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jonthomson
KILLIAN IS LYING TO YOU
"People who avoid failure, also avoid success"

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So, yeah, I got demodded.

Posted by jonthomson - November 24th, 2007


Hmm. Not really surprising, I've declined on posting about this up to now because the typical course of action in this type of situation is that they have a discussion in the mod forum on what's going to happen with what's happened, and given the few days since it happened (which must have been some time on Wednesday, I didn't even notice until some time after I'd been demodded and I tried to delete some spam thread in C&C and the links were missing), a remodding clearly isn't going to happen (especially now, seeing how that'd clearly be interpreted as breaking "what happens on tour stays on tour").

The amusing thing is that nobody's noticed. I've just checked the last three days worth of posts in general, and assuming that the current mod team hasn't been instructed to kill all discussion on sight (which would be truly pathetic), there's not been a single topic. Not one. I think I've received one PM and one news post comment (since deleted as it was off-topic, sorry Gagsy) on the matter, but apart from that, nothing.

I would like to have thought that the admins of this site would at least have had the decency to send me as much a PM to say "Sorry Jon, you've fucked up, we're going to have to demod you over this". But I've not even received that. I have heard precisely nothing from any of the administrators or moderators of this site since Wednesday. Which, to be perfectly honest, is really surprising, as everyone I've met from the site are among the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. Clearly someone in the admin magic circle has to have made the decision, and it literally takes a minute to relay that on to me privately, but that was obviously too much of a hassle. Especially as I don't really know what precisely drove them over the line - whether it was the junking up of the BBS with random rick topics, the calling out of whoever outside of the mod forum, or whether it was me telling Joe to go and die in a fire for being a massive killjoy.

So what now? Well, I've barely modded over the last year or so. So if I was offered the moderator position back in the future, I'd likely decline as I really don't have the time for it at the moment. The number of moderators that we have right now is excessive as it is, so I see no reason to return. Most of the people who were getting at me in the topic I made in the mod forum that I noticed before being cut off were people I hadn't actually met, and I wouldn't want to go back to having to work with them in the future. I wouldn't be missing anything either, the mod forum's basically a smaller version of general except that all the non-cool kids are barred. And tiger porn that Rucklo requested [edit for clarification - gay tiger porn].

As for the actual site, the BBS is pretty much a hole now. The signal to noise ratio is terrible. Even the social boards on GameFAQs are better than that. If I want to just discuss things, there are thousands of better places to do it. I don't really see any reason to post on the BBS again - next year I may make a topic to continue the best game ever thread for a fourth year, but aside from that there's nothing to add. I'll likely keep visiting Newgrounds in general, might make a few reviews and vote on a few things, but that's about it. May keep the blog up to date with thoughts on things for people that actually want to read what I have to say. Anyone I wanted to keep in communication with from the mod forums I already have on facebook, myspace or can just PM them.

The best thing is that the $900 or so that I had stashed away for a trip over to the next mod meat clearly isn't needed now as I'm obviously not welcome, so I can spend that on whisky. I'm in a really bad transitional period in life right now, and having the extra cash to deal with it is appreciated.

In closing, it's been nice meeting Tom, Wade, James, Bob, Jose, Luis, Stamper, Tim, Sarah, Adam, Steve, Shawn, Paul, Dan, Jerry, Evan, Lin, Jonas, Pox, Aaron, Matt, Jason, avie, and anyone else who I may have randomly met. For the rest of you, go and watch some Rick Astley video or something.

RIP jonthomson the mod, 2004-2007.

[edit - I have read SeizureDog's topic]


Comments

I was informed of this by Gagsy last night and I haven't been on the BBS lately so this is quite unhappy news and I've seen you as a great user and mod (probably because I've never been in trouble with you). I would think that because you were slightly in active like you said has contributed to the demodding. I was told that you made a few threads that are usually locked or whatever then had an argument with Joe, also that you had drank a few too many. T'is a shame that no one has really noticed it and myself feel a bit guilty that I never even knew until some one informed me.

Have fun with that small fortune just don't spend it on something you regret later on. Personally I would like to see you make an appearance more often despite this incident as in my 4 years I've seen many leave and one day it'll be my turn which is something I refuse to do.

Maybe it's a good thing to get off this for you.

Cheers. I'm not suicidal or anything crazy right now, I'm just bored out of my skull.

Jon, you're better off without this site, really.

I believe you deserve more then this shit hole named Newgrounds. Have you ever considered going to Somethingawful?

Take care,
- AKP

Not really, I don't like the idea of paying to use forums - the idea of keeping riff-raff out with a simple charge is interesting (and a few dollars isn't a problem) but there's perfectly good forums elsewhere.

well, you will be missed for you fun lock messages in topics i must say. and i only found out looking at old posts from the rages topic, now the BBS is a shithole, i must say

Cheers. Part of the problem is that the non-junk topics are just lame, and you can't really delete/ban for sucking at the BBS. Whilst it's good that a huge amount of sheer crap is removed, there's little actual good content, even in somewhere like Politics.

