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Banning a moderator

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  • 11-01-2010 2:49am
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    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭


    It seems that some posters just aren't eligible to be banned, no matter how much they breach the Boards.ie charter. This seems to be particularly so if a Boards.ie moderator is the offender:

    'This post makes it even more probable that you have some sort of mental issue .... Some people are just arseholes. Like you. Feel free to report this, Ill happily be banned to respond to a tosser like you.'

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63921372&postcount=66

    The mods in question are clearly unwilling to ban this moderator, Grimes, despite these obvious breaches and in fact are condoning his attack on other posters, when a ban is evidently called for.

    Does anybody in Boards.ie have control over such abuses of power?


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    You reported the post at 00:41, and started this thread at 01:49. Did you really expect a response at this hour on a Sunday night?


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    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    You reported the post at 00:41, and started this thread at 01:49. Did you really expect a response at this hour on a Sunday night?

    By the time I reported it the post had been up for over three hours and, moreover, there had been at least two moderators on active duty in that thread during this period. No action was taken despite the post being explicitly designed to offend in a crude and personal manner.


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    BuffyBot
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Moderators are volunteers and not availble 24/7. We don't expect them to be either.

    Had the reported post not been actioned 24-48 hours later, I might be more concerned. 3 hours during a Saturday night is not unreasonable.

    You may also want to remember, only a moderator of the UCD forum can take action against items on the UCD forum - other "active duty" Mods from other forums do not count. A moderator of say, Politics, is just another user on the UCD forum.


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