And jman didn’t need to reply at all. He chose to in order to escalate, while from the other side of his mouth he’s telling people not to be dicks.
This is what I talked about in my post. Pointless escalation and hostility is something that comes from both “sides,” but excuses like this are often only made for the one “side.”
If you guys want it to be a place where you can be dicks to those people and escalate, then fine, but if the actual goal is to figure out how to fix this divide, then that’s not going to help.
You’re right it didn’t come out of nowhere, but I think digging up something from 4 1/2 months ago to take a shot at someone is exactly the kind of thing that’s going to keep this conflict never-ending.
As used by Churchill here describes the calling out of a factually inaccurate post by him that even people on his “side” agree was factually inaccurate, so I have no problem with his use of my screen name in this fashion. I think this forum would be better off if more people “jmanned.”
Yup. The vote for perma didn’t even meet the required threshold. And it only got as high as it did because the poll never closed. An honest mistake that (I think) you made.
When PC reversed the perm based on the poll results at that time, the poll was way under the threshold required to perma. The poll was accidently left open for a month, and then the PC reversal was re-reversed by wookie, after being spurred on by Goofy. Even at that time, I do not believe that the threshold for perma was met.
The poll should have been locked when PC reversed his decision. Or maybe we should all have a perpetually open ban poll and if it ever reaches the threshold the ban hammer comes out?
Actually, you’re leaving out the part where the Captains thread was outed and a shit ton of posters changed their votes based upon that, after it became apparent what you all were up to.
There should have been a new poll opened then, sponsored by somebody and all that nonsense that wookie put in place in a desperate attempt to control the forum for as long as possible.
I think you are the guy that started the poll and forgot to put an end date on it! Remember how fast the first poll on moderating you was deemed illegitimate when it looked like you might win? But somehow the poll on sabo, which didn’t follow the rules at the time, and didn’t meet the threshold for a perma anyway, and was accidently not closed after PC reversed the perma, was defended as sacrosanct.