Topic: Ask an AnT who used to be a (non-troll) wiseguy with over 3k posts up until earlier today anything
+Anonymous A — 12 years ago #37,112
I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
(I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
(I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
+Anonymous B — 12 years ago, 8 minutes later[T] [B] #418,464
Can you please shut the fuck up?
+Anonymous C — 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #418,477
+Anonymous D — 12 years ago, 33 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,480
@OP
> I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
>
> http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
>
> http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
>
> (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
>
> I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
>
> Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
>
> It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
>
> I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
>
> Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
>
> The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
>
> It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
>
> I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
>
> Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
I didn't read this
> I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
>
> http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
>
> http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
>
> (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
>
> I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
>
> Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
>
> It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
>
> I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
>
> Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
>
> The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
>
> It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
>
> I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
>
> Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
I didn't read this
+Anonymous E — 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,481
@previous (D)
> > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> >
> > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> >
> > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> >
> > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> >
> > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> >
> > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> >
> > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> >
> > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> >
> > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> >
> > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> >
> > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> >
> > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> >
> > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
>
> I didn't read this
me either
> > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> >
> > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> >
> > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> >
> > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> >
> > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> >
> > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> >
> > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> >
> > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> >
> > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> >
> > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> >
> > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> >
> > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> >
> > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
>
> I didn't read this
me either
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,492
@previous (E)
> > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > >
> > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > >
> > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > >
> > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > >
> > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > >
> > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > >
> > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > >
> > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > >
> > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > >
> > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > >
> > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> >
> > I didn't read this
>
> me either
ditto
> > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > >
> > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > >
> > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > >
> > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > >
> > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > >
> > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > >
> > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > >
> > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > >
> > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > >
> > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > >
> > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> >
> > I didn't read this
>
> me either
ditto
·Anonymous A (OP) — 12 years ago, 6 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,495
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> ditto
I didn't either
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> ditto
I didn't either
·Anonymous D — 12 years ago, 38 seconds later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,496
@418,481 (E)
> > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > >
> > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > >
> > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > >
> > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > >
> > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > >
> > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > >
> > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > >
> > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > >
> > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > >
> > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > >
> > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> >
> > I didn't read this
>
> me either
It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > >
> > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > >
> > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > >
> > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > >
> > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > >
> > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > >
> > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > >
> > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > >
> > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > >
> > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > >
> > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> >
> > I didn't read this
>
> me either
It should be "me neither", not "me either".
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 12 years ago, 21 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,499
@previous (D)
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> It should be "me neither", not "me either".
Interesting. I do hope Autphag will be along soon to explain the lingual intricacies to us.
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> It should be "me neither", not "me either".
Interesting. I do hope Autphag will be along soon to explain the lingual intricacies to us.
+kook !!u4KQvs2JM — 12 years ago, 31 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,502
·Anonymous D — 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,503
@previous (kook !!u4KQvs2JM)
> Autphag is busy playing tranny, grab ass in the threes.
In future please copy the post to which you're replying. Otherwise it's difficult to know what you're referring to. Consider this advice, but not far from a warning.
> Autphag is busy playing tranny, grab ass in the threes.
In future please copy the post to which you're replying. Otherwise it's difficult to know what you're referring to. Consider this advice, but not far from a warning.
·kook !!u4KQvs2JM — 12 years ago, 6 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,504
·Anonymous D — 12 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,505
@previous (kook !!u4KQvs2JM)
> Im on my phone. I dont even know how to do that.
I'm not interested in your excuses or explanations, I'm looking only for improvement.
> Im on my phone. I dont even know how to do that.
I'm not interested in your excuses or explanations, I'm looking only for improvement.
+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12 years ago, 4 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,545
@OP> I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
>
> http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
>
> http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
>
> (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
>
> I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
>
> Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
>
> It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
>
> I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
>
> Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
>
> The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
>
> It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
>
> I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
>
> Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
>>>/2009/
+On !NinTendO.c — 12 years ago, 9 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,550
@418,499 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
> > > > > > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I didn't read this
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > me either
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> > > > >
> > > > > Interesting. I do hope Autphag will be along soon to explain the lingual intricacies to us.
> > > > Autphag is busy playing tranny, grab ass in the threes.
> > >
> > > In future please copy the post to which you're replying. Otherwise it's difficult to know what you're referring to. Consider this advice, but not far from a warning.
> > Im on my phone. I dont even know how to do that.
>
> I'm not interested in your excuses or explanations, I'm looking only for improvement.
