(April 4, 2012 at 5:18 pm)Tiberius Wrote: OK, so when did any of our trolls insult other members?
Again, I was talking about how it just highlighted a bigger issue. I did not see the April Fool's jokes, but I did read the linked thread about what happened. I didn't say anything your trolls did was ban-able, but creating sock puppets is against the rules, and it was done weeks before April Fool's, so that it was an April Fool's joke is not a valid reason. That is due to the fact that it is not an April Fool's joke if it is started before April Fool's. Preparing is one thing, but actually carrying it out is another.
That's the only problem I had with the April Fool's joke. Now the other non-rules related problem is the issue of trust of many members that was violated. Even for me, this is just another disappointing action on behalf of the mods and the site in general. Given the history of instigation by the mods, this was just one more thing that lowered my trust.
The issues outside of the April Fool's joke are, well, outside of the April Fool's joke, but they are related to the controversy, and I think it is important that we discuss them.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
