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FFA Moderation Thoughts - What Do You Think? (1 Viewer)

How would you like to see the FFA moderated?

  • More heavily moderated than it is now with time outs given much more frequently for unexcellent beha

    Votes: 42 11.4%

  • A little more moderated than it is now with time outs given a little more frequently for unexcellent

    Votes: 73 19.8%

  • Keep it like it is now

    Votes: 119 32.3%

  • A little less moderated than it is now with time outs given a little less frequently for unexcellent

    Votes: 63 17.1%

  • A lot less moderated than it is now with time outs given much less frequently for unexcellent behavi

    Votes: 71 19.3%
  • Total voters
    368
squistion said:
That seems a specious explanation IMO. The reason being is that we have not had these 2003 accounts appear suddenly at any point in the past, just in the last few months. If this was the real story, we certainly would have seen at lease some of these 2003 accounts trotted out periodically, not held by several posters for 14 years.
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Pretty sure there was a forum software upgrade back in the :sehorn: days that reset everyone's post count.

 
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IvanKaramazov said:
I know you don't know the history here (obviously) so let me enlighten you.  2003 is when we migrated from old yeller to this platform.  Lots of people created a bunch of aliases when registration opened, both for schtick purposes and as a way to dodge bannings (moderation was much stricter then during the ! era).  You don't know what you are talking about and you're looking like an idiot as a result.
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I remember that day, hoping to get on early for a low number.  Seems silly now.  That said, it was 14 years ago now, and I had yet to turn 30, much less 40.  FOURTEEN YEARS!

 
squistion said:
That seems a specious explanation IMO. The reason being is that we have not had these 2003 accounts appear suddenly at any point in the past, just in the last few months. If this was the real story, we certainly would have seen at lease some of these 2003 accounts trotted out periodically, not held by several posters for 14 years.
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Just...wow.

 
squistion said:
Fair enough. If so, then come up with a better explanation as to how about a half dozen accounts, all created in 2003, dormant for the most part since that year (some with no posts at all) suddenly start posting in this forum with detailed knowledge about the regulars on this forum. Nobody lurks for 14 years and then start posting regularly, that doesn't seem at all plausible.
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Troll who knew he would be trolling creating a crap ton of IDs so he could keep trolling when he inevitably gets banned over and over.  

It's not rocket surgery.

 
sho nuff said:
Troll who knew he would be trolling creating a crap ton of IDs so he could keep trolling when he inevitably gets banned over and over.  

It's not rocket surgery.
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Except the troll was not here in this forum in 2003 - he did not create his account until May 2007. These (what are now alias) accounts were all created in 2003, so it unlikely that any of them were started by him.

 
squistion said:
Except the troll was not here in this forum in 2003 - he did not create his account until May 2007. These (what are now alias) accounts were all created in 2003, so it unlikely that any of them were started by him.
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Dude...nobody gives a ####...trying to help you out here.

move on man

 
Sinn Fein said:
Why are we talking about aliases?  

We ALL use an alias when we create a user name that is not our own name.  
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If we shouldn't be talking about this, please led the mods know and maybe they can finally delete this from the pinned FAQs thread:

https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/319399-free-for-all-faq/

0. Alias accounts

Are a pain for moderators. If you feel the need to create extra accounts just for trolling, this message board isn't for you. We see them; we close them. New accounts created in response to having your original account suspended/banned may also be axed.

 
You guys think this 2003 #### is crazy?  Remember September 8th, 2011?  When that one guy singed up and posted quite a bit for the next 6 years - 12,718 posts to be exact - and then suddenly stopped?  AND THEN ONE WEEK LATER STARTED POSTING AGAIN?!?!?

####### weird.  Who stops posting for a week and then starts posting again except hackers and aliases?  Some weird #### going on in here.  

Just ask the mods - they can verify.

 
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All this alias talk has me feeling really really guilty.  Mods please delete my alias account 'squistion'.  TIA!  

 
Are you seriously not going to listen to the dozen or so old-timers who are telling you the same narrative of how things went down here back in the good old days?  The people who are chiming in to make fun of you are not just Trump supporters or other people who might have a political axe to grind with you.  Some of these folks were here at the time and recognize craziness when they see it.

 
jon_mx said:
All this alias talk has me feeling really really guilty.  Mods please delete my alias account 'squistion'.  TIA!  
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And you accuse me of constantly making personal attacks against you, yet you continue to make posts like this.

 
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MaxThreshold said:
Wait...how do we really know that it is @jon_mx who is making these alleged personal attacks against you and not some hacker?  Or alias?

Can the mods verify?
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The mods can verify that while he suspended (justifiably) he posted under the alias Megaton. He has made the same typographical errors on certain words for years (guess he ignores the spellcheck function) so his alias was spotted quite quickly.

 
squistion said:
The mods can verify that while he suspended (justifiably) he posted under the alias Megaton. He has made the same typographical errors on certain words for years (guess he ignores the spellcheck function) so his alias was spotted quite quickly.
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Dude.  Just stop.

 
squistion said:
The mods can verify that while he suspended (justifiably) he posted under the alias Megaton. He has made the same typographical errors on certain words for years (guess he ignores the spellcheck function) so his alias was spotted quite quickly.
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So you had a professional do some online forum posting analysis for you?  Would it hold up in a court of law?

and isn't Megatron too busy fighting Autobots to be posting in an online forum?  You SURE it was Megatron and not some other Decepticon?