I agree, the BBS has greatly gone down hill recently :(

k, Error - your response was too short

Yo man, wi/ht gonna miss ya.

Does it have any mods left? Everyone that ever went there has either left or been barred, it's like ramagi vs the world I'd imagine

This is crazy. You're completely right about nobody noticing that you're demodded. I didn't even notice except BlueHippo IMed me about it. I'd make a thread on it if I wasn't currently banned for stupidly posting in a bumped thread (fucking traps they are).

It just feels so weird because I remember that Rick Roll thread and the drama with Joe you had last week about that.

See you in the funny papers Jon. You will be missed :'(

The trick to spotting bumped topics is that they usually:

- have retarded titles
- have ALL CAPS titles
- Are made by Adambomb or anyone else who's long left the BBS
- have a similar title to about 20 other topics on the first page

If, of course, you miss the fact that the first post was made in like 2002 :-)

Oh, I knew it was a bumped thread. That was the problem; I pointed it out to everyone else :3

Er, oops?

and just to tell you about the wi/ht, its a bloody shithole now... full of post count + 1 ers... since no mods go on it, they'll never get banned...

Well, like duh, obviously. Just been away for a couple of days and will respond to everyone else when I've caught up with other things.

I'm acutally sad about this...On my old 05 account I PMed Bedn and he never replied...:---(

Unless you were offering cadny, he's probably ignore it

The hell were you demodded for? About the only reason I cant think of would be inactivity, but if it's that then wtf? That's never been a problem before.

Commiseration's and all that for the demodding. Not gonna butter you up and say you were one of the best mods or whatever, but you certainly weren't a bad one.

I also can't believe nobody noticed O_o Normally this sort of thing gets shit loads of posts.

Well, I guess someone made a post, seeing how there's been an explosion of 40+ comments over the last ~48 hours

:'(

(>'-')>

Oh wow, that sucks. Well atleast you had a good run and meeted some famous people of newgrounds...probably fun eh? I'm pretty sure many newgrounds users are going to miss you since you won't be on regularly anymore, but you know, it's newgrounds. Newgrounds can be hillarious and dumb, but a bit loserish and cold at the same time.

But you know, time moves on and changes are made. I hope you deal with this demodding in an...erm....respectable manner.
heh.
So anyway, I hope you enjoy your new life as a non-mod of newgrounds ^_^

Cheers. As stated, I'll still be about, just not on the BBS

Bleh, you were one of the more likeable mods... But you gotta keep going 'till you run out of cake :)

THE CAKE IS A LIE

This wasn't for a reason. It's personal. They don't like you for some reason. You didn't expect an unexpected attack from them. And they didn't even send you a PM? I bet their explanation would be "we were too busy fapping at Willi's posts"

Deleted your other two word comment as it added little... meh, I have my suspicions, but I don't really care.

"The number of moderators that we have right now is excessive as it is, so I see no reason to return"

As for the actual site, the BBS is pretty much a hole now. The signal to noise ratio is terrible. If I want to just discuss things, there are thousands of better places to do it."

Smart man.

Cheers

Yeah. This is how I feel about Newgrounds too. Too many assholes in power and too many idiots getting away with making the forum suck ass.

I've given up on NG and only came back to make an offensive topic about Michael J Fox.

Which, despite being recieved with humor and kudos, was deleted in five minutes.

Let them have their circle jerk.

For the most part, people do a damn good job. They just handled this thing terribly imo

What did you do?
I read it all, and still couldn't figure it out.

Went on a drunken video posting spree which I was locking/dealing with at my end, until Joe decided to start deleting stuff without saying a thing until I called whoever out. Flaming and then demodding ensues.

Well, that's what you get for promising spider porn, and then giving us "Rick."

Meh, don't mind me. I have a kick-ass memory that just recalls certain things. Sorry to hear you got de-modded. For what it's worth, I don't think you were a bad Mod. But yeah, you should have been a bit more active. Other than that, not bad.

Do you really think I'd provide spider porn, srsly?

I admire the way you handled this Jon, and i suppose it was better thisd happen than you keep on and become a powerthirsty Naxi like, say, Zerok. I myself wouldnt put it past the admins to treat someone that serve them this well like a piece of shit on the bottom of their shoe, and thats the sad truth.

FWIW Zerok PMed me at the time asking what I was doing, saying he didn't like it from a "doesn't look good on mods as a whole" angle, but let things slide. Jordy's fine.

Whisky, alright.

Whisky's so expensive over here though

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