Get your head out of the sand and realise this is its own website and if somebody had ignored DDO for 3.5 years while it dwindled to this level of activity, I'd say the same shit about them too.
"Dwindled to this level of activity" implies that it had a huge amount of activity in the first place. This site was always dead. There were a few more refugees of DDO around in the beginning, but not much.
He ditched this website until he got wind of some power to attain. I find it petty and ridiculous, I don't see why I can't be 'salty' over that because that is what I'm 'salty' about.
The "power" you are accusing him of really just amounts to more responsibility. Especially with the complex layout of plans he had. Your platform could be spun for power, because you didn't have even half of what airmax's campaign has. You were gonna do one debate tourney and then whisper in the mods ear like Wormtongue did to King Theodon in LOTR lol. You can be salty all you want though, I am just saying don't pretend you are doing something noble when this was really about you not being able to handle the pressure the whole time.
I think it's absolutely asinine the reason he came back here. You want freedom of speech, right? I think he is an egotistical, manipulative guy who happens to also have respect from you DDO guys and will make this website flourish with activity all because we hand him a President title. I find it amusing, silly and cute. Am I salty about losing to him? A little, yes I am.
There is a reason airmax has the support he does. If he was as villainous and evil as you suppose he is, kind of weird he would be able to pull support like this despite all this inactivity you keep bringing up. Also you led with "you want freedom of speech, right" but then preceeded not to follow up with that point. Please explain how airmax won't accomplish that.
You can 'rub it in' all you want, I don't have shame in the saltiness nor does it in any way reduce what I did.
Stop playing victim is all I am saying. You conceded because you couldn't handle the pressure. Stop making it sound like you were bullied into submission because someone made a better campaign than you did. Just makes you look like a poor loser.
3RU7AL was running and is gaining support as people who supported Wylted are skeptical of Airmax. I could have spitefully talked my voters into voting for 3RU7AL and made this really 50/50. I even got good reasons to vote against Airmax but why the fuck would I do that when I value this website's success above my ego and 'saltiness'?
You realize that despite how much you try to make him out to be the bad guy here, airmax actually will be a good president. I can understand why you would nominate him over 3RU7AL who doesn't even have a campaign or plan to elaborate significantly on what he actually plans to do. But offering your support to airmax, while constantly shading him kind of underminds your move here tbh.
You have preconceptions about me based, very ironically, on depictions Airmax, Bench and others gave you. I'm actually a really good person and I'm so sick and tired of not being able to say 'I am a good person' without being called a victim player or this and that to justify other shit I did to handle a villain or two.
My conceptions of you are my own, not based on airmax's or benchs or anyone else. I've been interacting with you for years on both websites. I don't think you are a horrible person or anything like that. I think you may be a bit immature, have some horrible takes on the world, and can be very manipulative when you argue, but I don't think any of that makes you a bad person. That's just who you are and who you are is shaped by the environment you are surrounded with. I think you see the world through a very black and white lens with no grey area, which makes talking reason to you almost impossible.
I am nasty at times, everybody is and I tend to save my nastiness for people who make me feel really bad or make others feel really bad. Airmax was nasty and manipulative to me in the past and I forgive him. You seem to think I have forgotten what he did or feel less bad about losing to somebody like him or that we magically 'changed oh so much' over X or Y amount of years.
I don't think you can actually substantiate or prove how airmax was "nasty" or "manipulative". You were a kid when you were banned, and maybe you over-inflated his authority as being more than it actually was. But to say you forgive him is just an outright lie based on everything you keep saying about it. You hold a nasty grudge against him and I doubt you will ever let it go.
I don't think he's changed that much, I don't see it. I think I have though and I get why he found me toxic, even though he was so lenient on other toxic members who said way worse shit than I did.
Max's model of moderation wasn't the same in the first year or two of his moderationship as it was in the later years. Max admits this freely. He had a lot of time to see what works and what doesn't work. He became increasingly more laissez-faire through years of experience in the role. You weren't around for a lot of the later years of DDO (just towards the end of it) so you are pretty unfamiliar with who he really is. Notice you weren't banned though at the end. Max's philosophy on moderation is much different than it was in the beginning.
What is it you want?
I want you to stop thinking you can be manipulative without being held accountable for the things you say. I will continue to call you out on your bullsh1t if you continue to put it out.
I dropped out and endorsed him instead of 3RU7AL, just let go of your petty stuff with me and in the future don't dox someone's discord chats without their consent.
That is hardly doxxing lol. No one can message you or contact you without knowing the #4 digit number at the end of your name, and no one knows that from those screenshots. Also YOU insinuated I was lying with what happened, so you can call me out but don't want me to back it up? Yeah fvck that. You don't know what doxxing is kid. I've had bench threaten to call my Mom's phone number (yes he actually had it). I have had bench text my personal phone the apple terms of service so that I was consistently getting messages for the better part of an hour until I figured out how to block him from doing that. Yeah I did some sh1t back to him and got even. But that's what doxxing is. Zmikecuber freaking found Max's personal number and sent him trolly, and threatening messages. Stop throwing out doxxing accusations when you don't actually know what doxxing is.
I can say this now because I got no agenda to win that you can say it's based on. What you did was morally wrong. Consent is the basis of all moral acts except ones that save the person. I don't show screenshots of you elsewhere or wouldn't if I could. I don't care what you did though as that chat is important as I believe people need to learn about Sacha Baron Cohen and what he did to that Romanian village, it's so disgustingly morally wrong. I got no shame in the level of offense I take to what he did.
If you are not insecure about your stance then stop calling it doxxing. If you have nothing to hide from people there is no reason to feel insecure about this.
I am not salty I lost, I'm salty that a guy can do as little as him for this website to last this long activity-wise and stroll in an win an election. I'm salty he can do that, admit he needs that ego rush to win and still people will vote for him.
The fact that Max can make both major candidates drop from the election speaks volumes to the fact that he actually has a campaign people believe in and can see work. Stop being salty, and just be proud that he was able to accomplish what you couldn't. Maybe you will learn a thing or two from him.
I am salty that people like 3RU7AL can't drop out for a blatanty more adept member to negotiate on their behalf, whether it be myself, Wylted or now Airmax and realise their own strengths and weaknesses but I don't feel salty about the fact that I played a significant role in somehow chain-reacting Airmax's return.
I don't like Airmax, I think he's a manipulative guy with traits/values that clash very much with mine (he's very tactful where I'm very blunt, he's very dispassionate where I burn with emotions so on and so forth). He likes who he thinks I am, he forgot that the real me and real him met in PMs on DDO, we've had proper hangout chats and been amicable despite him not respecting me enough to ever unban me, knowing full well I'd earned it. I don't resent him, I know that he and I clash so much because we work so differently as people. I know that I can't be his friend and he should learn that he can't be mine, we just don't gel well (I don't gel well with many people anyway but him, I really just don't).
I respect Airmax, I don't like him. There is a difference and the latter doesn't change the former being absolutely genuine.
You and him don't "Clash" because airmax doesn't hate you the way you hate him. This unbridled rage you carry stems from you only. This isn't some rivarly between the two of you. It's literally just you with a hate boner against him. I get it. I feel that way towards pie currently, I am not above it either. Carry that hate and rage against Max all you want. At least you gave him the chance to prove you wrong and show you that he will be a fantastic president and will do great things for the website.
