The Ask-a-Mod Thread

[maryadavies]

Aww Max *channels her Miqot'e and gives Max a big hug* My condolences and take all the time you need. Death hurts those that get left behind.

 

[2 quid is good]

I'll go ahead and be transparent here: I lost my baby boy last month. I've been grieving and trying to return to work and life just isn't what it was since he's been gone. I don't want to quit being a mod here, but I'll honestly probably be absent for a minute while I try and figure out life.

Oh man, I am so unbelievably sorry for your loss, I really wish nobody ever had to feel this pain. I wish that anything anybody could do to make you feel better happens.

 

[Soldier]

I'll go ahead and be transparent here: I lost my baby boy last month. I've been grieving and trying to return to work and life just isn't what it was since he's been gone. I don't want to quit being a mod here, but I'll honestly probably be absent for a minute while I try and figure out life.

The pain of losing a loved one, even your own flesh and blood is unimaginably painful and no parent should have to bury their child. If you ever want to vent, I'm willing to lend a sympathetic ear through messages. I can't say the despair over my sister is the same as your despair, but it's as close as I can get.

Unrelated, but a professional hacker essentially put up his resume on here and created a thread for that explicit reason. Should we be worried about that?

 

[maryadavies]

Soldier, report them immediately. Especially if it's in a profile message. Someone will kill it tho it's been slower than usual.

I'll have to look but there has got to be a way to stop new members from making threads and profile messages; I think it's come to that to help quell the spammer flood.

[Edit] Looks like it can be done with plugins + make a New User group and have freshly registered people land in that one, then you can set permissions so they can't make threads until a certain number of posts. (I REALLY think we should take that from the old RPGamer forums to shut them down.) Tell the admin to check here: XF2addons.com. Hopefully that will help for I think I speak for a lot of people in saying it's getting tiresome to report 5-6 spambots making a mess every morning. I think they're sensing there's blood in the water so they're all jumping in the pool right now, which is why we're seeing more of them.

 

[Launchpad]

I'll go ahead and be transparent here: I lost my baby boy last month. I've been grieving and trying to return to work and life just isn't what it was since he's been gone. I don't want to quit being a mod here, but I'll honestly probably be absent for a minute while I try and figure out life.

God, I am so sorry Max. That's awful. I hope you're getting all the support you need right now, and please don't feel obligated to do anything over here. Please just take good care of yourself.

 

[Just Dari]

I'll go ahead and be transparent here: I lost my baby boy last month. I've been grieving and trying to return to work and life just isn't what it was since he's been gone. I don't want to quit being a mod here, but I'll honestly probably be absent for a minute while I try and figure out life.

My heart wanes to the very depths for you and my condolences are equally as vast, I can't even begin to imagine. Please, keep friends and family as close as you can right now and take all the time that you need. I am deeply sorry for your loss and I'll add you into my prayers friend.