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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
Banned
This is fun  |
fwiw, this is my 2 cents:
There is indeed a certain degree of guilty pleasure in watching someone being banned for no particular reason other than the spur of the moment and just mischief-making in general...
i know this from many years of observation and from my interactions with phobia in the early days of my foray into the internet via chiefs planet:
it was fun in an evil sort of way, watching people being ****ed with, as long as it wasn't you, but even then most people would play along and not make a big deal over the guy with the big head (have you seen his head?) having a slightly strange, if not downright perverse at times, sense of humor...
i'm in that camp that misses phobia and his hilarious antics - you know, "in the good old days everything was all roses and unicorns", or whatever...
but things change, people come and go (welcome back fraz!!), new people sometimes bring new attitudes and very different expectations, including looking for a place with a realistic attitude toward our beloved chiefs instead of the ultra-homerism of the other major sites...
unfortunately some of the newer people don't seem to be particularly pleased by the treatment they receive from some posters, and many of them came in during the daface era and justifiably expected things to pretty much go on as they were at that time, which seemed to be very thoughtful and mostly invisible moderation in the background unless it became necessary to do what moderators do - moderate when necessary...
at this point, i agree with the notion that a change in the situation wrt moderation was needed and i totally agree that all of the new blood are solid posters who have displayed noticeable and notable adult tendencies in their postings and such good judgment will serve them well...
however, i'm disappointed that flop, my man of steel, has been promoted to the advisory council..
maybe someone should have talked to him before that decision was made (if in fact they didn' talk to him, i don't know one way or the other)...
he didn't seem too happy the other night, and i can't say that i blame him...
having said that, my position is full steam ahead with a new mod team that will no doubt "rule" when necessary but never arbitrarily or just because someone feels like screwing around by abusing their otherwise inactive mod powers...
you guys have my full support and my deepest sympathies because being a mod is not easy no matter what you do it's wrong to somebody and their friends, all of which will be made more difficult by the current cast of characters around here...
and of course, as if that's not enough, it's rumored that claythan is back under a new mult...
sometimes it seems to me that the more things change the more (other) things tend to stay the same... (no, i did not coin any part of that saying)
carry on...
tl;dr version: let's go forward together (humming your favorite hippy countercultral song from the mid-sixties)...