(September 10, 2018 at 9:06 pm)emjay Wrote:(September 10, 2018 at 8:11 pm)Losty Wrote: I prefer plain English, I genuinely do not know what you mean. What I do know is that he was not punished by staff, we gave him an official warning. That’s it.
I don't believe he's a troll or poe, and whatever WIFOM I had about that originally, I no longer have. But I know my opinion is in the minority; first impressions are hard to change, and unfortunately his first impressions were mostly bad. And now he's paying the price for those bad first impressions even though I believe they were simply the result of him being a complete newbie to the world of online forums, both in terms of technical understanding, and etiquette. But he's improving on the technical side, and fighting an uphill struggle against the general perception of troll. So from that POV it's understandable that he feels angry and paranoid, including about the staff and the nature of punishment here. Basically he feels overwhelmed; he jumped in at the deep end of a new experience... and unfortunately floundered. That's how I see it.
When he jumped to wild accusations against me simply because I was the one who happened to deliver his warning, not to mention the rude things he’s said to me in private...I stopped caring if he’s a Poe or a troll or whatever. Maybe he’s not a troll, but he’s still ridiculous either way.
