shijinn, you’ll know when I give you the stink eye.
:dubious:
NOW I’ve given you the stink eye. So just calm down.
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There needs to be an official retraction and apology to Munch.
And the staff should pay for damages by giving him free membership for a year.
Haaaa!
He doesn’t need any damn apology. Dammit. Just retract the warning and be done.
Huh. Well, my mom taught me that when I do something wrong to someone else, I should say sorry. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
Not sure why an apology should raise such affect, but it’s no sweat to me either way.
It’s just that I don’t think anyone needs to tell someone else to apologize. It is one thing to tell him he needs to correct an issue when he is wrong. But, once he has done that, it is entirely up to him if he apologizes. We aren’t here to teach him manners, we are here to contribute to a messageboard that we hope will be run fairly by the mods who volunteer to keep things straight around here.
ETA: I mean, I guess I would understand where you were coming from if he had really done something to harm Munch. But the warning, if retracted, leaves Munch with no harm done. I don’t know, I guess I just don’t understand this ‘I need to hear sorry’ thing that a lot of people are on lately.
Come to think of it, relatively few of the slights we experience in our daily lives leave any actual lasting harm. I think I’ll keep it as my practice to say sorry for mine, even if it doesn’t actually make others feel better to hear it.
Agree with Nzinga. Apology not necessary. Rescinding the warning should occur though, or at least downgrade it to a tickle-oopsy.
Rescinding the warning is the right move.
Apologizing would be the classy move, though I agree it’s not particularly necessary.
You all make good arguments against saying you are sorry.
I apologize for mentioning it.
Hey you’ll never meet a bigger apologizer than me, honestly. I say sorry to people when they accidentally punch me in the face (it’s sadly true).
So, I’m sorry for saying that you shouldn’t have said that they should say sorry.
This is odd. I’ve only seen Marley issue (what I consider) bullshit warnings in Israel threads (which is why I just try to avoid Israel threads). Its disturbing to see the practice expand beyond Israel threads.
Believe me, there’s no apology necessary!
No, we insist. I may have said things that you took the wrong way. I am sorry if my words were interpreted by you in a way you found offensive.
+1
Same here.
Believe me, no apology detected!
That’s what happens when a few insensitive louts won’t stop requesting pics of Israel’s boobs.
To get back to the point of this thread, I agree Marley made a bad call here.
I can see why he felt kayaker was hijacking the thread by bringing up Cesario - that board sore point had little connection to the ongoing discussion in that thread. I think Munch was off-base on his explanation and confuddled what Oakminster was asking for, but I see nothing in his remarks as a hijack, rather trying to justify how the previous remark was not a hijack. And I see no Moderator Instruction that he violated. This appears to be a case of trying to bury the mess that is Cesario rather than a considered evaluation of Munch’s words and actions. This was a bad call.
The warning was given for a very simple reason: I told kayaker to stop posting on that tangent, and he said OK and let it go. Munch then decided to argue with me about that instruction and picked up the topic I’d just told kayaker to stop posting about. That’s ignoring instructions. I’m not much impressed by the contention that Munch didn’t know I was referring to anyone else since I’d referred to the subject as a hijack of the thread.
I said you hadn’t read my post because your summary of what I wrote was just about the opposite of what I’d actually said:
That’s pretty far off from what I did say. I definitely don’t keep mental track of unmodded comments (sexual or not).
And I’m not going to let ATMB threads get hijacked by people complaining about unrelated problems from years ago. Sorry. I realize this is a hobby for some people and I hate to ruin their fun, but we don’t do this so people can play games. Cesario was banned years ago for being a creep and ignoring mod instructions, and after the ban the staff admitted we should’ve kept a closer watch on him and dealt with him sooner and before he’d caused as much trouble as he did. We meant that and we’ve done a better job communicating about potential problems since that time. I don’t see the connection between that overly slow ban three years ago and a single mod note over an off-topic sexual comment. They’re not related, so I asked kayaker to let it go. He got the message. You didn’t, so you got the warning.
To what effect? I’m sure there are conversations where it might be relevant, but that wasn’t one. He wasn’t banned for that type of thing anyway. His posts weren’t off-color jokes, they were either threads on gross topics or they were deliberate thread hijacks intended to draw more attention to himself.
Why? I gave you a mod note and you dropped the hijack. Munch continued it after I said to stop. If I’d warned you I’d have still warned Munch.
We don’t pay “damages” for warnings and I assure you we never will. Since warnings have no impact on a user’s board experience, that makes no sense at all. And Munch already posts here for free.