First and foremost, let me just say that these are the facts of what happened, including the contents of all PMs. There is no embellishment. Just clearing the air. The steps are in chronological order. If you don’t care about this, I can appreciate that… why you would, I have no idea.
I post the stupid joke list to MPSIMS.
Oakminster calls it plagiarism.
Instead of being public about it, I sent him a obscenity-laden PM. Because frankly, it pissed me off but I didn’t want it to be a public spectacle.
I then see that twickster edited my original posting in the thread citing plagiarism and the thread was locked. No warning was issued at this point. I sent her a PM:
At the time I was writing this PM to her, the initial warning was issued.
twickster responded to me:
At this point, I responded to the warning with “Shove it up your ass.” I’ll tell you why: I took her PM in #6 to say, “Shove your justification up your ass.” I chose to respond in kind, perhaps a little less eloquently.
Figuring I was going to be banned anyway, I changed my e-mail address so something like “admin@sdmb.com” because I didn’t want the world having my e-mail address. I didn’t re-verify the e-mail address.
I then couldn’t post, send or receive PMs from regular users. I also couldn’t look up user contact information. But I could read everything, including PMs received from staff. I thought I was suspended or banned and didn’t think the e-mail change would cause this behavior.
I then received the PM from TubaDiva:
Thankfully, I remembered TubaDiva’s e-mail address and we have a pleasant e-mail conversation over a two-day span that didn’t really amount to much in way of equitable resolution as far as I can tell.
Then I find out that the initial warning was reversed and a new one is in its place. I received this warning from twickster. So, contradictory to what she told TubaDiva, she could send me PMs.
Since then, everything was public.
Needless to say, this isn’t the message board for me. I’ve asked TubaDiva to close my account because I don’t want to be tempted to post here. I certainly need to find something else to occupy my time. Anyway, she politely refused.
Well, take care all.
(By the way, Bryan Ekers, you’re really witty and intelligent, to go through the entire list to tell everyone how unfunny it is – I appreciate that. You’re officially the Champion of Humor and your post reminded me that I’m in the wrong place. Why someone would go through that much effort to insult someone who they’ve really had ZERO contact with, I really have no idea. Seriously, thanks for that reminder)
I have no idea of the backstore though I gather it was Drama!!. Based on this thread alone, lemme tell you where you lost me:
Dude, it’s mighty hard to read “If you don’t state that it’s someone else’s work, you’re implying that it’s your own. Sorry, but this isn’t okay” and hear “Shove your justification up your ass.” Those sentences have nothing in common. Your response was not “in kind.”
So maybe a break is in order, at least until you can stop reading so much into what others are saying and overreacting on that basis.
I honestly didn’t give a shit about any of the backstory. But now that I have all the juicy details…
Was this thread just an attempt to explain or to justify? Because if it’s the latter, boy did you miss it by a wide margin.
Why are we still talking about this? Why is anyone posting to this thread? Why am **I **posting to this thread? My god, maybe I should have myself banned for my own good!