roachboy,
unfortunately, transparency is not a valued commodity in some aspects of what is going on.
With regards to the mods and admins being manipulated, they'll have to speak for themselves on this one.
Concerning Daoust: he seemingly has a habit of action/retraction. That is, he overreacts, becomes screechingly hostile, then apologizes. If you noticed, he began injecting himself into the conversation at a bad time, and was told to shush by Halx. You saw his response. Left to his own devices, he would have derailed the conversation in an attempt to get someone to pay attention to him. I think Halx did the appropriate thing by kicking him. By the way, this also illustrates a parallel to what happened in C:A and how it became so volatile so quickly.
What is missing from the chat log (and not deliberately I need to add) was what happened after Halx clipped it and posted it. The conversation started going in the direction of blaming the mods and we tried redirecting it. Ngdawg started making jokes and Halx threatened to kick her if she didn't get back on topic. Halx then brought up that we were discussing the tension in TFP between members and ngdawg made a mention of us meaning the war of words between willravel and dksuddeth. I told her to quit being coy because she knew exactly what we were talking about and she told me to stop already. Others started calling her out on her behavior and she quit. You can't say you want a problem to end by ignoring it or walking out of a conversation.
What this is getting at is there is a need for some apparently to not be transparent, to play coy. If I am not as transparent as I'd like, it's because transparency only works if everyone is willing to be forthcoming. Some still are not and hide behind jokes and passive aggressive behavior rather than confront the issue. The issue will never resolve itself as long as we stick to euphamisms and opaque references to each other.
Granted, there is a backstory, but I don't think delving into it is what we're looking for now. I think what we're looking for now is a way forward. Some of us truly want to move forward, but some are content to keep spinning the wheels of confrontation due to hurt pride or ego.
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