Are You on Error1355's List of Troublemakers?

Short answer? If you've ever complained about Gamefaqs moderations, yes.

Perpetual bad mod Error1355 is back at it again, after recent criticism of the Gamefaqs moderators and their frequent ridiculous moves. It's no surprise that Error has a problem with people who don't like how badly the moderation system is run, but this past week he decided to launch off this doozy: "the only people who say I'm bad at 'user relations' are the troublemakers."

Mind you, this is someone whose greatest contributions to Hellhole include random gibberish and showboating about accounts he's gone after.

Criticism from all the "troublemakers" was swift:

"f*** out of here with that. For once pull the head out of your ass...I'm expecting to have my account terminated after that but this had to be said." -Miz_iZ_AwSOme_X

"Error. As per usual, you're not helping, and only using this board to insult people." -BurgerTime79

"I don't understand why error won't resign" -ripparagon

"Do you really take to your Twitter account to discuss the moderations you have instituted as a Gamefaqs moderator? If true I find that to be very unprofessional behavior. My interest and visits to this website have waned in the last few months, and behavior like this by people who represent Gamefaqs and CBSi does little to encourage future use. As someone who is in a position of authority, you are required to rise above the commonality of this site's regular users Error. You have failed in that regard." -ILikesCheese

"error1355 could stand to be a better mod...And the gamefaqs moderation team in general" -Rika_Furude

While yet another longtime Gamefaqs user (18 years!) was ready to leave:

"I'm wondering if I should just close my nearly 18-year-old account. I have recently kept getting moderated for flaming over on the politics board (261 board), but there are plenty of users that have been constantly trolling there, yet they don't get moderated for anything of the sort, even though posters like myself have moderated them for such...I have gotten placed on warned status a few days ago. If they're gonna threaten to suspend me for something like that while letting everyone else get away scot free for constantly trolling, then fine, I think I'm just gonna f***ing quit posting on these messageboards altogether! I'm sick of this s***. I've just about lost my patience." -Shinobi120

Other, past criticism of mod-user relations include the infamous "cultural differences" from the former Gamefaqs community manager (a comment against dating black people that was largely viewed as racist), as well as that time a moderator was caught red-handed hijacking the account of another long-time user, as Gamefaqs staff spent the entire weekend telling users who had been there since 2000 - and would vouch for the guy who had his account stolen - that they were actually super wrong and also whining babies. These would also fall under Error1355's list of "troublemakers."

Here are some more "troublemakers" who have bothered Error with their complaints:

"how sad that someone has modship yet pulls s*** like this, or the fact that mods like error, raptor and burgers are constantly aware of the [account hijacking] history and openly cover for them." -Josh__Gordon

"whats stupid is when you are suspended by a horrible moderator like Error you have no recourse. you cant contest anything b/c the site wont let you view your messages........where is the logic in that? and of course no higher level mod is going to review it or overturn it...........there should be a way to get him canned." -iamintents

"Error once contested my mod dispute by saying he "knew what I really meant" (even if my message said otherwise), that he wanted me to lose my account. In a different instance he gave me that "i award you no points, this is the most stupid thing... May God have mercy on your soul" line." -ElectroSable

"Instead of giving an answer acting in a mature manner as mods should act since they of all people are supposed to be the ones that set the example of how the rules should be followed, in fact, do the exact opposite by engaging users in a way that is quite condescending and rude which is really no way to treat anyone. From my time here it seems that Error and Raptor are the biggest culprits of engaging in other users this way. This is what happens when someone with even the finest bit of power is given to them. It'll be a cold day in hell though when these two actually know how to act appropriately when speaking to someone even when they disagree with them. I sure hope you don't treat people this way at your real life job." -cowabunga1984

"Literally a 3kl with no history for doing something Error said is ToS safe. Never change, mods. Never change. And before you start, no, me accepting the moderation doesn't mean you were right. It means I want it cleared faster." -Th3_Butt3rfly

