Actually what's hilarious is that I can basically drop off the BBS for three months at a time, say next to nothing and fucking crybabies are still screaming to high heaven about how much of a "Tough Guy" I am. We're getting well into "Obvious troll is obvious" territory here.
For the record, when you ragequit a while back who was it who reached out to you and told you that they'd rather you not leave?
PROTIP - It wasn't Ian.
So if you wanna go on fixating about what an asshole I am go ahead, but as I recall I was bummed to see you wanting to leave and asked you to come back.
I can post the emails if you'd like - Here are the exchanges -
IAN - Any idea what I should do about this guy? It appears he's a $20 a month AMPer. Obviously just cause someone AMPs shouldn't give them free range to troll, but perhaps someone was hasty with him?
If you say cut him loose, I'll cut him loose.
ME -
Huh.
Alaric has been bitching non stop about the mods, but he hasn't been abusive or particularly trollish and I don't understand why he would have been banned.
He is historically a cool guy but this ongoing bitchfest has got to stop. Basically half of the front page of General is Hellbilly and Alaric complaining constantly for the last couple days.
They have decided that the mods are conspiring to stomp out any dissent from users and have been feeding off of each other.
Maybe I should email him and discuss it? Hellbilly is generally an ass, but Alaric probably hasn't earned a ban. (Yet)
IAN - ...Feel free to reach out to him. I'll hold off until my usual AMP day (Sat) before pulling his account.
Thanks,
Ian
Also note what I said about Hellbilly and doubly note that he's never been banned.
So quit fucking busting my balls man.
This is what I see when I watch these bullshit dustups -
1. Specific users calling "the mods" names and accusing them of abuse.
2. Mods eventually get fucking fed up because they don't have to put up with abusive shit forever.
3. Mod tells the user off repeatedly for several months.
4. User calls the mod names and accuses them of abuse.
5. Mod finally removes the user for being a fucking asshole troll.
6. Another user has a fucking hissy fit about mods being abusive and cites the banned troll as evidence.
7. Return to step #1.
This is all about people being bummed that they can't use other people as punching bags around here anymore and trying to twist shit around in their heads so they can feel like the good guy.
So quit bitching, quit busting balls, and quit whining.
Please.
Or don't and eventually sink to the point of repeated name calling and other abusive behavior and eventually after months of it get yourself banned for violating the TOS.
I barely post anymore. I just quietly do mods stuff. The idea that I'm running around jumping up into people's grill and bullying them enough to be worthy of dropping my name is genuinely fucking stupid unless the only point is to get me to respond, in which case you're just fuckin' trolling anyhow and that is ultimately self correcting.
In before you accuse me of threatening to ban anyone.
Highs odds that it was a fucking waste of my time to write all this but I gave it a shot anyhow just for the sake of trying to be somewhat civil. (Maybe if you could hear the tone of voice in my head you'd understand that this entire post is fairly lighthearted from my end. It's really not any sort of angry scrawl. It's just the John Shaw way of saying "Can't we just drop this shit once and for all?"
I won't be posting again in this thread so have the last word.