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Arceus64

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Mods/Admins getting bans

Has it every happened before?

Of course, they´re sort of like the officers, but obviously they make mistakes every now and then.

Different55

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I got demoted then re-moted (is that right?) once but I was asleep and didn't see it happen.
As far as I know no mod has ever been banned.

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Zoey2070

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I've been banned before -- a few months ago -- but not as a mod. We don't get warnings once we become mods since that would be pointless and easy to falsify anyway.

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Arceus64

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I got demoted then re-moted (is that right?) once but I was asleep and didn't see it happen.
As far as I know no mod has ever been banned.

May I intrude and sensitively ask why you were banned?

Buzzerbee

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I got demoted then re-moted (is that right?) once but I was asleep and didn't see it happen.
As far as I know no mod has ever been banned.

Re-promoted, maybe?

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Bash

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I got demoted [at least] once because of a special administrator.

If a mod messes up, they are generally involved in the next "Hey, watch out for this" message that none of you get to see.

Different55

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I got demoted then re-moted (is that right?) once but I was asleep and didn't see it happen.
As far as I know no mod has ever been banned.

May I intrude and sensitively ask why you were banned?

[storytime]So there was this one time I was using mIRC, and I was learning how to script, so I downloaded some scripts off the interwebs to look at, but one of them had a bug made anyone who said ".join" a halfop instead of voice, and I accidentally left it loaded while I was asleep and afk on the forum's old IRC channel, and in this way I gave the entire channel halfop, and they tore it apart, and Cyclone got all mad and demoted me, but after a while he re-promoted me (Still sounds a little off), and then I woke up, saw I was kicked from the channel, joined, then Cyclone was all like RAWR and then I was all like wat? and then I gave him the script and he looked at it then explained what happened.

And to this day I have only ever been an op on one channel.[/storytime]

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Deetz

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

Well a lot of absent mods and admins on other forums ban themselves so people know they're gone, but that's not what you mean is it.

JadElClemens

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I believe we gave Tako an actual warning for something or another (after he became a mod, that is), but it was severely sarcastic and we basically laughed about it the whole time.

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Tako

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

I believe we gave Tako an actual warning for something or another (after he became a mod, that is), but it was severely sarcastic and we basically laughed about it the whole time.

Yeah, it was a double post, after we removed the double posting rule.

And BEE gave me a warning for being a nub, whatever that means.

But to answer your question, it would be very rare but definitely possible. It's one thing to be demoted - that just means you can't make decisions anymore. But to be banned, that means you went completely rogue and broke the rules in an important way. For example, raiding or giving away personal information to advertisers for money. Those two would result in a ban, no matter who you are.

Spam, flaming, etc. would result in chastisement, and only after several acts of defiance would you be banned (as a staff member). And the odds of that happening are, like I said, very rare.

It's rare because we don't just pick moderators because they have a lot of rep or posts. Instead, we pick from their virtues and relationship with the current staff. We trust them. Not very many things can corrupt your virtues and trustworthiness, but it is always possible.

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Arceus64

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

Yeah, I've always had a feeling that a trusted moderator would suddenly snap and ban everyone and erase accounts right before he left.

Krazyman50

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Re: Mods/Admins getting bans

That's why they would choose wisely for who they trust to be a moderator, no?