Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Excited Penguin]

I think the fact that you felt the need to retroactively make up a new rule after abusing your powers in my case speaks volumes as to the inpracticality of this rule and raises multiple concernes regarding censorship of speech, mob rule, overreaching of authority and so on. Congratulations, Atheist Forums. You have essentially become what you despise, if only in name.

I am awaiting instructions and/or explanations, privately or publicly, whatever the staff thinks appropriate, as to what I did wrong or may do wrong in the future so as to avoid running foul of this despicably authoritarian rule.

EP, you were given a two week vacation for trolling/flaming, harassing brand new members in the shoutbox, and derailing nearly every thread you entered.

If we had 'retroactively ma[d]e up a new rule' for you then you wouldn't be posting right now, would you?

Instructions: See Thump's post.

Also: Don't pretend for a second that you are the arbiter of what 'powers' the staff has or doesn't have, or that you are in any position to judge whether or not they are being abused.

You are accusing me of trolling and flaming. I contend that I never ever trolled, and dare you to prove me otherwise, and that I only ever cursed or insulted those who have done the same towards me first. If I'm not mistaken, none of those were banned.

I ask that you clarify your accusing me of harrasing new members in the shoutbox. I think I know what you're referring to, and if it is that, then here we have a mere failure of recognizing humour for what it is, even when it is self-described as such, and even when the purported victim claims it isn't even slightly offended by it.

I think you need to explain to me what derailing a thread even means and prove to me that I have done it.

I certainly have no authority to ask you to do these things, which I'm sure you would be quick to point out in an unnerving manner if not for this very caveat, but alas, it has been shown that here you can be banned and ostracized simply if you happen to be repeatedly misconstrued and villified with the most appaling intents imaginable by certain individuals. Enter mob mentality at its finest.

Why do you think you feel so threatened by my remarks that you feel the need to disallow me from criticizing you? Does this sound familiar? Dictatorships, anyone?