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.