Seriously, the guy just doesn’t seem able to set personal animus aside when moderating issues involving me in the Pit. His personal hard feelings for me date back to the time I got sick of posts claiming people could only be conservative if they were evil to begin with and posted my take on the human suffering liberalism has been responsible for over the last fifty years. Certainly this is an issue that reasonable men of good faith can disagree about, and prior to that time Miller and I had a fairly amicable relationship here, with him going so far at one point to tell me that I was one of the “good guys.”
In the wake of my liberal-bashing post, however, he decided that since he’s a liberal and I was bashing liberals I had therefore betrayed his friendship, and his disdain for me since seems to have evolved into nothing short of hatred. At any rate, he hasn’t been at all shy about stating his strong dislike for me in the Pit.
Nor does he seem particularly concerned with the need to be honest, claiming as he has (as a poster, not a mod) that I was lying when I talked about complimentary PMs I’ve gotten on occasion. He reiterated this claim even after I pointed out the glaring hole in his accusation, which is that as a moderator he either has access to my PMs or he doesn’t, and that if he did, he would know I was being truthful, and if he didn’t, he had no justification for his assertion that my claim was “bullshit” and that I was lying.
Which brings us now to his behavior as moderator. Some of you may remember when his mod hat instruction to me upon being told I was hijacking a thread was simply “Starving Artist, Shut Up!”
Now we come to the Paterno thread where he has taken to insulting me directly within his mod hat on, knowing full well I can’t retaliate. He placed a side issue I had raised off limits and told me not to say another word about it, then referred to it as my “stupid Hollywood crap” in warning other postets not to bring it up either. Then, in another instance of moderatorly umfairness, he ignored my report when my main opponent in the thread brought it up some time later in an attempt to goad me with it. I reported the offense and absolutely nothing ensued.
Now he’s taken his arrogant willingnesd to abuse his authority to a whole new level. Witness his post in the Joe Paterno thread:
Note the het up insults which I’m forbidden to repond in the thread where they were posted; the utterly dishonest mischaracterizations of my posts, and the implicit threat that one I use a forbidden word in the Pit - an offense which has drawn a “please don’t do this again” response from him every time it has occurred since the Pit rules were changed - I will be banned.
Are these types of insults, lies and threats coming from a moderator really to be allowed on this board? I respectfully ask that Miller be relieved of his duties as moderator because he is clearly unable to keep his personal feelings out of his actions as moderator, or at the very least he be moved to another forum where he is less likely to find me participating ad a poster.
In closing, I apologize for any typos or word omissions as I’m posting from my iPod tonight, and proof-reading and editing is just too time-consuming for this time of night.
