Ouze wrote:Oh, you think that's for you. No, that's not for you, that's for me. I keep that there as a reminder of that time a moderator picked sides.
Then allow me to be blunt with you.
I will admit in retrospect, without reading the original material, that I was unwise in saying that. Even if I didn't say it specifically like that, whatever I said was at least worded in such a way that you took that impression from it, so it was either malice or recklessness on my part, and I admit fault there.
I will only attempt to clarify that there are some extreme variables that tend to crop up with everything, and those variables are divisive. They are hardly ever even the majority, but they are the 'village idiot' and the village idiot is always the loudest and very disruptive. So, I will say I dislike the village idiot of any form of village, and I am vigilant to see if the person from said village is the idiot that causes the problems. I think this is fair.
But now I will be honest, you state that you believe mods 'picked sides'. I have seen you and a few others, seemingly get a blank check to hurl names and insults at others. I have seen some posters outright condone violence and despite using all means provided to me to help the moderators deal with these behaviors, I saw no changes or adjustments to the posts and the posters continue to carry on with their forum activities.
And I say this full well knowing that in the past, I have been at fault for being rude to others. I know I did it, I did it willingly, and I own that. For whatever it is now, that's mine. But because I've done that, I've become more than a little familiar with moderator action- and, from my perspective, I've seen persons get away with it and continue on. And it was not the first, second, or tenth time they were reported to mods by more than one person on here. So the report function seems to either be defective, or there's more lenience toward some.
So, the mods aren't perfect and I'll give them that. But don't think for a moment you're entirely a victim here. I've seen you call names repeatedly, or at least deliver rude and insulting responses and nothing has changed.
But then again, you could be as stubborn as I am.
I'm not insulting you here, I'm just being honest. If there's a grudge here, I'm willing to bury it if you are and just drive on focusing on things we enjoy. We don't have to be friends or anything, we can just drop this nonsense. I've been stupid, but I'm not the only one.
Ouze wrote:...when you repeatedly referred to the wargaming community as pathetic incels, suggested they were possibly pedophiles, had a lot in common with Elliot Rodgers, and then suggested they were as bad as ISIS...
Vague recollection here, but for what it's worth- I'm pretty sure that throughout wargaming there's quite a bit of really scummy people (as there is with most anything), and if the internet stories are to be believed we have all of these 'social problems' with various types of people (unless those stories aren't true, which could be the case sometimes). I'm pretty sure that's hard to argue with, and I'm pretty sure that it's on both sides of the ideological fence.
I mean, if you're asking me to see some fault in saying there's awful people that do this hobby, and just enough of them to make their hobby communities unbearable... I'm just... not.