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[dojoboy]

Originally posted by Padma
As one of the mods of the CFC Civ3-Mac forum, Let me just reiterate what Lefty said. The behavior seen in this thread would have resulted in restrictions, and even a perma-ban.

And know that I will be paying *special* attention to the Mac forums, now.

Hey Padma, fancy meeting you here. First post?

[dojoboy]

Originally posted by Padma
And know that I will be paying *special* attention to the Mac forums, now.

What do you mean by now, you always pay us *special* attention. That's why we're so fond of you!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by laurentius
I'm sorry if my postings have contributed as spam. All I have to say is I dont object if someone feels the need to reduce my PC and I didnt think it was spam.
Generally I'm with the mac guys in this. The OT mac threads were mainly crippled by Ashers comments and all the flaming that it created. At the same time I understand that Ming had to do what Ming has to i.e. Ashers publicity stunt left him with no option but to take action.

No one thought to report Asher in these threads as he has done to you?

Who's fault is that?

If he's spamming your MAC threads, report him.

You were breaking the rules here, technically, whether or not Asher should have done it is another story.

ACK!

[Dinner]

Agathon, your screaming and crying like a two year old who's throwing a temper tantrum. Just understand the rules and follow them.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I've ranted off to Ming about many things but this is pretty vicious
The worst I've gotten is, what, "your biased against me because of my political beliefs" with a dash of and a touch of ?
While I don't think Ashers heart was quite in the right place and it's completly apparent he did this simply to spite the Mac people here, the reaction (especially from Agathon) seems to be quite violent. Disturbingly violent.
I mean, comments like

Him and Drake have constantly thrown barbs like that in my direction for months unpunished, so I figure it's about time somebody hit them where it hurts.

Funny how they take to insulting my SO, and all I have to do is rat them out on their spam forum. It's interesting that Agathon behaved more rabidly to that than I did to my SO-bashing -- also shows you where his priorities lie.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Agathon
. I should know, I've taught formal and practical logic

The resulting students should make an interesting case study.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The OT mac threads were mainly crippled by Ashers comments and all the flaming that it created.

Well... boo hoo. You can't prevent an opposing point of view in off topic discussions unless they go against the rules of the site. Simply because someone posts something in your Mac threads that you don't agree with doesn't give you license to go into on-topic forums and flaunt the rules.

I STILL can't believe how some people on this thread blame Ming on this.

[Dinner]

Well, when you don't have a SO then maybe an internet forum takes on a whole new meaning in life.

[Gatekeeper]

Good grief. In my role as an official representative of my employer, if I had employees acting towards me like they have acted in this thread, they would be without jobs at day's end.

There, how's that for upstaging the "officiousness" factor oozed by our good Lefty and Padma?

Gatekeeper

[Drake Tungsten]

Him and Drake have constantly thrown barbs like that in my direction for months unpunished, so I figure it's about time somebody hit them where it hurts.

So, what you're basically saying is that you don't have the verbal skills or wit to hit us back in kind, so you had to resort to running to the mods and killing the Mac forum. All clouds have a silver lining, and in this case it is how effectively you demonstrated your completely pathetic nature to the rest of the board. I only lost a place to talk about Mac news; you lost your dignity.

Good show!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
So, what you're basically saying is that you don't have the verbal skills or wit to hit us back in kind

What I'm saying is I refuse to stoop to your level.

I only lost a place to talk about Mac news; you lost your dignity.

Good show!

Reality check, Drake...everyone's getting a good laugh out of this except the whining Mac people.

My dignity remains intact, it is you and Agathon who have repeatedly resorted to making fun of my SO while simultaneously whining about the mods shutting down your abuse of a forum.

You've lost both your dignity and your mind, in addition to your spam forum.

[Drake Tungsten]

What I'm saying is I refuse to stoop to your level.

Yeah, what you did was so much more noble. That deserves a Ming-size laugh...

You've lost both your dignity and your mind, in addition to your spam forum.

Good comeback, kid. The old "I know you are but what am I" routine works every time. Now I see why you had to run to Ming instead of fighting your own battles.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten


Yeah, what you did was so much more noble. That deserves a Ming-size laugh...

Hmm. Letting the administrators know that people are breaking their rules, in addition to seeing my least favorite posters on Poly throw a united hissy fit full of sig-material and general hilarity...yeah, that's on-par with making fun of people's SO just because you're upset someone raided your illegal party...

Good comeback, kid. The old "I know you are but what am I" routine works every time. Now I see why you had to run to Ming instead of fighting your own battles.

That wasn't a "I know you are but what am I", it's a "you've no clue what you're talking about -- you're the one making an ass out of yourself".

There is a difference.

You broke the rules: You whine, you blame me, you make up **** about me entering that forum to "flame" everyone (which is even funnier because you always claim that I "lie" when you've been caught in so many that I've lost count, like this), then you insult my SO.

Then you claim that I have lost my dignity. I think not.

Your judgement is clouded, grasshoppah.

Agathon's the one that's made a total ass out of himself, with you in close second. Words cannot describe how funny it is when Agathon brings in his credentials as a philosophy instructor about how he knows that this whole thing is illogical when he taught logic(!). Everyone is laughing at him, and even at you.

People find this funny, particularly because you guys are so hapless about it. "Oh, I didn't know that the Civ - Macintosh forum had to do with Civ for Macintosh!!!!"

"This is all an evil ploy by Asher, you are bad moderators, I am leaving and taking my ball with me! "

[Drake Tungsten]

yeah, that's on-par with making fun of people's SO just because you're upset someone raided your illegal party...

Since when is speaking the truth a crime? Besides, your actions had actual consequences, unlike mine. Hell, even Ming won't defend your behavior. Tell yourself that people respect you for this all you want, but you're only lying to yourself. Probably appropriate, since you lie to everyone else.

you make up **** about me entering that forum to "flame" everyone

Which is the truth, but no one really cares about what really went down in the Mac Forum, it seems.

[Asher]

What a sad little world you live in, Drake. No wonder the crashing down of this little forum means so much to you.

Well, bedtime for me. Goodnight.

Besides, your actions had actual consequences, unlike mine.

Hey, imagine that -- another thing I'm clearly better at than you.