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Okay, last week I wrote a post called Forum Management. That post seemed to get some interesting discussions by some people I Know in real life. Today, I am going to rant again about Cyberbullies and Assholes. I have another interesting Article Listed at http://projectai.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/drakenfyre75-and-the-trolls-part. Basically, this article is bashing our dearly Beloved moderator/friend/ally DrakenFyre75.
The post I wrote last week was aimed toward a general group. Forum moderators and the people who hate them. I didn’t aim the article toward one person. It was a general overview and my opinion. When you blatantly point out a person by their name or screen name, you are harassing that person. It is a personal attack on that person. That is very fucking wrong. Especially when you start to attack a person and spin information around to make that person look like a bad person. That is just detestable and wrong in my own opinion.
Making a general statement is one thing, but when you aim something at a person is another thing. Especially when you say false information. I hate people who are so full of themselves. People who think their SHIT doesn’t stink. Aka PROJECT AI and her blog. This person is doing what I call Cyberbullying.
When it comes to cyberbullying, they are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them. Many do it for laughs or to get a reaction. Some do it by accident, and either send a message to the wrong recipient or didn’t think before they did something. The Power-hungry do it to torment others and for their ego. Revenge of the Nerd may start out defending themselves from traditional bullying only to find that they enjoy being the tough guy or gal. Mean girls do it to help bolster or remind people of their own social standing. And some think they are righting wrong and standing up for others. http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/why_do_kids_cyberbully_each_other.html
In this case PROJECT AI in her blog and in her own little world is doing just that. Sounds like this particular person gets off on making other people feel bad about themselves. I think this person has a very large ego and is basically narcissistic,possibly paranoid and has a inferiority complex. Why do you make other people lives so difficult? Is it because you feel that you are not in a high enough ranking on a forum system you have to public humiliate people such as the moderators and Drakenfyre75? Is it because there is someone there who is better than you and you think they are out to get you because you feel inferior? Or maybe you think your shit doesn’t stink and everyone else is just scum?
This type of behavior kind of reminds me something dark. It sounds likes this person think he/she is so high and mighty that everyone else below her is scum and that that she will make forum moderators lives hells. It kind of reminds me of How Hitler and the Nazi’s prosecuted the Jews during WWII. That behavior is BAD!
Well I tell you one thing, this person or persons on this blog are ass goblins. They are making my friends life a living hell in that game that they play to have fun. It is just a fucking game. Why are you taking this so fucking seriously? YOU remind me of the fucking WORLD OF WARCRAFTERS who think that game is the best thing since sliced bread and condoms and will literally go into a catatonic state when the Internet connection is lost.
These people in my opinion are assholes and deserved to be flogged and beaten or perhaps impaled up the anus with a large wooden pike, the same type of pike Vlad “Dracul” Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler would do. This is a classic case of Harassment. Why are you doing this sort of thing. We are all grown adults. You don’t need to stoop this fucking low at all. Why don’t you all just grow up or better yet, play games on servers that are closer to you. So if you live in Europe, then play on a European Server.
On that Note, I go onto my next part of my rant.
I hate assholes. People who don’t know when to shut up, people who hurt other people, perhaps even people who make everyone’s lives shittier.I can live without them. It would make my life better. I wouldn’t need to worry about things and my stress levels would be a lot lower than what they are now. Why don’t you pull your ears and take your head out of your ass and see what is going on and stop being an asshole. That is enough said about that.
I now feel better that I have ranted a bit tonight. I had a bad day and I just needed to let some steam loose. I don’t like to get calls from friends crying because of petty little drama little ass goblins (project ai and others) put them through.
I know what I may have said could of been mean. But When you make fun of my friends. It is on like Donkey Kong. You don’t mess with me or my friends.
Have a Nice Fucking Day!
