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I think you should research gaslighting before saying others do it.
You haven't made an argument for me to respond to, it's more of your narrative spinning bullsh1t. You are having a  full on mental breakdown lol. So it is indeed factual that you need mental health. 
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"prove myself" lol what a joke
The joke is the guy who talks without doing.

I hope Airmax comes to realise that you bullying me and him being a willing and enthusiastic bystander came to be the single event that turned this election.

We will have to wait for the results before discussing further though.
You are actually insane. You should visit your nearest mental hospital asap.
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@Mikal
The worst things I even say about him are that he has an ego, is a narccisist, and that he is manipulative. I can back it all up logically too. I don't think he is an evil guy the way he tries to paint me though. I realize a lot of it is mental health/ mental instability. But he can't keep getting away with this childish temper tantrum sh1t he does. Someone has to start calling him out on his bullshit. 
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@Lemming
Eh, I care enough to read what he says and consider it.
Just don't buy into the bullsh1t
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RM is having a full blown mental breakdown right now lol
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no one cares what you have to say rm
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Axolotl image request.
I love how RM thinks he is doing something here lol 
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flip flop harder lol 
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
Dude, idc what you think. I was absolutely supporting him for president. You have just pushed me in a way you'd never done before with this and the biggest reason is he invited people to the game you bullied me in.
I invited people to the game lol

You better hold on tight, this isn't fun and games anymore. I will rip your dream from you as best as I can. 
Threaten me all you want little boy, you aren't scary. 

But sure, enjoy the laughing at me and rub it in my face, just a few days too soon though, don't you think? Who cares though, you're just a lunatic anyway so why would I expect strategy.
You called me by my username, oh no you got me so good! Oof.

I was the reason many middle-grounders were either goign to abstain or vote for him instead of 3RU7AL, to prove it I will show you what sway I did or didn't have.
You think you are more significant here than you really are. Children are the only ones who seek guidance from someone like you. 
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@ILikePie5
You better hold on tight, this isn't fun and games anymore. I will rip your dream from you as best as I can. 
For the next game 💀

Lmao noted
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
You chose too soon to do something like this to me.
You were never a supporter of airmax. You call him out constantly and basically accuse him of being hitler. Stop trying to pretend like him participating in a mafia game someone else designed means he "betrayed" you. You were never on his side to begin with, and that's why me and you are still where we are at now. Because you absolutely refuse to stop being a complete pr1ck to him. 
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You should fear me too, wise debaters avoid too much conflict with the others that are as skilled, I'll face you once you prove yourself or you make a topic I fancy taking and I have the time and effort for a totally serious debate.
"prove myself" lol what a joke
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
They do indeed, so much so they can't enjoy a friday night without obsessing over my posts for entertainment.

Imagine spending hours digging through all my posts and pretending you don't care what I do, you're the epitome of well... I'm not gonna say it so you can't report.
I've never reported something  you've said once. Crying to the mods is your job.
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
Okay, I will vote against Airmax then. This was clearly the mafia game and if he wants to stab me in the back so soon, it's not something I'm cool with.
No one cares what you do. 
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By 'pathetic excuse', you mean cunning and adept.

I wouldn't want to be predictable and get admired by somebody like yourself so the feeling is mutual. :)
Cunning and adept lol. More proof of your massive ego.

I didn't say you against me, you barely debate at all in the first place anymore because you haven't had your precious Airmax instated as president as if you need that to feel secure enough to step into the ring.
Of course you wouldn't want to debate me. Scurred. 

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Good to know, shame you guys have nothing better to do with your night. 

Do you get a little rush/thrill when you bully me? Does it make you happy? I'm happy for you being happy.
It's nice to bully the biggest bully on DART back a little not gonna lie. You wanna spam report me and play manipulation games, then yeah ima fvck with you back a little :)




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Definitely, you're too worried about appearing to be the better man and dig through some guy with towards 13k posts to find any quote possible to shame him just to protect your bruised fragile ego, poor little luna.
lol pretty embarrassing posts you made there huh? There was worse lol. We all had some good laughs at some of them last night. 
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
Oh so that's why you've been doing that?
What a childish comeback, equivalent to saying "I am rubber you are glue, anything I say bounces off of me and sticks to you".