"[Baseman, Burgess and Admiral] all got demodded for their controversial behavior. Rather than being controversial, Error is outright incompetent, so he would have to be demodded for entirely different reasons than those three, so we don't know if it'll happen." -FriendSystem

"[Canned mod] Burgess had it coming. Every single little piece of it. He and error literally tried to get me banned by abusing auto-suspensions." -ROD

"If you're going to hold a position of authority, you should at least be a little bit humble/cordial/professional/whatever. Error straight doesn't give a f***. He'll troll the f*** out of you then mod you for getting mad. He's like the cop that tail gates you then pulls you over for speeding when you try to put some distance between him." -mfwahwah

"Many of you think it's okay that because of your status as a moderator, you have the right to troll. You don't. Please stop f***ing with us. Burgess, stop trolling people and then modding those who retaliate. Error, just stop provoking people. tbh you have no sense of humor...You are both corrupt and biased and need to do your duty as a moderator to keep these boards a safe place, not mod the victims instead of the bullies...Focus on the queue, and stop silently locking topics that don't need to be locked." -DN-boards1

"Literally trolling the users again and antagonizing them again...This is why you need to be demodded." -ElectroSable

"Error and raptor both fail really hard in mod to user relations. Take gmo, lady, and yoshifan1 not once have I seen them give sass rude remarks or anything of that nature they useually just answer the topic question at hand in a professional manner. Error and raptor on the other give rude remarks and even start making fun of people getting moderated which isn't ok." -ripparagon

"So how exactly do mods get away with trolling/flaming people after banning them?...people like Rator, Error and more so Gavi are allowed to bad mouth users on here especially people asking about things which IRC what this board [Hellhole] was originally created for yet you people act like you have some stick up your ass and have to put people down for merely asking about their moderations." -The_Santa_Claus

"Burgess/Raptor/Error I feel great pity for since they enjoy trolling forums and that seems to be their only source of joy...Allen is just ugh. He trusts his trolls mods for whatever reason." -BrutaI_Deluxe

"Raptor is just sad, Admiral and Error are legit trolls." -papermonkey21

"I am blowing the whistle on Error1355...Error is constantly targeting a specific user on CE and closing said user's topics with no explanation or chance to appeal...How is the topic creator supposed to have a normal GameFAQs browsing experience when he is the target of a vicious, misguided witch hunt by a moderator drunk on power? The moderator lock, frankly, is crap. It gives moderators free reign to lock topics while A.) Not saying which mod locked it, and B.), the more important one, not saying why the topic was locked." -Nuffinz0rz

"[Error and Raptor are] bad role models for newer mods. Both of you two's behavior is chronically, publicly inappropriate and bushleague. I know this is just gaming forum, but authority parallels abound in modern community that you two are not publicly competent at this job...You two are probably the majority source of community relations problems on the site's end. It's sad...you're a good example of a bad moderator. At least in public. One that you hope new moderators look at and say, "I'm not going to be like him in 10 years." That's your only shot at being a good influence on a new mod." -benjjjamin

"I got modded for mentioning Error like twice. Nowhere in any of the rules does it say you can't mention someone, and when I contested it the mod said some s*** like "oh well now you know" like what the f***" -DocileOrangeCup

"Error, please, PLEASE, PLEASE, leave me alone. It's starting to get to the point where you're harassing me now." -DN-boards1

All this is just a sampling of the many complaints made against Error1355 (and other mods) on Gamefaqs in recent years. Offsite, there's even more. But Error will continue to attack the Gamefaqs users he doesn't like, rather than listen to anybody.

But one thing is no longer in dispute, at least...(WALLY ALERT):

Error1355 has finally admitted that wally was a "bad mod" looooong after this blog called him out on it, years after he stepped down, and waaaaay after it would've made any difference. Better (super) late than never, but this was after all that time they covered for wally and let him do whatever he wanted. So it kinda makes you wonder: how many "bad mods" is Error1355 covering for today?

