Former Mod Burgess Admits: Yes, Demodded for Being Unprofessional

Not one, not two, but three tipoffs lead me to this story. They just keep bringing me back in~

Last week on CE, Burgess responded to some questions and revealed that there are quite a few mods who are pretty bad at what they do.

Since that last part was probably sarcastic (although not untrue), I asked Burgess to weigh in and tell us specifically which mods he had in mind. The reason this piece is a bit late is because there has still not been a response after a week. Same goes for Krystal, the former community manager who had a hand in demodding him. Krystal has often, falsely claimed I don't care enough to get enough sources for my entries, but then typically throws up her hands and says other people care too much about the site (also known as the "lol I was just trollin, you 2 srs" defense after losing an argument). Which raises the question: is this an admission that we care more about the Gamefaqs community than a former community manager?

By the way, in that same topic I had the chance to ask Error about unprofessionalism and whether Joel or Allen had a talk with him yet - as promised here by an employee of CBSi. Of course, nothing's happened on that front. Here's what Allen's been doing instead, and in a surprisingly unexpected fashion. When he said he'd take over Krystal's duties, it looks like it happened in more ways than one...

Here's Mr. Allen's dismissive reaction to when a mod revealed private account information. It's a little hard to follow because - surprise surprise - Allen eventually caved and recognized the mod WAS out of line, so he deleted the mod's post. If he'd left the issue there we'd be fine, but then he decided to systematically go through the topic and punish the user for complaining. Note that Allen considers it trolling when he got called a kid offhand, but only after he suggested himself that the user should grow up and act like a man.

Because Allen is a busy man, yet not busy enough to avoid going on a deletion spree against completely unmarked messages just because he got annoyed by a user on a message board. But at least we know Allen responds to PMs.

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GUAC News 8/6/15: Error Unprofessional / wally Bets His Account / Mods Being Mods

Just a few small updates posted for posterity.

Error's Posts Unprofessional

Yesterday Gamefaqs held an AMA with three of their staff members, which can be found on Team Gamefaqs. During the last session, SomeLikeItHoth managed to bring one of lead mod Error1355's unprofessional posts to the attention of a higher-up on CBSi. 

Here's the post in question, as captured by Hoth:

Of course we don't expect much to change but previous mod removals have surprised us. Who knows? Maybe Error's mouth will get him in trouble one day.

wally Account Bet

Board 261's resident mod wally has placed an account bet, which we can't resist posting here.

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DONALD TRUMP 2016

Mods Being Mods

Also from 261: typical mod topic closures and general laziness, in a topic asking users what three things they'd want to do if they were in charge (I guess the moderators didn't like the answers).

This usually happens when mods have been called in to a board they don't usually pay attention to, and are just too lazy to mod multiple messages, so they just say the whole topic sucks and punish the TC by closing down all discussion with a button. Of course the creator of the topic has no control over who posts what in his topic, but the mods do. If there are violations of the terms within a topic, the responsible thing to do is to mod them so that users have a reason why their messages were censored and have a chance to dispute. Sometimes mods can't be bothered to do this though, or the argument that the messages are violations is very weak, so instead they just shut down all discussion while calling the TC names and insulting everyone in the topic. Just another day on Gamefaqs.