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| In March 2011, [[maverick]], who had been an AH.com moderator for some time before that, had abused his moderator powers by hard-deleting several threads he had no right to, in an effort to, in his own words, "improve the board". Such moderator behaviour was unprecedented and resulted in the permanent loss of several threads. In the end, he was hoist by his own petard, as most of the deleted threads were his own works (still a pity, as he is a talented writer). | In March 2011, [[maverick]], who had been an AH.com moderator for some time before that, had abused his moderator powers by hard-deleting several threads he had no right to, in an effort to, in his own words, "improve the board". Such moderator behaviour was unprecedented and resulted in the permanent loss of several threads. In the end, he was hoist by his own petard, as most of the deleted threads were his own works (still a pity, as he is a talented writer). |
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| By that point, [[maverick]] was apparently getting increasingly frustrated with the board and so wished to wipe all record of his time on AH.com off the servers. This led to him deleting many of his own threads, breaking one of the main rules Ian had laid out to his moderators. He was banned shortly after this was discovered. See [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=4326871#post4326871|the banning post]] for more information. | By that point, [[maverick]] was apparently getting increasingly frustrated with the board and so wished to wipe all record of his time on AH.com off the servers. This led to him deleting many of his own threads, breaking one of the main rules Ian had laid out to his moderators. He was banned shortly after this was discovered. See [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-4326871|the banning post]] for more information. |
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| Some of maverick's permanently lost timelines and other writings have since been partially recovered, but only in the form of mirrors of the threads' starting pages. Not in the form of the threads in their entirety, unfortunately. | Some of maverick's permanently lost timelines and other writings have since been partially recovered, but only in the form of mirrors of the threads' starting pages. Not in the form of the threads in their entirety, unfortunately. |
| ==== In AH.com Culture ==== | ==== In AH.com Culture ==== |
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| [[Turquoise Blue]] jokingly [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=6538221#post6538221|created an AH.com meme]] that portrays [[maverick]] as a fallen angel "that taught us that mods aren't infallible". | [[Turquoise Blue]] jokingly [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6538221|created an AH.com meme]] that portrays [[maverick]] as a fallen angel "that taught us that mods aren't infallible". |
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| **[[AH.com Conflicts]]** | **[[AH.com Conflicts]]** |
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