Careful. Your snark is showing here in the pit.
I’m a troll and even I believe this ban is bullshit. Fuck you, Ed Zotti. I’ve enjoyed the Cecil Adams collumn for a long time. For me, this actually hurts the collumn. Because I picture an uptight pansy dickwad writing it now. Doubt I’m alone.
Eeww gross, no. What’re you insinuatin, nancy boy?
Oops! Let me adjust my slip!
Wow, that’s one I haven’t heard before! Gee, I spend too much time online! Why no one’s ever mentioned that before! How wonderfully clever!
Whatever, alice. Run and play, I’m tired of you.
Sampiro, this is duffer, we’re talking about. The guy apparently is glad SSM was voted down because of some snarky remark some random guy said to him on the internet last year. I mean, yeah, let’s a HUGE percentage of the population suffer because someone online was mean to me! Waaaahhhh!!!
You have an amazingly good recollection of events that happened well before you joined.
Some of us have been reading these boards since long before we joined.
The name’s familiar but… there’ve been so many. (Plus, you’re entitled to your own sympathies of course but I personally don’t associate with the Guest-Dopers [the gue-bloods] enough to learn their names and histories— I understand some of them like pocket change and will do odd tricks for it and some you’d barely know from a Charter Member in certain lighting.)
I haven’t read the whole thread; I just wanted to register my protest before this thread is closed and disappeared. Otto wasn’t my favourite poster simply because he seemed a lot pissier than he ever needed to be, but that banning was power-tripping bullshit, pure and simple. I’ve always been proud of the fact that we can and do challenge the management around here on a daily basis, and they give as good as they get and actually answer some of our questions sometimes. Between the Barn House bullshit and this latest bullshit, my bullshit putting-up-with abilities are starting to get stretched.
And let me go on record as having defended the management around here the day we switched to the new server - will that get me a warning before I’m banned for uttering a peep that Fast Eddie doesn’t like?
Better watch out before someone drops a week-long junior mod ban on you!
Besides, I still have my email response from Tuba where she was informed that I’d been here before. Any other questions before you fuck off?
You’re so cute. Potentially the biggest loser on the board, and you think you can condescend to me. Sweet!
Seriously, get a life. Make some friends. Get laid. The board won’t seem quite so important to you anymore you pathetic little thing.
Yeah, I know this story too. I’m not sure what this is trying to prove.
Ah, he’s an older one, of the december stripe. He used to be more active around here. Not QUITE as bad as the former, but still in the same mold, roughly.
I believe Otto’s question was snarky because it was in a thread that was about people being rude to the staff – and not a general thread about people being rude to the staff, it was a thread in response to specific rudeness that occurred very recently. Instead of posting about people being rude to the staff, or asking for clarification about the situation, or (my personal favorite) simply not posting anything at all, he posted about the staff being rude. I’ve always found it very annoying and childish when people try to flip things around like that. It was neither the time nor place to chime in with insinuations about the staff being rude, and based on his posting history, I feel pretty confident it wasn’t an innocent, hypothetical question but rather a jab that expressed his opinion of the staff.
Did I misread what he posted? He said he voted no to the Ban.
:smack: Oh wait-when he said he was 100% support of the ban, I thought he meant the SSM ban, even though he voted against it. But now he meant the ban against Otto. Okay, never mind.
D’oh! Either way, I’m pretty neutral on Otto-I don’t have any feelings about him one way or another. But I still think the reason for his banning was totally out of line. And if duffer’s only supporting it because of some personal remark, that makes him a stupid jackass in my mind.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I’m still not really over the massive hemorrhaging of many many damn fine posters that occurred during Melingate. (I was just thinking of Quadell the other day, in fact). And now again there has been heavy-handed bullshit and a great many really nice people who make the board what it is are saying finaly bye-byes in droves… fuck!
Don’t do this, Ed.
This place is a community. People don’t feel safe in a community if they don’t feel they can anticipate how the police are going to behave, and at random intervals they just do apeshit on some random citizen for no particularly discernable reason.
I’m not saying “the moderation of this board should be by majority vote or consensus”. I’m saying that when large numbers of people say “well that was totally capricious and since it could happen to me at any time I’m just going to go ahead and leave now”, it is worth pausing, (in full possession of your full authority as owner of Da Place), and considering whether there isn’t some satisfactory solution to all this that doesn’t create that kind of outrage & sense of imminent vulnerability.
Those of you who are saying you’re outta here: would you mind very much sticking around to perhaps negotiate a destination if we collectively decide to remain a community and just change the venue? I hate seeing it all torn asunder, it hurts like hell and I’m not sure I can go through it again.
That looks kind of like junior modding. Please leave your password at the door on your way out.
-Joe
Hey, I think the **ban **was too much and too fast. But **Otto **has spent years pissing off other posters and pissing and moaning. I understand why many do not like him. I am like you in that I neither like nor dislike Otto, I just think **Ed **made a mistake and this and the other threads are what I expected as soon as I saw it.
Good Og, this one damn thread has more posts in it than the The Barn House forum does so far. That does not even include elmwood’s slightly earlier threadfrom right before Otto’s banning.
What, you didn’t spring fully formed from the forehead of Cecil on your join date, as I did?