Sutieday surpasses Drwas as biggest petty troll on these forums
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Since you're writing directly in response to my post, where did I demand that "something must be done" about Reputation Power?
It's deceptive to insert that remark as you respond to my post, if your intent is to refer, instead, to some hazy group of others.
Do you ever put your cop hat on and have a good, long chat with yourself?
Please show me where I said YOU in my response.
I said LIBERALS, you know the group you and your loony buddies belong to.
Everyone in the group does not have to something to make the statement true.
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Since you're writing directly in response to my post, where did I demand that "something must be done" about Reputation Power?
It's deceptive to insert that remark as you respond to my post, if your intent is to refer, instead, to some hazy group of others.
Do you ever put your cop hat on and have a good, long chat with yourself?
Please show me where I said YOU in my response.
I said LIBERALS, you know the group you and your loony buddies belong to.
Everyone in the group does not have to something to make the statement true.
Lock/Delete this thread please! I have already reported it.
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I have reported it as well. But apparently, the moderator approves of such a public airing of private grievances and has fully participated in the thread instead of shutting it down and warning the original poster.
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Since you're writing directly in response to my post, where did I demand that "something must be done" about Reputation Power?
It's deceptive to insert that remark as you respond to my post, if your intent is to refer, instead, to some hazy group of others.
Do you ever put your cop hat on and have a good, long chat with yourself?
Please show me where I said YOU in my response.
I said LIBERALS, you know the group you and your loony buddies belong to.
Everyone in the group does not have to something to make the statement true.
As noted in posts above, raphjd, no one left of center is receiving an answer to their Reports to Moderator, because you've rapidly accelerated the amount and the intensity of your flaming the boards for your team. So much so, imho, that you're either unable or unwilling to carry out your Forum duties with any semblance of neutrality. From my vantage point, it has been a very notable deterioration in the mere weeks I've been here.
And more, I am no longer buying into the workability of the current "hat/no-hat" notion. You can't taunt and flame the way you do now, and become a productive and neutral moderator an hour later. To quote your (edit: "team's") political idol, I just call Fake! on all of that, and there's a stack of unanswered reports in your mailbox to back this up.
It makes me laugh, but I have to add your side's old canard: "Yeah, reports you don't even read!!!"
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Raphjd does not idolize Trump. Like an ex-smoker who gets obnoxious whenever someone lights up within a mile of them, he is a self-described ex "classic liberal." So allow me to put it terms he can understand. He has been fair when he puts his police cap on, even if not publicly responsive. It is still not clear which of mhorndisk's offenses resulted in his warning. However, when he takes the cap off he starts swinging his virtual bike lock, flaming and trolling with the best of them . Today he has used disrespectful diminutive terms like dearie and loony when addressing "liberal members." On the very downvoting issue, he has publicly chastised sutie for it (without the police cap on) instead of dealing with it privately in an email. He has alluded by pleas to the helpdesk, which clearly have blurred his vision. He also has made it painfully clear that he is the highest authority in the entire forum and can only be overruled by the site owner.
I will predict his reply will be short–-in essence that he has been attacked unjustly, again by a liberal. As long as he sees us as a cohesive group, which we are not, nothing will change. Our only hope is for honest introspection on his part. If he were to re-read his posts, he will see that we have a point.
No one wants to appeal to Joker, least of whom myself. Raphjd has been a dedicated volunteer for a very long time. No one wants to diminish that. But when it comes to this forum, those of us who are frustrated can only implore him to be fairer, and ignore him when he isn't. Now please, everybody, let's get back to discussing politics. -
Raphjd has been a dedicated volunteer for a very long time. No one wants to diminish that. But when it comes to this forum, those of us who are frustrated can only implore him to be fairer, and ignore him when he isn't. Now please, everybody, let's get back to discussing politics.
The fact (and I fully agree) that raphjd has been a dedicated volunteer for such a long time, simply makes the current situation of imbalance more regrettable.
