mhendo:
That’s actually the thing that gets me most about this whole situation. I’m not arguing that twickster should get anything more than a slap on the wrist for this. What i’m arguing is that the whole thing was handled poorly from the start. Here’s what twickster wrote when she realized that she had insulted someone outside the Pit:
[mod]twickster , you know better than to call another poster a twat in an MPSIMS thread – and, yes, saying that he or she is “coming across as a twat” amounts to saying he or she is a twat. Don’t do this again.
No warning issued.[/mod]
This sort of self-admonition just comes across as disingenuous and insincere. What would have been far more appropriate is a simple and genuine apology for the fuck-up.
Here’s what a reasonable moderator might have said under similar circumstances.
I just realized that i called someone a twat in an MPSIMS thread. I forgot what forum we were in, and posted an inappropriate insult.
I’m sorry to everyone for doing that; as a moderator, i should follow the rules. And i’m sorry to living_in_hell for insulting her.
If twickster had posted something like that, i would have shrugged, put it down to the sort of mistake that plenty of people have made in the past, and moved on. Simple, really.
I don’t have a dog in this hunt, and usually don’t have any complaints about the moderation, but I do agree that twickster’s note on herself came across as insincere and snarky. If she had posted a genuine apology owning up to her error, either in the original thread, or in living_in_hell’s ATMB thread instead of hiding or ignoring it, this entire three-thread shitstorm could have been avoided.