Things reached a breaking point today with the whole "fire a mod" thing, and I'm done playing. I'm packing up my toys, and I'm going home. Literally. I'm packing my desk, and going home. Enough of this BS.
I had given my unlisted phone number to the moderators over Christmas for emergency contact purposes, and one of them thought it would be funny to start subscribing me to paid SMS services and other subscription phone call services like surveys or some crap. Of course, none of them had the spine to give me *their* phone numbers for contact purposes, so it's not like I can call each of them to find out who it was. I have a suspicion it was Cenere or Zophia in Europe because the calls are coming really late at night -- apparently AG needs better screening on the maturity level of its moderators. Like I don't get enough sleep at night already with a newborn...
This thing is obviously way out of hand. What started as a means to diplomacy and to give the other mods a much needed kick in the arse ended up causing all kinds of spam, enraged users, actual hate mail, and now late-night phone surveys waking up my entire family.
Another survey call just came in on my cell phone this afternoon, and I flew into a rage, telling Dan, Justin and John that we need to just wipe the entire moderator panel because they're obviously not mature enough to handle the job. We all argued, they told me I had power issues, and had the audacity to tell me that *I* was the one that started all of this, and that being a self-appointed community manager wasn't even in my job description, so why the hell was I so upset, blah blah blah.
So I'm done. I handed in my resignation at Armor Games effective immediately. I'd draw some fancy "middle finger" ascii art in retaliation, but I haven't even got the energy for that, and they're all expecting me to leave...
I expect they'll try to lock me out of the site by disabling my account, which frankly they have every right to do, but hopefully they'll at least have the decency to leave my resignation note up for a while so some of you can at least see that I'm quitting.
Thankfully I have a few alternate accounts kicking around that were used for testing stuff on the site, so I may drop in from time to time just to harass the moderators enough to piss them off and ban each account one by one. Maybe giving *them* a few sleepless nights will teach them a lesson.
cormyn@cormyn.com for those that want to keep in touch.
i'm glad they figured it out, wouldn't want them spoiling any fun and banning users because we all thought the fire-a-mod thing was a joke.
has anybody contacted cormyn at all about this stuff? i might send him an e-mail just to keep in touch. keeping dr pepper at his desk should of got him promoted, not fired.
Actually John said otherwise, ManiacalMind. Still, what a **** storm all of a sudden...probably the mod though it funny to use his phone number that way but it was a terrible idea and he obviously didn't have the guts to admit it was his doing once he saw the result. That's the bad side of the web : a nobody with bad or plain stupid intentions can cause a lot of problems for an honest man that's doing his job.
Haha. xD I like green too, but "I like blu. :<" is what I usually say over on CountingTime when someone promotes me from Member (blue) to something else. \\\\o//
You forgot who did it!! I thought we were Poliwag buddies! >:'(
a nobody with bad or plain stupid intentions can cause a lot of problems for an honest man that's doing his job.
It smelled like revenge to me. But then again, even the simplest of jokes can go too far.
Cormyn's tactics remind me of a suicide bomber. Take 'em out with you. It was fun seeing all the mods become admins for a bit, they probably enjoyed it. I missed the blue though, so I'm glad everything is back to normal....except Justin Bieber.
Did anybody else notice the sudden spike in noobs today?
