Badge
Tuesday 5th May 2009 10:52pm [Edited]
London
9,490 posts
Well this is all a bit of a rum do isn't it? As Aaron has locked the thread in which I might make my defence I will do it here.
I looked back through my posts and I couldn't for the life of me work out what I'd done to get an "official warning" (whatever that means). But I wasn't that bothered about it because clearly if my fellow offenders were the likes of Bandage and Huge Bear it can't have been that bad, and if Aaron wants to throw warnings around that's not a problem (it's his site after all). But having both Bandage (my favourite BSG poster ever, bar none) and Huge Bear walk away seems a bit of a price to pay for what I consider a bit of heavy-handedness.
I respect and understand their decisions, but I won't be joining them in a long goodbye because I've done that before during a previous sticky BSG patch and I was lured back later when things sorted themselves out. I don't want any of you celebrating my demise only to disappoint you by cropping up again in a while! But I might take a bit of a sabbatical to let things settle a bit.
If we want to debate double standards, it's interesting that I get thanked by Aaron for PM-ing troll suspicions to him, yet get given an official warning from him for saying pretty much nothing about any individual poster on the forums.
Also, if we are being encouraged to report things properly, you might like to consider this: only once have I ever used the "Report Message" button that Aaron says we should all use, in response to what I considered a deliberately provocative and offensive racist remark. I didn't see any action to give the person who made that remark any type of warning, official or otherwise, nor even did I get an acknowledgement of my concern. Maybe that's a reason why I haven't bothered using "Report Message" again.
Finally, let me be clear on one thing. I am not personally bothered about the - let's say "alleged" - trolling; I've gone on record as saying some of the posts are quite funny, and many are inventive. But in recent days it's become clear to me that it is putting off a lot of existing members from visiting a part of the site they have found useful in the past, and even more importantly it is putting off potential new members. That can't be a good thing, can it?
Quote: Huge Bear @ May 5 2009, 5:40 PM BST
possibly the most mild-mannered person on the entire forum, yep Badge,
Oi! That's a terrible slur on my wickedness! I've got an official warning you know!