Trillian moderators dumb or just plain stupid?

[dude]

This is a post from the guy who written a sig for people. All the sig does is generate a pic of your ip, domain, OS, and browser version... It's just hilarious that a "super moderator" got all pissed off cuz someone mocked him! At least the mods here aren't like that, right? RIGHT?!?!

Check it out!

http://www.viperalley.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=offtopic&Number=124367&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=&vc=1


I love trillian and all but it's just plain dumb.

 

[Tetsuo]

Nazi

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

OMG, thats a cool sig, why does he have to remove it? Bah!

 

[EyeMWing]

Mods like that exist on every less established forum and deserve to be shotgunned wholesale. AT mods seem to at least be mature enough to take occasional abuse from us.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I've seen that sig thing everywhere.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
I've seen that sig thing everywhere.

anyone got an actual link to the code?

 

[dighn]

it's rarely worth it to fight with mods. they'll just ban you and win by default

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: dighn
it's rarely worth it to fight with mods. they'll just ban you and win by default

But then everyone hates the mods, complains to the admin, then the offending mod gets banned.

- M4H

 

[Zenmervolt]

Actually, I fail to see the problem with the moderator here. The Moderator was doing his job and he was polite and respectful until the user became irritable and got cocky. My sympathies lie with the Moderator on this one.

ZV

 

[Miramonti]

Their not going to have good mods til they pay them the big bucks. Like what AT mods get, along with thier health and dental of course.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Actually, I fail to see the problem with the moderator here. The Moderator was doing his job and he was polite and respectful until the user became irritable and got cocky. My sympathies lie with the Moderator on this one.

ZV

The mod's point that he had to take action because someone was made uncomfortable is B.S. I could piss and moan about anything I want and the mods won't do anything unless it's a legitimate complaint. It was not a legitimate complaint because, as was pointed out, anyone with an image in their sig is automatically logging everyone else's IP addresses. Who really cares anyway? Your IP address is not private information.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Actually, I fail to see the problem with the moderator here. The Moderator was doing his job and he was polite and respectful until the user became irritable and got cocky. My sympathies lie with the Moderator on this one.

ZV

The mod's point that he had to take action because someone was made uncomfortable is B.S. I could piss and moan about anything I want and the mods won't do anything unless it's a legitimate complaint. It was not a legitimate complaint because, as was pointed out, anyone with an image in their sig is automatically logging everyone else's IP addresses. Who really cares anyway? Your IP address is not private information.

The problem was not that the guy refused to remove his sig. The banning did not have anything to do with the sig. The banning was the appropriate result from the guy's attitude problem.

ZV

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Actually, I fail to see the problem with the moderator here. The Moderator was doing his job and he was polite and respectful until the user became irritable and got cocky. My sympathies lie with the Moderator on this one.

ZV

The mod's point that he had to take action because someone was made uncomfortable is B.S. I could piss and moan about anything I want and the mods won't do anything unless it's a legitimate complaint. It was not a legitimate complaint because, as was pointed out, anyone with an image in their sig is automatically logging everyone else's IP addresses. Who really cares anyway? Your IP address is not private information.

The problem was not that the guy refused to remove his sig. The banning did not have anything to do with the sig. The banning was the appropriate result from the guy's attitude problem.

ZV

Eh... He did remove the sig, he changed it to "FEAR." He did have a bit of an attitude about it, but it's no worse than everyone with the Unban HappyPuppy sigs here.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Mods like that exist on every less established forum and deserve to be shotgunned wholesale. AT mods seem to at least be mature enough to take occasional abuse from us.

But if you even imply that one of them might be a Nazi, they'll cheerfully ban you for a month.. ironic, hmm? (happened to me here about this time last year)

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
I've seen that sig thing everywhere.

anyone got an actual link to the code?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Q. Trillian moderators dumb or just plain stupid?

A. All of the above

 

[danasoft]

The banning was the appropriate result from the guy's attitude problem.

I suppose you could be right; I dont usually respond to stupidity with stick figure drawings and kid gloves.

Silly me, I expected more from a technology company that hacks other programs communications protocols.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Mods like that exist on every less established forum and deserve to be shotgunned wholesale. AT mods seem to at least be mature enough to take occasional abuse from us.

But if you even imply that one of them might be a Nazi, they'll cheerfully ban you for a month.. ironic, hmm? (happened to me here about this time last year)

Did you just imply that the mods are Nazis for banning you for implying they're Nazis?

 

[danasoft]

The code is just a simple PHP script which uses the referrer information available to any script. The only tricky part was putting a nice "wrapper" around it using GD and TTF graphics. I'm not recording anything nobody else isnt and the signature does over 1,000,000 impressions a day - other than being amazed at how much it is used, I have no interst in peoples IP information.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Mods like that exist on every less established forum and deserve to be shotgunned wholesale. AT mods seem to at least be mature enough to take occasional abuse from us.

But if you even imply that one of them might be a Nazi, they'll cheerfully ban you for a month.. ironic, hmm? (happened to me here about this time last year)

Did you just imply that the mods are Nazis for banning you for implying they're Nazis?

 

[PhaZe]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
I've seen that sig thing everywhere.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I've seen those sigs but haven't been able to find the script anywhere... anyone care to share? :beer:

 

[erikistired]

all those mods were just regular forum ppl back when trillian was in beta, but they hung around a lot and kissed lots of tail end and now they are all moderators. unfortunately they mostly suck at being mods. i've seen some serious power tripping over there tho.

 

just use this: http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg

 

[PatboyX]

wtf happened to happy puppy?