God that man is the most pathetic piece of shit moderator I’ve ever seen. I post a thread. He posts a link to an old thread of similar topic. No problem. He used rather dismissive language, IMO, by simply stating “it’s been done before.” and saying nothing else, which to me seemed like he was saying that my thread shouldn’t have existed. I said (and I wasn’t angry or rude or anything, just making a point) “Oh you’re right. We don’t have any new posters since 1999, this is totally redundant” – to me this is a fairly standard level of comment for the board… a little bit of sarcasm, nothing biting, nothing insulting or mean, no attacks…
I expected that to be the end of it, no big deal, whatever. But now he feels that he needs to come in deny things, whatever. Maybe he was legitimately trying to set the record straight. Not a problem. I replied thusly, to explain my own reaction:
Originally posted by Coldfire
Secondly, it’s no big deal. I was merely offering people the opportunity to look at some prior results.
Hense your dismissive wording, eh?
quote:
Switch to decaf already.
I’m not really sure what this means. I don’t drink coffee.
Whatever. It still isn’t a big deal to me, nor am I angry or even upset. More just wondering what is problem is, but whatever.
So what happens next? He starts threatening me.
"Whatever the case may be, comments and complaints about the Straight Dope Message Board Administration belong in The BBQ Pit. If you think it’s worth it, go ahead and start a thread there. But there will be no more bickering from you towards any moderator outside of that designated forum.
I trust I make myself understood. If you can’t refrain from further comments here, this thread will be locked. At the very least."
EH?? What the fuck is your deal Coldfire? Not getting enough fiber in your meals? You may want to take some of your own advice and stop trying to LOOK for offense in simple remarks when none is meant. If you didn’t mean to offend, then fine. It’s not like I called you to the mat on it or anything. I told you why I’d taken your words the way I did and in response you start oozing shit from every orifice. What fucking ever.
The thread in question was in no way worthy of taking anything to the pit, but his final post on the matter pissed me off. I hadn’t even realized that I WAS “bickering toward [a] moderator” … but I guess in the little world of Coldfire if you aren’t kissing his ass you’d better just shut your cake hole.
Just to weigh in, I didn’t find Coldfire’s link to a previous thread with the comment “It’s been done before” to be “dismissive” and his “take anti-moderator comments to the the pit”-type comments are part of his job description.
You know, other posters have been known to do the ‘been there did that’ mode as well, and it generally doesn’t warrant a rolleyes.
So, sorry, I saw Coldfire link to another, recent thread of the same topic, with a benign comment, you reply with a rolleyes, and even then he asks, ‘er what did I do now’ ? and you call his wording dismissive etc. Why not take it to e-mail at that point instead of posting?
Mountain out of an ant hill if you ask me. (and since you posted this, I assume you were asking for replies)
“It’s been done before” does seem to be the standard phrase and I’m sure no offense was intended. Personally, I have never been crazy about that phrase. To me, it does have a slight tone of rebuke. How about using “This is an update to <previous thread>” or somesuch when that is the intent and “It’s been done before” when it is meant as a rebuke?
Let me get this straight, Opal; you overreact to a simple link and now Coldfire is a “pathetic peice of shit moderator”? Gosh, that’s fascinating; do you always call someone a “peice of shit” after YOU overreact to something they say? Strikes me as being a strange way to deal with other humans but that’s your call. It must be fun hanging out with you:
Could you explain at what juncture he actually did something wrong? YOU flipped out over an innocuous statement. YOU refused to accept his followup explanation with grace. YOU started the pissing contest and now you’re complaining that he smells like ammonia. To use your words: “What fucking ever.”
One little ‘I’m sorry, didn’t mean it to sound that way’ from Coldfire and a ‘That’s OK, sorry I took it the wrong way’ from Opal, and everyone goes along their merry way.
Do we really have all this pent up anger to go off at every little thing?
Coldfire’s apology comes off as an ‘I’m sorry you’re such a jerk, Opal’, and Opal has to keep it going, of course. We end, as usual, with a vague threat of banning from the moderator.
People, it’s a silly little MPSIMS post, get lives already, okay?
Um… no. I did not “flip out” over his link or his explanation. I didn’t start any pissing contest. I was very calm and rational. Or is a rolling-eyes smiley now considered a declaration of war?
I came to the pit to say that Coldfire is a “pathetic peice of shit moderator” after HE escalated things WAAAAY above anything I had said by posting his threats. Hell I didn’t even realize it was a fight until he started that shit.
Anyway, no I didn’t post this to get responses, I posted this because I wanted to address my feelings on the matter and wasn’t able to in the original thread.
Oh, and I’d like to thank the people who have emailed me and IMed me with your support. You all know who you are. My favorites were “He’s really turned into a fucking Nazi.” and “I’ve never seen a mod get such a big head and such a bad attitude before”…
I don’t expect these people to post in this thread though… they tend to be more friendly types… the kind who don’t enjoy flame wars. As for the flame-loving types… well I don’t really care what you think, so post away.