Hickboy sez...

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I have been on numerous sites as a member and a fair share as a moderator.

Moderating teams seldom stay the same for more than a one to two year period, for any number of reasons. Most teams have the option to pass on voting if they are either chummy with, or have had vicious run ins with, the person under discussion. Add in that fact that not every moderator may be on for every disciplinary action, and you will very seldom have the same "group mind" at any given time.

So where one group of mods may have upheld rules and favored certain ways of ruling over others (veteran members being let to slide, or new members getting multiple chances), when the next influx of moderators occurs, they may very well vote in the completely opposite way.

To imply that this moderating team is the exact same one that allowed HickBoy to stay, and therefore it is therefore hypocritical for then to ban him now, shows faulty thinking on the parts of some members.

I never knew HickBoy, nr interacted with him. I have neither a positive, nor negative, knee-jerk reaction to his name. That may help me see things a little clearer.
I've been an admin at large forums as well. I know for a fact that this particular mod team is not a brand new team from before or anything like that.
 

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Don't really care much about Hickboys fate, one way or the other. If he was a victim of trolling, he is clearly not as smart as he thinks.

So on this rare occasion I will support the mods action. I can't abide double standards for newbies and old timers. Like he said several times, if you don't like the rules...fuck off...and go somewhere else.

I did appreciate his sense of the absurd, and thanks to the greater membership, some of his more obscure threads became quite entertaining. I can't say his contribution amounted to much more than any other average Joe or Jill on this site.
 

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Not entirely true. Many of us use the device that makes us invisible when we are on here. In these cases there is no mention of when a person was last on.

That member's last activity was 17.03.2008.
Try to stay focused here Vince. My comment was in response to moltovmuffin saying that the last activity date would be shown on their profile page. I indicated the use of the device which let's us be here in invisibility.
It all began when we go back to Chicago Sam who said Arliss was still banned and I discovered that he isn't currently on a banning list but didn't know if he'd been around here at any time recently, either in chat.....which if he was invisible would not show on his profile page, or just browsing through pics. He even still has pics of himself up.

Now it may be that the moderators and administrators have deeper access and can tell these things; but we the peons don't have access to such devices.


If he had recently been online...it would say so on his profile page. It'll say...Last Activity...2 weeks ago or whatever.