By the name of Nintendo, I FTFY.
> > > > > > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I didn't read this
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > me either
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> > > > >
> > > > > Interesting. I do hope Autphag will be along soon to explain the lingual intricacies to us.
> > > > Autphag is busy playing tranny, grab ass in the threes.
> > >
> > > In future please copy the post to which you're replying. Otherwise it's difficult to know what you're referring to. Consider this advice, but not far from a warning.
> > Im on my phone. I dont even know how to do that.
>
> I'm not interested in your excuses or explanations, I'm looking only for improvement.
By the name of Nintendo, I FTFY.
·Anonymous E — 12 years ago, 39 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,555
@418,496 (D)
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> I didn't either
I didn't neither
> > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > >
> > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > >
> > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > >
> > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > >
> > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > >
> > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > >
> > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > >
> > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > >
> > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > >
> > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > >
> > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > >
> > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > >
> > > I didn't read this
> >
> > me either
>
> It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> I didn't either
I didn't neither
+Anonymous J — 12 years ago, 48 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,557
@previous (E)
> > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > >
> > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > >
> > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > >
> > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > >
> > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > >
> > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > > >
> > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > >
> > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > >
> > > > I didn't read this
> > >
> > > me either
> >
> > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
>
> >I didn't either
>
> I didn't neither
Huh?
> > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > >
> > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > >
> > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > >
> > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > >
> > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > >
> > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > > >
> > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > >
> > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > >
> > > > I didn't read this
> > >
> > > me either
> >
> > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
>
> >I didn't either
>
> I didn't neither
Huh?
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 12 years ago, 8 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #418,576
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> > > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either- there were even better wiseguys than I who got hit worse, simply because they were more active. And when I say I was the "second most-active wiseguy," I don't say that because the moderation team was non-existent. I never went below third place in-between there being 8 and there being 2 wiseguys. I had built up no less than 2,000 "wiseguy-related actions" (these are counted as an internal pissing contest, basically) every single week. That doesn't include anything public, either, like posting or voting. Just shit that is directly related to helping AT out in some way. The even-more-active-than-me wiseguy currently (whose codename I'm not revealing entirely out of respect for him; he's genuinely a great guy whom I hope comes to his senses after Sysop pass-scrambles him for no legitimate reason) has 1.5-2x this on a regular basis. He never gets anything but constant un-makings and abuse from Sysop, either. Amusingly, to me, he almost never makes a mistake, either - far less than I do, anyway --- and yet he gets unmade roughly as often. The one before him was Deprehensio, who was essentially Sysop without the personality. Never made a mistake either, got permanently un-made a few weeks ago. Sysop then pass-scrambled him and is legitimately confused as to why he never sent an email apologizing and asking to be re-made. No, really.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to- causing the peak - but complimented me internally for (by submitting posts with things like "I know you can't accept this, but say thanks to the positive wiseguy for me :)"). Sysop gets on... unmakes/bans/shitlists me for allowing a duplicate topic accidentally, deletes one of my latest bulletins for being "ridiculous," and makes another rage one because the fucking POLLS aren't getting enough traffic. This is the point I probably should have quit, but, yes, queue ass-kissing on my part to get reinstated. I'm not saying I'm proud of it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > > >
> > > > > I didn't read this
> > > >
> > > > me either
> > >
> > > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> >
> > >I didn't either
> >
> > I didn't neither
>
> Huh?
A pair of eyes.
