To theists

[Esquilax]

You were not merely disagreeing with him, nor were you doing it as one member to another.

And you get to decide this... why? What reason do you have to gainsay my stated motivations? Do you know me at all? What's my real name? And if you don't even know that, how the hell can you know what I was thinking when I posted?

Besides, it's highly amusing to see a newbie like you show off your ignorance of the way this forum is run in your rush to bluster through self-righteous demands to run it your way. Let me educate you: it's common knowledge, something that we point out on request whenever anyone is unclear, that the mods are, in general, speaking as members when they post here. When we are posting as moderators, we adjust our text colour to make it clear to everyone that we're speaking in an official capacity:When my text is green, you can be assured that I am speaking to you as a moderator. When my text is any other colour, I'm speaking as a member. Chad, having been here many more years than you have, understands this.

So far, I have never witnessed this kind of outrageous behaviour towards members of the forum outside of mods doing it 'off-duty'.

I'm off duty too, dude. Do you see my badge?

You are the only ones that seem to think it ok to order people around and bully them into leaving the forum, even when no rule is being actually broken.

So, what's actually wrong with you? Who gave an order? Who's trying to bully anyone?

I have received the same treatment in the past and can readily attest to this. You can't have it both ways. Either you're talking in the capacity of a ranking officer of the forum or you do it as 'one member to another', but you can't do both at the same time and expect me to accept your falling back on the latter as an excuse whenever I accuse you of being unfair or oppressive.

Hey, it's not mine or anyone elses' fault that you're so colossally ignorant of basic tenets of this board, while arrogantly assuming that you know everything about us. It's not my problem that you refuse to do a single second of fucking research into how the staff conduct themselves here before you opened your mouth, and it sure as hell is not my job to cater to your petulant whims. Everyone here who actually knows a single solitary goddamn thing about the mod team knows that, quite the opposite of trying to have it both ways, I was in fact speaking as a member, by dint of the fact that I didn't change my fucking text colour. The rules are clear: modding here is binary, you are either speaking as a mod or you are not, and the signal for that change is green text. There's no third state of member that you seem to think I'm inhabiting on the sly in some vicious campaign to oppress you, presumably by daring to disagree with you on any point.

Your ignorance is not a grievance, but moreover, you need to get over yourself. Cause you and Chad? You don't rate highly enough in my estimation for me to waste the mental energy it would take to even consider oppressing you. If I was going to oppress anyone, it'd be someone with something meaningful or true to say.