A message from Infat...

[Lefty Scaevola]

"You mean they stopped?"

Yes indeed, now they reminiss about the good old days with Ming, his thumbscrew, rack, and electrodes. Oh those idylic days of youth and intense pleasure, of love and death, of bright dreams and unbounded hope. Now they are swallowed into the Charybdis of Michael's Discipline. No bright breezy summer days, no budding creativity, no joy in Mudville, no time left for you, no more hopeful Apolyton of yore. There is only moonlight carved out of steel, rigid adamatine discipline, stark unyeilding ORDER. We are the ever STRONGER, ever HARDER, ever OBEDIENT, ULTIMATE APOLYTON!!!!



....... or not.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
I am retired, I call myself a Fat Old Married Man.

Mystery explained.

[Chris 62]

No need to shout Mingy, I got ya!

[David Floyd]

I DO find it rather interesting that MtG can threaten the death of OBL, a murderer, while I can't WISH death on a federal agent who, according to the information I had, murdered someone.

Although that's my only comment on the subject, generally I take the mod's side in these disputes.

[David Floyd]

While we're at it:

Enough of this horse****!

That's a clear violation of site rules - getting around the auto-censor. That quote, by the way, is from MtG's post restricting and PCRing PH.

Again, I have no problem with MtG or site moderators/admin at all.

I have a problem with double standards.

[David Floyd]

Actually no I'm not finished.

After reading up on it, I'd just like to state that I'm gonna fully back Infat in this, and PH/red_jon in the "other thing".

OK, there. I think that's it.

[DinoDoc]

Whiner!

Originally posted by David Floyd
while I can't WISH death on a federal agent who, according to the information I had, murdered someone.

1) You weren't punished for your ignorance. So why are you complaining?

2) You had no information to go on at the time and filled in what you needed to know with your own prejudices. Are you suprised that you got called on it?

3) There were no federal agents involved in the incident you describe at all.

[Lancer]

If a soap opera thread occurs, and you're not there to see it, did it in fact occur at all? If not, then all this is my fault, for coming back.

[MattHiggs]

Lancer Sighting!

+1

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by David Floyd
While we're at it:



That's a clear violation of site rules - getting around the auto-censor. That quote, by the way, is from MtG's post restricting and PCRing PH.

Again, I have no problem with MtG or site moderators/admin at all.

I have a problem with double standards.

Try it yourself, Floyd - no getting arount the autocensor

**** is censored as a word in itself, but when the letters are in another word, they're not censored.

Unless it's extreme, I never bust people for bypassing the autocensor - the only time I can think of, the guy did it <b>20</b> times in a single post, all to prove a point that he'd figured out how to do it. He proved his point, so I decided to prove mine.

[Mercator]

Damn, what kind of a soft thread is this!? What happened to the good old Apolyton (just about every decent discussion turning into a raving flamewar)?
... People throwing insults at eachother and the mods until someone finally gets banned and in turn starts a thread about how he disagrees with being banned (with perhaps a firm "goodbye" thrown into it to add vigour to his argument) etc.

[Ecthy]

Noone ever publicly disagreed with the mods when I got banned, so I can't but laugh at the communal outcry that allegedly was caused by this MtG decision

And PH has just been a spamer and threadjacker lately, he should have got similar punishments long before.

[Ecthy]

Mercator, are you SuperSneak?

[Rogan Josh]

my 2c (I can say 'cent' now without appearing American thank God!)

I think MtG should be permabanned. Calling someone gay is not an insult and anyone claiming it is is being homophobic.

I find his entire behaviour out of line. He is insulting, bigotted, offensive, ignorant, intolerant and totally unsuitable for mod status.

There is nothing new in these recent actions. The unreasonable bannings of PH and Infat (or whatever he is called this week) just underline his previous ridiculous behaviour.

While we are at it lets ban Chris62 aswell.

The difficulty is that different people find different things insulting. I personally would not find the 'choking on semen' remark offensive if aimed at me, but homophobes regard it as such and PH gets banned. But when certain American posters (like Chris62) make outrageously insulting comments about Europeans it is not deemed offensive and gets by.

How can we trust Mtg to censor others when he cannot censor himself?

[ixnay]

Ban everyone but me.


That'd solve the problem.