Help Board Heroes
Several years ago when a known snitch was trying to shut down this board through deletions, we did a little digging into the admin team here at imdb, a.k.a. the Help Board Heroes. This is what we discovered about their private lives:
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NAME: Jimi
AGE: 42
HOMETOWN: Sausalito, CA
EDUCATION: TV repair certificate
OCCUPATION: Part-time landscaper / IMDB help board hero
MARITAL STATUS: Pending Proposition 8 court appeal
HEIGHT: 5'11"
WEIGHT: 155 lbs.
HOBBIES: Hydroponics, tie-dying
Jimi picked up his computer skills though a lifelong program of trial and error. Although the back of his Volvo is covered with bumper stickers preaching tolerance, he understands that on the imdb some agression cannot stand! In his spare time Jimi likes to collect K-Tel records and looks forward to attending the annual Up Your Alley street fete.
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NAME: Erik
AGE: 29
HOMETOWN: Athens, GA.
EDUCATION: UGA (2 years / dropped) MAJOR: Music History.
OCCUPATION: Starbuck's / Imdb Mod (Help Board Hero).
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 200 LBS.
HOBBIES: Movies, collecting comic books, playing WoW, magic tricks, bass guitar and screenwriting.
Although Erik has only has two years of Imdb modding under his woven Peruvian belt, he is a deleting force to be reckoned with. His response time is unbelievably quick and his tolerance for any opinion other than his own is very short. When he's not working, he can usually be found at the local Irish pub, sipping on a Guiness and staring at the bartender he's been working up the nerve to ask out for the past five years. Just look for the white chubby guy with dredlocks, Buddy Holly style glasses and his trademark Che Guvara t-shirt sitting at the end of the bar. That's Erik and he's proud to serve the Imdb community.
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NAME: Steff
AGE: 23
HOMETOWN: Lawrence, KS
EDUCATION: Salina County Community College MAJOR: Native American Studies.
OCCUPATION: Lacrosse Rotisserie League Website Admin. / Imdb Mod (Help Board Hero).
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
HEIGHT: 5'6"
WEIGHT: 138 LBS.
HOBBIES: Watercolors, Star Wars conventions, Star Trek conventions, ACORN astroturf.
Named by his mother after James Spader's character in Pretty In Pink in an attempt to compensate for his father's lack of masculinity, Steff is 1/16 Indian and he proves it daily by putting on his paint and going on the warpath against reported imdb abusers. Outside of his bedroom, Steff can often be found inside the town Circle K, importuning the clerks to give him past-date issues of Teen People and berating as "fascists" those who refuse him.
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NAME: Barbara ("Babs" for short.)
AGE: 41
HOMETOWN: Columbus, OH.
EDUCATION: Bexley High School Class of 1987.
OCCUPATION: Target Operations Manager / Imdb Mod (Help Board Hero).
MARITAL STATUS: Divorced (1 child).
HEIGHT: 5'4"
WEIGHT: 190 LBS.
HOBBIES: Collecting Ty Beanie Babies, watching "Ellen" wine tastings, Cub Scout Den Mother Pack #35.
"Babs" signed up to be an Imdb mod six years ago following her divorce, hoping that it would "fill the void" of her husband leaving her for a young temp at his office. During her stint, she has made friends with many young people who "look to her for mentoring and life-changing feedback" (her words). Her home is always open to young twenty-somethings who "are having a hard time in this society" and need someone to "rap" with. She is not a "downer" but an "upper" (tee hee). Just last week, Babs's young friends all chipped in and treated her to her first tattoo, which "empowered her to be free" and let the "real her" come out. Babs has been MIA for the past few days due to a rather serious infection on her back from said tattoo, but she is expected to recover and be back to deleting very soon.
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NAME: Ronald (Ronnie)
AGE: 22
HOMETOWN: Flagstaff, AZ
EDUCATION: Starfleet Academy Class of 2008.
OCCUPATION: Chem Lawn (part-time lawn boy) / Imdb Mod (Help Board Hero).
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 138 LBS, 148 after a weekend of Mickey D's and Boone's Farm
HOBBIES: Oscar Buzz Board-worthy movies (DeNiro, Pacino), solving quadratic equations, listening to Beck, putting Mentos into Pepsi bottles and watching the bubble-over, finding new and better ways to make date rape drugs.
The IMDb community is thrilled to welcome Ronnie to its team. Don't let his lack of experience fool you. This youngster was BORN to mod. Growing up the butt of jokes and worshipping fine young men such as Dylan Klebold and Kip Kinkel, he has managed to turn his social ineptness into a true art form. This 2008 graduate of the Starfleet Academy can be found at local Star Trek conventions, sharpening the points on his ears, quizzing himself in the mirror on the period table of the elements and selling bootleg copies of Beck's "Live from the O2 Wireless Festival in London" CD out of the trunk of his recently restored '69 Chevy Corvair.