Howard Stern Show Megathread: 5 More years of complaining

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barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

i'm quoting the mod meltdown from the baba booey thing because it is so fuckin funny to me, sorry in advance for ur scroll wheels

lornekates posted:

Thanks, I appreciate the support.

The (long) short of it is:

1) A user was posting a Howard Stern related running gag in the Howard Stern thread. To refrain from drawing too much attention to this user, I'll just call him "The Petty loving Whiny poo poo-Fucker Known as Immortal Anime", or "Immortal Anime" for short.
2) A bunch of baby-pants Howard Stern fans got upset at an unfunny, worn-out "joke", which is super ironic given who they listen to.
3) I get near daily reports of "Immortal Anime posted Baba Booey wah wah". I laugh and file them under "Ignore". So let this be on the record, I was on the side of Immortal Anime and actively defending him against false reports of "thread-making GBS threads".
4) Some 50+ reports over several weeks later, I figure fine, let's make this fair. Post, to effect "Since this is a running joke, I will allow it as long as it's running. For as long as IA posts this once a day, every day, it isn't banned. Everyone else also is allowed to post this once a day with no repercussions. BUT if IA misses even a single day, the running joke has stopped running, and I'll agree it's thread-making GBS threads. Anyone posting it gets a probe/ban. I probably won't monitor it, so you have to let me know that the rule was broken. Anyone complaining to me around it gets a probation."
5) So it's a bog-standard "SomethingAwful is nonesense" thread rule. As is the, as I keep hearing, "SomethingAwful Culture".
6) IA misses a day, and the rule kicks in.
7) Some people explicitly test the rule, and get reported. They get a probation and/or ban. All is good and everyone is happy.
8) Some time later, someone else breaks the rule.
9) IA starts whining "MODS!". Literally. It's in the thread, you can go see it yourself. He also sends me a PM complaining about it. Note that this is against the rules, that everyone else was adhering too.
10) In the interest of fairness, I punish the original poster-- but also give Immortal Anime a short probation for breaking the rules. Maybe it was a day? I can't be arsed to check.
10.5) Again, can't be arsed, but I think for coming off his short probe-- wait, I think it was coming off the probe AND posting in the Howard Stern thread something like "gently caress you bitch rear end mod you can't touch me". Yeah, I think that was it. Well, that's just above and beyond any thread-rule thing. That's just rudeness and sass. So he gets a month probe for being so willfully brazen. I honestly don't care about the insults myself, but it isn't a good look to let someone who is already annoying the thread get away with off-topic straight out insults.
11) All seems well. Then Immortal Anime poops his diaper like a baby and starts to cry like a wussy to his friends who are mods in another thread.
12) They give him a short probation for something else. Depending on who you believe, it was either for breaking a rule in a different subforum (which happened to have the sideeffect of cancelling out the month-long probation-- that's how the SA mod system works for some reason)-- or it was doing that just as a cover story for intentionally evading a probation under a flimsy excuse. I think we can guess which way I lean now.
12.5) In fact, take special note of #12. IA was on probation, so he couldn't have posted something NEW that got him probated. That means that a moderator went back to an old post, and probated him for that. An old post. In the past. Keep a note of that.
13) I send a PM to the moderator "Hey, just an FYI, that user is on a month-long probe, just so we don't override each others' probes", because I figured it was an honest mistake. I don't hear anything back from that mod. Since I have no idea how that mod is related, and can't check on the mod queue anymore, I'll withhold that name.
14) I also make a post in the moderator subforums pretty much the same FYI, since I figure that's the best way to communicate with the other mods. In the mod subforum. For moderators. Where moderators talk to each other. Y'know.
15) An admin basically says "I retracted the overriding probe, I'll keep an eye on it". I say thank you.
16) I start getting PMs from several users alerting me that, once again, Immortal Anime has had his buddies short-circuit his probation. People are noticing that he's circumventing the rules, which is, again, not a good look. In fact, in the reading I did when I became a mod, I was under the impression that evading a probe or ban was itself a bannable / permabannable offense.
17) I re-queue the month ban because that is only fair.
18) Poopy-pants Immortal Anime, now that he's hidden under the skirt of his Mommy, sticks his tongue out at me, because he is a very mature adult. He starts emailing me PMs that range from insults to threats to nigh-doxxing. (Well, he thought he was being a Big Boy by insinuating he doxxed me, but since all he actually unearthed was one of the top hits when you google my name, it wasn't very impressive. For the record, it was the Master Chef Canada audition tape I put together for a laugh: https://vimeo.com/70910715).
