Namepros has made a change with regards to moderator identifiers, amidst threats spelled out in the post below, Namepros smartly has moved to mod team id’s. In March of 2018 Eric Lyon was receiving threats and had his role changed at Namepros.
In February of 2017 Namepros reached 1million discussions and it sucks to see things get to this level. I was a mod there for 12 years but I cannot say outside of the normal trolling that I experienced anything one would consider threatening.
This was posted on Wednesday:
NamePros is an open community that welcomes members from all over the world to share, network, and do business with each other. An important part of online communities is their moderators (mods, for short). Moderators do their best to assist members with questions, help mediate disputes, find solutions to problems, enforce the rules to avoid small issues from escalating into larger ones, protect the integrity of the community, keep members safe, and so much more.
Over the years, we’ve explored different ways for moderators to perform these tasks without them being personally attacked, abused, harassed, or threatened. Although the vast majority of members on NamePros are respectful toward moderators, it unfortunately only takes one person to find a moderator’s home address and threaten their family for us to realize that we need to try to do more to protect them. Imagine volunteering your time to help the community and then being met with this type of hostility and danger. Unfortunately, these kinds of incidents happen more often than a reasonable person would expect.
During a recent incident, a self-proclaimed psychopath threatened the personal and physical safety of the NamePros team and their families. It’s unfortunate that moderators are sometimes mistreated and even threatened with violence toward their innocent family members, but some people in the world are unstable and have mental illnesses that we cannot disregard. Being a moderator can feel like a scary and thankless endeavor at times, so we are giving all moderators at NamePros the option to use private accounts or their personal accounts if they choose.
Our top priority is the safety of everyone on NamePros, including our moderators. Working toward that goal, we have created team accounts for the safety (and peace of mind) of the hardworking moderators of NamePros. There are now multiple team accounts for moderators based on their access level: some moderators have more access and permissions than others, so each team account will represent a different access level. All of the moderators using a specific team account will have the same access and permissions as each other.
Please help protect and respect the safety of our team and their families by keeping their names confidential. While we may not always get everything right, our intentions are always good, and the domain community benefits from these efforts. We need your cooperation to stay safe and keep NamePros running smoothly.
As always, our team is here to help you if you need anything.
Why are the Police not tracking them down and prosecuting those making the threats ?. I guess of course many could be from foreign Countries but IP’s should easily identify them.
If they are from ‘foreign countries’, then their threats luckily can’t come into reality.
Overall that kind of sucks, forum communications (the problem-solving ones) are going to lose some personal touch.
The team should have used nicknames from the start, this way, while hiding identity, its still possible to be present as a person, not just some faceless mod.
Looks like the whole new gTLD failure pushed a lot of people over the edge. Financial losses bring out the worst in some folks. Lot’s of domainers are underwater and renewals are piling up. Shameful.
Yea right, it’s not GTLD failing, nothing to do with it. I had ppl threaten me and dug into my whois for my address and warned me of a day he would come Other ‘pros’ mocked me and joked, posting memes of dead rats and such. This guy is 100% about .com, he smash ntld mindlessly just like you.
I think that the whole new gTLD debacle probably adds to this. But then again, Namepros has always been a cesspool.
hear hear!
From my experience the moderators at Namepros are rude, self-serving know it alls.
Domainers selling to domainers is the ultimate waste of time, but to have to suffer the overbearing, sanctimonious, self-serving “mods” ….?
You couldn’t pay me enough to witness another know it all “Monster” submission, moderation, reign in.
Domainers selling to Domainers?
Give me a break.
Backstabbers, crooks and con men!! (mods)
moderate this…!
Ridiculous!!
I bet most of them are out of the US jurisdiction and have that undeveloped alpha male mentality.
Doesn’t NamePros have 2FA registration features so they can trace the phone #?
From my experience the moderators at Namepros are rude, self-serving know it alls.
Domainers selling to domainers is the ultimate waste of time, but to have to suffer the overbearing, sanctimonious, self-serving “mods” ….?
You couldn’t pay me enough to witness another know it all “Monster” submission, moderation, reign in.
Domainers selling to Domainers?
Give me a break.
Backstabbers, crooks and con men!! (mods)
moderate this…!
Domainers, from my experience, of you are not buying there domains, will cut your throat, just as look at you.
Cases in point.
Mike Mann “About a year ago, while I wasn’t banned from Mann’s Twitter feed, I disagreed with his assertion that Donald Trump would be re-elected.” “I said that “that absolute horror of a human being will not be re-elected!”
Mann blocked me.
Rick Schwartz “About 6 months ago i expressed to Mr. Schwartz that buying domains from the circa 1995-1999, first to the .com , one word registration trough, then selling them for more is a colossal waste of time. I submitted that I would rather hand reg and take my chances, rather than making the geniuses that were “FIRST”, rich. Schwartz blocked me.
Why wouldn’t they block me . I will never buy a name from either one of them, even if I had the money!
Ashville assertion that domaining and domainers’ interests are being helped, as a matter of policy and planning.. BULLSHIT
DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH
Schwartz is interested only in running his mouth and selling his own names, plain and simple.
While there in nothing wrong in that, don’t give the BS that Ashville was anything more than a stone cold pitch by Schwartz and the other first to the trough attendees.
Altruism?
LOL
right!