Gamefaqs is Evil - Gamefaqs Mods Defend Murderers

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: unless it's someone criticizing said evil!

We're leading off with perhaps my most provocative headline ever, seeing as Gamefaqs is, in fact, a terrible place, with moderators who are even more terrible. With every unjust moderation made by them, attacking my character, I will add yet another post to this blog - and the long litany of complaints elsewhere - giving Gamefaqs the bad press that it so richly deserves. Because GameFAQs sucks. And so does this last moderation.

Meet the latest government statistics that the GameFAQs moderators don't want you to see! Facts which, since these ignorant and evil Gamefaqs scumf***ers thought they could censor, I will now constantly draw attention to and leave up here forever:

"Meet the 50,000 DACA criminals let in by Obama"

http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/06/18/dhs-factsheet-shows-1000s-daca-crimes/

Obama Admin Approved 50,000+ DACA Amnesty Applicants with Criminal Records

Those details were hidden by Obama’s deputies, who also hid information about the DACA illegals’ education credentials and work histories.

They hid it because none of it was good...

17,079 DACA recipients have been arrested more than two times...DACA-approved people have been arrested for ten murders, 31 rapes, 95 kidnappings, 187 robberies, 425 hit-and-runs, 2,007 assaults, 4,611 drug offenses, 6,629 thefts, plus many crimes related to their illegal status — 11,861 immigration crimes and 20,926 non-DUI driving-related offenses...

Obama’s deputies were very forgiving of the crimes. For example, 2,503 people with arrest records for battery were allowed into the amnesty. So were 2,378 DUI drivers, 6,629 thieves, and 1,173 burglars.

Overall, 70.8 percent of applicants with one arrest were approved for the amnesty, as were 59.9 percent of people with two arrests and 51.7 percent of people with three arrests. One-third, or 33 percent, of applicants with eight arrests were included in the amnesty, as were 18.8 percent of people with a record of 10 or more arrests.

Thousands upon thousands of crimes which, you would think, someone would be interested in stopping. Crimes which you would think are fair to bring up at a place that calls itself a Politics board. Crimes which, if I recall correctly, the vast majority of Americans oppose and which were frequently called out and condemned by one of the most successful, totally-from-scratch grassroots presidential campaigns in this country's history. You would think that with the extent of all these crimes, along with the issue's constant presence in the political realm, that this is a mainstream and fair issue to raise. Not according to Gamefaqs airheads, who would rather cover up the crimes and censor based on their own preconceived biases.

And it is a radical bias, make no mistake about it. We have documented it right here quite well in recent years. There is absolutely nothing moddable about the facts, other than some pissant GameFAQs moderator doesn't like these facts. Now, when GameFAQs mods decided to censor based on their opinions, I don't mean just that topic. And when I raise a title that provocative, I don't just mean that they defend murderers by taking these murder and rape stats down, trying to cover them up. I also mean the daily, constant stream of BS on that very same board that they either do nothing about, or actively jump in and endorse. I'm talking about open calls to lynch politicians and attack people with violent lynch mobs, crimes which are apparently acceptable discourse on the GameFAQs politics board, even though criticism of said crimes (like the post above) is not allowed. And as you can see from that link, I don't even have to think back for examples of this. They happen every single day.

Now, wally used to be the poster child of poor GameFAQs modsmanship. But even though he still makes frequent calls for violence against political opponents - and has a weird penchant for things such as child rape-robot pedophilia - he's now a former mod. I don't miss him (and really, you can't - despite making a fake account bet on the 2016 election to close down and leave the board forever, he welched on both promises and continues to be wrong about almost everything to this day).

But no, I'm afraid that the award for sucky Gamefaqs moderator now goes to Error1355, who is my prime suspect in this latest crime cover-up. I can tell you exactly what's happened here, with near absolute certainty, because I've seen this game before.

