Couldn't be bothered to find my mod objections

[Tails82]

"Hellhole >> I don't know about you guys but sometimes this place seems just a little cringey"

TaiIs82 12/15/2019 8:01:50 PM #9
Why do you think I made my wonderful board?

A Mod/Admin said on 12/16/2019 12:51:13 PM:
It's time to stop constantly bringing up your closed community board in every topic.

NWD lol

(I brought it up in 2 topics and this is a one-liner. I'm not even advertising for it since it isn't open).

[Tails82]

it’s odd to say the least that TC would get hit for something I have seen many times posted by others.

Yeah I've seen things like that all around. The one on m..........

The one on mmmmmy........

The one on SOMEBODY'S old or new board SOMEWHERE (if it was a board, that is), involving someone who is MAYBE me or MAYBE not, which that person MAY OR MAY NOT be allowed to mention, that same topic there was never moderated before.

Warned for "disruptive posting"

A Mod/Admin said on 12/19/2019 8:50:27 AM:
As told to you before, stop bringing up your board on every single topic.

(It was 2 topics)

You said on 12/19/2019 8:47:18 PM:
Mentioning my board is not a violation, and you would know this if you read the terms. 2 topics over the span of a month is a far reach from 'every topic,' though I did respect your wishes (however unenforceable they may be) by referring to the mmmmmmystery board here. Hellhole does not have any official status and I doubt anyone marked this, so it looks like it's just some more of that old-fashioned grudge holding at work. Perhaps I was keeping the mystery board secret precisely because its guests do not want to be targeted over nothing, the way I am.

The new total count going into 2020 is......

*drumroll*

36 warnings

726 kl

And they sure got nasty in recent months. 3kls are gone so they're just insta-warning people for anything. I'm watching the current visitors number and it's gonna be 3-digits pretty soon. Boards are dying.

[Tails82]

In the topic "Trump's Seventh Bankruptcy: The Republican Party"

www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/19/republican-national-committee-hits-fundraising-record-during-impeachment-fight/

Hmmmmm........no not quite

Another 15kl "trolling"

So for some background on this, I've already affirmed with SBAllen in a previous dispute that posting the news is not moddable. This time the article is not even an op-ed and is just basic FEC filing statements. But I guess the guy who makes the false statement topic, without evidence, beats out my pesky facts once again.

[Tails82]

So this one is from this topic: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/78472611
"Ridiculous purgatory because moderator doesn't understand basic turn of phrase"

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78475921

Meanwhile a mod is posting fake news, but users can't post real news if a mod doesn't like it.

That was a link to Alucard188 falsely claiming a million people died in Vatican City. That was misinformation and a violation when I linked to it, meaning the topic is a violation, but the mod never took it down and only I was moderated for it. nkl trolling

Meanwhile they are moderating people for posting real news that a mod doesn't like. You can't make this up.

[Tails82]

In someone's CE topic "How long until we look back and laugh at what an overreaction we had?"

The modelers claimed we would have 10 million climate refugees and 1 million dead from Ebola years ago. Count me firmly in the never-trust-the-panic-models camp.

"Do we broadcast how many people died from the flu in the last week? Or cancer? Car accidents? Suicides?"

Doesn't get the media enough clicks. Maybe if a celebrity dies from cancer they'd care for a day, that's about it.

"maybe we have to actually change our economic system...Maybe this is our perfect opportunity."

Crisis exploiting is never a good look.

"All the money that's being channeled to combat this. We always had the capability."

Yes, we always had the capability to go deeper in debt with bailouts, doesn't mean it's a great idea.

"you can clearly see Italian society collapsing."

We shouldn't pretend that Italy was in a great position prior to the virus. Many European politicians have been failing for years.

"You don't shut down the schools when half the students already have it. You have to shut down schools before one case is even reported in the school."

