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Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010
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Lizard Wizard posted:

I was wondering if anyone had stories of power mad mods from guilds in online games.

I'm not sure if guild drama counts for this place, but I DO have a story about this.

There was a certain, reasonably popular group on City of Heroes' RP server. I didn't really know any of them, but they seemed nice enough. It turned out that the original leader of the group got demoted due to inactivity, and the new leaders kept it all going pretty well for years.

Then, the original leader came back, and was REALLY pissed that the group was 'stolen' from him. I don't exactly know the internal politics involved in all this, but he went off on his own to start a group of his own explicitly called the 'REAL [group name]'. His emphasis, not mine. As far as I know, this didn't last long, I think he got banned soon after. Possibly because the group he was trying to fight for ownership of was called the Erotic Exiles.

Power-mad drama gets infinitely more hilarious when it's about something clearly pornographic.

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Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010
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DraconicImpulse posted:

So one subreddit can lock down another subreddit? Is that what the /r/The_Donald bit is about? If so that's just ripe for abuse.

I think it's more that one of the subreddit's mods is really into Trump and going on a power trip.

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