If mods break the rules, how are they punished?

Loobz

Just wondering, if a mod is acting the twat, who or where shoud it be reported?

seamus

Depends on the circumstances. If it's a mod outside of a board that's not his own, report him as you would any other user.
If it's a mod on his own board, PM an admin, or bring it up here.

Chalk

best keep quiet about it.
if you hit report post on a mods post it instantly alerts the gestapo that your an ingrateful commie,
theyll then whisk you and your post count away, never to be seen again.

that or nothing seems to get done about it
reported mods a few times for various things,
nothing ever done,
also get worried that if i reported seamus , for example, for something dodgy, the tother mod would simply tell seamus via pm, and next time in outta line in ah, not gonn a happen , id be perma-banned.

seamus

Chalk wrote:

that or nothing seems to get done about it
reported mods a few times for various things,
nothing ever done,
also get worried that if i reported seamus , for example, for something dodgy, the tother mod would simply tell seamus via pm, and next time in outta line in ah, not gonn a happen , id be perma-banned.

We don't bite. And mods don't use personal grudges as banning reasons (or at least they'll be smacked very hard if they do) . I see a few post reports a day that I don't act upon - either because I don't believe the complaint is that valid, or it's not in my domain. I do read each one though.

Sometimes I PM people about it, sometimes I don't, depends on the report. If there's something you really feel should be dealt with, follow the usual procedure - PM the mod of the board, if they don't reply after a couple of days, or you don't agree with their judgement, escalate it to feedback.

(Why does it seem like I'm the only one replying today? )

Loobz

Ah, i thought that mods are special in some way, and needed to be reported using a different method. I dont like telling tales but I have been verbally abused through a pm from a random mod. Its nothing harsh, but I dont even know this person. And i dont take kindly to random abuse from random people. Should I report it or spill the beans in here?

seamus

Don't delete the PM and report it to the Admins through the Help Desk.

gandalf

As seamus says report it to the admins via the Help Desk. Sending abuse via PM's is taken very seriously and is normally dealt with harsely !!!

Loobz

Ive just reported that now. Again, I hate telling tales, but I think it needs to be addressed. Funny how all these things happen in the one week, with the ban from games and all that jazz. Jeez, that thread got some hammering, lol.

kaimera

a witch hunt : excellent.

Trojan

All moderators are normal users on any other board, and can be banned by other moderators from their boards. With the exception of SMods and CMods. I say this, because it's not possible for a normal mod to ban these privileged mods.

At the same time, there should be no call to ban SMods and CMods as these mods should have more cop on than the average. Some exceptions, naturally, exist.

Loobz

The person in question is a Hosted Mod, just so ye know.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

ah well, they're not real mods anyway.

fade2black

The way I look at it, the people who own and run this site are the real mods. The rest are those kids that were told to keep an eye on the rest of the class while the teacher went next door for a minute (and write the names of the naughty on the board)...

Giblet

The admins are the principal.

steveland?

Loobz wrote:

The person in question is a Hosted Mod, just so ye know.

Hosted Mods (such as myself) are just mods of boards that are hosted on boards as a favour and aren't really connected to boards that much...

HMods are just normal users on all the other boards

OFDM

I always wondered what would happen in the unlikely event that an admin broke the rules or acted the muppet.

RuggieBear

OFDM wrote:

I always wondered what would happen in the unlikely event that an admin broke the rules or acted the muppet.

The admins make the rules...they can do as they want....

They are the LAW

Trojan

We pour whiskey on them and set them alight.

Loobz

RuggieBear wrote:

The admins make the rules...they can do as they want....

They are the LAW

We all know gravity is the law. They are inferior in so many ways to the might that is gravity

RuggieBear

Loobz wrote:

We all know gravity is the law. They are inferior in so many ways to the might that is gravity

lol
i must bow to your greater knowledge....


altho i believe there are reports of supermods walking on water.....

nesf

*sniffs*

I got banned from PI....

By a mod I co-mod another forum with!!

Bah humbug! The elite just don't get the special treatment they deserve these days!!

The sex is so much better as a mod tho. Women just dig authority or something.

Tar.Aldarion

but how does that make the sex better?
or is it a mod bonus?