The proper time to stop a virus would be at the border before it got here. Now it just looks like they did nothing up until it got here, but then they instantly jumped up with "hey American citizens, enjoy fewer civil liberties." That's why you see people question the government's motivations.

We couldn't stand the idea of telling a few limousine-traveling vectors that hey, maybe it's not a good idea to go to Wuhan, maybe you shouldn't send your kids off vacationing in Italy, CNN maybe you shouldn't fly around interviewing people who eat human brains and other s*** - no, that would be too inconvenient for their lifestyle, but we can stand lecturing everyone else for things they aren't responsible for? So now everyone else has to pay the price for the bad decisions of others?

That's a 10kl trolling with no reason given.

[Tails82]

You said on 3/20/2020 9:25:34 PM:

Another useless moderation from useless moderators, with no reason given. There is no reason.

What am I to do? We could go through them one by one. News networks have in fact sent reporters out to the middle of nowhere to interview people who eat brains in filthy conditions. That happened. The climate and Ebola estimates happened, reality did not. It's obviously a bad thing to go deep in debt from this. So we could go through them one by one, all I'm doing is stating facts. But I have given up reasoning with you. I gave you something like 8 sources last time that confirmed my message and you couldn't even overturn an nkl. You're so far gone I don't think you even know what reason means.

Since at least 2017 - or earlier - I was warning people about something like this. This stuff is not a joke. When I said the time to stop this was at the border, that is not being a troll or defeatist, that's called being realistic. Now we are in a real mess, but I guess even if it was your last dying act you would prefer to "get" TaiIs82 with one more moderation, and have the gall to claim I was some troll who wasn't taking this seriously. I was taking this seriously for years, way before the news told you to last week. So forget you, pal. I would rather take an extra 15 days than leave this unchallenged.

So when it comes to their smears, I guess it's my sterling reputation speaking out against it - but this is also something they would never understand.

[Tails82]

They moderated me for "disrupting" a topic that had already been closed for six hours.

TaiIs82 3/20/2020 9:44:51 PM #54
There were 7 points I made during all this coronavirus talk and I'm not sure what it was moderated for, since there was no reason given. I believe I followed all the rules and all the secret "rules" that I know of, but I might've missed a new "rule" like this one. So which piece of bad news did a mod disagree with?

A Mod/Admin said on 3/21/2020 7:22:54 AM:
Do not try to hijack another thread to complain about your modeation.

btw I figured out what the rule was. It's the old "you will get randomly moderated for talking about current events" rule.

[Tails82]

This is a bad moderation even for Hellhole.

I'm going to put up some things I've seen that are out there today.

www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-nyt-reporter-challenging-the-coronavirus-narrative
www.foxnews.com/us/washington-field-hospital-coronavirus-dismantle
www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/09/it-turns-out-we-have-enough-ventilators-and-they-may-do-more-harm-than-good-for-covid-19/
www.dailywire.com/news/tests-might-explain-lower-virus-numbers-in-ca-hit-earlier-than-suspected
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/09/many-people-may-already-have-immunity-coronavirus-german-study/

What do you disagree with, TC, and why?

Gamefaqs mods once again leave personal insults untouched while moderating substantive questions. The boards are a hot mess because mods want them that way.

[Tails82]

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/78662064

You could @ SBAllen with what is sure to be a well-thought, respectful response and see what happens (likely nothing)

A Mod/Admin said on 5/7/2020 1:19:04 AM:
No, do not attempt to get others to use the mention feature on the admin to bypass the moderation system.

Warned trolling

This moderation happened in 10 minutes and based off mod activity, was due to either AssultTank or Life Sympathy bypassing the moderation system.

[Tails82]

Wow! I did not know the story behind the sex and sexuality board

TaiIs82 5/12/2020 9:41:47 PM #1
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78673403

"I still can't believe that board exists and was approved. I created it as a joke when community boards first came out when I was 19.

"When I first made it I didn't have any moderators and was too busy to regularly moderate it, and people were posting actual porn and nudes of themselves, which was kind of funny. There were no restrictions on who could post either."

