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I Am No Longer A Moderator

Discussion in 'The Lobby - Misc Discussion' started by Goat_Pig, Jun 18, 2012.

  1. Goat_Pig

    Goat_Pig Almost Not a Noob

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    I hope you are all happy.
  2. HalFenix

    HalFenix Prime Member

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    Not really, no.
  3. BleuSphere

    BleuSphere Gamespy forever!

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    Zounds! Me neither! [face_chicken]
  4. VultureGangsta

    VultureGangsta Ayatollah of Krzeblechistan

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    I'm not
  5. Goat_Pig

    Goat_Pig Almost Not a Noob

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  6. -3de-

    -3de- Almost Not a Noob

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    Neither am I.. /spam on.
  7. BOP_G_A_Pster

    BOP_G_A_Pster Still Free.

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    It seems like we really need one of the old guard to be made a moderator here.
  8. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    You'll be sorry. I got the ban fever. I start seeing naughty words, I'll ban all you motherfinkers.
  9. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    No trial, no habeus corpus, no bloody lawyers. Just you, me, and the ban hammer.
  10. superslacks

    superslacks Noob

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  11. BOP_G_A_Pster

    BOP_G_A_Pster Still Free.

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    quit trying to break up the team.
  12. Graphic-J

    Graphic-J Noob

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    ^ Lol Why so butthurt?. he's only inviting.
  13. superslacks

    superslacks Noob

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    Sorry if it's seen that way; just pointing out that the PBF community is alive and well, and that others are welcome. In any event, if the community here is strong enough it shouldn't be seen as a threat.

    (Please note - TheOriginalPost.NET allows NAKED BOOBIES!)
  14. BleuSphere

    BleuSphere Gamespy forever!

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    Meh, I occasionally followed PBF while it was part of forumplanet but now I have no reason to follow you guys. I never really felt apart anyway. Goodluck on the new digs...and the nekkid boobs.
  15. American_Transvestite

    American_Transvestite Noob

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    So is OBC the new mod? Is he the only mod?
  16. HalFenix

    HalFenix Prime Member

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    ALL HAIL THE CLAM.
  17. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    Wait, rumor and innuendo! I was talking to Gapster as a what if thing.
  18. American_Transvestite

    American_Transvestite Noob

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    Darn. We need a good, solid, GSFer mod here!
    I vote someone cool.
  19. BleuSphere

    BleuSphere Gamespy forever!

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    He's not a mod...yet
  20. HalFenix

    HalFenix Prime Member

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    Well, still: ALL HAIL THE CLAM.
  21. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    Heh. If elected I once again promise to do as little as possible.
  22. Guard-Falcon

    Guard-Falcon GameSpy Volunteer

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    Would be nice if we can get all our mods back...
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  23. Wunderschlung

    Wunderschlung Almost Not a Noob

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    Then everyone would be a mod! There would have to be senior mods and all sorts, omg would be fun. "Banned" - "OVERRULED!" - "Objection!".
  24. dereksmalls1985

    dereksmalls1985 En Taro Adun!

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    Ooo! ooo! meee! meee!!!


    (just kidding)
  25. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    "Banned" - "OVERRULED!" - "Objection!"

    We'll be the Phoenix Wright of forums.
  26. Guard-Falcon

    Guard-Falcon GameSpy Volunteer

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    Well I veto your overruling.
  27. BleuSphere

    BleuSphere Gamespy forever!

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    If they gave me back my manager status I would be like the UN security council, I could veto anything.
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  28. Guard-Falcon

    Guard-Falcon GameSpy Volunteer

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    This
  29. DemonicCloud

    DemonicCloud I'm not good at these

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    Alas, my days of moderating are over. Although to be honest, the board I moderated died well over a year ago. It was still nice to have access to the admin tools.

    In my last act as a gamespy moderator I banned hyperstarsponge. It felt damn good too.
  30. TheHappyFriar

    TheHappyFriar Noob

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    Nope, just me.
  31. Guard-Falcon

    Guard-Falcon GameSpy Volunteer

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    Awesome, DemonicCloud and TheHappyFriar are here :)
  32. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    In my last act as a gamespy moderator I banned hyperstarsponge. It felt damn good too.

    It's like heroin.
  33. BleuSphere

    BleuSphere Gamespy forever!

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    I feel like I missed something. I never actually banned anyone.[face_cry]
  34. HappyTroopa

    HappyTroopa It's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time.

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    Goat, what are you going to do with all that extra time on your hands, now that you don't have to delete so much spam?
  35. -3de-

    -3de- Almost Not a Noob

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    This and your sig dont match?

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  36. Fetts_Vette

    Fetts_Vette Sleepy bird

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    Well that rules me out.

