For background, Kaelik and I have shared a couple of PM's, me asking for his suggestions and information and links to some accusations because I'm taking them seriously. After several fairly harshly worded pm's I said that I don't want to make a hasty judgment, but I believe actions are being taken because of the tone not the message.
Now everyone is caught up. The rest of this assertion is coming from my public posts.
No, I did not. And when I pointed out the fact that I disobeyed no mod voice instruction, I was told to shut up and "learn my lesson." I then asked what lesson I should be learning, and the question was completely ignored, because the fact is their is no lesson to learn that Meg could tell me that wouldn't make her sound like an utter bitch.
This again illustrates your problem. 1) Your tone is, let's say, not appropriate if you are actually trying to get something done. This has nothing to do with pissing me or a mod off- this has to do with the way you are communicating as a human being. My advice about asking in a reasonable tone is to help you in life. Are you going to tell a possible employer to give you the fucking job, you moron? Are you going to ask for a hamburger at a fast food place the same way and expect to get one spit-free? This is completely inappropriate. Why would I, as a person, not as a mod, possibly want to help you when you say things like this?
2) I can barely tell what you are referring to. You've proven to me that you keep missing the point and are taking things completely out of context and are much too sensitive about what is happening. You thought the fact that the member group for everyone involved changed names from No Karma to No Fu for You was a personal attack and mockery of you. This shows me that you aren't getting the information you need before making a snap judgment.
You were told to learn your lesson about just the instructions in this thread. I said that anyone who kept complaining about this minor issue of loosing fu temporarily would probably loose the ability to access fu for good. And from my perspective, that's exactly what is happening.
The whole issue with Uber and fu has been explained in great detail. It had nothing at all to do with making anyone upset. It's a minor issue that shouldn't have made anyone upset. Don't abuse the system but giving or taking points just because someone asked for it. Very simple. Say, "ok, now I know" and move on.
The whole idea of pissing me off being an offense... go back and read what you wrote. Seriously. That is completely, utterly out of line. But attacking me isn't against the rules. Causing a disruption on the boards is what will get you (plural you) kicked off.
Why would we want to keep anyone around who just brought the whole community down? That's what the mods and I weigh-- how much of a disruption is a person causing? Are you pissing just me off? Probably. So minor disruption. If you start pissing off large numbers though and it isn't balanced with what you are contributing, there is no reason to keep you around.
This is the rule of every online forum- they all just have different ways to word it.
Could Meg admit that she was just attempting to solve the problem as effectively as possible and that unfortunately involves stripping privileges temporarily? Sure, but she could have admitted that before telling me to shut up and "learn my lesson" so it's not likely.
Go see the posts I linked. I said it 4 times before stripping the power. What my question is (a serious question), what else could I have done?