There was never any porn or serious violations on my board, so reading through all this I got my hands outstretched at the screen in a "wut" position - considering the ordeal my board went through for far, far less. What person would seriously say, in terms of content, that my board was worse for 13 year olds?

"I only forward it if it's a really egregious violation like posting gore"

That's still their approach today? That was my approach too.

I was on my board at least once every night, and still involved with other community boards that I'm a leader on. This is my reaction to a notice that we got last year because I didn't remove a couple messages same-day by some mod's arbitrary 9pm deadline (I had a one-night-a-week work shift and wasn't online til later).

Classic TaiIs82 (Topic Creator)2/24/2019

"There were 3 offensive marks in the queue as far as I know and 2 were the same thing, either quoted or reposted. This is up from the typical zero. We had an nkl, and whatever (a user) said about hating a fictional character. So you know how it goes: "this board has multiple moddable messages just sitting there, Allen" because anything 2 and up is multiple.

"I don't think that any other board would get threatened with closure over something so small. Another CE topic right now asks people what the most toxic boards are, with Politics and CE getting the most votes. I think they get a lot more offensive messages each day than 2-3, but I don't see them getting nuked or walled off like LUE.

"But since my board is such a concern, again I've offered the mods to come here, they can form an Offensive Message Task Force to stop the problem since it's such a big deal to them. What happened a few nights ago may be the most action they see all year though, because I can tell you I haven't seen a lot of messages marked for offensive. I think the biggest issue we ever had was the fake account suicide, mods got tipped off on that, but it wasn't until someone threatened a fake anime waifu that they came down with all their fury. Says quite a bit about their priorities."

I have since learned that the reference to a fictional character's death (really, WHY did that have to be moderated?) was part of a CYOA that was posted in full on this site, meaning the whole grisly death is still up on a different community board to this day and the mods/admin never had a problem with it.

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/77552044#8

I was operating off of guidance on Hellhole at the time, from lead mods, that this stuff did not have to be removed. Why was my board the only one where a different standard applied?

It's been a year. Reopen my board @sballen - seriously

This was a suspension, dropped to a warning for "Other - Community Mod"

No mod note or category that it fell under. The board owner is not aware of anyone reporting this to mods. This would mean a mod dipped into the board, bypassing the queue to moderate something without providing an explanation or even which part of the terms it was modded for.

[Tails82]

This is in response to Error1355 declaring "I'm a terrorist" - logfaqs.com/topic.php?id=78735001 - and labeling other users as fascist, implying that he endorsed terror attacks against them.

#1

This is one of those moments when some people may look back and wonder why the site did nothing about the warning signs.

@sballen I reported this and there has been no site action against an open endorsement of domestic terrorism by a lead mod in 24 hours. I have zero trust in a moderation system that has failed to do the right thing for years and has retained staff that make such hideous threats.

10kl "abusive behavior"

You said on 6/1/2020 7:06:55 PM:
Error1355 endorsed domestic terrorism and then made threats to specific users he falsely claimed were "fascist." As expected, he has continued to abuse his power. Will he end up doing something like a bomb attack before the site finally takes his threats seriously?

I call on all mods of good conscience to overturn this and condemn his support for terror attacks.

#2

@sballen potentially putting my accounts on the line just to inform you that a lead mod has endorsed domestic terrorism, made threats to specific users and has been abusing the moderation system.

People should be free to post on Gamefaqs without threats of retaliation from self-declared domestic terrorists.

15kl "trolling"

Error1355 has had several meltdowns lately, including an f-bomb fueled attack on users who disagreed with him on nationhood: logfaqs.com/topic.php?id=78741321

such as

PatriotismPatriotismPatriotismPatriotismPatriotism

f*** off for f***ing real you f***ing f***off.

This guy is a low-quality troll in a lead mod position.