    I also have been denuded of my mod powers since journeying to this strange new land.
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  37. Fetts_Vette

    Fetts_Vette Sleepy bird

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    I think I can safely speak for all of us when I say YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT GOATPIG IS DOING WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS FREE TIME.
  38. -3de-

    -3de- Almost Not a Noob

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    I haven't been able to work in over a year. Going to be a while till I can.... I would make a good mod here.. I am pretty open, but can see when the ess is gonna hit the fan... Would love to help out if need be..
    ~ Pricemo
  39. GSFAkimboJoe

    GSFAkimboJoe Your Advertisment Here

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    After the way you banned VC I didn't think you should be a mod. You did a nice job policing spammers but that was a major fuck up IMO. You became too accustomed to the power and forgot that it wasn't yours to wield. Also, I wish we could get alternating grey and white posts like they had on the old board and have on the Original Post.

    Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the work you did, for free, for all of us and for gamespy but I still do and always will disagree with your decision there and your unrepentant unwillingness to admit maybe you were a little too harsh with a 30 day ban on a 6 year member of our forums for merely disagreeing with someone else's opinion (and he wasn't the only one) and not submitting to your ultimatums.

    There was absolutely no equality or respect in the way you treated him, talking down to him from a position of power, some sinner speaking to a self-righteous god, issuing forth whatever arbitrary decree you and you alone deemed worthy of your minor annoyance. That's not a good mod and it left your exemplary service tarnished and ugly. I don't care if Fett agreed with you, the thread on it showed the rest of us didn't and your reply of "this is not a democracy" only showed what a penny ante tyrant you became with even that little scrap of power.

    Sure the forums became nice and peaceful after he was banned (some might say too peaceful) but you don't ban someone for who they are or because they annoy you, you ban them when they break the rules. A mod is an administrator and executor of a forums laws and should strive to be in all moderation just, considerate and judicious.

    You'll probably get mod status back anyhow.

    It's kind of you guys to invite, thanks. Our two communities were all that was really left of forumplanet (don't tell those planetquake guys I said that).
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  40. Thorsden

    Thorsden Thoroughly Unoriginal

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    If people start regularlyosting on these sub forums then we probably need at least one mod who is willing to police it.

    In general though, I don't think we need all the old mods to be mods again. They already seem to have plenty over here, more would be overkill.
  41. Goat_Pig

    Goat_Pig Almost Not a Noob

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    You really did misread what happened. VC was stirring s*** up. He wasn't arguing an opinion, he was obfuscating another argument with points that had nothing to do with anything. The discussion was, "are video games too easy now?" There were plenty of people arguing both sides. I had no problem with the arguing. He wasn't arguing that discussion. He was trying to knock it off the rails with a bunch of unrelated topics. I asked him several times, to sum up what his possible argument was. He gave me so much BS with no end-point that the only decision I could come to was he was trolling. Was a month a bit harsh? Yes. It was. it should have been a week tops. I couldn't back down though. I had to stand firm to establish my authority or people would be arguing any bans that I made afterward, and no one would take me seriously.

    It was a bad situation all around.

    __

    Thorny, we just doubled the size of the Games community. I don't think one or two more mods would be overkill.
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  42. GSFAkimboJoe

    GSFAkimboJoe Your Advertisment Here

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    Hey, I don't hate you TGP, I was just disappointed, especially since it lead to his leaving the forums permanently. Standing firm is one thing, being a big stubborn jerk is another. I'm sure we've all been big stubborn jerks and said or done hurtful things from time to time. I wish I didn't, but I do too. The thing is, VC was not a troll and you couldn't just treat him like any "troll off the street" (I think is the phrase everyone is using these days). If he was contrarian, I think that was genuinely his nature and those were genuinely his opinions.

    Like I said, I don't hate you.. I'm just always going to disagree with the way you handled that. ALWAYS :D
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  43. Thorsden

    Thorsden Thoroughly Unoriginal

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    Yeah, as I said I think we should have at least one, and maybe 2. But there were a lot of people with mod powers at gsf, and I don't think they all need to become mods here.
  44. Goat_Pig

    Goat_Pig Almost Not a Noob

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    If we still had access to all of his posts. I could point out a handful of times where VC acted just like that. It was becoming chronic with him. I guess I was trying to make up for past instances where I let it slide but should have warned him more.
  45. OneBigClam

    OneBigClam Dead on Arrival

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    I dunno, it's kind of like kicking someone out of a group of friends. There's always going to be infighting. That doesn't mean we push Piggy off the cliff.
  46. Goat_Pig

    Goat_Pig Almost Not a Noob

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    No, of course not. There are plenty of other reasons to throw me off of cliffs ;)
  47. RandomReasons

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    I am the opposite of happy.
  48. Thunderpants_717281

    Thunderpants_717281 Trust me, ma'am, I'm in the National Guard

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    Gents, let's put the ViolentChemistry thing behind us. We're all adults here, right?
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  49. DemonicCloud

    DemonicCloud I'm not good at these

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    Oh, we are over the age of 18, but we are far from adults. We are on a video game forum, after all.

    I think Seinfeld says it best:
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  50. -3de-

    -3de- Almost Not a Noob

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    Well put DC, and live me some Seinfeld.. Classic show..
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