Gradeschool mentality lol
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Actually that is what he taught. Sun Tzu taught to always be humble enough to know your enemy can defeat you and to constantly remain vigilant, something you could learn to consider.
*whoosh*

Step into the debating arena more often, this chit-chat forum shit isn't debating, it's a joke for the casuals. I don't have an issue with forum-debating but this isn't debating and never was, the only difference is you're judging my ability at debating based on my performance here.
If you want to debate me I'll debate you. Though to be honest I don't see it going much better than it has here. The only reason our conversation has devolved to what it is now is because you hate to respond to anything logical and you bring it all to the personal sh1t. You simply ignore things you don't know what to say to and cherry pick random little things to respond to that have nothing to do with whatever the posts main point is. I've seen your debates, and I know you do similar sh1t there. You are a pathetic excuse for a debater, but I will debate you if you want. I don't see a whole lot of point to debating with the extremely low amount of voters this site has right now, so generally I refrain from it. Forum debating people can't drop your arguments as easy though without it being abundantly obvious like it is with you for example. 

When airmax is elected though I have plans to revitalize debating and voting over all, and plan to do a great many debates.

But yeah, name a topic and I'll school you in debate if that's what you want. Probably something relevant to what we have been discussing, like freedom of speech, or whether moderation should be more or less strict, etc. 
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It's amusing to me that you think I'm the more egotistical one between us.


“I think I am becoming an alpha male, without having intended to”

“I am not some easy to seduce male slut, I have standards and an insanely high amount of self control.”

" I have a social pull outside of ddo among debaters like no other.

Yep, its definitely me that's the egomaniac. 
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"You are lame"

-Sun Tzu Probably
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
Between a madman and a lunatic, sanity surely is overrated.
When you run out of intelligent things to say, just ramble a bunch of nonsense I guess. 
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I don't make threads calling you Lunaticrybaby because I know how ridiculous that nickname would be and what the rules about callout threads are.

So... Idk what thread you think you could report but that is up to you to try.

You wouldnt call me that because it wouldn't make any sense. Crying is your thing. 

I wouldn't report your posts because I am a better person than you. 
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And you call me the crybaby.
That's correct.
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
I will tell you where I learned to debate.

You see, I used to mass-debate back on DDO but then your girlfriend came along and helped me out. Instead of mass-debating, I simply mastered baiting and the gas lit up under my ass so furiously that I was so scared until it burnt me into the hellish demon that I am now.
Your mental state seems to be decaying as we speak.
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
Only one of us relies on grouping up
I haven't grouped with anyone. I don't need to report every post you make in hopes of getting your threads banned to win an argument. I don't have to resort to lowly tactics like that because I am not devoid of morals like you are.
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We were never ever debating. Ever.
I know. Hard to debate when your opponent gaslight you and drops 90% of your arguments.

You were after me from day one of your return here most recently. You amped it up on the second day and have kept at it. The mods are fooled by you for now, thinking this is mutual and that I'm also instigating. I will show them the reality by completely ceasing to talk about you or to you until you or others bring you up.
This is all a manipulation of reality and far from factual. You are playing up your victim status once again.
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
Different outlooks I guess, I tend to agree with you though. Why should I be too scared to reply to you?
You tell me. Why is it that you rarely have rebuttals that don't contain gaslight remarks? Where did you learn how to debate?
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
Do it, let's try it out. Don't threaten me, do it. When you lose this war miserably, you will realise the reality.
How can I lose a war when my opponent doesn't have a response to most of what I say lol. 
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
Hilarious. You think I will forgive you now? After all the shit you said and did to me? You have fucked with me way beyond what's acceptable, broken site rules regularly in your abuse of me. I will patiently wait for others, especially the mods, to realise who is at fault between you and I. You've already done worse shit to me in 2 weeks than I did to the entire website in 3.5 years of me being here. The only reason the mods don't see it is I haven't yet laid it out to them post by post breaking down the rules you break and ways you insult, taunt and INSTIGATE yes you instigate against me where I react defensively and you frame me.
You are not mentally mature enough to ever have an agree to disagree with someone. I get it. You need to group up little boy. That's okay, I will keep destroying you logically anywhere I see you then. :)
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
I wonder who the 'good boys' tag is if it also says 'good mods' lol.
Yes I am teasingingly poking the mods. Your failure to understand humor without further explanation is fascanating. 

