This irritates me......
after having been on Gaiaonline for years and used and abused by a few of their users, and by more than one of their staff members both in my own case and in defending someone else, I decided to try to become a Gaiaonline moderator, in order to try and restore peace and help out those in the Gaian community who can not help themselves.
First application, under avi [bento box boy].
I applied, and after telling my ex she told me that she was going to ask one of her mod friends to have me kicked out of it and banned. She said she sent the message, and the next time I would be banned permanetly. A week or so passed, and I found out she had been posting my messages all over the forums. I asked her politely for her t remove the pictures. WHAM. banned. It's only for a few days...do, I come back, post in a role play thread that I frequent (http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.31745335_41667/#41667 <--the last post) and EVEN BEFORE THE PAGE CAN REDIRECT TO SHOW ME THE POST I"m permabanned. No explanation, no record of it happening, nothing. but it's banned.
But the lovely part? My mod application is in limbo, and I have neither been denied or accepted.
I have been systematically fucked out of my fair shot.
Second application, I', quite literaly the first one (that I know of) to discover the NDA link is open. I apply, my computer glitched, so I printed off my application and concent form in case someone decided to say " lol we never got it : D "....I got a PM from Dri stating I sent in TWO O.o........
So, yeah......fast forward a few months, and I'm denied. Resoning? two signature violations, one being oversized and the other having my phone number in it. Perfectly valid reasons to deny someone from helping bring down hackers and spammers......>.>
I flip slightly, floored by it all. It seemed like I was doing everything I could, having turned countless phishing pages to dust before the moderating team even got the reports, removing nasty pictures from tinypic's servers, showing users how to block the Chan's gore and huge.jpg attacks......and for everything I get a slap in the face, saying I"m not wanted, and I have no chance to reapply. It's not the fact that I was denied, but the fact that I was one of the ONLY users actively trying to help the community, and I wasn't just denied but banned from ever applying again. It's like taking someone who finds the cure for cancer and burning their credentials. It hurt, it hurt deep.
I stayed on Gaia even though there's nothing keeping me here, and I"m saving all of my mod thank-yous. I have had three mods allready tell me I have the highest report ammount for an avi of that age, over 600 reports that were correct and acted on. That's over 600 incidents where I was in the right place, at the right time, and THERE WERE NO MODERATORS TO BE FOUND. I could have helped. I could have banned the phisher. I could have moved the spam post. I could have done many things.
But they don't want me to even think about doing it.
EVER.
While the GD sits in ruin, the infestation of stupidity seeping to the rest of Gaia and the moderation team understaffed (and under-active), I'm sitting here, reporting users and waiting, seeing if they'll reconsider.
I want to be a moderator on Gaia. i want to do it to help the community.
Not for the ego trip, the power, the reputation, or to be a dick to users, I want to help.
I'm ready, I'm willing, I'm able, I have been in close contact and cooperation with mods, admins, omnis, assistants and applicants, I do not see what is stopping my from helping the users, besides the personal vendetta of my ex.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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