(June 30, 2016 at 8:03 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I may be an admin, but I am not the shadowy hand of some secret cabal come here to destroy some unsuspecting user. At least, not this time: no, here I'm just a peep, giving their opinion on the situation as I see it.
^^ This.
Bizarre as it may seem, those of us on the operations side are not in receipt of payment for the time we put in here. While we may appear to live in the forum we actually do have lives of our own, such as they are, complete with all the little dramas that entails, and choose to give of our time freely in the service of a community built of people we regard in the main as friends. We are members first and staff second; selected for a job which gives us deeper access into the forum than most, yes, which consequently depends entirely on the trust of the memberbase as a whole. It is for that reason that wholly unfounded and downright spiteful accusations which threaten to destroy that trust cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged. We have no need nor desire to resort to silly conspiracy games simply to undermine individual members. For my part, a person has to earn their place to the level where I consider them important enough to be worth my time in any such ways. Quite frankly, that certainly isn't the case here.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
