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Staff abusing powers - brashken - Feb 11, 2017
On the face of it this will seem like such a trivial thing to complain about but it has really pissed me off. Not because of what happened but the reason why.
I'm a new member here and have been enjoying my time on the forum. I'm still finding my feet and haven't posted much. One of my posts was deleted from an edition of the HF News for no other reason than to give someone else the top comment in that edition. My post was a compliment saying I enjoyed reading it.
My very first post happened to be the first in the thread HF News 327 and someone with moderating abilities decided that as a new member I was worthless and that they could delete my post so that a friend of theirs could have the first comment as he stated "Guess I'm the first one to reply. Wanted to do this sometime."
This guy "Evanescent" and his tagline says "Someday I'll be MENTOR." I don't know which moderator deleted my post or if there is any way to check. I don't see anything in CP.
New members get trampled over and policies abused for friends and aspiring mentors. I'm disgusted and I believe Omniscient would be too as he seems to run a very strict and well managed site other than having a few rogue staff who think they can trample over new members as they wish.
I don't expect anything will happen but I did want to raise the matter as one day I'll be an upgraded member and not as easily abused at the whim of a abusive staff member.
* - Tʀᴀᴜᴍᴀ - Feb 11, 2017
If staff allowed people's bull shit, HF wouldn't be up and running the way it is today.
And for your reasoning of concern, that's not really abuse if you ask me..
* - test - Feb 11, 2017
AS far as I am aware the HF News is spread out among multiple posts. If you saw a single post then decided to respond they could obviously not post the rest of the edition in the same format as they usually do. Wait until the entire edition has been posted before replying.
* - ArizonaIce - Feb 11, 2017
Guess I'm the fifth one to reply. Wanted to do this sometime.
* - brashken - Feb 11, 2017
(Feb 11, 2017 09:15 PM)testaccountplsignore Wrote: AS far as I am aware the HF News is spread out among multiple posts. If you saw a single post then decided to respond they could obviously not post the rest of the edition in the same format as they usually do. Wait until the entire edition has been posted before replying.
No it was fully published and his post was after mine. Only mine is gone.
* - daymon - Feb 11, 2017
(Feb 11, 2017 09:16 PM)brashken Wrote: No it was fully published and his post was after mine. Only mine is gone.
Then that would be staff abuse, and an actual issue.
* - test - Feb 11, 2017
(Feb 11, 2017 09:16 PM)brashken Wrote: No it was fully published and his post was after mine. Only mine is gone.Sounds like you should contact a staff member then.
* - Fiber - Feb 11, 2017
Your also missing that ihydra also has moderation tools in that section. Fyi.
* - brashken - Feb 11, 2017
Yeah I should have made it more clear that it could have been someone with moderation powers in that section of the site. Is there a way to check who did it?
* - James Burnham - Feb 11, 2017
It is wrong to use the moderator abilities in such ways, but I think that you are overreacting. It's not that you lost money or anything of importance.
* - Tʀᴀᴜᴍᴀ - Feb 11, 2017
(Feb 11, 2017 09:40 PM)Mr. Burnham Wrote: It is wrong to use the moderator abilities in such ways, but I think that you are overreacting. It's not that you lost money or anything of importance.
Bro! He lost 1/4th of his post?! What do you not get?
* - Zexo - Feb 11, 2017
(Feb 11, 2017 09:34 PM)brashken Wrote: Yeah I should have made it more clear that it could have been someone with moderation powers in that section of the site. Is there a way to check who did it?
No you can't check who did it only staff and admins can.
* - Egregious Jr. - Feb 11, 2017
As others mentioned, it was probably a mentor or iHydra. Regardless, it's not a big deal. You shouldn't have made a thread over this.
* - Bluffer - Feb 11, 2017
Could have been one of that section's moderator, in fact that was probably the case.
This thread was a bad idea imo, there is no staff abuse especially because you are apparently new to this site your post could've been violating other rules, how would you know that your post was removed so another member could have first post? Does anybody actually care who has first post?
* - Omniscient - Feb 11, 2017
You're mistaken about a few things.
Your post was likely removed because it disrupted the flow of the HF News. You can see by the thread that the full release takes about 4 posts from the OP.
https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5532190
No one trampled on you. I think for whatever reason you're being overly sensitive.
Quote:AS far as I am aware the HF News is spread out among multiple posts. If you saw a single post then decided to respond they could obviously not post the rest of the edition in the same format as they usually do. Wait until the entire edition has been posted before replying.
Correct. Also I reviewed the removed post. OP wasn't even first to reply. A total of 4 posts were removed.
Quote:No it was fully published and his post was after mine. Only mine is gone.
Not true. I see all the posts removed and action taken by Staff. You were not first to reply.