Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

[Losty]

I do not believe for a second that alcohol, depression, loneliness, or any combination of unfortunate life circumstances would cause someone to contemplate or threaten to commit rape.


I know I’ve been drunk depressed and lonely enough times and I may not have lost a partner but I’ve been through some shitty experiences too.

[Whateverist]

He is a witty and intelligent person. The severe depression combined with a lot of alcohol makes him say things he doesn't truly mean, things that the real Stimbo who is thinking clearly wouldn't have said.  

(For reference: In his drunken state he has talked to me as though Sam is still alive, and has also asked me to pray for him.)  

It doesn't excuse the awful thing he said to Jack, but it does put it into context.

TROLL.

Not Cyberman, you. Just in case there was any confusion.

You're wasting your time flirting with her.  She is way into her husband.  You've got no chance.

[LastPoet]

I guess. I can't understand. I have been Drunk, LSD, drugged out of my mind. Yet, never thought of harming orhers. Hell, while many stole from their own family, I went trough withdrawals many times due to lack of money. Drunkness is no excuse.

I think it's all the culmination of drunkenness, severe depression, loneliness, loss of a life partner/prospects of a family that made him say that. Hopefully he never actually thought of harming anyone, and I suspect he hasn't. I know it's no excuse to have said what he said. I'm just explaining why he may have been in a state where he said something so awful that he didn't mean.

This happened a while ago. It was only when he started to portray himself as a victym that I started wanting to know what indeed happened. For all I knew, he just had stepped down from staff. It was his bad talk about the staff that got me curious and in search of answers. Well. The kind of thing that kills cats, curiosity.

[Succubus]

Tell me again why the Richard Dawkins forum collapsed.

[LastPoet]

I do not believe for a second that alcohol, depression, loneliness, or any combination of unfortunate life circumstances would cause someone to contemplate or threaten to commit rape.

Yeah. LSD made me god once. But it made me an awesome and handsome god.

"Let the rivers run full of beer!"

[Succubus]

I think people tend to forget that staff are members first and staff second. It's a volunteer position filled by humans.

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And I have been guilty of forgetting that myself on more than one occasion.

You have that exactly back to front.

A moderator is someone who mediates disputes and should never get personally involved.

[LastPoet]

Tell me again why the Richard Dawkins forum collapsed.

Because pieces of shit like you were there? Your contribution to this forum is negligeble at best and stupid at worse.

[SteelCurtain]

I know. Trust me I didn't intend on going on with it, but seeing his entire person being reduced down to something he said (which he didn't mean) in a drunken, depressive state hurt my heart. Despite how awful that thing was, I don't think it should define him entirely. We've known him for years as a respected member here and decent human and friend. 

I get it, CL, I know your heart is in the right place here.

But this isn't an isolated incident. Ask anyone who's been here and been friends with him for years, this is an escalation of behaviors that have been there all along. He makes awful comments about women and his IRL friends all the time. We had been chalking this up to his alcoholism and loneliness because of the genuinely warm and funny person he was when he wasn't drunk, which was becoming more and more rare.

I think this incident really just opened up a lot of our eyes to what was there all along. We are not defining him by this thing that he said. We are finally realizing that he's been saying shit like this all along, and we're no longer choosing to ignore it.

[Succubus]

Tell me again why the Richard Dawkins forum collapsed.

Because pieces of shit like you were there? Your contribution to this forum is negligeble at best and stupid at worse.

Put the shovel down.

LastPoetYou used font size and colour to attack another member of this forum for expressing her opinion. Who the fuck you think you are to tell me that I shouldn't make you the piece of shit you portray yourself? I am more the moderator than you could dream of being. Or anything you could ever be, except dumb as they go. You need a few more miles on your feet and as far as moderating. Tibs knows he will have me untill I get tired or he finds someonw better.

Oh poor you. It is my opinion you are just garbage in this forum. But since I am such a bad moderator, that explans why you are still here heh?

[Joods]

I think people tend to forget that staff are members first and staff second. It's a volunteer position filled by humans.

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And I have been guilty of forgetting that myself on more than one occasion.

You have that exactly back to front.

A moderator is someone who mediates disputes and should never get personally involved.

Again, you miss some points entirely. Keep being stupid. It's the only thing you're good at.