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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Is it normal for Moderators to be so immature?
« on: May 27, 2016, 02:14:49 PM »It was silly of me to call them terrorists - this I admit. However, the word filter is in place because they spammed our site with links to theirs, not to mention also doing this with their avatars - a coordinated attack with aims to increase their search engine visibility.
Can I just point out that that is not at all what the purpose of the "attack" was? I'm reminded right now of the British government trying to play off the newly-founded Americans' protests as uncalled for acts of horrific terrorism.
Yeah, we did mass-change avatars and put links in our avvies and sigs, but it wasn't some nefarious deed done while both being established forums. It was a protest done literally during the process of splitting in the hopes of founding our own forum and give those who were upset or dissatisfied with the management a place to go. It had nothing at all to do with "aims to increase [our] search engine visibility", and I find that notion utterly absurd and unfounded. We hardly had any plans at all at that point beyond "get new forum up and running, hopefully".
I think I'm pretty well-qualified to speak on this subject, seeing as the avatar swaps were my idea and making.
Honestly, I have no problem at all with you being upset with our actions (even if I don't understand it) and speaking out about it from your angle, but I can't tell at this point if you're just making bold assumptions or if you're deliberately and malevolently painting a false picture of everything we've done to make us out as the bad guys without having to explicitly say so. I wouldn't even mind if these were just your personal views on the topics, but you consistently bring them up in threads, and you do so as if they're well-established facts. I'd be happy to have a conversation to set all the facts straight, if that's something you're interested in.
Again, it's not you being upset with events that bothers me, or you bringing them up angrily or negatively, it's the misrepresentation of intent and pulling facts out of seemingly thin air. I hold no grudges against you or this site, I still hope for a merger to happen, but I can't help but feel like a massive amount of hostility is being completely manufactured for...some purpose.