Termination of User Contracts

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Rush Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0	Message 792360 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:24:54 UTC - in response to Message 791817. I am very delighted! :-D I would have been even more delighted if 22, 25, and 28 of 30 had been in the lot too. And I would have been ecstatic if number 1 - 30 of 30 all were... (Except for number 4 of 30 though, I think that one got caught in the crossfire) Tell us, do you think comments such as these reinforce the idea that the mods were dispassionate and modded people without emotion or consideration of them as a person? Or, on the other hand, do you think that posts such as this reinforce the position that many people have taken, that often individual mods acted with personal vendettas, and moderated people's posts because of the person who posted and not for the content? This sort of stuff, as I have noted endlessly before, serves to inflame the problems that the modteam-du-jour was created to solve. As evidence of such self-defeating behavior, subsequent modteams-du-jour have had to labor under the impression that moderation is nearly always subjective and subject to whim. Similarly, as new members of the MDJ make their own glaring, subjective, and often emotional errors, they reinforce the belief, further subverting the idea that x MDJ is even capable of doing it's job. Well, other than what often amounts to vague hand-waving and their unfounded and subjective opinion, of course. The point is, as usual, that often the MDJ has served to harm the project (whatever the hell that means) just as much, if not more, than individual posters. Use a damn hell ass disclaimer board and be done with it. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... ID: 792360 ·

Misfit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0	Message 792363 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:32:01 UTC - in response to Message 792345. Last modified: 3 Aug 2008, 22:35:42 UTC Dogbytes wrote: Ask him why he spends so much time on the computer with Seti and other projects, and downloading porno, when his wife is ill with MS. If you really want to hit his buttons, that will be the one for a nuclear reaction. Siran d'Vel'nahr wrote: Yes, believe me, I have hit him with that one on more than one occasion and he went ballistic. I'm a bit hesitant to do it in open forum, however. I believe he goes ballistic because he knows he should be researching what to do for her and does not. He plays his little moderator games and enjoys it too much instead. Dif-tor heh smusma \V/_ Yes, yes, yes! I'm encouraging others to do it. NOT!!! I said it won't work because you go ballistic and you like playing your moderator games too much more. You also fail to state that that was my one and only post in that thread. Why? Keep lying liar! .o0(somehow I knew this would happen) I haven't come across the thread yet since I don't know it's title but lets analyze what you wrote... 1) You have accused Eric of hiding the evidence yet you seem to have all the zipped files that contain the evidence. 2) You express anger that your privacy was violated with someone making this private forum public - yet you quote from the same private forum. 3) You demand respect for Dennis - yet you violate his privacy by quoting his comment. But that's OK because he's dead, right? 4) You admit to using my disabled wife to demean me in the past (more than once) and the only reason you are hesitant to do it publicly - isn't because people would think you are a scumbag - but because you don't want me to "play my little moderator games" with it. "he should be researching what to do for her and does not." I'll have you know that I know everything about MS that a non-neurologist/research scientist would know. And I pay a s***load of money out of each paycheck to make sure she has the top medical coverage. Which came in handy 3 weeks ago when she had an exacerbation so bad she couldn't walk and needed five IV treatments from the hospital. So your words and actions show deep down your true nature. Disgusting and reprehensible. ID: 792363 ·

BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0	Message 792366 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:36:28 UTC - in response to Message 792272. Last modified: 3 Aug 2008, 22:40:03 UTC Tracy, if you think I'm going to feel sorry for even the smallest wrong you feel you suffered you're barking up the wrong tree. Not to mention that was a very long time ago, say 4 years (?), your constant spewage of F-bombs, A-bombs, S-bombs and N-bombs and other racist remarks that got you banned keeps me from feeling sorry for your alleged suffering. Did I ask for an apology or call you a hypocrite? ID: 792366 ·

Misfit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0	Message 792368 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:41:40 UTC - in response to Message 792366. Tracy, if you think I'm going to feel sorry for even the smallest wrong you feel you suffered you're barking up the wrong tree. Not to mention that was a very long time ago, say 4 years (?), your constant spewage of F-bombs, A-bombs, S-bombs and N-bombs and other racist remarks that got you banned keeps me from feeling sorry for your alleged suffering. Did I ask for an apology or call you a hypocrite? You see, you might not like who I am, but at least I'm not such a piece of crap that I have to lie about it. ID: 792368 ·

BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0	Message 792370 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:46:34 UTC - in response to Message 792368. Last modified: 3 Aug 2008, 22:52:26 UTC Tracy, if you think I'm going to feel sorry for even the smallest wrong you feel you suffered you're barking up the wrong tree. Not to mention that was a very long time ago, say 4 years (?), your constant spewage of F-bombs, A-bombs, S-bombs and N-bombs and other racist remarks that got you banned keeps me from feeling sorry for your alleged suffering. Did I ask for an apology or call you a hypocrite? You see, you might not like who I am, but at least I'm not such a piece of crap that I have to lie about it. What's the matter? Starting to realize everyone sees through your BS? This isn't and never was about your past...it's about your actions now. ID: 792370 ·

