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Powered by the soul of a forsaken child! (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dunc) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2004-02-28 22:04:00 |
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The wank will be with you... always
I have been alerted that there is fresh wank over at boards.theforce.net, Star Wars fandom spooge central.
In short, the TFN site ownership has request the names, phone numbers, and addresses of the entire volunteer mod staff. If the moderators do not hand this over, they would lose their mod powers. And if all the mods and staff leave, the site owner has threatened to shut it all down.
An element of site ownership has told the entire Mod Squad that we must provide him with our real names and addresses and such by registering at another message board and then passing on our user names there to him through G-S. If we do not, we get demoted. All future moderators will have to provide this information. This may be expanded to cover City Representatives as well.
The Mod Squad and Old Folks Home have two major issues.
1) The security of the information and the purpose behind the information gathering. As everyone is probably well aware, the Mod Squad is about as leaky as the Titanic. This has fostered worries about how secure this information would be, even though it?s being stored elsewhere. No system is perfect, and there is the worry that that information might come out and what might be done with that information. And we?ve yet to be told why we need to give it (though the guess that it is something along the lines of ?if LFL sues, it?s on the shoulders of the moderators?).
2) The way that this has been handled by site ownership. More than anything else, I think that?s what?s at the heart of this. The feeling in the Mod Squad and Old Folks Home is that an element of the site ownership does not care about the message boards and the users and moderators here in any way at all. We as a group have not been provided with reasons why the information is needed; we feel that we?ve been threatened; we feel that we?ve been insulted; and finally we feel that we?ve been ignored.
It all leaks out when certain mods are spotted as being mere mortals.
And yes, slash even gets a brief mention!
Apparently it's 'settled' now, with a statement from the site owner, but this being TFN... Who knows? Many are still up in arms that the demoted mods haven't recieved VIP status, as is the standard for ex-mods.
ETA: A bit of snark from Jeff 42. (Scroll halfway down.)
A much better Cliff Notes version fromlannamichaels
I have been alerted that there is fresh wank over at boards.theforce.net, Star Wars fandom spooge central.
In short, the TFN site ownership has request the names, phone numbers, and addresses of the entire volunteer mod staff. If the moderators do not hand this over, they would lose their mod powers. And if all the mods and staff leave, the site owner has threatened to shut it all down.
An element of site ownership has told the entire Mod Squad that we must provide him with our real names and addresses and such by registering at another message board and then passing on our user names there to him through G-S. If we do not, we get demoted. All future moderators will have to provide this information. This may be expanded to cover City Representatives as well.
The Mod Squad and Old Folks Home have two major issues.
1) The security of the information and the purpose behind the information gathering. As everyone is probably well aware, the Mod Squad is about as leaky as the Titanic. This has fostered worries about how secure this information would be, even though it?s being stored elsewhere. No system is perfect, and there is the worry that that information might come out and what might be done with that information. And we?ve yet to be told why we need to give it (though the guess that it is something along the lines of ?if LFL sues, it?s on the shoulders of the moderators?).
2) The way that this has been handled by site ownership. More than anything else, I think that?s what?s at the heart of this. The feeling in the Mod Squad and Old Folks Home is that an element of the site ownership does not care about the message boards and the users and moderators here in any way at all. We as a group have not been provided with reasons why the information is needed; we feel that we?ve been threatened; we feel that we?ve been insulted; and finally we feel that we?ve been ignored.
It all leaks out when certain mods are spotted as being mere mortals.
And yes, slash even gets a brief mention!
Apparently it's 'settled' now, with a statement from the site owner, but this being TFN... Who knows? Many are still up in arms that the demoted mods haven't recieved VIP status, as is the standard for ex-mods.
ETA: A bit of snark from Jeff 42. (Scroll halfway down.)
A much better Cliff Notes version from
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