Nosebleeds and solo-moderating.
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, July 7th, 2015 at 01:52 AM (3827 Views)
So I took up a moderating job in another forum, only for all the other moderators to somehow vanish thanks to real life and becoming the only active moderator in charge of handling everything since the admin was too busy with the other forum he owned.
For the first two months, everything was fine, minus the fact that I had to come online every day to regulate the chat and deal with reports about salty individuals with comprehension skills worse than a kindergarten kid.
Then the flames started happening, the game developers started fucking up as usual and instead of being the better people and just laughing it off like usual, some people (a cult dedicated to accusing all devil's advocates and nice guys of being worshippers of the company) ended up blowing shit out of proportion, deciding to devolve into shit flinging monkeys, and started several flames on so many threads that I ended up going without sleep for fourty hours and even ended up snapping at their idiocy once; earning the ire of their brigade and leading to a few insults being thrown here and there.
It didn't help that I had my own work to do, my own self-studies (since I'm, after all, a drop out who failed my O levels thanks to a cotton bud stuck in my ear) and an elder brother yapping over my autistic, overly sensitive years.
Nonetheless, I barely contained the situation and held the line; and then I fell asleep on my keyboard while having a moment of angst on my annoyance at not having contained the situation better and for actually snapping.
So I dreamed of electric sheep, Mag Prime helmets and swimming in blood gems and glimmer.
When I woke up, I realised I had a bad nosebleed and so I went to wait it out...
... Except that it took one whole hour and several wads of tissues to clear up the blood leaking out of it that I'm sure would have reached a coke can's amount if I hadn't used some medicated tissues I brought back from Australia. I'm still feeling light headed as it is now and my fingers keep slipping.
Even as an artist/writer with shit skills who goes on for two plus days without sleeping on average, this was odd to me and I'm honestly curious if work stress causes such bad nosebleeds and headaches? Maybe it's the salt? Or is this perhaps a result of several years of not sleeping?
Oh and even in the throes of pain and non-erotic nosebleeds, I managed to scrounge up some artwork!
http://i.imgur.com/bKUHcAs.png
http://i.imgur.com/jwGs5sw.png
http://i.imgur.com/MTv3G5M.png
I also managed to complete a few pieces of writing in that time as a way of venting, but that's a horror that should never be shared.