The only conceivable reason this thread is still running is because moderators (and they've said this before) choose to allow members to show their true colors...
...kudos to the way a few members and a fucking
moderator* have denigrated a valuable member of this community. These are the kinds of threads I show potential new members when they ask me what this place is like so they can enter with eyes wide open.
*EDIT: lebell, you posted a couple responses but deleted them immediately afterwards, so I'll merely respond to your PM to me:
Quote:
denegrating
I'll also point out that you're the one that deciding to bring cursing into the conversation.
|
Go ahead and point it out if it makes you feel vindicated in some way about the way you posted toward host. Your usual victimstance notwithstanding, I'm going to trust that most people read my statement in context as an expression of incredulity at your behavior toward a member, not a personal attack (which wouldn't make much sense since my posts have been admonishments against personal attacks on host).
2nd edit:
Here's the PM I received after posting the above edit:
Quote:
vindicated?
Not at all.
After some thought, I decided it was better to remove my comments because they didn't add to the conversation, my personal opinion of host's value to the forum notwithstanding. You could have pm'd me, but you chose to escalate the problem, which I pointed out in pm's. Then of course, you had to go back and post my pm in the forum.
For the record, I have stopped moderating your posts and now refer them to others, but if you think I'll take shit like this lying down, you're very badly mistaken.
Call it my "victimstance" if you want to justify your behavior, but the fact is you've shown repeatedly that you've got something personal against me. You've publically vilified me in the past and in the interest of "fairness", I've let you get away with it. But no more. Since I won't mod you anymore, expect me to report it to other mods when you're being an ass such as this. They can look at it and decide who's in the wrong.
|
Exactly. I choose not to respond via PM to these kinds of statements--there really isn't anything to say to such communication. I post your statements out here because I think the members have a right to see how you play cool mod out here but attempt to agitate some of us behind the scenes. Furthermore, since you've threatened to put this in hands of others behind the scenes, I think the community should have access to the full picture. I also have a right to allow the community access to what I receive in my personal communication box. In you feel attacked by me posting what you put here, perhaps you shouldn't be sending it to me.
I haven't responded to you via PM, I haven't altered what I've said about you, and I haven't altered what you've stated about me. So if moderators are going to come down on me hard for what I've done, at least the community has access to the full story before I'm wiped from the board.