Originally Posted by Chris Britton
Thank you for posting Danny, I can praise you for that, while i still am intending on leaving I will at least get back to you with what i think needs to happen and perhaps I will change my mind,
As for bring up Daryl what I will say about him is that he joined he bullied, harassed, spammed and generally treated everyone very badly, he would insult, cuss, spam at every opportunity, the board became a mess. It got to the point where Danny stuck perma-bans on them, and to make matters worse he had a group of friends who did the same thing, once they were banned they made an offensive website about the forums, the site got closed down but it was a very poor incident and one which should have been forgotten.
The point I was trying to make is that now the positions are kinda reversed, that Danny, RV and some others are being the bullies and the behavior is being endorsed and seemingly encouraged since Danny wants to leave the 101 one reasons topic open, plus he is also getting paranoid just because I was trying to stop the bullying, yes i went against a direct order but when your leader wants it up for the laughs it gives him does nothing but piss you off and get you angry because once upon a time, bullying would have never been tolerated, you loose faith and truth is someone you once looked up to as a good friend. I still see no reason for laughing at another members expense here. yet James was annoying but he never meant it and unlike Daryl he never did it deliberately, we can laugh at daryl because we were trying to stand up for ourselves, now I am standing up for someone who despite his issues, has shown the forum for what is becoming.
I'm not asking for everyone to change, what i am asking for is for more tolerance and respect for others, that is what the forum was all about and i feel we have lost our way with respects to that.
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I still mostly agree with you but the fact remains you can ONLY argue with words, not power. That's how wars start.
I think you're a little too wound up about it. I'm not saying I wasn't at some point, but I didn't post during that time. Besides, looking over old information I think James pretty much asked for it. Other than RV being RV none of us bullied him. Then he refused to take our advice to not listen to him, which was a REALLY bad move. And up to a point he continued to ignore us. I do think they went overboard, because he did start to settle down while they kept making fun of his every post. It's a little disheartening that that was tolerated, but if it is I'm not going to be too upset about it. That's just how it is. The only reason you lost your mod powers is because you used your powers against the admin's wishes. That's more disturbing than it sounds. I had a mod on my now-dead forum that did the same things and it made me really nervous.
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