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When am I getting my mod invite??? I feel like everyone should get a turn, like old timey Greek democracy. Also, do you have dental coverage?
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Is Dare registering all these accounts under real or fake credit cards? Should we be thanking him for keeping SA afloat?
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Sep 23, 2016 18:44
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I don't know of all the instances that it has happened, or exactly what any of it has been about, but I know that a bunch of mods have been "doxxed" or otherwise harassed by creepy idiot people. I'm guessing that most mods & admins are people who were fairly heavily involved in the site before they became mods & admins, and probably knew about, at least, Something Sensitive, and about various stories of goons going way beyond the line, being super creepy about the personal lives of both mods & admins, other users, and targets of various mock threads. What I'm wondering is, whether the possibility of doxxing, or other forms of stalking and harassment, is something that entered your decision-making process when you got asked to be a mod or admin?
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Sep 24, 2016 01:25
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Grandmother of Five posted:I don't know of all the instances that it has happened, or exactly what any of it has been about, but I know that a bunch of mods have been "doxxed" or otherwise harassed by creepy idiot people. I'm guessing that most mods & admins are people who were fairly heavily involved in the site before they became mods & admins, and probably knew about, at least, Something Sensitive, and about various stories of goons going way beyond the line, being super creepy about the personal lives of both mods & admins, other users, and targets of various mock threads.
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Sep 24, 2016 12:37
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Vegetable posted:Is Dare registering all these accounts under real or fake credit cards? Should we be thanking him for keeping SA afloat?
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Sep 24, 2016 12:36
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FactsAreUseless posted:We have a pretty standard best-practices approach to making sure SA accounts aren't linkable to real-world stuff as much as possible. 
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Sep 24, 2016 13:04
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Grandmother of Five posted:I don't know of all the instances that it has happened, or exactly what any of it has been about, but I know that a bunch of mods have been "doxxed" or otherwise harassed by creepy idiot people. I'm guessing that most mods & admins are people who were fairly heavily involved in the site before they became mods & admins, and probably knew about, at least, Something Sensitive, and about various stories of goons going way beyond the line, being super creepy about the personal lives of both mods & admins, other users, and targets of various mock threads. I quit being a mod when Abe got doxxed. Regardless of the merits of the situation, I felt he got hung out to dry even if there wasn't much the admins really could do. I had just started a business myself and was worried about people calling my customers, other business associates, or school and claim I worked on a pro-pedo website like they did with him.
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Sep 24, 2016 13:51
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Grandmother of Five posted:I don't know of all the instances that it has happened, or exactly what any of it has been about, but I know that a bunch of mods have been "doxxed" or otherwise harassed by creepy idiot people. I'm guessing that most mods & admins are people who were fairly heavily involved in the site before they became mods & admins, and probably knew about, at least, Something Sensitive, and about various stories of goons going way beyond the line, being super creepy about the personal lives of both mods & admins, other users, and targets of various mock threads. My thought process was basically "this forum I like to read needs a janitor and I'm willing to do it. But is it worth having my life and career destroyed if a nutcase on the Internet doesn't like the way I mop the floor?" And then for some reason I decided "yes" and here we are. But yeah, it was a huge part of my decision-making process. I also joined the mod team at a really doxxy time.
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defectivemonkey posted:My thought process was basically "this forum I like to read needs a janitor and I'm willing to do it. But is it worth having my life and career destroyed if a nutcase on the Internet doesn't like the way I mop the floor?" And then for some reason I decided "yes" and here we are. But yeah, it was a huge part of my decision-making process. I also joined the mod team at a really doxxy time.  e: That said I think that FAU is right in that it's not as big of a concern anymore. There seem to be three generations of active mod at the moment -- the ones that have been around forever, the ones that joined while mod-doxxing was pretty rampant and a serious concern, and the ones that joined afterwards. I don't think the new folks really take doxxing into consideration anymore, but there are plenty of mods for whom that was a serious consideration. LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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Sep 24, 2016 16:32
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Is there a hazing ritual when you become mod? If so, does it involve a pig. Who is the currently active mod all the other mods are scared of and think is real spooky?
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Sep 24, 2016 22:09
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PBS Newshour posted:Is there a hazing ritual when you become mod? If so, does it involve a pig. Fatherdog could almost certainly beat up every single other mod without too much issue.
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Sep 24, 2016 22:30
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Are there any posters whose posts generate tons of reports but who is never or rarely banned/probated.
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Sep 25, 2016 00:52
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PBS Newshour posted:Is there a hazing ritual when you become mod? If so, does it involve a pig. yes and yes
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Sep 25, 2016 04:35
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blunt for century posted:yes and yes Go ahead, you know you want to show the pig...
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Sep 25, 2016 07:43
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Moderators and admins: Besides yourself, who is your favorite moderator and why Also, who is your favorite admin and why
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Sep 25, 2016 07:45
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thecluckmeme posted:Moderators and admins: I also think that Ralp, and a lot of the mods who were in place from 2013-2015 or so, deserve a lot of credit. Ralp, Kewpuh, blunt for century, I know there are tons of others I'm forgetting. SA in 2013 was in a really bad place, moderation-wise. A bunch of admins left because of the Aatrek thing, and SA had just gotten rid or was about to get rid of some terrible mods like BroJo or Senior Woodchuck. Then new GBS happened in November 2013. Ralp and a lot of the mods during that period did a good job of transitioning the forums to what I think is now the best mod team we've ever had. That isn't to say we never had good mods before, and the other 13 years of mods should also get their due. We had a number of very good mods and admins, and the problem mods were the exception, not the rule. They just tended to be really high-profile, because a bad mod can cause a lot of problem. SA has historically still had better moderators than anywhere else on the internet.
