All admins of Fornits should know that there are far worse offenses on Fornits by Deborah's definition of flodding.
For the record, state my definition of flooding psy?
So are the other two "tyrants of majority" in agreement with you scapegoating me for Who's banning?
Not unexpected, actually, for you to say that. The difference here, and problem with your logic, is that you are trying to deny another person their rights. You do not have a right to do that. Have you ever actually watched that "philosophy of liberty" ginger used to have in their sig (google it). Look. This is her site, I obey my rules, and her personal, political beliefs happen to pretty much be fairly close together. We've talked a lot about political shit, and also about forum policy (which is very much in line). She has a running theory that makes a lot of sense: if you deny industry members their precious control over communication you attack the cult in a very direct manner... people snap out.. etc.
She also explained that if you started outing guest posters, even for good reasons, other staff who might want to turn over information might become afraid to post here. It would set a bad precedent. We also talked about free speech, and as far as I understand pretty much seem to agree with me that what this issue really needs is unrestricted, uncensored, free speech, and a more cynical public... Teach people the tricks of the con, and to buyer beware.
Go ahead and continue to research who TheWho is and what he is after by all means, but only use legitimately (as in not obtained using special powers) obtained information. Save one of his posts with descriptive information about his past, cross reference with previous posts on the subject, find the common links and build a background profile. Cross that with his publicly stated location and you have a fairly good guess at a name. Enough information and you could drop "dox" on him.
If you're remotely interested in the "facts" of how Who came to be banned, you'll go read my PMs for June 1st as I suggested before.
I had several reasons for not doing that. First off, I didn't, and still don't consider it an issue. I was investigating a forum ban, and as far as i'm concerned, I don't want to get involved in some personal dispute between you and TheWho. I don't particularly like the guy, considering he's an industry member, but up to this point have been able to control myself. You, on the other hand, were calling him a terrorist (don't make me pull out that email ! ). Frankly, if you did do something you shouldn't have, i wanted to look the other way, and really didn't want to know.
You know i've been in program. You should, thereby know that I find it very difficult to trust most people, especially program parents in general. Also consider i've been fucked with by all kinds of people, from my parents, to benchmark, to a vicious ex girlfriend, to another vicious cruel ex girlfriend (bad luck... don't ask) It's just a natural thing i'll have to overcome in time. Don't take it personally that I don't trust every single word you say, or anybody for that matter.
I know that everybody lies sometimes, especially those who claim they don't. I know by experience. Most people do it for good reasons, some for bad, but I know your heart was good and perhaps you did add a bunny hat or whatever he accused you of. I've never really looked into it, and frankly, I didn't want to. I was also busy with Fornits admin stuff and dodging SS at the time...
Look at yourself... You just outed a guest poster who you didn't like becuase he pissed you off, and because you're pissed off at me for calming the situation down to the point where TheWho was not going to persue the matter, furthermore, he did say he would avoid you for a while, at least.
Yes. There is a 99.9% probability that The Who is industry, but on this site, as I understand Ginger's "rules" around here, that entitles them to the same posting rights.