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Feb29
It's A Troll's Life
Mid July 2021 was when I stopped moderating comments on IGN.com and I almost instantly felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders… it was liberating… the site had allowed itself to be taken over by the trolls, if they felt upset that one of their hundreds of troll comments had been taken down (let’s be clear here, a fanboy will never consider anything they post to be trolling, they REALLY believe that what they post is actual Gospel console wise) they’d be up in arms and, scared of losing users, the site would give in to them.

Trolling, baiting and all the “isms” were rife… and the site didn’t seem to care.
What pushed me over the edge was a user who, during a back and forth in the comments, said how easy it was to spot a joke comment… then reported one of my comments containing a joke… and it was so obvious, especially if you read the whole conversation… but for me that was that… I logged out and stopped using the site, left the moderator Discord channel and that was that.

Until recently.

I logged back in during a moment of boredom, some 30 months later… and was surprised to still see that, as far as the site was concerned, I was still a Moderator… and I still had POWER… as I deleted a spam advert post to test if I could still delete comments.

Having established I could still squash comments as I saw fit, I went onto Discord and message a Senior Moderator and fessed up… I still had Mod privileges on site, they might want to do something about that… conscious clear I occasionally ventured into articles and posted comments like a normal user.

Sad to see the mindless trolls still rule the roost… as the MOD tag on the site is a little more visible than the little hammer seen on TrueAchievements and TrueTrophies, when one trolls comments started getting deleted I was the obvious target for blame… ah well.

Easy rule of thumb here… generally the only person to blame for troll comments being deleted is the troll who posted them in the first place… it’s not hard to understand… for most people.

The usual accusations of bias started to get thrown… I tried to explain that that sort of comment is water to a ducks back, that if anti-Sony comments get deleted you’re accused of being a Sony fanboy and if anti-Xbox comments get deleted you’re accused of being a Sony fanboy… but logic like that doesn’t cut it.

Nope their comments were deleted, and it was clear to see why they were being deleted, so obviously all Moderators were fascists and they were being singled out unfairly… so much so they were creating a new account and good look finding that one to pick on.

Now… let’s be clear here… your average troll isn’t smart, not even close, my time moderating IGN was filled with users being banned and coming back with a new alt and wondering why that was instantly banned (an example, a user named RyanDrakeThe1st gets banned, minutes later an account appears called RyanDrakeThe2nd is created) and they always forget that there will always be a back end to the moderation system where you can easily link separate accounts to the same user.

Most importantly… the new account will post exactly the same sort of comments as the original account… so while the name may be different, the troll posts will still be deleted regardless of the account name posting them… but, as I said, these people are not clever.

So I’ll eventually stop using the site again… that nearly 3 weeks later I still have Mod privileges shows they aren’t exactly rushing to fix anything… on either side of the them/us divide.
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