Well, the hate towards me has definitely reached new levels of dedication in recent years, while climbing to astounding highs in the past two weeks. Honestly, I’m so indifferent to it at this point, but I do question why people are so quick to over react to everything I do.

For those of you left wondering what I’m talking about, let me explain. I am a forum moderator at Neowin.net. No real secret there. I’m probably one of the most active moderators on staff and, thus, tend to deal with problems more often than some others. When it comes to the more personal things, like issuing a warning to a user’s account, I try to be brief, to the point, and professional. I usually tell them what level I have increased their warning to, quote the offending post (or how selling pot seeds is not allowed on Neowin…true story), explain how it breaks the rules, and then end the message by thanking them and asking them to be a bit more mindful of the rules in the future. Unfortunately, people tend to go crazy when this occurs.

Sure, getting a warning sucks, but it’s not like it changes anything for a Neowin member. They don’t lose any privileges and can continue posting as they had been all along. I guess it’s not enough, though. Besides the rather explicit replies I tend to receive, this site has been bombarded with hate in the past, as well. Now, however, it’s going even further. About a year ago, one member dedicated a whole blog post to how much I suck. Just recently, on some random teen forum, an entire thread was created to discuss how I’m a Nazi, geeky chav (think wigger, for you Americans), and a general asshole. It’s a good time to be me.

Honestly, I’m just so indifferent to it now. These kids seem to think it will hurt me to talk badly about me. I’m just curious as to why people flip out so easily whenever I do my job. Sometimes, I think it’s because people don’t know how hard I work to make Neowin something people want to return to. I never really told people, but I almost lost my staff position fighting to bring the IRC back. I pissed quite a few important people off when I contested admin choices in the past because I didn’t feel it was right for the member base. So, why me? Who knows? I guess you either hate me or you……hate me?