Moderator: possibly abusing his position

silver haze

For the past couple of months i have had run ins with moderator by the name of lemming, after i dared question the authority of a organisation to represent a group of sports people, namely the Irish Airsoft Association that coincidently he was a member of.

I was threatened with "broken jaw" in the thead by said mod, i reported this but as per usual nothing happened.

I have since been banned by him twice for 1 week periods, from the airsoft adverts section for fractions that others got mere warnings for.

The second period however went on for 3-4 weeks, i advised him that my ban was up twice, after my second PM, he reverted informing me that i was now banned for an extra 4 weeks for threatening him, i have asked him to clarify what exactly this "threatening behaviour" was but am awaitng a response.
His PM ending with the wonderful phrase:
"Now with that in mind, be a good "boy" and kindly. Fvck. Off."

Now i know that we are not entilted to free speach on boards, per se, but this is going overboard. surley o person of authority cannot be allowed to abuse that position just because someone has a different opinion to them.
Mods in general are not a bad lot, but a small percentage do tend to be.

Is there any recourse to this?

By any chance could you post some links to the incidents you're referring to?

shakin

ive been trying to find out about the mods, but can fid no info and when i pm some ofd them i never get a reply:mad:

If you don't get a reply perhaps try the category moderator, or the Helpdesk forum.

Overheal

Don't post them here just yet or anything, but do you have records of all of your PM exchanges?

And what threads might we look for? Links please. Sign out of your account to enter the forum you were banned from and find them.

g'em

That final edit was the right one Overheal...

As for the Lemming chap, big eejit so he is.

Rew

Overheal wrote: »

Don't post them here just yet or anything, but do you have records of all of your PM exchanges?

And what threads might we look for? Links please. Sign out of your account to enter the forum you were banned from and find them.

edit: in the meantime this was a lovely first impression for me of the Airsoft forum: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055243139



Who has a Fascist God Complex now? :-|

theres 100 other ways to say the same thing that won't put everyone in a foul disposition when they read it.

When you have to deal with the sheer volume of reported posts on the airsoft board then maybe you can comment. That sticky is there with the agreement and backing of all the airsoft mods. Before we put up that warning the board was on the verge of imploading.

To put my Fascist God Complex hat back on your talking out your arse

Rew

Oh and Lemming was 100% correct in extending the ban I've seen the PM's and it was an outragous way to speak to Lemming.

Overheal

Rew wrote: »

When you have to deal with the sheer volume of reported posts on the airsoft board then maybe you can comment. That sticky is there with the agreement and backing of all the airsoft mods. Before we put up that warning the board was on the verge of imploading.

To put my Fascist God Complex hat back on your talking out your arse

Just offering my first impression :pac: it just reads like "Yeah come in take your shoes off and keep fookin quiet or youll wake up kujo"

as for the PMs have them forwarded to an SMod or, if both of you agree, put them up here.

I do love a good feedback thread.

PS I only talk out of my arse for the ones I like
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G'em wrote:

As for the Lemming chap, big eejit so he is.

Wouldn't know tbh.

lisaloo

they'd sicken ur hole, the lot of em. who the hell do they think they are. stupid ppl

feylya

lisaloo wrote: »

they'd sicken ur hole

Anal vomitting? Go to the doctor!

g'em

lisaloo wrote: »

they'd sicken ur hole, the lot of em. who the hell do they think they are. stupid ppl

Who's been near your hole? What now? um, PI is that way <---

RE*AC*TOR

Sounds like trouble brewing on the toy gun forum...

lisaloo

feck off you SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Rew

Overheal wrote: »

Just offering my first impression :pac: it just reads like "Yeah come in take your shoes off and keep fookin quiet or youll wake up kujo"

I was asked to mod Airsoft beacuse I take a very hard stance on messing so your pretty much right, ive only been physically theated by a couple of users so I cann't be all that bad!

Chong

Some proof wouldnt go a miss, although I dont believe this arena is suitable for the PM's.

This sort of stuff should be handled in private by MODs

Nerin

oh dear...

lisaloo

No Its Cant, Now Do Some Wok

lisaloo

Or Work Even

o1s1n

Rew wrote: »

Oh and Lemming was 100% correct in extending the ban I've seen the PM's and it was an outragous way to speak to Lemming.

Indeed.

silver haze wrote:

'I advised him that my ban was up twice

That's ONE way of putting it.

I've seen the pms too and it was far from just 'advising'.

RE*AC*TOR

lisaloo wrote: »

feck off you SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

How very interesting.

6th

You can always edit your posts, unless its a higher post count you're after.

g'em

Sabotage wrote: »

You can always edit your posts, unless its a higher post count you're after.

Indeed. Spoken like a true professional.

Ruu_Old

lisaloo wrote: »

feck off you SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you have nothing worthwhile to add, don't bother. Good luck.

Rb

Sabotage wrote: »

You can always edit your posts, unless its a higher post count you're after.

Won't matter as I doubt they'll be around long tbh.

Sounds like OP got a fair few abusive pm's from the mod there, but we're only hearing one side of the story so it's probably best that an Smod has a check through the pm conversations before passing judgement.

_blank_

silver haze wrote: »

I was threatened with "broken jaw" in the thead by said mod, i reported this but as per usual nothing happened

Is this part true?

Was it before or after the alleged abusive PM sent by yourself?

tbh, if it's proven that a mod did threaten physical violence, then something needs to be done.

Doesn't matter what happened after this event, if a mod behaved this way, it's a disgrace.

Overheal

OKAY

to add substance to this I present herea:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055256323

To be fair Lemming does appear very high strung and anal. Perhaps in need of a holiday.

Rb

DesF wrote: »

Is this part true?

Was it before or after the alleged abusive PM sent by yourself?

tbh, if it's proven that a mod did threaten physical violence, then something needs to be done.

Doesn't matter what happened after this event, if a mod behaved this way, it's a disgrace.

Doesn't matter what happened before it either, no users on boards should be threatening another with physical violence, regardless of what has been said.

_blank_

Overheal wrote: »

OKAY

to add substance to this I present herea:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055256323

To be fair Lemming does appear very high strung and anal. Perhaps in need of a holiday.

Don't see anything wrong in there tbh.

There were enough warnigns dished out.

Nerin

Overheal wrote: »

OKAY

to add substance to this I present herea:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055256323

To be fair Lemming does appear very high strung and anal. Perhaps in need of a holiday.

sweet jesus he's angry
in fairness though, you arent supposed to question a mod in the thread.

but anyway- sweet jesus he's angry

^the above is not criticising the mod, just pointing out they really pissed him off

6th

I like Lemming.