> > > > > > I've never had any reason to take proof that I was a wiseguy before, obviously. I'll explain why I'm making this topic after two more images:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://imgur.com/3QsYO --- Look for "Admin" in the header, the faint yellow border on the left (which indicates being a wiseguy) and "Latest round table posts" in the tabs menu. Taken to test something unrelated (AnonTalk got added to AddThis.com), and before you could post as a wiseguy (which was literally later that day). If you think I'm lying, look for the very first "as a wiseguy" post on AT that you can and see if any of them were made before February 1st: http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28853
> > > > > > > 6. We released a few new services --- UpNews, Armenix, Indexor, Yiid, Cootopia, and AnonTalk.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://imgur.com/7XdDRl --- Taken just now, obviously. I know I come off as an asshole here, but I was supremely irritated at something he had said earlier, and, of course, the pass-scramble didn't help. The subject will be explained further down.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (I'm not bothering to proof-read or coherently connect most of the following; if it reads awkwardly, I apologize in advance.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I was unmade as a wiseguy earlier today. In fact, I wasn't just unmade; I was banned, shitlisted (which had no effect, seeing as how my IP wasn't stored anymore), and had my password scrambled, which dissociates all posts that I've made from my account and prevents me from doing anything but looking at topics or Stuff (nothing in which I could click on). As you might be able to tell from the image of the email I had sent to him the first time around, this wasn't because I had "tipped the scales" with something I've done; this is a frequent occurrence. There has not been a week that has gone by in which I've not been unmade. There has not been a week in which every single other wiseguy gets unmade, usually for no fault in our ability to moderate. He doesn't even just unmake us as a pre-cautionary measure; he bans and shitlists us 100% of the time (pass-scrambling around 10-20%).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seeing as how this is a frequent occurrence, I just shot off the email above, and, after a complete lack of response, a more sincere one later (from a different email, so he didn't just ban the one he knew I used). It was falsely sincere, yes, but it wasn't so blatant as to be insulting. Despite the frequent occurrence, he has yet to ever refuse to re-instate me and go through the painfully convoluted process of restoring my ID on his end --- it being painfully convoluted because there is no automatic option of any kind to un-ban someone, let alone re-associate all posts with their account and restore their password. Up until now.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It was officially somewhere around this point in which I lost it. If your're ever amazed at Sysop's ability to be constantly insulting in the Bulletins and never realize what a fucking idiot he's being, it's not an act. He berates us nonstop in the "secret" wiseguys-only discussion board (the "Round Table" --- this is also where the "LatestDude part comes on, seeing as how we all have an internal codename and that was mine), refuses to ever even comment on any "non-critical" post that we make in there to keep spirits up (and usually ignores even half of the actually critical shit), and yells at us some more if we dare to discuss anything not entirely, strictly related to the board in general.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I put up with all of this for a year now (on and off for all but the last 5-ish months due to inactivity) because, believe it or not, I really did care about AT. That's where the "non-troll" part of my headline comes from. I have never, once, done anything to intentionally harm AT in any way. I always moderated well (yes, I made the occasional mistake, but I never accepted any "obvious troll") and as often as possible. More importantly than anything else, I did nothing but encourage the community to the best of my abilities; find ANY positive bulletin by either "A wiseguy" or "?" (before he implemented the ability for us to post as that, which was a day before we could post in topics as such), and I can damn near guarantee that I made 99% of every single one. I could count how many of them I didn't on two hands. And, yes, that means I'm the one who never stopped using the emoticons in the bulletins --- that wasn't for trolling, either, it's just a bad habit of mine. :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Despite all of that, I never got anything but abuse from Sysop. Daily. I'm not the only one either
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The other two who have had a codename thus far: RevNick (now perma-unmade by Sysop), and, as of last night, actually, ChickenFlipper. There have been three other nicknamed wiseguys before the last one, but they were all unmade within the span of 12 hours and had their accounts perma-scrambled as well. I'm serious. He screwed three 500+ post regulars so quickly I can't even remember what their codenames were for the life of me. Two of them got removed because they accepted minor mistakes one time. Sysop removes you for any reason he can find or, if he's having a bad day, no reason whatsoever. And by "having a bad day"... well, imagine this for a second.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's AT's most active day in months. People are posting, at its peak, 4.9 topics an hour. The moderation queue is flowing with what feels like an endless stream of posts, all of which have to be proof-read and responded to individually if there's a problem. They're all of a pretty decent quality, too, for the most part. I made two "happy" bulletins in the last four hours encouraging even more, which people not only responded to
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm officially done. As of today, I'm counting any time I have ever spent helping AT as lost and trying to ignore it. I give up. Sysop is the most unpleasant, demanding, bitchy prick I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I've sympathized with him and made excuses for him on the basis that he has to put up with a lot of shit, but I just don't care anymore. He pissed me off supremely earlier today; unmaking me because I DARED to disagree with His Majesty cinched it. I truly believe that he has some kind of mental illness by this point, and I actually kind of feel sorry for him, to the point of hoping he'll learn to seek professional help and live a healthier life going forward. Since he's never going to do that, of course...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ask me anything about what it's like to moderate AT/deal with Sysop that I haven't described upthread.
> > > > >
> > > > > I didn't read this
> > > >
> > > > me either
> > >
> > > It should be "me neither", not "me either".
> >
> > >I didn't either
> >
> > I didn't neither
>
> Huh?
A pair of eyes.
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