19) I reply cordially to him, explaining at first that the most ironinc thing about his tantrum is that he actually had my support for his running joke. I had been explicitly protecting him-- rejecting requests to probate him for the running joke, and in fact came up with the thread rule to not only CONTINUE the running joke, but to actively punish anyone who tried to stop him. And instead he turn an ally into an enemy all on his own. My last PM to him is to calmly say "Look, my PMs are for moderator related communications. So unless this is official business, please don't PM me.". In other words, "I'm asking you nicely to stop trying to harass me, and I'm making that clear. This is me giving you an out to just walk away and not escalate this."
20) His response is to throw more mod sass. Like most "tee hee I'm being so clever" idiots, the words themselves are innocuous, but the intention is blatant. I don't like people like that. I really don't.
21) I do make these conversations and PM mod sass known in the Moderator threads. The message I get is basically "Yeah, people sassing in PM is a no-no, and is usually a punishable offense". Gotcha.
22) So, since I can't take an action on a PM (a mod can only action on posts in their own subform), I go back to find a post by Immortal Anime to action on. I was under the impression that you can't submit a probation on a post that already had a probation against it. I might have been mistaking, I can't confirm that-- typing this I might have been thinking "a user can't SUBMIT a mod report on a post that's already been reported". The first one I come across that hasn't been actioned on is one of his joke posts. I put a, I want to say 1 or 3 day on it. Kinda a subtle acknowledgement to the people who are already probing him for 1 or 3 days. It's short enough that if they try to evade it, they'll only make it longer by effect.
23) I start to get harassing PMs from Immortal Anime's friends. They are "harassing" in the same way-- innocuous phrase, intention is clear. I honestly don't care because it's a PM, but it's amusing in a way that watching a child trying to walk in Daddy's shoes is. They're just trying SO HARD to be Big Boy. But I don't really want a PM box full of people sending me these, so I respond with what is effectively a form letter, with the same intention as the one I sent to IA. "Thanks for emailing, I appreciate you taking the time. However, this PM is for mod business, etc, etc". If anyone has ever worked customer service, you know exactly how you handle an irate customer. They either want help, which you're here for them, or they want to yell, in which case you need to end the conversation. With a smile. I get a couple "you're weird" replies, but the PMs go away.
23.5) For the record, those PM users are, since you can easily cross-reference with people who are crying and lying in the QQcs thread: "pog boyfriend", "stay safe", "grumple wumpkins", and the lovely "gently caress My rear end".
24) All of the above is basically communicated in the Moderator sub-forum too, because I like to give co-workers a heads-up when a shitstorm is brewing, because there can be splash back. Also, so that if they're getting PMs or complaints with lies in them (again I'll point you to the QQcs thread), they have my version on hand. Silly me, I thought the word of a moderator, who is also a poster in good standing with the forum, would have more weight than some trolls with a grudge.
25) At this point, FactsAreUseless says he won't protect my month long probation. Whatever.
26) I log in and I'm demodded. (I wasn't aware of what's going on in QQcs thread at the time)
26.5) Now that I *AM* aware of that thread, remember what I said about point 12? "IA was on probation, so he couldn't have posted something NEW that got him probated. That means that a moderator went back to an old post, and probated him for that. An old post. In the past.". So yeah, check out that QQcs thread-- and note that the thing his buddies are complaining about is that he was probated for. The exact same thing. Funny how they can do one thing, then complain about other people do that same thing. Hmm, almost as if they're being-- disingenuous or something.
27) You'll note there is no bullet-point here where anyone from the Admin team says "Hey, Lorne, there's some performance we're unhappy about, so let's talk about it like adults to come to a mutually beneficial outcome". Or "We're thinking of demodding you, can you give us your side of this situation".
28) I log in and find I'm demodded, and a message from FactsAreUseless saying "I don't know if that's the way to phrase it, and I've never sent one of these before, so this will be super awkward. Anyway, we've demodded you. You seem like you're trying to be very serious and professional about moderation, but in a way that isn't really compatible with the forums. Thanks for all the work you put into RGD. I appreciate it."
29) What the gently caress? "serious and professional" about moderation. Yeah, no poo poo, that's what you do in a position of power and responsibility. And "serious", what the gently caress, have you ever read one of my posts? Did you SEE the goddamn hoop-jumpy stupid fun thread rule I put into place? And your appreciation is to demod me with no discussion? I feel REAL appreciated there, buddy.
30) And you will notice the "we" in there. Yeah, so, after talking with some other mods & admins though basically a few "What happened?!?" emails, trying to understand what happened, the messaging I get back is "We're surprised too. There was no discussion about this. No one on the admin team was part of this decision, just FactsAreUseless. Sorry."
31) I write this "short" post.