Misfit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0	Message 792376 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:53:46 UTC - in response to Message 792370. Tracy, if you think I'm going to feel sorry for even the smallest wrong you feel you suffered you're barking up the wrong tree. Not to mention that was a very long time ago, say 4 years (?), your constant spewage of F-bombs, A-bombs, S-bombs and N-bombs and other racist remarks that got you banned keeps me from feeling sorry for your alleged suffering. Did I ask for an apology or call you a hypocrite? You see, you might not like who I am, but at least I'm not such a piece of crap that I have to lie about it. What's the matter? Starting to realize everyone sees through your BS? This isn't and never was about your past...it's about your actions now. me@rescam.org ID: 792376 ·

BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0	Message 792377 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 22:57:02 UTC - in response to Message 792376. Tracy, if you think I'm going to feel sorry for even the smallest wrong you feel you suffered you're barking up the wrong tree. Not to mention that was a very long time ago, say 4 years (?), your constant spewage of F-bombs, A-bombs, S-bombs and N-bombs and other racist remarks that got you banned keeps me from feeling sorry for your alleged suffering. Did I ask for an apology or call you a hypocrite? You see, you might not like who I am, but at least I'm not such a piece of crap that I have to lie about it. What's the matter? Starting to realize everyone sees through your BS? This isn't and never was about your past...it's about your actions now. Is that part of your secret code? Am I being targeted again? ID: 792377 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 792379 - Posted: 3 Aug 2008, 23:00:25 UTC Last modified: 4 Aug 2008, 0:01:00 UTC Please play nicely and stop flaming each other. Thanks. ID: 792379 ·

Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2467 Credit: 86,146,931 RAC: 0	Message 792410 - Posted: 4 Aug 2008, 0:08:36 UTC Mmmmmmmmmm.......was it good for you too? Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc.... ID: 792410 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 792421 - Posted: 4 Aug 2008, 0:22:28 UTC - in response to Message 792360. Last modified: 4 Aug 2008, 0:28:09 UTC I am very delighted! :-D I would have been even more delighted if 22, 25, and 28 of 30 had been in the lot too. And I would have been ecstatic if number 1 - 30 of 30 all were... (Except for number 4 of 30 though, I think that one got caught in the crossfire) Tell us, do you think comments such as these reinforce the idea that the mods were dispassionate and modded people without emotion or consideration of them as a person? Or, on the other hand, do you think that posts such as this reinforce the position that many people have taken, that often individual mods acted with personal vendettas, and moderated people's posts because of the person who posted and not for the content? This sort of stuff, as I have noted endlessly before, serves to inflame the problems that the modteam-du-jour was created to solve. As evidence of such self-defeating behavior, subsequent modteams-du-jour have had to labor under the impression that moderation is nearly always subjective and subject to whim. Similarly, as new members of the MDJ make their own glaring, subjective, and often emotional errors, they reinforce the belief, further subverting the idea that x MDJ is even capable of doing it's job. Well, other than what often amounts to vague hand-waving and their unfounded and subjective opinion, of course. The point is, as usual, that often the MDJ has served to harm the project (whatever the hell that means) just as much, if not more, than individual posters. Use a damn hell ass disclaimer board and be done with it. As I have stated earlier in this thread, the violation of privacy has caused a lot of problems, and as we have seen in the quotes Michael Roberts posted from that board showing how confidential information from the mod list has been used to orchestrate coordinated attacks and flamewars from that group of people, causing so much trouble for the moderators. How can you even question my feelings of that justice has been done with the punishment of those who now have had their accounts terminated? Of course I am happy about that. When I have seen that group come to the boards in their orchestrated and very well coordinated actions, based on personal vendettas against some of us in the moderator crew, how can you expect me to feel otherwise? If you are implying that I didn't perform my duty relatively unbiased, that I had bias against some of these people, that is true to some extent. When you have seen somebody flame and post personal insulting messages to you, you will start to have your eyes on that person, no matter what. That is a human reaction, that is what most people will do. Luckily, I was not the only moderator on duty, there was others on duty as well, and whatever bias I may have felt against a certain group of people would be neutralized by the others, if I had moderated posts based on personal bias, that I had deleted posts based not on the content but on who posted them, that deletion would be reversed by the other moderators. Unlike what some would like to spread the rumors about, that I had some kind of ÃƒÂ¼bermod status in the mod crew, that is not true, which you also found out yourself in that short period you were a moderator yourself. But of course, if some persons insisted on behaving in a way that they broke the rules numerous times, of course that created the situation that they caught the moderators' eyes, and they were scrutinized more closely than others. And some others flew under the radar and could get away with a lot because others took the heat, that was also seen, and we now see them still being here. That is only human, the mod crew, past and present, and future, members of it, consists of human beings, and I don't see any reasons for accusing them for being more or less subjective and acting on a whim more than any other groups of people. Again, it's not as before where one or two moderators could rule and act autocratically, as we saw it before, there is a self-regulating mechanism built in as in any other groups of people who work together. Which you personally know about and know that happens, as you have had some of your deleted posts undeleted after a discussion about them in the mod crew. So whether I am happy or not about the terminations of some accounts here, that is my subjective feelings which have nothing to do with my task as moderator back when this group roamed the board in their obstructive actions with the agenda to cause as much trouble as possible way targeting certain moderators, among others myself. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 792421 ·

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