 
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squistion said:
The mods can verify that while he suspended (justifiably) he posted under the alias Megaton. He has made the same typographical errors on certain words for years (guess he ignores the spellcheck function) so his alias was spotted quite quickly.
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You've reached creeper level stalking man.  Go take a walk and get some fresh air.  I admit I want to laugh at you but this is embarrassing to read.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
Dude.  Just stop.
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I understand you and others don't care if the mods don't enforce the rules posted in the pinned FAQs at the top of the FFA forum page. But some of us do.

As I have said numerous times, if they don't wish to enforce the printed rules fine, you won't hear a peep out of me about alias accounts after that if the printed rules are deleted. But if the rules continue to be posted, like, um, you know, that they are actual official rules of this forum, then I will continue to say something.

 
squistion said:
I understand you and others don't care if the mods don't enforce the rules posted in the pinned FAQs at the top of the FFA forum page. But some of us do.

As I have said numerous times, if they don't wish to enforce the printed rules fine, you won't hear a peep out of me about alias accounts after that if the printed rules are deleted. But if the rules continue to be posted, like, um, you know, that they are actual official rules of this forum, then I will continue to say something.
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I think you're on your own.  

 
How many times does Squistion hit the report button . I hope his social security check gets lost in the mail this month and he can't feed his pigeons

 
MaxThreshold said:
So you had a professional do some online forum posting analysis for you?  Would it hold up in a court of law?

and isn't Megatron too busy fighting Autobots to be posting in an online forum?  You SURE it was Megatron and not some other Decepticon?
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No, Max, jon_mx is like Beaver Cleaver in some respects. Easy to recognize in a few posts because he misspells words that most people who have more than a GED know are misspelled (but he keeps making the same mistake again and again and again).

 
squistion said:
I understand you and others don't care if the mods don't enforce the rules posted in the pinned FAQs at the top of the FFA forum page. But some of us do.

As I have said numerous times, if they don't wish to enforce the printed rules fine, you won't hear a peep out of me about alias accounts after that if the printed rules are deleted. But if the rules continue to be posted, like, um, you know, that they are actual official rules of this forum, then I will continue to say something.
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:  If you are unhappy with it, you can always GO FAR AWAY from here

 
Post counts are not accurate for old accounts. This one had hundreds as a shtick alias during the 2004 election, but they're all gone.

 
squistion said:
John Kerry said:
Post counts are not accurate for old accounts. This one had hundreds as a shtick alias during the 2004 election, but they're all gone.
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Yeah, right...

John Kerry

Content count 2

Joined February 27, 2004

Last visited March 12, 2008
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What you just posted is entirely consistent with what he just said. Like I tried to explain to you before, there was a forum software upgrade which reset everyone's post counts (and also deleted our membership numbers). The "John Kerry" account made hundreds of posts during the 2004 election cycle. Then those posts were all deleted around 2009, and since then he has made 2 posts. That's why your detective work shows "Content count" of 2.

Any three-digiter knows this.

 
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[scooter] said:
What you just posted is entirely consistent with what he just said. Like I tried to explain to you before, there was a forum software upgrade which reset everyone's post counts (and also deleted our membership numbers). The "John Kerry" account made hundreds of posts during the 2004 election cycle. Then those posts were all deleted around 2009, and since then he has made 2 posts. That's why your detective work shows "Content count" of 2.

Any three-digiter knows this.
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So Kerry is not an alias account, who has been lurking since his last post in March 12, 2008 and just decided to start posting again? Somehow I doubt that

 
Feels like a collective deep breath would be helpful to a lot of the recent posters in this thread.  Some people will choose to believe in and say crazy things. Some people will choose to "pile on" people for these crazy beliefs.   After a while-- the smart thing for both sides to do is to walk away and just agree to disagree.  

 
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squistion said:
No, Max, jon_mx is like Beaver Cleaver in some respects. Easy to recognize in a few posts because he misspells words that most people who have more than a GED know are misspelled (but he keeps making the same mistake again and again and again).
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The difference is I did not personal attack you.  I made a joke about deleting 'my' account.  You on the other hand did personally attack me with a false allegation about my education level, which is probably better than yours.  

 
squistion said:
[scooter] said:
What you just posted is entirely consistent with what he just said. Like I tried to explain to you before, there was a forum software upgrade which reset everyone's post counts (and also deleted our membership numbers). The "John Kerry" account made hundreds of posts during the 2004 election cycle. Then those posts were all deleted around 2009, and since then he has made 2 posts. That's why your detective work shows "Content count" of 2.

Any three-digiter knows this.
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So Kerry is not an alias account, who has been lurking since his last post in March 12, 2008 and just decided to start posting again? Somehow I doubt that
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Yes it is an alias account. And it just so happens that the person who created that alias in 2004 was also reading this thread today, and he decided to log on just now to help you understand what happened.

So, to recap:

1. Some random Footballguy creates the "John Kerry" alias in 2004.

2. Same random Footballguy uses "John Kerry" alias to make hundreds of posts in election threads in 2004 and 2008.

3. Once the usefulness of the "John Kerry" account wears off, the random Footballguys stops using the "John Kerry" account.

4. sometime around 2009, a forum software upgrade purges hundreds of threads and resets the post counts. Now it appears that the "John Kerry" account has 0 posts.

5. in 2017 the same random Footballguy from 2004 sees squistion being obstinate in this thread, and tries to help him by firing up the old "John Kerry" alias to enlighten him.

6. epic fail all around.

 
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