Have you ever been a mod or been banned from a webboard?

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I was a moderator on the Anglophile Community (no longer exists), Arcane Artistry (no longer exists), I was an admin and then a mod at Destined Circle (deserted), Bandit (I deserted it and I think it gave up and disbanded), and I had my own boards, one a debate board (The Incinerator) that a lot of people posted on but it was shut down by people from MystCommunity who thought I was slandering them. I also had a "Guild of Outcasts" that never took off, and then "Revelation Chat" (about Myst 4: Revelation) that never took off, and so I changed it to an anarchy board that never took off. I think I was a mod at one or two other boards also but I don't remember; it was so long ago.



I was banned from almost the entire Myst community a few years ago... it consists of these boards:


MystCommunity.com
D'niPedia Writers' Ring
D'ni Jazz Club
Myst & Uru Obsession
Ubisoft forums
D'ni Explorers Guild
Guild of Greeters
D'ni guild of linguists or something


I was also banned from zOMG for starting spammy threads insulting their insulting ways and keeping coming back after being banned.

I got myself banned from one forum after I disagreed with the politics taking over. I asked to be banned, as most of my friends got banned for petty reasons.

I used to mod here and currently an admin on a board dedicated to the Advance Wars games. I've not been banned from a forum as of yet.

I used to mod here also.
I have modded two other boards previously, both spiritual ones, both for about 8 months.
I also set up and ran my own board for a time, but I think the guy on ebay who sold me my unlimited webspace cheated me as after a few months and a lot of expense, the whole site just vanished.

Been banned from one forum, a spiritual one I helped out on, but I was later asked to return, even asked if I would like to help out again...this was a majorly big forum as spiritual forums go, about 8,000 members. It turned out that half the admin team had some thing against me and the original owner allowed herself to be swayed by their opinions and something personal that was going on among them.

<sigh> I ran an old fashioned BBS back in the late 80's early 90's. You know, the kind one used to dial into with a modem before the internet took off; this was probably just a bit before everyone but Graelwyn's time (referencing only the posts above me). The old-school term for one who ran/moderated one of these was "sysop". Those who I chose to help me moderate the boards I ran were "co-sysops".

During the course of years from about 1988 to 1993, I ran four BBS's:

Subterranean Sanctum (running TAG)
Yorik's Skull (running Celerity)
Mirkwoord Forest (running Renegade)
Yorik's Skull v2.0 (running Celerity v2)

They all had very active discussion forums; people would flame-war sometimes, but it was never a great thing. The scope of those boards was rather local, mostly those who could dial in via a local phone call.

As far as I can recall, I've never been kicked off of or banned from anything. Though, I enjoyed seeing how close I could come to that line, sometimes. To be absurdly honest, the Wrong Planet is the first and only forum I've participated in since those old-school BBS days. This is an interesting and magical place; I never thought I'd feel at home with on an internet BBS. But, here I am. And, I've noted, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Fun stuff.

EDIT: Old login screens:




(Yes, Forsaken Anguish, and Damneatoa are both old pseudonyms of mine.)

Good fortune,

- Icarus the Sysop

I was a mod once, but I got demoted when I started changing peoples avatars to cute, busty, dancing anime girls...

Been a mod quite a few times, never been banned.

Dumb joke deleted.

I was a moderator for a section of the Siamese cat board.

I was an admin on a Blackmore's Night forum...though some ass hole didn't agree with that and began to troll so the other admins told me I should just step down-I left a few days later
I a a mod a t zOMG (thanks Soph)
I have been banned from a Dio forum (trolling)
and a metal one (because I asked to be)
ohh yeah and another metal forum (first time because the guy didn't like me and second because I asked to be) (he invited me back)

I have never been a MOD and never been banned.

I am only a member of three communities. This one, zOMGAspies, and the DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club (DCSWCC).

I'm a mod on my band's forum, and I used to be a mod on a small RPG board I was in.

I used to be a mod at ComicBoards.com, but I gave it up after a while.

I was once accidentally banned from there when the board management barred my entire server to get rid of one troublemaker. It was sorted out very quickly, though

I have an ambition to join and then get banned from John Byrne's message board, though. I'd love to see how quickly I could annoy him so much that he'd get rid of me

Oh yeah; I was a mod at Myst Ages. Which never took off... basically me and the admin were the only two people there!

i own a bb, mod on my friends whos names is tony, board and have been banned almost everywhere i post