am i supposed to be able to see mod forums?

[Broheim]

this whole comparing it to stealing from a bank is crazy. nothing was stolen. this is more like someone leaving their paycheck on the table and someone takes a gander at it while sitting around the table. while they possibly know a bit more about you than you'd like, it in no way would be deemed as an egregious moral blunder. its your own damn fault for leaving it there...

so what you're saying is one cannot possibly steal information?

brb, calling the U.S government to inform them that they need to get rid of their industrial espionage laws among other things.

 

[olds]

 

[lxskllr]

so what you're saying is one cannot possibly steal information?

brb, calling the U.S government to inform them that they need to get rid of their industrial espionage laws among other things.

Information wants to be free, and it's up to the interested parties to secure it. Laws are artificial constructs. If the US government has moral authority to spy, certainly everyone here does.

 

[Skiddex]

so what you're saying is one cannot possibly steal information?

brb, calling the U.S government to inform them that they need to get rid of their industrial espionage laws among other things.

brb, calling the US government to classify internet forums because they are so similar to government/industrial IP.

 

[guyver01]

so what you're saying is one cannot possibly steal information?

Something that is left wide open for anyone to see, cannot possibly be considered confidential.

 

[dwell]

So if the Google crawler got in there and indexed all the threads while the security was down, then what? Same end, from were I sit.

Then again GA was a twat and I won't miss him.

 

[nick1985]

Mosh got banned for 6 months as well from what I hear.

 

[KidNiki1]

Mosh got banned for 6 months as well from what I hear.

=(

poor mosh.

 

[zinfamous]

So, GA is gone gone.

can't we just permaban his brother, instead?

also, I guess that means...L0cutos is now the ATOT photographer? and alfa and zeze, I guess?

 

[zinfamous]

Mosh got banned for 6 months as well from what I hear.

ah, that's why I don't see her avatar.

 

[rcpratt]

lol wait, what did Mosh do?

 

[nick1985]

lol wait, what did Mosh do?

Apparently spread what she saw in the mod forum.

6 month ban, and has to beg for reinstatement after answering questions from a panel of mods after 6 months. Similar to theflyingpig's ban.

She wont do it, shes gone forever. Which is what the mods have wanted for a long time anyway, so I guess they got her.

*EDIT*

I was wrong, she was banned for discussing the possibility of sharing the info she found with a member the mods were targeting in the mod forum. She did not actually disseminate a damn thing.

How did the mods find this out? Rifled through her PM's

 

[zinfamous]

lol wait, what did Mosh do?

she duped nick1985's avatar, which made the moderator's work all the more difficult the last month or two.

I think it was a btiterness ban. :hmm:

 

[shortylickens]

FUCK!

6 months without Mosh!????????

I dont want to live in that world.

 

[nick1985]

FUCK!

6 months without Mosh!????????

I dont want to live in that world.

Re-read what I wrote. She's gone forever.

 

[darkxshade]

Ok at the risk of a permaban... this needs to be public knowledge. I have discovered that theflyingpig was a moderator in disguise. D:

It was nice knowing yall

 

[rcpratt]

Stupid. Maybe you should make sure your shitty forums work. Go ban yourselves, mods.

 

[dwell]

Apparently spread what she saw in the mod forum.

6 month ban, and has to beg for reinstatement after answering questions from a panel of mods after 6 months. Similar to theflyingpig's ban.

She wont do it, shes gone forever. Which is what the mods have wanted for a long time anyway, so I guess they got her.

Moshquerade was a female? 12+ years on a forum you think you'd know people.

 

[nick1985]

Stupid. Maybe you should make sure your shitty forums work. Go ban yourselves, mods.

Private messages still worked fine though. The mods rifled through the private messages of members who they suspected in disseminating the mod forum info. That's how GA and Mosh were banned from what I hear. Mods/anyone else feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

And no folks, your private messages are not private.

/black helicopter is arriving to take me away

 

[darkxshade]

Permabanning mosh would be unprecedented, they wouldn't do it... it would mark the first time in forum history where the number of female posters would drop below double digits.

 

[nick1985]

Permabanning mosh would be unprecedented, they wouldn't do it... it would mark the first time in forum history where the number of female posters would drop below double digits.

Well, they essentially have.

 

[Rvenger]

Private messages still worked fine though. The mods rifled through the private messages of members who they suspected in disseminating the mod forum info. That's how GA and Mosh were banned from what I hear. Mods/anyone else feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

And no folks, your private messages are not private.

/black helicopter is arriving to take me away

As me being a former mod/admin on other forums and my own. Things like that are kept confidential the Mods are not obligated to tell you what they see or what they don't see. Its their job to protect the forum and disclosing such information would make their job harder because this would just make the offenders become more clever to steal information. Remember, a Google search can bring this topic up for everyone

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

What fucking bullshit. So now two important members are gone because you couldn't get your security right? Why is it their fault for anything when it was you guys that left the moderator forums open for everyone to see and they took a peek and reported on what they saw? They didn't hack into it, nor did they attempt to gain control of anything. If you don't want people to see something, easy: get your security right. Now there's two less members due to incompetence.

And no, it's not comparable to stealing anything. Nothing tangible was taken from anybody.

 

[nick1985]

What fucking bullshit. So now two important members are gone because you couldn't get your security right? Why is it their fault for anything when it was you guys that left the moderator forums open for everyone to see and they took a peek and reported on what they saw? They didn't hack into it, nor did they attempt to gain control of anything. If you don't want people to see something, easy: get your security right. Now there's two less members due to incompetence.

And no, it's not comparable to stealing anything. Nothing tangible was taken from anybody.

Not sure about GA, but Mosh didn't actually disseminate anything. She TALKED about doing it via PM with another member.

Mods rifled through her PM's since they have a running dossier on her, and suspected her.

They found communication about possibly disseminating the info.


BAN

 

[ultimatebob]

A better analogy would be leaving a list of everyone's salaries on the break room table where you work for everyone to see, and then firing anyone who made got caught making a copy of it.

I got a better idea... why don't you fire the moron who left the private information on the table for everyone to see? It's their fault that all of your dirty little secrets have been revealed, not the person making the photocopies.