Moderating

Santa, Digg, and Newgrounds

It’s a shame when someone tries to help out people and some assholes try to spoil it. Yes Newgrounds, I mean you. What the hell is your problem? Why do you have to cause trouble for someone that is trying to make someone happy? Are you that discontent with your life? Penis enlargement not working? I mean, why do you have to perform such immature acts in public on someone that is trying to put a smile on children’s faces?

And you Digg “Army” morons. Same goes for you. You bunch of teenaged dorks that don’t get out of your mom’s basement long enough to see a girl. Since I was raised in a family that taught respect, I don’t see the “fun” in causing trouble. Just another waste of time I guess. It seems to me, if you have time to waste, help someone out, instead of putting them down.

If it was up to me I’d disconnect each and everyone of you from the internet. There is no room for the likes of you or your mischief. Why can’t you play nice? Why do you always have to pee in the sandbox? I guess I’ll just have to keep banning you time after time. That looks good on the internet resume, banned from #santa.

I hope you’re happy with yourselves.

Ustreamers..You’re Next!!!

Adventures in moderating

Every once in a while, we’ll get some real troublemaker in the #chris chat. Today was no exception. I was distracted at the time when one of our team pointed out this particular troublemaker to me. He was berating the host and calling the other people liars, well, not in my chat you don’t.

I engaged this person in a polite conversation using the “ask questions” technique. The target was now in sight. After a few lines, he stumbled and gave me enough reason to silence him with the +b ~q: ban.. I love that thing. He immediately PM’d me with this:

~ hey unsilence me you terrorist
~ ok kid. give me your address. we have some issues
blaster: I’m not a kid
~ then quit acting like one
~ and unsilence me. you f’n censoring terrorist. people like you. you iwll be first
~ if you dont like what i say, then dont read it freak
~ has quit IRC (User has been banned from WyldRyde (Harassment and threats against another chatter is not allowed, not even via a PM. If you feel this ban is in error you may appeal it at: http://www.wyldryde.org/bans/))

I win. Sometimes it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. They don’t know it’s a setup until it’s too late. Up until the threat, this person would have been given the chance to do the right thing. But now, that will not be happening.