WhiteWashMan

nesf wrote:

*sniffs*

I got banned from PI....

By a mod I co-mod another forum with!!

Bah humbug! The elite just don't get the special treatment they deserve these days!!

The sex is so much better as a mod tho. Women just dig authority or something.

i have to be cruel to be kind nesf, you know that

besides, id have every whinging moany loser crying on here that i wasnt treating everyone the same.
when in fact, i do.
hell, i made you a mods of the work forum only a few weeks ago, and already i have to ban you on PI.

you have brought shame on my family and my house.

i have no daughter!

on a lighter note, i see fade2black is still whinging on every thread on here about the inequality of life.

it must be a post count thing.
i see no other reason for it.
blah blah blah.

Jonny Arson

To be quite honest there are ALOT of mods who simply are on an egotistical power trip on this website. I've had 2 arguments with 2 different mods last week where I was close to being banned for absolutely nothing. The process of selecting mods and which forums they are moderating needs to be urgently looked at.

Fobia

Wah Wah Wah.

We get banned from forums we don't mod if we break the rules, we just don't break the rules as much. On our own forums we're hardly gonna ban ourselves (though it's been tried), but the higher-up people (cat mods, smods, admins) will still ban us if we step out of line.

fade2black

I wasn't whinging and I didn't want it to sound like I was -

I was banned from a forum I regularly post on for calling someone a prick. That's fair enough, I accepted it. I asked a legitimate question on feedback regarding a quicker way to reply to messages with quotes and italics etc and the response was to be called a lazy bastard and then the thread was ultimately locked. Now I know, like you calling the general a c unt yesterday, the person who called me a bastard won't be banned. Boards.ie is a dictatorship, i've learned the hard way and it's fine. You are free to do your bla bla bla thing to this, or whatever else it is that makes you feel special on here.

RuggieBear

fade2black wrote:

I wasn't whinging and I didn't want it to sound like I was -

I was banned from a forum I regularly post on for calling someone a prick. That's fair enough, I accepted it. I asked a legitimate question on feedback regarding a quicker way to reply to messages with quotes and italics etc and the response was to be called a lazy bastard and then the thread was ultimately locked. Now I know, like you calling the general a c unt yesterday, the person who called me a bastard won't be banned. Boards.ie is a dictatorship, i've learned the hard way and it's fine. You are free to do your bla bla bla thing to this, or whatever else it is that makes you feel special on here.

tbh, there was absolutely no malice meant by calling you a lazy bastard....i'd have called you a lazy fucker but agin not meaning to insult you but just a friendly swipe

amp

I'm trying to think of a way of congratulating fade2black without appearing arrogant or patronising. I'll let you know if I come up with something.

fade2black

Look guys, Im not a moaner or anything like it and I apologise if that's how I come across...if Karl had stuck in a wink or something like that I would have laughed about it and maybe accepted that my idea was a poor one but I mean it just came across like a pretty ignorant reply...it doesn't matter I don't want to keep dragging this on.

D

Tar.Aldarion

calling someone a prick is an offensive personal insult,saying you are a lazy bastard
means you do not do much exercise and prefer not to do menial tasks and that,in his opinion,your parent are not married. this is not abuse.;)

Tar.Aldarion

fade2black wrote:

Look guys, Im not a moaner or anything like it and I apologise if that's how I come across...if Karl had stuck in a wink or something like that I would have laughed about it and maybe accepted that my idea was a poor one but I mean it just came across like a pretty ignorant reply...it doesn't matter I don't want to keep dragging this on.

D

sometimes ya don't need the wink to see humour,his sentance was clearly not malicious,he did not say something like well better not say that but nevertheless not malicious.

Jonny Arson

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

calling someone a prick is an offensive personal insult,saying you are a lazy bastard
means you do not do much exercise and prefer not to do menial tasks and that,in his opinion,your parent are not married. this is not abuse.;)

Lay off the guy will ya! I'm seeing this thread exploding into a flame war very soon.

Tar.Aldarion

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Lay off the guy will ya! I'm seeing this thread exploding into a flame war very soon.

i wasn't laying into the guy?whats going on?
bit of humour,come on,didn't ya see the wink

RuggieBear

are very important.....