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Sep 25, 2016 11:21
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What is the point of FYAD and BYOB? What is the difference? Did E/N disappear along with GBS?
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Pillowpants posted:What is the point of FYAD and BYOB? What is the difference? BYOB is the chill forum for making joke threads like "ITT we're the president of Honduras at a baby shower." E/N was made a BYOB sub.
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thanks to everyone who replied, by the way! i'm not exactly sure when or why it happened, but i think you're right that at some point a change happened with doxxing and stalking stuff. It used to be super common in all sorts of threads, i feel, with ask/tell & e/n having a lot of it at a point, with people trying to figure out if stories were true or not. Sooner or later some goon would triumphantly pipe out that they found out a bunch of irl info on an OP, trying to prove their stories true or false. It's a good change, and I don't notice it happening much any longer, but i hope that it's something you mods keep an eye on, because goons who "happen" to find weird off-site stuff on each other and reverse image search pictures are just creepy.
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Sep 25, 2016 15:29
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FactsAreUseless posted:FYAD is the non-NWS forum for gross pics and flame wars. If Google adsense gets mad at nws images then why is nws stuff allowed in it? The guy with the blue dinosaur eating two dicks was too much but others isn't?
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Sep 25, 2016 18:45
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thecluckmeme posted:Moderators and admins: this guy blunt for century posted:yes and yes he's a dope co-mod/friend 
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stringball posted:If Google adsense gets mad at nws images then why is nws stuff allowed in it?
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stringball posted:If Google adsense gets mad at nws images then why is nws stuff allowed in it? FactsAreUseless posted:I think it's because ads aren't served in FYAD, but I'm not positive. It does have something to do with how the forums are set up, but Lowtax would have to explain the details. The ads aren't served in FYAD or BYOB, and the dick eating dinosaur made Google mad in Imp Zone iirc. And the word filters for swearwords for the unlogged exist for the same reason.
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Sep 25, 2016 18:59
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I'm curious, when you goldmine/gas a thread does the OP get credit/blame or do you specify someone in case it became something great/terrible partway through? I know the rules say a gas auto-probates the OP, but there are situations where that doesn't make sense.
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Sep 26, 2016 01:43
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thecluckmeme posted:Moderators and admins: FactsAreUseless. 
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Sep 26, 2016 01:46
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FAU why did Lowtax steal your title/av
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Sep 26, 2016 02:48
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The creatures outside looked from FaU to Lowtax and from Lowtax to FaU and from FaU to Lowtax again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Sep 26, 2016 03:02
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Ciaphas posted:FAU why did Lowtax steal your title/av
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AlphaKretin posted:I'm curious, when you goldmine/gas a thread does the OP get credit/blame or do you specify someone in case it became something great/terrible partway through? I know the rules say a gas auto-probates the OP, but there are situations where that doesn't make sense. Gassing a thread probates the OP for only 15 minutes. If there are any other punishments to hand out, the mod has to do those before gsssing otherwise they can't do anything about it since they're not mods of the gas chamber.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Gassing a thread probates the OP for only 15 minutes. If there are any other punishments to hand out, the mod has to do those before gsssing otherwise they can't do anything about it since they're not mods of the gas chamber. Iirc. you can still reply if you have the gassed thread probation, but not make new threads. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Sep 26, 2016 11:55
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I didn't even know Gas Chamber had mods.
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Sep 26, 2016 12:00
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Skoll posted:I didn't even know Gas Chamber had mods. It doesn't necessarily have to for mods of other forums to not be one. 
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Sep 26, 2016 12:09
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Skoll posted:I didn't even know Gas Chamber had mods. Wasn't someone made Gas Chamber mod at least once? Fishmech, maybe?
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Sep 26, 2016 12:24
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prefect posted:Wasn't someone made Gas Chamber mod at least once? Fishmech, maybe?
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Sep 26, 2016 12:29
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prefect posted:Wasn't someone made Gas Chamber mod at least once? Fishmech, maybe? I want to say the Fishmech thing was they made it so all his posts went right to the Gas Chamber.
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muscles like this? posted:I want to say the Fishmech thing was they made it so all his posts went right to the Gas Chamber.
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Duck and Cover posted:Are there any posters whose posts generate tons of reports but who is never or rarely banned/probated.
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I think the intended question was about someone who gets reported unjustly a lot.
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Sep 27, 2016 04:56
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AlphaKretin posted:I think the intended question was about someone who gets reported unjustly a lot.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:IYG had (has?) a dude who pretty much generated all of the reports in there, usually one or two a week, and never ever posts. It's weird to me that someone takes so much issue with others' posts but never posts themselves. There are many people like that. They read GBS religiously, but only posted in QCS, never in GBS.
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