I learned once in a thread here that whenever someone mentions Hitler in an argument its an automatic win. Congrats Ruby! I’m having some more wine for your victory! and no fartface is exactly what youre being. Not a douchebag or a slutpuppy or a nerdbucket or a shithead. Youre being a fartface.
You know, even in the pit, there are limits.
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uh oh. which part of my post invoked the red mean face? If I’m being absurd it’s only because I think its absurd to get so weird about people asking perfectly reasonable questions. You cant ignore the questions as much as the others can’t ignore the unanswered closings
So the powers that be didn’t offer an explanation for their behavior as to moderating decisions. What’s the big deal? It’s not as if it the requests for information were repeatedly turned down by an organization that tasked itself with fighting ignorance or anything.
Miller, you know I’m a fan, but I gotta say I think you’re missing it here.
And to your point about the environment created by an apology, I think that if more people apologized when they were in error (and realized it) that would make this a better place all around. If anything I would think the Mods would want to foster that atitude and welcome the opportunity, when it arose, to lead by example.
The part where you said I’m not a slutpuppy. You take that back!
I will start. Miller I’m sorry I did not call you a slutpuppy.
Actually, my point was about the enviroment created when demanding an apology where one is not warranted.
And to be clear, that was in regards to TubaDiva apologizing, not Cajun Man.
Well, that’s a matter of opinion, and I think I and others have a right to point it out. Saying we can’t or shouldn’t because it will harm the board is repression at its best.
No, you trying to suppress honest questions is you being a Nazi. Can you wrap your head around the fact that people have real questions, and they have a right to some insight into what happened? You don’t think it’s worth talking about, so stop reading the thread. But don’t try to make everyone else STFU if they want to talk about it.
So you can’t admit you accused me of being one of “those people” who dissect every mod decision with a rusty farm implement. You can’t admit you were wrong in that accusation, which was an attempt to discredit my genuine curiosity here as having some sinister agenda of undermining the boards. At least YOU’RE consistent. Party line, all the way. Cowardly as hell, but consistent.
No, we did not get an explanation. pizzabrat did not have his warning rescinded. TubaDiva did not acknowledge her attitude. We did get the thread re-opened, but if you think that’s all that needs to happen for people to feel satisfied with the situation, then you’re mistaken.
No, you are, you fartfaced little martinet you!
Yeah, and if I think you’re full of shit, I got a right to point that out, too. We all got the right to say what we think. Ain’t freedom grand?
“Repression at it’s best?” You mean, like… the good kind of repression?
Thanks, I guess.
No.
I wasn’t wrong in that accusation, because that’s exactly what you’re doing in this thread. I’ll stand by that much. The rest of the baggage you attached to that phrase remains yours and yours alone.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. You really think pizzabrat’s warning still stands? I know you’re desperate to score points, here, but don’t be stupid.
Eh?
Someone probably already answered this to your satisfaction, but just in case…
TD was insulting because in re-opening the thead she didn’t have the common decency to acknowledge that the original closure might have been (not was, but might have been) in error. She compounded her insult by re-opening the thread with a shitty little comment about how she can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be interested in posting to the thread but for those whose standards are so low as to be interested she would consent to allow it. Instead of just reopening the thread she had to be a pissy bitch about it. I don’t care if TD wants to be a pissy bitch on her own time but she should restrain her pissy bitchiness when she’s acting in her official capacity.
I’ll leave you and Rubystreak to it, but it seems that you’re using the word “warranted” to mean “mandated”. The word that I would use to trigger an apology is “merited”. There obviously was an error. People are looking for a real acknowledgement of what precisely that error was. It seems that an apology might then also be merited. I’d like to think that people would choose to apologize if there was justification to do so. I never understood being stingy with them.
And with that, Ding Ding, Miller, Rubystreak, GO!
This probably won’t matter for you, but **TubaDiva ** hasn’t been active in over nine hours, and Cajun Man hasn’t been seen since closing that thread.
Do we want to calm this Pit down until we can definitively say that there will be no apology/clarification? For now I will give the benefit of the doubt, especially that pizzabrat has nothing to worry about.
Oh, I’m sure the warning still stands. They are quite particular about that! But you see, there is a loophole. Now that the thread has been quietly re-opened, whenever pizzabrat wants to “do this again” in the future he can just bump this presanctioned thread instead of starting a new one. If they close it again under the “zombie thread” rule, then I think the hens will come home to roost. Let’s all just be patient and see how this plays out…
Is this the right thread to complain about the closure of my “Have you ever squirted yourself in the eye?” thread?
What? It isn’t? Oh, well, ok then, I’ll just go on my merry way. Doo da doo…
Too much fertilizer to apply to your garden? You need to spread it around here?
There was no “Warning”–as in a specific action by a Mod that winds up being recorded for posterity and then taken into consideration if the behavior of a poster is examined in the future.
There was an admonition to refrain from similar behavior that has not been recorded as a transgression against any rules or etiquette. (What Cajun Man’s current thoughts might be on the topic I do not know as he has not yet made it a point to elaborate on it.)
As to bumping this thread if pizzabrat is admonished to refrain from posting some other manner of thread in the future, pizzabrat hardly strikes me as the sort of person who would be so stupid as to re-open an old thread on a separate topic and I think you owe him an apology for suggesting that he would be so foolish.
If this thread were re-opened after many months for the purposes of complaining about a separate incident, it would be an example of stupidity–particularly given the number of acrimonius exchanges that have occurred in this thread that might result in the re-opening of old (and possibly healed) wounds at some future date as folks slogged through the first couple (or more) pages to get to any (by then) recent complaints.
She doesn’t have to do that. She can just say “after discussion with Cajun Man, we have decided to reopen the thread”. Closing a thread isn’t an insult that you have to apologize for when you decide to reverse the decision.
Meh, the comment was mildly snarky but I probably wouldn’t even have noticed it if people hadn’t complained about it. It’s par for the course here.
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And we’ve never been at war with East Asia…
What behavior??? That is what everyone is wondering. What behavior did PizzaBrat engage in, that is frowned on, that ANY of us might unknowingly engage in in the future?
Note the capitalization of the word “Warning” in my post. Note also the explicit statement, “as in a specific action by a Mod that winds up being recorded for posterity and then taken into consideration if the behavior of a poster is examined in the future.”
For several years now, the only Moderator interventions that have been placed in anyone’s permanent record, (i.e. “Warnings”), are those that are accompanied by explicit text telling the reprimanded poster that they are receiving a Warning. The word “Warning” does not appear in CajunMan’s post.
Now, if you want to play semantic games that an admonition looks like a Warning, to you, go ahead–as long as you realize that you are just playing silly games and not contributing to the discussion.
You’d have to take that up with Cajun Man. I seem to recall that I have already noted “*What Cajun Man’s current thoughts might be on the topic I do not know. . . *,” so I am not going to second guess him, here.