Readers may recall the moderation I received because I (again) posted accurate statistics in a topic last month. Note the time from that last warning. I have brought this little game of theirs up before, and it always plays out the same way: the warning happens, I appeal it, and then absolutely nothing happens for about a month. Suddenly, near the end of the month, a second warning pops up right before the first one clears from the account history. Every. Time.

The second warning is always timed to string along the penalties on this account. It doesn't matter if the message in question has been on the boards without any problem for 10 days or more. They will go into my active messages and pick something at random to mod me for. Since they could find absolutely nothing to censor about LGBT for this month (a favorite censorship point for them), they have instead hit upon a random post on a random subject from days ago.

It is in this way, through this timed personal targeting, that 1) the warning status continues virtually indefinitely, 2) any harmless message can be slapped with a warning, since "the last warning proves they are a repeat offender," and 3) since they know the most recent warning is a harmless message and absurd moderation, they time it so I have no appeal ability - they make sure it's timed a few days before the last appeal expires and goes off my account.

Why do I refer to the moderator in question as "they"? Because even though Error1355 is the prime suspect, the one who hates me enough to do this, and the one petty enough to stalk accounts, we really can't say for certain. This is because GameFAQs has a policy of COLLECTIVE MOD COWARDICE - rather than debate on the Politics board, as everyone else does, they remove messages they don't like and hide behind anonymity. Therefore, I have no choice but to blame them all collectively and call every mod on GameFAQs a coward.

So here goes!

Alucard188, you are a coward.

AmegaiShiryuu,  you are a coward.

AssultTank,  you are a coward.

billyb2004,  you are a coward.

Bluffnix,  you are a coward.

Caelthus,  you are a coward.

Centurion,  you are a coward.

Citrik,  you are a coward.

Crazymaori,  you are a coward.

Dark Magic,  you are a coward.

Deathjester,  you are a coward.

Deja Blue 03,  you are a coward.

Devin Morgan,  you are a coward.

Error1355,  you are a double coward.

Exolamb102,  you are a coward.

FridgeBeard,  you are a coward.

Ghost_Turtle,  you are a coward.

gmo7897,  you are a coward.

Hikewne,  you are a coward.

jimmyjones69,  you are a coward.

jondias,  you are a coward.

KookyCouture,  you are a coward.

Lady_Ninane,  you are a coward.

LanHikari10,  you are a coward.

Life Sympathy,  you are a coward.

Lord_of_BeefDip,  you are a coward.

Magna Stryker,  you are a coward.

MMZ,  you are a coward.

ne14a6t9r,  you are a coward.

Optimus Magnus,  you are a coward.

Orbo99,  you are a coward.

RaptorLC,  you are a coward.

RySenkari,  you are a coward.

SBAllen,  you are probably not responsible, but I'll keep you here just to point out that your GameFAQs moderators suck and they're cowards.

ScarletSuzumiya,  you are a coward.

ScarlettEve,  you are a coward.

Seaman9999,  you are a coward.

shmirlywhirl, you are a coward.

Shotgunnova,  you are a coward.

Silent Sniper IV,  you are a coward.

Silverhaze2525,  you are a coward.

spartan99ruler,  you are a coward.

spooky96,  you are a coward.

stahlbaum,  you are a coward.

TarElessar,  you are a coward.

Team Rocket Elite,  you are a coward.

TheFifthPerson,  you are a coward.

Tom Clark,  you are a coward.

Tommy873,  you are a coward.

Touchdown Boy,  you are a coward.

TrunksTheMighty1,  you are a coward.

Tyrasibion,  you are a coward.

WafflehouseJK,  you are a coward.

WalkingWiki,  you are a coward.

Wolfieroo,  you are a coward.

yoshifan1,  you are a coward.

Zanzenburger,  you are a coward.

Zilong17, you are a coward.

