wtf?
Wait, mz got permabant? when did this happen?? aahh wtf I practically live on these forums, how can I manage to be so oblivious?!
I liked Emmzee. I also liked Aggy (even though he was just Atty in disguise). Why exactly have they been permanently banned?
Let me preface this by saying I have never received an infraction of any sort.
I don't like the way these forums are run. I can't put my finger on it, but something about the fact that Emmzee and Aggy got permanently banned while other members who I feel did deserve it are still around just doesn't sit well with me. But it could be entirely my opinion and me sticking with the people I like and against the people I don't regardless of the rules. But then again, there have been complaints about the way the mods have been working for ages.
Idk, it's not my site, and they're not my rules, and the mods are obviously people TheGhost trusts to do the job, and TheGhost and the admins and mods he chose have every right to run this site the way they see fit.
Now look, I don't want this thread to be about starting anything, or ranting or flaming or bitching, or about being melodramatic, or even about me threatening to leave because I don't like it here (even though that's what it started as), because the truth is, I really do like it here, and I would like to stay here.
What I want to do is to publicly ask about my grievances as well as anyone else's. The admins have a right to run the site the way they want to, and I assume they want the site to generate hits and be popular and all that jazz, and to do that people have to like the site, and so I hope they'll accept this offer of a public discussion of, for lack of a better term, "what goes on around here".
The post up till now has been a bit of an unjustified (albeit blunted) rant, and I would rewrite it except I'd like the admins to see that I get frustrated from time to time, and it's those momentary spouts of frustration that drive people away, I think. It nearly worked on me =P
Anyway, enough flinging poo and pointing fingers. If the admins will approve I'd like to talk to them (publicly, being the important aspect here) about how the infractions and bannings are supposed to work in theory and how they really do work in practice.
And if not, hell, I haven't been around long- less than a year ago I was just meekly posting anonymous questions now and again- and I'm also an arrogant anti-social asshole and I'm always (and unjustifiably) very sure I'm right and everyone else is wrong, and I've made my share of stupid posts and flames and shit that should have received infractions but didn't. So by all means if I've overstepped my bounds, give me an infraction, lock the thread and/or ban me- at least that'll give me more insight into how these bans work. But yeah, there it is- can I talk to you not in private?
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