You know, I was willing to give Ed the benefit of the doubt. I remembered the thread where Kelli said this. It was many, many months ago. I know Ed wasn’t making that part of it up. Either way, even if he was just trying to loosen the tie a bit and be cool, what he said was a GROSS error in judgment. Ed complains about how he’s tired of people complaining about the way the board is run, and then proceeds to take potshots at those who complain (and yes, I would have taken that comment as very insulting were I in Kelli’s shoes). And he’s up there, and we’re down here, so we can do NOTHING to defend ourselves, other than get in a flame war with the admin, and eventually be banned over it.
I have no problem with Ed trying to have fun in MPSIMS. It might make this place a little more fun to visit. But he should be VERY careful to not rehash old, long-forgotten posts in attempt to piss off people who he’s gotten in fights with before when he does it. You know, that’s common sense, something I’ve been thinking Ed has lacked for quite a while. He’s a head honcho of this board, and he should be held to a higher standard. That does NOT mean that he can’t dance around with the villagers. He just can’t throw one on the stake while he’s at it.
But then I see this whole “this was a put-on” post, and I’m horribly confused. See, Kelli didn’t even KNOW that Ed’s comment existed until a group of us thought to point it out to her, seeing as WE took offense, and we knew she would as well, and we realized that what Ed had said was not right. I know it wasn’t a put-on because of that. I talked to Kelli a good portion of last night. She felt dirty and degraded by what Ed said. Frankly, if I were in her case, I would too. It’s not so much WHAT he said (although that was pretty crass), it’s WHO said it, and what power she had to fight back. And to hear Ed try to laugh it all off as a joke, making Kelli look like even more of a bitch and all the rest of us look like idiots…well, now I’M insulted as well. And I feel that there’s nothing I can do about it, because Ed’s the administrator of the board. He can make up whatever lies he wants, or use comments I made 10 months ago against me, and I can’t do a good goddamn thing in my own defense.
THAT’S the main problem here. Not what he said (which could be construed in several ways, as we’ve rehashed over and over, but none of them NICE, which is what matters), but who was saying it. If you’re a moderator or administrator of this board, you should not be allowed to use your power as a springboard to attack individual, non-trolling posters. CKDextHavn apologized to any racists or other trolls that he might have offended. The difference, of course, is that those people DESERVE our derision. Their actions and words make them worth nothing to the overall board. The only thing Kelli did wrong was daring to not like Ed, and to speak out against him. Ed, as admin, should be above attacking back, and then spreading lies about her. But he’s not above much of anything these days, it seems.*
*The preceding sentence was meant as an attack on Ed Zotti’s moral character, not his sex life. For all I know, he likes it when his wife is on top.