tldr: So there you go. A pissy-baby shitfucker known as Immortal Anime gets special privileges from a moderator. He then manages to still mess that up, and gets punished for it. He whines to his friends who help him evade punishment. He throws abuse, and gets punished for it. His friends whine, lie and misrepresent what happened. The whining makes it's way to an admin who is friends with the whiny babies. The admin acts on his own to demod me.

And what would a post be without some screenshots?

Immortal Anime going "wah wah my friends like me better i'm not mad ur mad it was just a joke and u don't like fun" (again, remember, the entire point of these rules was to LET him have his annoying fun). Note the pathetic attempt at "doxxing" there.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

# ? Aug 23, 2020 20:06

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# ? May 30, 2024 03:03

tpink: Feb 18, 2013; Melman

barnold posted:

i'm quoting the mod meltdown from the baba booey thing because it is so fuckin funny to me, sorry in advance for ur scroll wheels

lol this is maybe the most deserved one-month probe I�ve seen in the history of these here forums.

# ? Aug 23, 2020 20:53

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

challenge mode: take a shot of dopp zhelv ligga every time someone is described as a pissy lovely diaper wearing baby while reading that post

# ? Aug 23, 2020 20:56

kolby: Oct 29, 2004

Fun one I came across for the first time today. Howard dials up to go to Jackie's web page and they film it. Lotta nostalgia here:

https://youtu.be/t1ICMdNbnVA

# ? Aug 23, 2020 21:21

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

tpink posted:

lol this is maybe the most deserved one-month probe I’ve seen in the history of these here forums.

Really? I kind of totally agree with LK on this one :shrug:

I mean, I guess you walk the line between taking this place too seriously, or not seriously enough, I get that. But I appreciated the rundown of what happened, and it seems that they (LK) were trying to do a good job, and a bunch of mod poo poo got in the way.

# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:14

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

what I get out of the whole thing, being someone who was fairly active in this thread at that time, is that LK is a babyback bitch. there are zero universes in which posting, or writing, or even thinking about writing that post is a good thing. how can you read this

quote:

11) All seems well. Then Immortal Anime poops his diaper like a baby and starts to cry like a wussy to his friends who are mods in another thread.

18) Poopy-pants Immortal Anime, now that he's hidden under the skirt of his Mommy, sticks his tongue out at me, because he is a very mature adult.

and think that this person is a fully functioning human being capable of making good moderating decisions lol, sure FAU sucked seventeen asscheeks in a row but he made a good point when he said this person wasn't fit to moderate on this forum and that hilarious meltdown pretty much lead pipe gold locks that poo poo in

compare that to basically every other mod who can explain things on a daily basis and not sound completely deranged and obsessed with babies pooping and making GBS threads and pissing their dipe

barnold fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Aug 23, 2020

# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:48

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

kolby posted:

Fun one I came across for the first time today. Howard dials up to go to Jackie's web page and they film it. Lotta nostalgia here:

https://youtu.be/t1ICMdNbnVA

god drat that IBM web browser :eyepop:

# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:49

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

oh and while i'm here.......baba booey

# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:52

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

barnold posted:

what I get out of the whole thing, being someone who was fairly active in this thread at that time, is that LK is a babyback bitch. there are zero universes in which posting, or writing, or even thinking about writing that post is a good thing. how can you read this

and think that this person is a fully functioning human being capable of making good moderating decisions lol, sure FAU sucked seventeen asscheeks in a row but he made a good point when he said this person wasn't fit to moderate on this forum and that hilarious meltdown pretty much lead pipe gold locks that poo poo in

compare that to basically every other mod who can explain things on a daily basis and not sound completely deranged and obsessed with babies pooping and making GBS threads and pissing their dipe

Fair enough, I guess I just glossed over the baby tantrum references. Like, I saw them, but I've read so much poo poo on these forums over the past... however long I've been reading these forums, that it didn't really register.