Tar.Aldarion

i wink with my left eye,i feel that emoticon is a little unfair.

Talliesin

fade2black wrote:

I was banned from a forum I regularly post on for calling someone a prick. That's fair enough, I accepted it. I asked a legitimate question on feedback regarding a quicker way to reply to messages with quotes and italics etc and the response was to be called a lazy bastard and then the thread was ultimately locked.

You were accused of being lazy, after you complained about having to take a simple action to acceive something. That is lazy. Now, the addition of "bastard" makes the point more insulting, but the point stands, it's not just vulgar abuse and a greater degree of leeway will be given my most mods on most forums (just how much depends on the mod and the forum).

The thread was locked because the original post was illogical and the thread was therefore pointless.

fade2black

Not to inflame the thing further, but why was it illogical? That feature is used on many other forums and I just thought it would be useful on this one.

Tar.Aldarion

illogical because it saves about one seconds time and the feature is already available.
it gives busy people work to change it for no reason.

fade2black

Ah right, well like spell checks and a lot of other things in the feedback section, it was just a suggestion.

pcwares

Have you rapscallions no dignity. Reinstate that Mod pronto. Its painful whine can be heard reverberate through the cirques and corries of Boards.

What a bunch of 'miss nancies' - i didnt say that it it was Bill the Butcher's adversary The Priest.


pcwares wondering (for a nano) how any of you get any.

ecksor

Reinstate what mod?

Tar.Aldarion

i think wtf is what tha post is in order.

amp

fade2black wrote:

Ah right, well like spell checks and a lot of other things in the feedback section, it was just a suggestion.

I withdraw my congratulations and instead offer this.

fade2black

lol fair enough, lesson learned.

Raiser

I was banned for a week recently for saying that I felt that Limerick was depressing and grey. Was just my opinion & was said subsequent to a post where some poor girl had her jacket and phone robbed and her handbag was pissed in......

...... Indeed depressing and grey.

Have also seen a number of instances where Mods seem to pounce on anything witty or harmlessly funny....Humour is a big part of these boards and the "Police" need to step back occasionally methinks.

Tar.Aldarion

but... hehe

Nukem

Raiser wrote:

I was banned for a week recently for saying that I felt that Limerick was depressing and grey. Was just my opinion & was said subsequent to a post where some poor girl had her jacket and phone robbed and her handbag was pissed in......
...... Indeed depressing and grey.
Have also seen a number of instances where Mods seem to pounce on anything witty or harmlessly funny....Humour is a big part of these boards and the "Police" need to step back occasionally methinks.

As i recall it was

Raiser wrote:

This was Limerick I presume - what a dreary, grey, hopeless hole of a place....

And if you had read the charter you would have found

Nukem wrote:

Thread Content
There is no point of posting a thread if it isn’t worth while and legitimate.
Please use common sense when using this Forum

I don't think calling a place where people live and call home a hopeless hole of a place is very progressive or insightful. Do you?

1

Singing out loud in the shower or possibly else were around your abodes would do you lot wonders.

Gordon

Why are people being so nasty to us mods these past few days? I'm getting very down due to all this negativity brought on by certain posters.

Sheesh, you try to help a community out and all you get is witty quips like "you should get out more" and "you should sing aloud in the shower" and "don't put it there, it doesn't fit". I tell you it really is saddening. Makes me want to ban Million_Dead's new account just for some fun in prison.

Doodee

Bring back Hanging!

The Voice of the Silent minority has spoken!

nesf

Gordon wrote:

Why are people being so nasty to us mods these past few days? I'm getting very down due to all this negativity brought on by certain posters.

Sheesh, you try to help a community out and all you get is witty quips like "you should get out more" and "you should sing aloud in the shower" and "don't put it there, it doesn't fit". I tell you it really is saddening. Makes me want to ban Million_Dead's new account just for some fun in prison.

Meh it's the same everywhere mate. Offline and online.


Personally I couldn't care less. If someone acts the muppet in a forum I moderate and isn't contributing anything, I have no quarrels with banning them. I even have no problems with the abusive pm's I occasionaly get about it. I have bigger things to care about tbh.

Then again, I don't tie my ego to my avatar so maybe I'm just different.