Tales from CE Return - And The Mods Strike Back

More users have noticed that the always trigger-happy moderators of Gamefaqs have stepped up their game recently, even for them, a quick scan of Current Events shows.

"Im seeing lots of topics currently about mods going crazy. jumping on every opportunity to mod posts. So who is this guy? Is he newly recruited?" -Cobra1010

"the mods have been a little mod crazy as of late...I have gotten modded more in the last 2 weeks then last 2 months." -Dustin1280

^"Same here. They jump at every chance to mod you. In the 10 years i've been using gamefaqs, iv probably been modded like 10-15 times total. But been modded 2 times in the last 2 weeks. This place has really become a s*** hole...I found a better place to discuss gaming and other stuff." -Cobra1010

"Yeah they're on a f***ing high horse right now" -DezCaughtIt

"Alright which one of you mods has been doing all these unjustified moderations the past few days. Get your ass in here and explain yourself" -Axiom

"I was modded yesterday for what seemed like a year or so with no moderations. These mods are crazy, man." -Volkswagen_Bros

"I had a totally clean mod history and got warned...This is like shooting someone for their first shoplifting offense. I called a mod immature a few hours ago. I suspect that's why I was targeted" -Tezlok

"I got a 3 KL for laughing at an offensive joke without even quoting it and then a mod responded with "Laughing at a joke perpetuates its offensiveness" as justification for the modding. Someone else was modded for using twink because it's a 'slur'...Did Allen send out a memo to mods telling them to be even more uptight than usual or something"-Axiom

"I once got modded just for saying that what I wanted to say would get me modded." -Gamer99z

"The mods on this website dont really care about the users on this website. They use their mod role as a form of entertainment." -angermngment101

"I had a 16 year old, clean history acc get instabanned for posting a joke spoiler." -Ilishe

"I almost got banned for posting a nonsense spoiler like Dumbledore kills Anakin. People here go frothing at the mouth apes*** over the possibility of getting spoiled, the mods don't even want to handle it. I don't get it." -Rexdragon125

"I got a 3KL for quoting a link to Trump's twitter." -DezCaughtIt

"i got warned last week for referencing the body-slamming incident with Greg Gianforte and a reporter. f***ing conservatroll mods lol." -DuranOfForcena

"I haven't been modded since I stopped posting in Islam or transgender topics. There's a mod or two who are overly sensitive about that s*** and will clean history 3KL all day long if you even tastefully speak out about either one, or use the wrong pronoun. That still pisses me off." -voldothegr8

^"they really need to name and shame that loser" -ModLogic

"Mmhm, I got my first moderation the other day for posting an image comparing the metric system to the imperial system. Apparently suggesting the imperial system is inferior is 'offensive'." -Joelypoely

"the mods are crazy" -ManLink4321

"This is why we need some kind of mod transparency, and no it wouldn't cause witchhunts. It would cause justified hunts." -voldothegr8

"That feel when you havnt reached your moderation quota this week...So you look at your s***list and just pick a post at random. God the mods on this site arent very good" -Rika_Furude

Meanwhile, within the topic "use 1 word to define gamefaqs moderators" the top results are "inconsistent" and "embarrassment," while "bad," "scourge," "lol," and "garbage" also registered. In fairness, though, one guy thought they were friendly.

Update on the Politics Situation

We at GUAC have now counted at least four users suspended since last Friday, with one account even suspended while we were writing a PM to him. That wasn't very nice!

Although by actual numbers, Euroknight has seen the most suspensions in the past week. He sent us a fine rap sheet of all the things that can get you in hot water - messages such as "a few less gender studies majors," "Why do Democrats need safe spaces?" praising a photo of Trump posing with a gay teacher, and linking to a Project Veritas video.

http://imgur.com/a/VFPAU

We've reached out on Twitter to both Gamefaqs and Error1355 about the recent suspension spree from the moderators, and Gamefaqs itself has naturally not responded (we don't think they've kept up on social media since Krystal was sacked). Error, however, was very kind to respond with random beeping noises, later calling this and all the accounts quoted above "crazies."

It is now Wednesday, and none of the suspended accounts from last Friday have been addressed - despite the one day decision policy. Although the higher-ups may be behind on things, Error and the mods have let us know that we certainly won't be neglected on their end. Shortly after contacting Error on Twitter, this writer received an additional three moderations.

Don't Call a Klansman a Klansman

In another one of those Great Moments in Moderator Decisions, Politics board user Welcommatt has been warned after linking to a story about Confederate flag and klan supporters. His board crime was to call the participants "paranoid klansmen" - and this likely fell under the so-called antagonistic label, by a mod who obviously didn't read the story.

The user then posted a second topic for the story, without the "offensive" comment attached, and it was taken down again. This time he got warned after posting the same "offensive" article twice.

Not a great weekend for Gamefaqs.

While we were reaching out to Error about the other suspensions, we also raised that second topic while it was still up and questioned the idea that it was a violation. The second topic was deleted shortly afterwards. Our apologies if this tweet brought on the unwanted attention of anti-speech manchildren.