# ? Aug 23, 2020 23:47

wesleywillis: Dec 30, 2016; SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Immortal Anime's posting nothing but bababooey was pretty fuckin annoying.

# ? Aug 24, 2020 11:21

POCKET CHOMP: Jul 20, 2003; me irl.

we get it, you're the dude who reported him

# ? Aug 24, 2020 15:08

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

POCKET CHOMP posted:

we get it, you're the dude who reported him

Hey man, you're not my bro.

# ? Aug 24, 2020 15:18

kolby: Oct 29, 2004

wesleywillis posted:

Immortal Anime's posting nothing but bababooey was pretty fuckin annoying.

nah

# ? Aug 24, 2020 16:05

beep by grandpa: May 5, 2004

bababooey

edit: god drat is SA slow as poo poo today or do i need to restart my router

beep by grandpa fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Aug 24, 2020

# ? Aug 24, 2020 17:50

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

beep by grandpa posted:

bababooey

edit: god drat is SA slow as poo poo today or do i need to restart my router

barbara booey

# ? Aug 24, 2020 19:36

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

baba bohai

# ? Aug 24, 2020 20:11

MrMidnight: Aug 3, 2006

I'm just a fla fla flohai

# ? Aug 24, 2020 20:15

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Last Chance posted:

barbara booey

"His name is Robert A. Booey, but we call him Bahb. Y’know, Bahb A Booey..."

Dat's a gud wan.

# ? Aug 24, 2020 21:55

Price Check: Oct 9, 2012

'...and the lovely "gently caress My rear end"' is one of the best meltdown lines ever on this forum.

Does Artie have a Cameo? I'd love to hear him read that paragraph in th Dean Wormer voice.

# ? Aug 24, 2020 22:19

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

i'm going to tell gently caress My rear end what i'm about to tell you now. you're out, finished in RGD, demodded! i want you out of the podcast forum by 9 o'clock monday morning! and i'm sure you'll be happy to know that i have notified your local fyads that you are eligible, completely eligible, for military chainprobing

# ? Aug 24, 2020 22:41

Zoben: Oct 3, 2001

Price Check posted:

'...and the lovely "gently caress My rear end"' is one of the best meltdown lines ever on this forum.

Does Artie have a Cameo? I'd love to hear him read that paragraph in th Dean Wormer voice.

He does but he's been MIA since like March, presumably living in a long-term rehab facility.

https://www.cameo.com/artielange67

Both Gilbert and Jackie Marlo also have them! I'd get a Jackie one if I had an extra fifty bucks hanging around.

https://www.cameo.com/jackiemartling

Here's a terrifying still from a Jackie Cameo

Zoben fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Aug 24, 2020

# ? Aug 24, 2020 23:04

null_user01013: Nov 13, 2000; Drink up comrades

wesleywillis posted:

Immortal Anime's posting nothing but bababooey was pretty fuckin annoying.

What you are doing is illegal. I want you to go to jail for this. It's against the LAW

# ? Aug 24, 2020 23:14

tpink: Feb 18, 2013; Melman

Sour. Sour.

# ? Aug 24, 2020 23:16

Lifespan: Mar 5, 2002

Zoben posted:

He does but he's been MIA since like March, presumably living in a long-term rehab facility.

