Is Frownland a Garbage Mod Who Trolls as He Wants Cause the Other Mods Do Nothing?

Paedantic Basterd · 10-17-2017, 01:54 PM

So here's the thing. We have always had mods who have goaded users and then tried to ban them for retaliating. Anybody remember Urban? Vanilla? Yeah? No? Literally always been an issue. It's just what happens when you A) get a bunch of personalities together and B) give some of them power.

The thing is, changing that kind of culture requires way more effort than anyone is willing to put into it. Accountability isn't fun. So we don't do it.

EDIT: I'm not commenting on Frown per se, because I haven't been around enough to notice the issue in question, I'm just talking about the behaviour in general.

Plankton · 10-17-2017, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I'll be one of them. Seriously: when's the next Whale coming out???

I'm back in the studio this fall/winter, so sometime next spring.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-17-2017, 01:57 PM

I respect grindy as well.

Trollheart · 10-17-2017, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I was banned for calling Plankton a fake pussy but Frown gets to make fun of Chula's mentally ill son AND Batlord gets to talk about ****ing Troll's poor sister?
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That's different. I knew he was joking, plus Batty hasn't ****ed anything in so long my sister would chew him up and spit him out. If, however, he had said something along the lines of "Your stupid disabled sister" then we would have a problem. Most times, Batty knows where the line is and seldom crosses it.

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

So here's the thing. We have always had mods who have goaded users and then tried to ban them for retaliating. Anybody remember Urban? Vanilla? Yeah? No? Literally always been an issue. It's just what happens when you A) get a bunch of personalities together and B) give some of them power.

The thing is, changing that kind of culture requires way more effort than anyone is willing to put into it. Accountability isn't fun. So we don't do it.

EDIT: I'm not commenting on Frown per se, because I haven't been around enough to notice the issue in question, I'm just talking about the behaviour in general.

Yeah. I never had a problem with any other mod. Can't speak for anyone else, but if you get made a mod, if you take on the job, there should be some sort of basic code of conduct that prevents you from abusing your powers. I suppose it doesn't help that I never liked Frownland anyway, and that's reciprocated, but I like him less now that he's proven that all he wants to do as a mod is throw his weight around.

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Originally Posted by Plankton

I'm back in the studio this fall/winter, so sometime next spring.

Yay!

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

I respect grindy as well.

He paid you to say that, didn't he? I know how expensive those Prince special edition boxed sets are.

OccultHawk · 10-17-2017, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

And the double standards. I've seen Chula get treated like absolute **** for no reason. He got banned for posting pictures of his family in the MB pictures gallery because it HAS to have a pic of him in it. Then right after that Frown posted pictures in that thread that didn't have pictures of himself in it. It was the cherry on top of his trolling in that thread. When we called him out on it, he shrugged it off.

I've seen Plank create a whole thread to troll Bat and ban anybody that scrutinized him for it.

I've seen Grindy pay a bunch of people to hijak airplanes and fly them into the twin towers back in 2001.

I also saw Exo Tour Life bring in a demolition team to make sure the towers fall because jet fuel can't melt steal beams the same way that WWWP melts my heart.

I call shenanigans on it all. If nothing is done about it then I think I'm going to continue posting at exactly the same rate as if nothing happened. If something gets done about it I think I'm going to continue posting at exactly the same rate as if nothing happened.

Edit: I just broke my ****ing keyboard because I threw it in a fit of rage I'm so angry. God this place Phils me with anger.

This was one of the funniest posts I've ever read here.

Paedantic Basterd · 10-17-2017, 02:13 PM

In theory, the mods are accountable to the other mods. However, there is a mod culture that tolerates certain transgressions in the name of "mods are users too" and the name of "yeah but that member is a moron, so in this case it's okay".

Other than that, mods are accountable in threads like this one, which seldom achieve much in terms of actual policy, but might at least make people go "oh, maybe I was being kind of a dick" and cause them to knock it off for a month or two.

Trollheart · 10-17-2017, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

This was one of the funniest posts I've ever read here.

The best thing was that it started out serious as **** and then you kind of go wtf dude and by the end you're just laughing so hard....

Trollheart · 10-17-2017, 02:16 PM

Batty right about now...

OccultHawk · 10-17-2017, 02:52 PM

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I suppose it doesn't help that I never liked Frownland anyway, and that's reciprocated

Really?

Trollheart · 10-17-2017, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Really?

Really.

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10-17-2017, 01:54 PM	#211 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	So here's the thing. We have always had mods who have goaded users and then tried to ban them for retaliating. Anybody remember Urban? Vanilla? Yeah? No? Literally always been an issue. It's just what happens when you A) get a bunch of personalities together and B) give some of them power. The thing is, changing that kind of culture requires way more effort than anyone is willing to put into it. Accountability isn't fun. So we don't do it. EDIT: I'm not commenting on Frown per se, because I haven't been around enough to notice the issue in question, I'm just talking about the behaviour in general.

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I respect grindy as well.

10-17-2017, 02:13 PM	#216 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	In theory, the mods are accountable to the other mods. However, there is a mod culture that tolerates certain transgressions in the name of "mods are users too" and the name of "yeah but that member is a moron, so in this case it's okay". Other than that, mods are accountable in threads like this one, which seldom achieve much in terms of actual policy, but might at least make people go "oh, maybe I was being kind of a dick" and cause them to knock it off for a month or two.