ForumsThe TavernSo long, and thanks for all the lulz (Cormyn's Trolling of AG)

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cormyn
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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.

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Mooooooo
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Guys, deal with it. It's an April Fool's Joke!

darkrai097
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You don't fake a permanent ban.

master565
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Excuse me John, but does sending spam to an administrator's phone demonstrate good behavior whatsoever!?


If it's an april fools joke he can be lying about it.
thisisnotanalt
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Please leave this up so I can read it and laugh at it.

Rekoil
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er, dumb question: why would they do an april fools joke a day early? it's still March 31 where their office is, right?

master565
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er, dumb question: why would they do an april fools joke a day early? it's still March 31 where their office is, right?


So that on april 1st they can reveal how ALL this was fake.
Mooooooo
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It will be hard to admit that it's an April Joke!

John
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You don't fake a permanent ban.


It's standard AG policy to ban employees recently let go.
Avorne
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Well, I'm going to go Asherlee a Devoidless until this all Cenere's over, Zophia you guys Gantic.

Ghgt99
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like shooting airsoft pellets at one of my monitors


You guys have airsoft?? Lucky!

Those users who 'voted' will not be punished in any way


Ok. Whew.

and we've sent Emails to each of the moderators assuring them that their role with Armor Games is secure and that we're happy to have them on the team.


Good. I only voted for Voidy because I thought it was an april fool's joke and he was the first inactive mod I thought of.

we need to just wipe the entire moderator panel because they're obviously not mature enough to handle the job.


Cormyn has officially lost it. That would be insane. (No offense)
darkrai097
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It's standard AG policy to ban employees recently let go.

I kind of guessed that. I was responding to a person who said it was an April Fool's joke.
Rekoil
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So that on april 1st they can reveal how ALL this was fake.


but this stuff happened a week ago?
mysteriousmexican666
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I'm kind of confused though... Why would hoarding dr. pepper be a problem? It's an awesome soft drink!

waluigi
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erm...How is Cormyn's account back up again?

darkrai097
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erm...How is Cormyn's account back up again?

Yeah, what?
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