I didn't know this. Looks like he hasn't tweeted since 4/4 and cancelled a bunch of shows before that (not that he would have been able to play them): https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2020/03/artie-lange-im-not-on-drugs-but-im-canceling-my-shows-and-not-because-of-coronavirus.html

# ? Aug 24, 2020 23:20

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

langford addressing him as Sour makes me lose my poo poo every time I listen to it

# ? Aug 24, 2020 23:21

John Romero: Jul 6, 2003; John Romero got made a bitch

scoresman. got a tattoo

# ? Aug 25, 2020 02:02

parthenocarpy: Dec 18, 2003

im about meetin girls im amount.. meeting guys

# ? Aug 25, 2020 02:31

Zoben: Oct 3, 2001

Lifespan posted:

I didn't know this. Looks like he hasn't tweeted since 4/4 and cancelled a bunch of shows before that (not that he would have been able to play them): https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2020/03/artie-lange-im-not-on-drugs-but-im-canceling-my-shows-and-not-because-of-coronavirus.html

I know not a lot of people hold Dawgs in high regard (lots of idiots there but a few good eggs, just like everywhere on the internet), but they have an Artie megathread which is rather interesting and sometimes informative. If you search for the user "Senior" on there, you'll find posts by a fellow who has actually been proven to be Adrienne's husband (Artie's ex, the hot chick who they showed on the Late Show when he was on). He posted a few things in there like these shots from Ade's phone, where Artie was messaging her. Note that her name for him as a contact is "Leave me be"

poo poo's brutal

# ? Aug 25, 2020 03:10

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Zoben posted:

I know not a lot of people hold Dawgs in high regard (lots of idiots there but a few good eggs, just like everywhere on the internet), but they have an Artie megathread which is rather interesting and sometimes informative. If you search for the user "Senior" on there, you'll find posts by a fellow who has actually been proven to be Adrienne's husband (Artie's ex, the hot chick who they showed on the Late Show when he was on). He posted a few things in there like these shots from Ade's phone, where Artie was messaging her. Note that her name for him as a contact is "Leave me be"

poo poo's brutal

Goddamn.

Also, might want to edit out that phone number.

# ? Aug 25, 2020 03:19

Evil Agita: Feb 25, 2005; Lord Fool, give me another chance. I'll prove my strength to you!

Sad. But great content.

# ? Aug 25, 2020 04:19

Lifespan: Mar 5, 2002

No idea what "Dawgs" is, but his Late Show appearance with the "whores" was the beginning of the end for him on the show (or when Daner left him). Wasn't he engaged to a woman for a while too? Didn't think he was still texting some random chick.

# ? Aug 25, 2020 04:23

barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Lifespan posted:

No idea what "Dawgs" is, but his Late Show appearance with the "whores" was the beginning of the end for him on the show (or when Daner left him). Wasn't he engaged to a woman for a while too? Didn't think he was still texting some random chick.

dawgshed, a longrunning forum for Stern fans. last I checked they were just straight up deleting every new account that tried to register so I've never really read anything on there

# ? Aug 25, 2020 04:36

Former Human: Oct 15, 2001

How many cameos does Artie have to do to afford to get his grotesque face fixed?

# ? Aug 25, 2020 04:58

Kragger99: Mar 21, 2004; Pillbug

I heard it'll cost him at least 40 GRAAAAAND

# ? Aug 25, 2020 05:20

Grant DaNasty: Jul 17, 2006

barnold posted:

dawgshed, a longrunning forum for Stern fans. last I checked they were just straight up deleting every new account that tried to register so I've never really read anything on there

The last time I posted there they were transferring over to a subscription based model where you had to pay $5 a month which is dumb as hell.

# ? Aug 25, 2020 05:36

Zoben: Oct 3, 2001

Grant DaNasty posted:

The last time I posted there they were transferring over to a subscription based model where you had to pay $5 a month which is dumb as hell.

Yes, when that happened I was planning on not reading it again, but for some reason my account there still works. Maybe somebody paid for my account which would be bizarre since I don't post there much compared to other users :shrug:

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Also, might want to edit out that phone number.

Yeah you'd think so, but that's what he posted there. It's likely not active at this point regardless

# ? Aug 25, 2020 06:00

wesleywillis: Dec 30, 2016; SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Artiedashlangewithanedotcom

# ? Aug 25, 2020 11:00

Sand Monster: Apr 13, 2008

Lifespan posted:

No idea what "Dawgs" is, but his Late Show appearance with the "whores" was the beginning of the end for him on the show (or when Daner left him). Wasn't he engaged to a woman for a while too? Didn't think he was still texting some random chick.

Adrienne is the woman you're referring to -- they showed her backstage at one of his Letterman appearances, the one he was engaged to, she "saved his life", she went with him to Paris where he took a swing at a French policeman, etc.