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  • 02-05-2012 7:29pm
    #1
    Yeah Yeah Yeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭


    Recently Sacked Boards.ie Moderator: ‘I had it all, then I blew it!’
    BY COLM WILLIAMSON · OCTOBER 26, 2011 LIFESTYLE, OPINION · TAGGED: BOARDS.IE, FEATURED


    MODERATOR Cyril Ronan owned up to ‘neglecting his job’ after he failed to ban his target 20 members a day, but not without good reason he says.

    Ronan was left feeling worthless after he was ironically banned from the site indefinitely for gross misconduct and failure to adhere to the moderation rules laid out by the Irish Internet giant.

    “I know I didn’t do my job properly but I just didn’t see the point in banning people anymore.” Power said.

    “When I started the job eight months ago I was told to ban at least 20 members a day. They gave me a 734 page rule book and told me I was in charge of the ‘Mustard’ and ‘Carlow south east’ forums.”

    With this huge responsibility, Cyril Ronan soon felt he was on top of the world. However, the laws of nature were soon chomping at his motherboard and Ronan knew that eventually what goes up, must come down.

    “At first I was quite nervous, I didn’t know what I was doing. The whole thing was so surreal. After all, they hand picked me out of thousands of online members to do this job. I couldn’t leave mustard, Carlow South East or myself down.

    “In my first few weeks I just started moving peoples threads around. For example, some idiot would make a Ketchup or mayonnaise comment in the Mustard forum. I would warn them and ban them from boards.ie for a whole week.


Comments

  • #2
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,726 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    It's not really funny, AH is going downhill, and fast....


  • #3
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Well this is certainly new.


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Yeah Yeah Yeah wrote: »
    Recently Sacked Boards.ie Moderator: ‘I had it all, then I blew it!’
    BY COLM WILLIAMSON · OCTOBER 26, 2011 LIFESTYLE, OPINION · TAGGED: BOARDS.IE, FEATURED

    BANNED.


  • #5
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Yeah Yeah Yeah wrote: »
    They gave me a 734 page rule book and told me I was in charge of the ‘Mustard’ and ‘Carlow south east’ forums.”

    They should have emailed it to him instead of wasting paper:pac:


  • #6
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Welcome to the internet, OP.


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  • #7
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    It dawned on me that I was slowly killing myself for nothing. I wasn't even getting paid for this ****. What was I doing?

    "I decided to not use the Internet for a while."

    "It must have been at least two hours later when I logged back on to boards.ie. :D


  • #8
    Yeah Yeah Yeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭Yeah Yeah Yeah


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Welcome to the internet, OP.

    The interwhat?


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