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I used to be administrator of a very popular forum. I wasnt too active in the beginning, but i could sense a graal like obession among some people. Things were getting out of hand so i appointed a supermoderator, ("peace~angel" was her name, why yes, what a coinkydink) she was a lawyer from california, and due to the utter ilegality of what my board advertised, i thought it would be a good idea to have her on the team.
Unbeknownst by me, peace~angel was not well liked, but i had seen her break up fights and other things, write FAQs and the most active admin at the time would probably sticky them. However the amount of complaints recieved was almost unbearable, but about a month later things settled down, except for one or two people who continuously spammed about her, but under my lack of judgement they werent banned. Later they too settled down, and everything went back to normal.. or so i thought. One particular user decided to build a trojan flooding network and ddosed the board, just because peace~angel was a supermod and the board suffered several hacks due to our out of date software. When the board came back up i decided to stick it all into admin access only so i could read the threads about peace angel in peace, there were a number of chat logs, and people complaining about her constantly, i checked the logs of the board and some of the threads she moved into the threadbin were relevant and she was just doing it out of spite for the people who posted them. I put the forum under normal mode and removed peace~angel's modship, (untill one of my co-administrators added her back, at which point i went awol and only went back if someone emailed me about a problem). The board however is now down, two new administrators who hosted the IRC channel decided to kill the board and take off, at which point the funder gave up and stopped re-registering the domain name, and stopped paying the hosts.
My point is that there were dire consequences when i ignored problems, it got better for a while then it got MUCH worse. Unixmad needs to stop ignoring problems, and act on them HIMSELF instead of getting somebody else to sort it for him. Unpaid volunteers arent the way to go, there needs to be someone totally impartial to graal, and this forum, otherwise there will ALLWAYs be this complaining crap. |