(January 22, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(January 22, 2016 at 9:54 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Let's clear some things up.
We are not a democracy. You sign up to the forum and explicitly accept the rules. You were deemed by the staff, after discussions and reports were filed against you, to have broken the rules.
Consider that on most other forums this would not have happened. Your behaviour in here would, in all likelihood, resulted in a permanent ban straight off the bat. We tend not to do that, even where it is agreed that someone is repeatedly breaking the rules. In this instance therefore, to say we actions against you for 'illegitimate reasons' is nonsensical. However, we do not ban people for no reason.
Neither do we ban people for havin disagreeable views (or even calling us 'cunts'). If we did, then why are there still people like Drich here? Who have some of the most morally repugnant and downright nasty opinions and views about people? I'll tell you why, because there is a clear set of rules that apply to everyone. He hasn't broken them, because being disagreeable isn't against them. You did, for the reasons stated.
So we're not going to ban you. You can call us cunts all you like, but until you do something actionable as per the rules, you'll have to be content embarrassing yourself on the open forum by claiming you're being persecuted when it's patently clear to everyone you're not.
You can't be serious right now. I proved without a doubt that certain users were both trolling and flaming me and you failed to ban them. What is your justification for that? That I didn't report their posts?
The fact that you banned me for "harrassing new members" is simply laughable.
The fact that you banned me for derailing threads is equally as ridiculous. If you read carefully my every interaction in these forums, it's me stating a bening opinion and everybody else jumping on my case for no reason at all. The rest is me responding in kind. I never insulted someone who didn't insult me first. Yet I'm the only one who got banned as a result.
I got banned because Stimbo wanted me to get banned, period. He admitted as much. I never broke any rules and you all know this. If I did, you would be perfectly able to demonstrate it. But you dont want to go in the nitty-gritty with me because while I didn't break any rules I raised some good points here that made a lot of folks uncomfortable. So, at the end of the day, it seems there is a price to be paid for being a non-comformist. Your jobs as moderators was to be objective. You failed to do that in my case. I can't see how I can continue using these forums when I know that simply by being myself I will get abused and banned the very next time some half-assed dipshit gets "offended" by me.
Good, fuck off then.
You may refer to me as "Oh High One."