More here
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamefaqscurrentevents/comments/guwc2d/remember_how_i_once_considered_intentionally/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamefaqscurrentevents/comments/gvmt8d/fatty_neckbeard_error_goes_full_sjw_meltdown_lol/

[Tails82]

Community board nkls

#5 - Valjackal

Val is not as old as some of the mods on this list, but quickly gained a reputation as a wannabe-Raptor, even blatantly adopting Raptor gimmicks as seen here: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/78288127#18

Even though he is a wannabe, Val does excel over other mods in 1 annoying area, his frequent claims that he is actually against many of the moderations that go on here. If this is the case (he has said this without evidence), any such goodwill is immediately undone by his constant dogpile on anyone who complains on Hellhole. Other mods have also made this claim before - "I do great things for the site behind the scenes, you just have to take my word for it!" - Val uses it like a crutch whenever he is called out on some bad mod defense he made on Hellhole.

#4 - Alucard

We are now into the circle of leads I suppose. From a quick review of the literature, it would seem that Alucard gets a moderate amount of criticism for the typical abusive behavior, selective modding, grudge-keeping, etc. You may notice a correlation between mods with big mouths and mods who get the most criticism. Alucard gets a proportional amount of complaints to his mouth. Among the recent complaints was his spreading of fake news regarding the coronavirus, linking to country death totals that were physically impossible as it would be well over 100 percent of the country's population. When users pointed this out and said that a typical user would be moderated harshly for doing that, Alucard kept the topic open and did not apologize.

[Tails82]

^Add 1

#3 - AssultTank (not a lead)

Assult also followed me here to speak through an alt after he spent at least 3 months on a discord somewhere badmouthing my board in an attempt to get it closed down. Prior to that he used that alt, as he admitted, to troll CE and pretend to be an "unbiased bystander" whenever it came time to defend Error on something. He also holds grudges to the point of holding someone's history against them even if they have no history. I tied his troll account to him (same account creation time, same signature) and he never got over it. He would likely be demodded like bover if he wasn't an Error flunky. Assult is just a troll with mod powers.

[Tails82]

People who don't like the phrase "All Lives Matter"....Do you plan to say "Merry Christmas" this December?

15kl "trolling"

President Trump was the first to warn about China, while the Biden family was making sweetheart deals with them.

President Trump was also the first to warn about statue battles and brand white nationalist and Antifa groups as domestic terrorists. But destruction of property helps nobody, meaningful reform does. Trump did criminal justice reform while Biden spent his time in office fearmongering about superpredators and threatening to arrest people for jaywalking.

Joe Biden is a lifetime politician who plagiarized, can't even be honest about his own life and even stooped so low as to support segregationists if he thought it meant a poll bump. Due to open borders and lax law enforcement, the cities his friends run are full of disease issues, riots and murder in the news every day. Why would anyone want that expanded to a federal level for 4 years?

nkl "trolling"

The suspension was timed to coincide with the night the previous one went off my history. They picked the message at the top of my AMP and modded it for nothing, within 5 minutes of the post, to keep the chain suspensions going. Former mods have confirmed that things don't move through the queue that fast and would require targeting in some form.

[Tails82]

"I am an anti-racist"

Just got an 11 year old account banned. Gamefaqs has a HUGE racism problem. What else can be said?

#7 Deja Blue 03

Is Deja Blue even a real person? The plot thickened a few months ago when it was revealed that this mod tracked several users whose main thing in common appeared to be moderations. Many users theorized that this was an account used to track users on a troublemaker list. Deja Blue reacted by posting once, as if to say "I exist!" but of course that doesn't prove anything. Is it likely a tracker account? I don't think it exists to be one, I think there is a real person behind it. Most CEmen found the extent of the mass followings to be "creepy" when polled. He continues to follow people for boards he's never visited and never interacted with many of the people he follows. The inconclusive but "creepy" behavior puts him at a low position at the back end of the active mods on this list.

nkl delete reaching back 2 months