RWarehall: Breja, your idea of a "proper discussion" is you are right and everyone should listen to you.
In this case? Absolutely. It's about as clear cut as possible. To try to present the guy who offers Tauto the tools to further destroy the forum as someone "trying to help" is so pathetic an attempt at manipulating facts it barely warrants a response.
RWarehall: It starts there, with the people who thought attempting to silence Alaric was okay. I have no love for Alaric spamming the damn forums with all these meaningless threads to make a point. But it does not escape me that the true origin of this problem are this cadre of "forum regulars" who think they can bully and harass others to get their way. And this is exactly what you are doing now.
The only person bullying to get his way is Alaric, making threats unless his demands are met.
RWarehall: It's no surprise. Pretty much every one of your cultural threads turn out the same way. Talk about people's favorite Sci-Fi series, it didn't take long to find out how intolerant you are to people who think Babylon 5 is better than Star Trek DS-9 as you basically tell them to leave the thread as if you own the forum.
But.... I think Babylon 5 is better than DS9 :( Guess I'll have to leave now.
RWarehall: You, and people like you are one of the biggest issues on this forums. The downrepping didn't really start with the scammers either. It started with forum regulars using it as a tool to silence those they disagree with, and the scammers learned from it and ran with it.
Funny, I would say that it's you and your Gamergate cronies that made flinging insults and rampant downvoting the new standard around here.
RWarehall: The real question is tolerance. When I see so many people calling for the removal of people and threads that are not "trolls", that is the real issue. Don't like their politics, ban them. Don't like the thread, ban them. Doesn't matter the same people like to talk politics, just they want to talk about their politics because their politics are the "right" politics. Don't like that someone creates a script that lets people ignore others, ban them. Because these people are so sure they are right, they think they have the right to play forum Gods. Abuse the system at every turn as part of their personal bullying and harassment campaign to cleanse the forums of anyone they deem undesirable.
You're obsessed with preventing any sort of order being restored here. It's all or nothing with you. It doesn't matter than there have been countless instances of threads or opinions I, TinyE and others disagree with or don't like, and we only ever wanted only the very worst and most obvious cases taken care of, like homophobic avatars or a thread that serves as nothing more than someone personal spam link dump.
You want to hear something funny? I never onced spam reported any of Alaric's threads or posts. I just think people who did had every reason to. And if it was us, the "evil regulars" with the power to do all that and willing to abuse it so much, why didn't we delete the Gamergate thread yet? Or countless other political threads? Why don't your posts disappear?
But yeah, this is nice. The people who wasted the most time and effort trying to stand up for some standards on this forum, trying to, if nothing else, show that the trolls and the scammers and the racists (and I only mean the ones who outright used phrases like "subhuman scum", so don't try to pin me as someone who calls that everyone who disagrees with him) are not accepted here - more than you have ever had the spine to do, are now called the biggest issue on the forum.
I do not like to insult people. But I don't think I have ever met another person who so deserved a firm "Fuck you, and the mendacious horse you rode in on."
So fuck you, and good night.