*phew*

With all that copypasting done, I would just like to point out to all you cowards that if you would actually like to be a civilized human being and try to debate me one day, instead of moderating people over (and/or eating your own) s***, you know where to find me. Because I've been here for 10 years, and I've got at least another 10 in me. I'll be here long after Error1355 becomes such a massive ball of utter idiocy that he crumples in on himself and forms a wormhole to the Stupid Dimension.

Cheerfully yours,

TaiIs82

New Mod Low? HIV-Positivity Defended, Criticism Shunned

A looooong-standing position of this blog has been that mods should avoid censoring other people based on their personal opinions. Unfortunately, the moderators on Gamefaqs continue to inject their personal opinions into their moderations, despite recent changes to the terms of use - and these opinions of theirs are often abhorrent.

Gamefaqs recently made some changes to their site, which didn't go as far as what was originally proposed, but they were significant ones. A lot of rules were relaxed, which is great by us. But on the opposite end of that, a rule against namecalling was expanded in a big way. As for Yours Truly, I can't say that this would have an impact on me, since my arguments do not rely on namecalling but on factual statements - but as for others who like to namecall often, the rule sought to crack down on that. The "playground heckler" rule was criticized by many, as it meant that basically the mods would be playing schoolteacher to five year olds, telling them not to call people "children," "idiots," etc. Long-time memes like "Saxon=joke account" would now get you modded under these rules.

But more importantly for this little entry of our blog, the new rules did away with 3 karma loss notifications. Sounds good? A lot of people thought so, us included. At the same time there are obvious drawbacks. In place of 3kls, you would either be getting a message from the mods (a nanny lecture saying "I'll keep this up, but don't you do it again!") or you'd go straight to a warning. Some questioned why moderators, who already claimed they were overburdened and couldn't keep up with the queue, are now expanding their job to lecture people about messages they weren't even going to take down. But on the more dangerous side of things, people could go straight to warnings - meaning that instead of a 3kl, they would now get their account locked for several days over a single message - and they even wanted to remove disputes so you couldn't defend yourself!

Warnings breed contempt, which is something I can tell you from personal experience. And few things are more contemptible than the mods' ongoing stranglehold over anything to do with HIV issues. This is where their personal opinions come in. If you're in favor of the status quo, great. If you aren't, and if you want to point out that the status quo has failed, prepare to be moderated.

By all accounts, Yours Truly has been a good kid. There has not been a single moderation on this end at any time this year - and quite frankly, we were almost convinced that the mods were done with these games of theirs. But mods are always changing, and there's always someone out there looking to abuse a position. So here we go.

As always, the full text can be found here and here. At issue are basic facts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which a moderator claimed were "misrepresented." Now, as the saying goes, you're entitled to your own opinions but you aren't entitled to your own facts. It's difficult to see how I misrepresented an article that I quoted extensively from, and almost entirely. It is hard to say how I misrepresented anything when the article literally states "The number of people in the military who take...Truvada, began surging after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in 2011." It's data that some people obviously do not like, but it's a fact. Nothing was misrepresented.

My original source was the Washington Examiner, which is the website that the mod took issue with. I don't know why it's any of his business which source I choose, but since he (incorrectly) claimed that the CDC was misrepresented - and that this was the reason for his moderation - I changed the source and went to the CDC directly.


https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6720a1.htm

Would anyone be surprised at what happened next? This "fixed" topic was also taken down and sent straight to warning. Additional details that the moderators don't want anyone to know:

"The maximum estimated annual cost of PrEP to the military health care system is substantial, and new prescriptions for PrEP are expected to continue to rise...In addition, indirect costs associated with HIV-infected personnel who are prohibited from combat deployment might have substantial impact on military unit readiness and ability to accomplish specific missions.

"285 (37%) had at least some college education. The indication for initiating PrEP was most commonly sexual contact with men (87%) and condomless sex (73%); 30% reported exposure to sexual partners with known HIV infection."


