Suspected threat

[Brian]

Forum URL: mattunderwood.proboards75.com

Here's the deal. I'm not a member of this forum at all. A member of it IMed me on AIM and told me he was being threatened by a Global Moderator.

The guy that IMed me is a regular member who is currently arguing with the Gmod about how he supposedly attempted to hack their forum. He's saying he didn't do a thing, tried telling the Gmod, and she still suspects him of doing things.

After talking to the guy for some time, he asked me about how to deprive the Gmod of her position. I told him that he has to ask the admin, but he said he already tried. He now says he's going to try and hack the admin by figuring out his password. He then plans to get rid of the Gmod, thinking everything will be fine afterwards.

So technically, my point is that he's obviously doing something against the rules by trying to hack the admin, so I decided to see if there was anything the good old staff could do about it.

joey64254: see i want to fire this 1 global moderator
Venom: From where?
joey64254: mathew underwood's postboard
Venom: Are you an admin there or a regular member?
joey64254: reg member
Venom: Only the admin of that board can do anything about getting rid of one of his global mods, and it's unlikely the admin will do it unless the mod were to do something irresponsible.
joey64254: ok the how can suport fire admin's?
joey64254: with no oher admins
Venom: Support doesn't fire admins at all. The board itself gets deleted.
Venom: The only way is if the board violates the terms of service.
joey64254: yeah that how do you be apart of that team
Venom: I told you, the admins at Support have to promote you themselves, and it's unlikely they'll give anyone global access to all ProBoards forums.
joey64254: but it does the global moderator is threatning me
Venom: Threatening you how?
joey64254: to ban me for no reason and saying i hacked their board when i no nothing about hacking
Venom: Well that's just a misunderstanding if you didn't do it. It's nothing that the staff at Support should have to deal with.
joey64254: no you don't understand
Venom: A global moderator is saying you hacked the board, and you didn't. Now you want him demoted.
Venom: I think I understand completely.
joey64254: her
Venom: Either way.
joey64254: pus i was trying t be nice to her on imand houtbox but she got pissed and cussed me out
joey64254: plus
Venom: Well that's her problem for holding it against you.
Venom: You can't just get her demoted yourself. The only person who can do that is the admin of the board you're a member of.
joey64254: tried it
joey64254: or learn how to hack the admin
Venom: That would be against the TOS.
joey64254: and?
Venom: And so then they'd be right.
Venom: You would be hacking their board.
joey64254: if they don't do anything i will then
Venom: Well hacking their board won't do anything for you.
joey64254: but deleting it then
joey64254: what will the terms of service do then?
joey64254: nothing?
Venom: Ban you from the ProBoard service.
Venom: Then restore the board.
Venom: Because they can.
joey64254: but they have to have proof to
Venom: They can check logs, find out who was in the forum last, then record the IP address, also known as your ID, restore the board, match the IP address to you, then know it was you.

That's our AIM conversation, in case it's needed.

Thanks for any help.

[Craig]

The key word is 'trying'. Nothing we can really do, just make sure the password is secure and he will never get in.

Craig

[Brian]

I figured as much, seeing as how he told me he knows nothing about hacking.

Like I said, I'm in no way affiliated with this forum, so I guess the admin of it has to make those decisions.

[Raptor]

Someone asked me on AIM earlier about a similiar (or possibly the same) situation. I told him to report it as a TOS violation if that's what it was.