Lex said:
Stronzo--have you stopped to consider that out of the dozens of warnings that have been issued by the Moderator Team, how odd it is that you are the only member to feel so slighted as to start a thread about it? I'm being serious here.
And I will answer you seriously.. I know you don't like that I've taken issue but you're not dealing with your run-of-the-mill poster here Lex. You're dealing with me and lest you confuse me with them I'll state it clearly; I don't take injustice in any venue be it here or in the real world. That ought to make it clear enough. I should have thought that was abundantly clear in my thread compositons and in my posting style. I bet the same can be said of you too. (and I mean
that 'seriously')
You say you don't want this thread to be about you, yet this thread would not have happened had you not earned a warning, PMd half the board and Moderator team and then started this thread as a way to air your grievance. Hence, this thread can't help but be about you.
No. Probably not. But I had hoped it didn't need to be personalized. But Heath put any hope of that to bed last night.
I didn't 'pm half the board' Lex. Jesus stop thinking of me as your enemy. I pmed five mods and three or four friends to the best of my recollection. And I forwarded it and my reply to Rob too. That's all. Please, again, try and be accurate. Incongruities will come back to you. So play fair.
First off my fellow member I never 'earned' anything that was not due many others (including the individual with whom I took issue in my initial directiveness in all this). In fact many times during her veiled racism thread I asked her to take our conversation to me in private (in an effort to give the thread back to other posters) but she arrogantly said she wanted to have that discourse in her thread. It was becoming abundantly clear that she was gunning for me personally. See a set-up Lex? I do. But no pm dialogue (over that issue) was ever forthcoming. As I stated I'd been perfectly fine with my warning were the same applied to all offending parties including
you since I think you own guilt in that attack on my person. And no, the context of any use of "cuntface fucktard" has no bearing however much or little it's employed. It's an attack on a person's 'intrinsic worth'. Hell, alex8 called me 'an annoying little man' (hugs alex!) which I could have taken as an insult to my intrinsic worth but hey we're all big and strong here aren't we? I knew it was a reaction and he and I have become closer. I deserved it too since I can be one! Therefore, any attempt at justification for negative epithets in general is purely back-peddling on your part. So I say "say it and own it" or don't write it.
And no I didn't, initially, want this thread to be 'about [me]' Lex. I was hoping (as I stated emphatically in my thread opening post) that I wanted a perspective as to the standards
generally as they applied
to all members - poster and moderator-posters alike. Much as I asked people not to make this a personal thing and to kindly not take dead aim at me many have. I knew it would happen since I have a big personality. But to answer you directly it was
not my original intent.
That said, several (and most overtly you) among our resident moderators have chosen to make it 'about [me]'. dong20 pointed it out precisely and then there was mindseye's perceived "outing of my intent" by posting only half of the warning scenario since it's becoming increasingly obvious to question a moderator decision is just "not done" much as you folks continue to say you're nothing but 'fellow posters'. To explain further I will tell you that I was afforded no real explanation for my warning when received I forward my response (some of which you've posted here) to several of you in hopes that I'd begin to understand why it was sent to me when the individual behind that warning (at least in part) was not sent a similar warning for her part in inciting board discord. I interpreted that warning (which as you know now I've posted here last night) to mean
exactly what it said it meant.
Only later did I learn that it was now a "cumulative" thing and that ex-moderator Pappy's parting warning to me that you and Jana were gunning to get me banned was largely truthful much as you
both denied it at the time. If necessary I can post his fleeting pm and yours and Jana's denials. I've saved all.
But back to the genesis of this thing and that "missing piece" where I was called out by our friend BronxBombshell-
This fact has gone incessantly unacknowledged by all of you and it's pivotal to how my relationship with her degenerated so openly on this board. But yet you all rather conveniently do not hold her accountable for making the initial blatant attack on my surroundings and her perception of the "place from which I come". Again. Much as she's proud of her heritage so am I as is my right and for you to somehow think its "kosher" that she 'denigrate' my surroundings and call me "one of those veiled racists I seek to out" (paraphase) is beyond illegitimate. Shame on you for not applying all the standards equally to all our posters.
Madame_zora has admitted she had extensive dialogue with BronxBombshell in an attempt to difuse her antipathy toward me implying that her discussions had made it somehow unnecessary to deliver an equally harsh warning to Bronx. In the name of
fair play (and since at that time Jana and I were comfortably chatty) I should have thought it would have been at least
kind for one of you (if not Jana) to have asked me privately that the volley stop. But you never did. You just blind-sided me with that blanket condemnation without the
decency to afford me the same courtesy Jana had afforded BBS. Again we're at that "equality" place.
Bronx was greasing the wheel (she's attempted to again here on this thread too) as were you and Jana all the while by constantly regurgitating the "oh
I must be BBS" sort of dialogue and "tee-heeing" at your cleverness while doing so. When I jumped in to suggest 'maybe it's
Lex
!' You posted a retort which was beyond reactionary suggesting I had no right to participate in the cleverness. You're an odd one to me Lex. I realize that some people need to feel powerful no matter what the forum but in here you've taken much worse personal shots (this thread alone) at me than would be brooked by any moderator here so I guess anything goes in this thread now much as I'd enjoy continuing to keep that 'bar' I mentioned in the beginning still high.
But much as BBS changed the rules in her "veiled racism" thread you changed them here. I'm only following your lead.
There are members who are not commenting on this subject or topic simply because you started it. If we really wanted to have this discussion without bias, some one else should have started the thread, IMHO.
And in my honest opinion such a thread would never have been started nor would I know as much about this board (which after the day is done is my ultimate goal for me and for other posting members in all this) had I not started it myself.
And for those who're 'not commenting'? Like all those in here who take unkind pot shots because they have nothing of value to add? I say a heartfelt;
"fuck 'em".
(there's that 'potty mouth' of mine again....
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