WizardOne said:
Cynical Kyle said:
blabla1994 said:
The Admins lost confidence in a popular mod, de-modded her in an asutoundingly incompetent manner that left pretty much everyone angry.
Eventually, another Admin showed up and explained what happened. Along with offering a slight apology for the poor way it was handled.
I stopped really caring at that point. (At least, until an entirely separate topic came up, but that's only relevant to people on SB really and).
This clusterfuck has to be the most entertaining thing coming out of SB for months. Yet more proof regarding incompetence of their administration, butthurt Athene groupies nerdraging and mods actually doing their jobs relatively well for once in handling that mess.
Its entertaining in that
holy shit people are blowing it out of proportion. I mean seriously, a mod got demoted abruptly and suddenly ITS THE END OF THE WORLD.
Every second person has 'ATHENE WAS ABUSED' Signatures linking to the news threads and they've made a new forum to escape the 'oppressors'. Who are oppressing exactly 0% more than they always have. Its not like Athene was paid. It was a voluntary position, and their fellow mods thought she was doing it wrong.
If it had been done when she was Thanatos, which is to say, pretty much an asshole on a number of occasions, I'd have been all for firing him, but would
still have been WTFing at the way they did it. That they fired her after she mostly calmed down, and mostly stopped being an asshole in places I noticed, is a bit disturbing, especially given all the mods who resigned in disgust (even ES, who's an asshole himself when being a mod, and gets away with shit that would get other writers banned). At least The Observer owned up to it, though.
There's also the fact that they fired the one who is generally agreed to
not have been abusing her position, and not the ones who were blatantly abusing theirs.