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We recently had to ban a moderator - Tanya - 06-05-2024
June 23rd, 2012
I made the decision to share this to show that we take this extremely seriously. Normally we don't allow public discussion of private forum business, but considering the severity of what happened, I think it's important to share our decision with the community and let them know that this type of thing won't be tolerated. We have moderators come and go, so please do not speculate on who was responsible or try to harass them. Speculation or harassment will have consequences. I'm simply posting this to let everyone who may have been effected know that this moderator has been dealt with.
I recently made the difficult decision to remove a moderator from our staff and ban them permanently due to reports from previously banned users that this moderator was sending them low key threats containing personal information off-site. This has been going on for a few years but I hadn't removed the moderator because they didn't admit to it and it's nearly impossible to verify the type of "evidence" being collected. Since most of the users were banned or were on bad terms with the community, they had plenty of motive to fabricate evidence against the moderators. Stuff like that does happen on a moderately regular basis. Usually it's something silly like they send a fake screenshot of the moderator sending a racial slur in a PM that's on the forum and I can easily debunk it with a database query.
This moderator had multiple accusations of a similar nature that came from seemingly unconnected users over a period of years. There was also consistency in the accounts that the threats were coming from. They never denied the accusations either. They simply questioned me for even considering the accusations as valid.
At this point, I don't think the accusations are fabricated and baseless and I have made the decision to remove the moderator permanently from the community.