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.
That is true about the fire a mod thing but the admin left and that is a huge deal, not something you just toss to the side.Maybe cormyn was right about the mods.
Well the mods dont seem to care about cormyn leaving and it youd asume that the mods would care.
In all honesty, why should they care all that much? Cormyn wanted to do away with them as his primary goal (it appears based on a collection of all his posts). Now I ask, if you were one of these mods, would you care all that much if he decides to leave? I for sure would not.
I still don't really believe this. It just seems kind of like an April fools day joke. If it is an April fools day joke, it is a lot better then last years rick roll thingy.
Well why would the mods care if they dont get paid if they got fired?
I'm going to decipher that into "Why would the mods care if they got fired? After all they don't get paid" And then I would say, perhaps because this is the wrong way to do it, and they may not deserve to be fired. Would you care if someone fired you for being a tad bit busy?
Sorry about the double post but now I realize cormyns sick evil plan.I thought he had to do this for AG3.Now I realize that the mods are ticked because cormyn created this plan to get the mods worried and he eventually just fired himself.Now the mods have the right to be mad with him and cormyn is mad at them because they dont want to get deleted which makes complete sense on the mods part.Cormyn just created an evil plan to get the mods mad that is getting the mad reviews it deserves.