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Here is another What Frosts My Muffin! Blog entry. A few months ago my friend was talking to me about some drama that was going on in a forum . A couple of days ago she has sent me this interesting article Mods, The bugs in the System. The overall synopsis of this article is that The 9-Dragons Forums has allot of bugs in it. When I says bugs it to flaws. The author of the blog entry states that the Moderators are the problem of the forums and that she is questioning the legality of their job and the moderators credentials.
First of all The blog article starts off with this…
With moderators using fake names as avatars, handles and screen names, you do not even know the source of the information they provide, or their credentials or experience levels or even they have the legal age to conduct a community. Also it is under suspicious the fact that, in Acclaim TOS, the voluntary are not mention and in rules of conduct the attributes they have are not written. If they are not even worth to mention, what is the reality ? Where they stand ?
Here is my opinion on that quote and the stupidity that is written down. Moderators, are people who are elected to help run a web community forum, bulletin board system or website to ensure that the end users are following the set rules of conduct for that particular system. If you think about it. They are the police of that site. They are there to assist the users when they need it and to ensure the safety of all the users in the system by using the special permissions granted to them by the website administrator and is dictated by the terms of service and common sense.
The phrase ” moderators using fake names as avatars, handles and screen names,” is bullshit. Everyone in the system has their own unique identity that is what a screen name is. The name that you use as a “Handle” to convey what you want to write down. An Avatar is a small picture, with a specified height and width, set by the system administrator that you can use to further identify your online name. Theoretically it give a screen name a face.
The next phrase “you do not even know the source of the information they provide, or their credentials or experience levels or even they have the legal age to conduct a community.” again is bullshit. Moderators are selected by the website admins to help ensure the site is running smoothly and make it safe for everyone. If the website admins choose a person to help them moderate the site, they have the credentials needed to do so. When you sign up for a forum. You have to specify your age by putting in your birthday or birth year. This is dictated by the COPAA (Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. If you are under the age of 13. You need to have the consent of your parents to sign up and in some places you need to have paper work faxed in before the user name is even fully registered. Second, that system may be flawed and people can lye about their age. However, it is up to the parents to make sure what their kids are doing online to to make sure they are allowed to participate in the forums. (This part of the subject can be up to debate since some parents don’t care what their children do online). As for legal age of a person conducting a community, Again it is up to the website admin and their terms of service to do so. It is not a question of what you may like to see in a person to moderate the system. It is a question of what the website admins like.
Personally, A moderator is there to help the website admin. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean they don’t have what it takes to ensure the community is working properly.
Could forum owners be held liable if harassment from moderators occurred?
That is a hard question to answer. If the moderators are doing their jobs properly than there should be no harassment. Just because you posted something that was either a duplicate topic, post, perhaps something that has voilated the terms of service and the moderator has removed, edit, moved or closed any topic at any time should they see fit doesn’t count as harassment.
Harassment if yelling and screaming at a moderator that they deleted your post with out telling you becauase you are too fucking stupid to realize you broke the rules.
Why don’t you read the rules set by the website admin. If you don’t then you have no right to do what you are doing. It is pointless that if you don’t know what the rules are then how can you say that it is illegal for a moderator to do their jobs.
People Stop Bitching and moaning when you are on a forum. The moderators have a hard enough time as it is working to ensure the community is running smoothly for everyone. They Don’t need you breathing down their necks every minute of the day while you bitch and moan that shit isn’t happening . If you Don’t like it. Then get the fuck out of the forums. Because the forums will be a better place with out your drama.
I am for the moderators because I am a website owner/admin/moderator. I get alot of flack from people. But, I do my job. I do it efficiently. I don’t complain. I get complaints. I do what I can do. If you don’t like it. Then Tough LUCK. Stop Being an asshole. I say that from the bottom of my heart.
I fell that the people who whine, cry, bitch, moan, groan, claim that they are being harassed by the moderators don’t have the mental capacity to be on the forums. The moderators are more grown up that those little ass goblins who bitch about them.
But on that note. Please for the love of god. Please be Nice to your moderators. Because in the end. They make the online community a safer place. I thank all the moderators who are on my forums for a good job they are doing. Thank you.