For sure. Everyone makes mistakes though.
There is an important lesson here that everyone (or at least everyone that I can think of) is contributing something positive to the forum. But oftentimes we pay more attention to the posts we donât like, especially if the poster is mainly active in a topic that we arenât interested in.
On the other hand I can sympathize. Goof Baller followed me around for literally 5 years, being a raging trolling asshole to me. Literally acted that way towards me for years. Am I sorry to see him go? Of course not. Iâll not celebrate it, as I know that many people were very fond of him, exactly because he didnât treat them the same way he treated me and AQ. Everyone has a different forum experience.
I just dont get the two year facade about what exactly just happened being absolutely terrible for the site. That was hundreds to thousands of hours of your guys lives! Everyone could see through the transparent lying, but why not just say âhey, we donât like CW, goofy, Ikes and donât want to be around them?â
You wasted just days of your lives lying about the inner politics of a political message board with ~300 members to get to a point where ~5 of them would leave.
I at least respect Keed being like âI didnât like goofy.â He didnât parse it in weird political speech about rules, regulations and what is best for the forum at large.
Congratulations.
Well thereâs a difference between my dislike of ikes and Goof Baller and CW. CW never followed me around the forum trolling me and being a jerk like those two. Theyâre the only two on the forum that are on my muted list. Because theyâre really the only two who acted like that towards me that I can recall, and of course I dislike them for that. CW was just a bad mod. Thatâs it. No hard feelings and Iâm sure he did his best, but his policies were very misguided and destructive and thatâs all Iâll say about that.
In what way did he âvandalizeâ anything?
I donât either.
finally something both sides can agree on
So he is supposed to keep the bot running on his computer to serve a forum he no longer frequents?
Why wouldnât he deactivate bots that he had to occasionally troubleshoot and presumably was paying some kind of hosting fee to keep running? Is it going to be âvandalismâ when cW doesnât post on his gimmicks like Gritty? Oh, you keep adding on to the post
No one considered goreo leaving or deleting his account vandalism.
From each according to his means, to each according to âgo fuck yourself shitlib, hereâs another picture of $90â
This is whatâs so frustrating. Youâre sure of this, despite the posts people made doing just this, and in a breathless angry way, to boot.
Anyway I doubt oreo wants us talking about him. JBro was making a point about how things are interpreted differently depending on the team, I think, and thatâs as far as it goes.
People are very sure that a lot of things didnât happen. I guess I canât blame them, because itâs the only way they wouldnât be appalled by the never-ending blizzard of shit rained down on me and my friends from a half dozen members of the âadultâ team.
Goreoâs âvandalismâ was deleting his customizations and resetting admin options to Discourse defaults, not his choosing to leave here. Itâs not the same thing as (essentially) choosing to stop posting on gimmick accounts.
I have a long list of former regulars whose posting here I valued very highly. It sounds like you recognize the feelings I had when they left because either they themselves felt unwelcome or because otherâs that they like had left for similar reasons.
You most of all. I guess these are more examples of things that didnât happen that youâre sure did but itâs the same idea.
Believe it or not people can perceive things differently without lying. I wasnât lying when I said your avatar combined with the PM you sent seemed like harassment to me. I also donât consider you, or anyone else, an âenemyâ.
What made them feel unwelcome, that all of their demands were not acceded to in a timely manner with an appropriate amount of enthusiasm from people who didnât agree with their philosophy on how the site should be governed? Because thatâs how I remember subforum-gate and leaving for a new site.
At any rate, I was not glad that most of them left, itâs a damn shame we (the we we, all of us) failed to maintain a maximally inclusive forum.
That recollection is an issue we disagree on. I will say that on average they acted more reasonably and maturely than goofy did from that point forward. On the shame of where it got to, we agree. I only use goofy here because he was the topic individual.
yes we did and I cant tell how much I appreciated it at the time. and the only reason I did not stick up for you going forward and recently was bc I knew that it would put a target on your back and I just did not want to taint you with my alleged problems.
regardless, I am sorry for the abuse I threw at you.
Goreo did vandalize the forum on the way out. He also didnât just leave and delete his account did he?