"What Annoys Moderators the Most": Rebuttal

I saw that article linked to from another site and decided to respond to parts of it. I actually know Kyledude and think he's a great guy, but there's parts of the article I disagree with.

3) IT WAS A HAXXOR!

No it wasn't. No one hacked your account, and no one posted the offensive message that you polluted the site with. YOU made the post, YOU broke the rules, YOU should take the responsibility for it. No one is going to hack a forum acount, let's use common sense. If they really wanted to hack something, they would hack a checking account or something worthwhile... They're not oing to wate their time getting a random person banned off of a random site.

Haha, you'd be surprised. Why would someone waste their time hacking a forum account? Because they're bored, for the excitement, or to troll someone, and because they don't want to break the law or steal money. It happens, especially on big sites, which I'm sure the flagship forum for vBulletin counts as.

5) Abuse of the dispute system

I've moderated a few sites with a dispute system, and what new moderators will quickly discover is that people abuse it and act like idiots through it. I have actually gotten a dispute saying this: "WTF DUH I DUH"... ...Abusing something meant to help the members of the forum out doesn't sit well with me, nor does it sit well with any other vet to moderating. Don't do it. That's all I have to say.

It's one thing to punish someone for harassing moderators over a dispute system, but to punish them for saying something like "WTF DUH I DUH" is just internet tough guy behavior.

9) ATTNing moderators to ask about their job

We have a job to do, believe it or not. By making me open your topic to see your idiotic post, you're wasting time that I could be using to make the site a better place.

Because God forbid somebody get in the way of your moderating to make conversation. What a waste of time!

10) THIS SITE SUCKS!

Then don't go to it. I don't bloody care if you think that a blank site is better than the one you're spamming with your complaints. If you don't like the way the site is ran or if you don't like the content, then leave and do us all a favor in doing so.

I agree for the most part, but there's a difference between being disruptive and constructive criticism.

11) Leaving topics without good reason
If you have real-life things that make you have to leave, or an extremely good reason why you're leaving, don't make a post about it. It causes controversy, drama, and above all, it causes the moderators headaches.

How does it cause drama to say you're leaving for real life reasons?

12) This site is going downhill!

...Because you're making it do so, idiot! No one cares if you think the site is going downhill. If you seriously believe this, why are you still here?! Go away and post about it elsewhere, or better yet, don't!

Ha, I agree with this one.