been a fairly low-profile, reasonable member/mod for years and just suddenly lost the plot. Posting stuff about how their grandfather or great grandfather would shoot catholics. It was ultra hardline loyalist loopiness. Extremely sectarian stuff - I think it all got deleted.

The CD burner thing relates to a person called Bubbles (no need for the secretive, "I'm on Boards much longer than you" stuff; shur it happened years before some members talking about it were even here) - think he organised to sell a CD burner on Adverts and turned up with a lighter. The scamp.

s7ryf3925pivug

Thoughtform wrote: »

Yeah that's immediately who I thought of when I saw the thread title. I remember that person from a previous life here - Our Man In Havana. Had been a fairly low-profile, reasonable member/mod for years and just suddenly lost the plot. Posting stuff about how their grandfather or great grandfather would shoot catholics. It was ultra hardline loyalist loopiness. Extremely sectarian stuff - I think it all got deleted.

The lighter thing relates to a person called Bubbles (no need for the secretive, "I'm on Boards much longer than you" stuff; shur it happened years before some members talking about it were even here) - think he organised to sell a CD burner on Adverts and turned up with a lighter. The scamp.

He also hacked the site
And he posted tubgirl :O
It’s just the CD burner thing was funny.

Donald Trump

Thoughtform wrote: »

Yeah that's immediately who I thought of when I saw the thread title. I remember that person from a previous life here - Our Man In Havana. Had been a fairly low-profile, reasonable member/mod for years and just suddenly lost the plot. Posting stuff about how their grandfather or great grandfather would shoot catholics. It was ultra hardline loyalist loopiness. Extremely sectarian stuff - I think it all got deleted.

Those Protestants

Up to no good as usual

:pac:

Thoughtform wrote: »

The lighter thing relates to a person called Bubbles (no need for the secretive, "I'm on Boards much longer than you" stuff; shur it happened years before some members talking about it were even here) - think he organised to sell a CD burner on Adverts and turned up with a lighter. The scamp.

Surely more to it than that?

Peatys

The utd soccer mod was hilariously bad at his job. The only thing funnier than him wading into the Liverpool thread with his cards out after a win, was the reaction in the utd thread to his sacking.