However – I don't implore persons for fairness after they have willingly assumed the mantle of governance. It should be a "default" behavior, and if that individual excels, they will be remembered for their gift of impartiality.
If they lose their fair-mindedness, are given many chances to right their course, and continue to act with inequity, then that failure will be their legacy.
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The fact (and I fully agree) that raphjd has been a dedicated volunteer for such a long time, simply makes the current situation of imbalance more regrettable.
However – I don't implore persons for fairness after they have willingly assumed the mantle of governance. It should be a "default" behavior, and if that individual excels, they will be remembered for their gift of impartiality.
If they lose their fair-mindedness, are given many chances to right their course, and continue to act with inequity, then that failure will be their legacy.
Very eloquent, but I fear a bit too grandiose for this forum. We discussing the moderation of a small P&D board, not the renegotiations of the Paris Climate Accord.
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OK, it IS a bit lofty.
Instead:
"Everyone, from moderator to members, should be held to an ongoing standard of fairness and civility each day. From time to time – and often, many times! -- we make these discussions harder than they need to be."
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I'm not an EX-classic liberal, I am a classic liberal.
I refuse to wear the liberal name tag because of what modern liberals have done to it.
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Let's not forget the threads that called out conservative members, which were before this thread. Would you have been happy if I punished those users? I think not.
One of the rules is about lying about other users and staff. Twice no Sutie has publicly accused me of using my admin status to "dox" him. The first time it was explained that it was info open to all. Shall I punish him for it, like I did for the last person who did a similar thing? Liberals would have a fit.
Both sides have done many wrongs, but it's the liberals that are always crying for their enemies to by punished, while ignoring the sins of their own.
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I'm not an EX-classic liberal, I am a classic liberal.
I refuse to wear the liberal name tag because of what modern liberals have done to it.
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Let's not forget the threads that called out conservative members, which were before this thread. Would you have been happy if I punished those users? I think not.
One of the rules is about lying about other users and staff. Twice no Sutie has publicly accused me of using my admin status to "dox" him. The first time it was explained that it was info open to all. Shall I punish him for it, like I did for the last person who did a similar thing? Liberals would have a fit.
Both sides have done many wrongs, but it's the liberals that are always crying for their enemies to by punished, while ignoring the sins of their own.
Here you go again with your "shoe on the other foot" arguments. I do not pretend to speak for others, but as for me, if you explained to sutie that the voting statistics were available to all and how to access them, and he again accused you of doxxing him, then he should have been reprimanded. As for my own topics calling out certain member's BEHAVIORS, I felt I had no recourse since there had been no response to my reports to the moderator and the perceived abuses continued to escalate. If I remember correctly, I did not use the offending person's name, nor did I attack them personally in the title of the topic, the OP or thread, only the manner they chose to express their opinions. If you, as moderator, thought the topic to be inappropriate and closed it or even deleted it, I would not have minded, because at least I would have been assured that my message had reached its intended target. Hell, I would have accepted a warning if it meant my message was heard.
Now let me contrast the title of my topic complaining about mhorndisk with strangeloop's about Sutie. I can't find mine exactly right now, but it was something like "Replying to your own Posts," whereas his is "Sutieday surpasses Drwas as the biggest Troll on these Forums." Within my thread, I don't remember even calling mhorndisk a spammer, much less a troll throughout my entire thread. If strangeloop had started the thread with :downvoting has become Robotic, or some such thing relating to the offense rather than the offender, it would have been much less objectionable.
I don't know if you can setup a send-only email account on this site or any other. If not I suggest you setup a gmail account that you will never read but would use only as administrator of the forum. I think if we could get answers to our reports to the moderator, even if they are just a few words, you would see much less, if any, complaints about your role as moderator posted publicly.
Finally, again speaking for myself, I am not interested in having anyone "punished." The most I have sought was correction of behaviors that offend me and compliance with the rules to which we all agree.
