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.