(December 30, 2013 at 4:13 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(December 30, 2013 at 3:51 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Rayaan, it's good you have stepped up to apologize, but to be frank I think your staff privileges should be revoked as we have no way of knowing if have done this to others or that you won't do it again
Just so. Apology is not relevant whether graceful and well intentioned or tardy and grudging. I'm not required to like rayaan, nor he me. This is pragmatism, not pique.
All I asked him was whether he was done "investigating" me outside of this forum. He said that he could not guarantee that he was. Thus, if I have to post here knowing that if he feels like it (for no better reason than "just in case") he will go "investigating" again, It ruins the fun of posting. We talk about stalking in a jokey way, its actually not a nice feeling.
Worth remembering too that we are not talking about invading privacy for national security, its a fucking discussion forum. For fun.
All I'm asking is an indication that the mod team in general, and rayaan in particular, having established that I'm a real live person, leave my life outside this forum the fuck alone. I'm not asking for immunity from the rules, just that they are applied only to what I write here.
If I can get that I'll be delighted to stay. I don't want to leave cos I like it here. If I can't get that, I can't stay. Very simple.
I'm not asking rayaan to apologise (although it is not inappropriate) nor for him to lose mod priviledges (although that might be too). I just want him to moderate and administrate my posts on AF, and ONLY my posts on AF, and not go digging elsewhere. That was what I asked him, mod had on, for. That he told me I could not have.
As to doing this on open forum, I kinda think it affects everyone because I'm obviously not the only one who has a problem with this. There is a saying an atheist once used on my in relation to religion. "anything which can be killed with the truth... should be". I would suggest having discovered something a bit shadowy that openness and transparency is called for.
Jacob I agree with you and from what I have seen here you have been more then fair and patient. However we can't trust him now. We have no way of knowing if he has done this to others, and he has access to donor finianicial records too.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