Additional information left unquoted: the soldiers obviously didn't get HIV on the battlefield and this was contracted mainly within the US (in a manner which the military itself points out is unprofessional), and that drugs like Truvada are not readily deployable to battlefield situations. Knowing all this, knowing that the cost of HIV per person can ruin their lives to the tune of $450,000, would you assume that this is open to political discussion on a politics board? Well, maybe on a better board than the one at Gamefaqs. Because they were having none of it.

After this additional moderation, it became obvious that I was correct the first time and their real issue with the message was not the source used - but the facts provided. In another shining example of mod work, the moderator claimed that the data was anti-gay:

A Mod/Admin said on 5/27/2018 7:46:55 AM:
You will continue to be moderated if you continue to imply that any man who has sex with another man is 'knowingly having sex with others who have HIV'. This is you generalizing homosexual men as inherently having HIV and that is an offensive stereotype that will not be allowed here.

If anyone is misrepresenting the data here, it's the moderators. If you ctrl+f any of the text from my message, you will not find any mention of gay or homosexual soldiers made by me in that topic. The data from the CDC, which is there for anyone to see, literally says "30% REPORTED EXPOSURE TO SEXUAL PARTNERS WITH KNOWN HIV INFECTION." Does this say "any man who has sex with another man" as the mod claimed? No. Does this mention orientation at all? No. This is another one of those situations where we wish mods could display some evidence of reading comprehension.

Gamefaqs moderators should stop inserting their own political opinions into their moderations, and should look at what the message actually says - none of this "you implied" or "I think you meant to say" which is just their projection of my feelings onto the message, and has nothing to do with what the actual message itself says.

But furthermore, and more troubling for free speech, what if the data HAD said all that? What if the facts were that all men who had sex with men were undermining military readiness, as the mod claimed? Would moderators have banned talk of that as well? Is this an issue we just aren't allowed to talk about, regardless of what the percentage is? As I pointed out within that topic before its deletion, not everyone who smokes will get lung cancer. On any other issue, would discussion be banned? For fear of offending smokers, would a factual correlation between smoking and lung cancer be censored by Gamefaqs unless it could be proven to be 100%? This would be an absurd approach. So why is there a ban on mentioning any correlation between DADT repeal, and the results of said repeal? Why is there special treatment here?

Are there some special groups that just aren't allowed to be criticized, no matter what? Imagine if Gamefaqs did this for a church. Enforced speech codes for protected groups are the modern-day equivalent of blasphemy laws, and I simply don't think that this bigotry has any place in modern society.

And so, since the moderator in question decided to attack my character with "you implied so-and-so" and other made-up accusations, I decided to question their character as well and point out what they're effectively doing through their censorship. As another Gamefaqs user pointed out before the topic's deletion, there are now "HIV-positive" activists who think it's fine and dandy to infect other people with HIV, despite the massive costs to society, despite the damaged and ruined lives that result from it. This group was the target of my criticism, and in the military this was the 30% who self-reported that they knowingly got it that way (it may be higher). Regardless of orientation, I pointed out that the VA is already scandal-plagued, overstretched with waiting lists, as people died without treatment from wounds they received while serving honorably on the battlefield.

What kind of society would justify, and even praise, watching those veterans die while HIV spreads - even though this is a disease that is entirely avoidable? A society that sits back as both of these things happen, is simply wrong. And so, I decided to call out moderators for enabling censorship that seeks to silence anyone who wants to put a stop to both these tragedies:

Why not debate like anyone else if you disagree? I suppose it's because that would require taking a stand for something, rather than hiding behind anonymity. Now, I understand why the person in question doesn't want to play defense for HIV/AIDS on a forum where they would be held accountable for what they say - but that simply means that the person should re-examine their own flawed and gravely incorrect worldview, not sweep under the rug those who are right. I do believe an apology is in order.

As for me, I will never apologize for wanting to end the scourge of HIV/AIDS - and this site continues to remain an embarrassment to the internet when they continue to actively fight against those who do.

I've asked them for an apology. We'll see how it goes.