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TIFU by trying to moderate a radio show chatbox

Obligatory happened when i was 14-15, my dads old employer did an internet radio talk show, earlier on i had to install the software on my computer, it was just to broadcast some preliminary music so listeners knew the show was about to start, while the actual people setup the equipment at the location, eventually things were figured out and they didn't need to use my computer but i never bothered uninstalling it and the software started with windows.

One night i was doing some wikisurfing, studying history, it wasn't uncommon for me to use a screen reader, still isn't, sometimes i'm just not in the mood for reading, so i'm using this ancient software called DECTalk (which as a sidenote, is apparently what stephen hawking used) when something starts spamming my windows notifications, making it hard to hear the screen reader.

It was the radio shows chatbox, they had gone live and the chat messages were coming through to my computer because of the software, after a few minutes i could see there was an argument brewing in the chat and one used a swear word, so i did the obvious.

'Message from mods: please refrain from swearing in the chatbox, thank you'

Now anyone who has moderated a community or even played online video games, knows that doing that, usually does the opposite, in hindsight i should have closed the software, but i was trying to be a good smaritan i guess.

What actually happened was they ignored it, so i posted it again, and then started small talk, i didn't do much, but a few minutes after my dad walks over with his phone, he shows me a text message from a colleague

'Someone with our logo arguing in the chat'

I came clean, said i just put a message enforcing a rule (afaik there wasn't even rules in the chatroom) then my dad starts scrolling through the chat on his computer, he was listening to the show, he's like 'you gotta delete this now'

I deleted it all, my dad said they must have been hacked or something, but i spent the next few days wondering if it was going to be linked back to me, it wasn't, and i uninstalled the program.

TL;DR: Ended up as an admin in a chatbox, one night an argument started that was spamming my notifications so i tried to moderate, ended up causing a scare that they were hacked but it was never linked back to me in the end

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