I never said you were a pushover, I'll agree with you on that. Instead, you are the polar opposite, a bully.
If I am a bully because I stand up for what I believe and defend it adamantly, then you have a very flawed worldview of what actual bullying is. The unfortunate side effect to people like you who claim bullying at every little thing, is that you steal attention away from people who might actually be experiencing trauma from real bullies. You were brought up in a society that caters to the idea of a victim so much that you have actually convinced yourself that you are a victim. That's of course giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming this isn't an actual manipulative tactic you frequently use to get your way. I actually think the latter is more likely true, which unfortunately means you sir, are indeed the bully. Bullies lie and manipulate to get their way, not victims. 

It's not like you're a sophisticated abuser either, you don't mix up your abuse, you just relentlessly aggress.
I have a logical thing to say to your illogical one. You confuse that as aggression lol.

So, all I have to do is not back down and you will keep at it, giving me more and more evidence of your harassment.
I see it as more and more evidence of your inability to debate.

 I am not even that mad about the thread being unlocked, honestly, since it is true that with or without it being locked, you'd harass me just as much.
You mean I would call you out on your bullsh1t, lies, and manipulative tactics more and more. Yes, I would do that regardless of that particular thread being locked or not. The signifance of the thread being locked does more for showing the mods good intentions on changing, then it does for you being angry. I didn't ask them to unlock it to get one up on you, I asked them to unlock it to prove they are better than what they've shown themselves to be. Catering  to your report spamming is not something DART needs in a mod team. 

This is probably the only thread I have ever made in direct support of the mods, so telling me that I am a suck up is hilarious. 
Let's see what you say in the past 1-2 days:

Thanks for your response whiteflame, I have nothing but respect for you. 
I have never had an issue with whiteflame or his moderation decision. He is a newly placed mod and this is my first dealing with him. 

Standing by your request (I respectfully decline btw) doesn't address my point in the slightest. 
Why not just say you totally decline and think his basis is flawed? You did the latter anyway.
Because I do respect ragnar. While I call him out for his stubborn decisions all the time, and will continue to do so, I do not take issue with him personally. 

I am glad you brought this up because maybe there is a lesson to be learned here for you. You see, you tend to look at every argument or dispute here as good vs evil, which is why you are trying to paint me as the villain so badly. You are completely incapable of the term "agree to disagree". It is not impossible to be friends with someone while dis-agreeing with the occasional thing they do. 

For example you think me and mikal are besties. You have no clue how much we argue with each other about everything. We argue with each other about video games, about philosophies, about behaviors and tactics in mafia, hell, other than moderation issues we almost dis-agree on stuff more than we actual agree on things. That doesn't stop us from being friends.

You can ask airmax this as well, but when he was mod on debate.org I was his friend, but I gave him tons of hell over decisions he made in regards to allowing vote bombs to be made. I argued with him for pages, and pages and even called him out in threads. We were still friends through that whole thing. The thing about me is I don't cater my views for friendship, or change who I am because of who a friend is.

I would carry on with you in the same capacity if you would allow it. Even if we never were claimed friends, it doesn't mean we have to take it to a personal level every time the way you do. You are so eager to paint me as this evil guy because we have a dis-agreement on free speech and moderation, that you are incapable of talking me as if I am anything less than hitler.
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I mean I literally can prove and point out instances where you do it, you can't do that for me though lol. 
Oh, I certainly can. I just don't play poker with my cards face-up. Keep trying your twisted mindgames, you have won in the short-term. I'm just sitting, waiting and collecting evidence of your harassment of me.

You continue to further my point by demonstrating your agenda isn't to achieve debate and discussion, that it is to "win". You getting my thread locked was a win for you. This just shows the person you are at your core. I reccomend therapy. 
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The mods did a good thing today. I will give credit where credit was due.
Trace it back then, go back on Lunatic's posts and threads and do the same to me, you will find that the only trait I have that brought this onto me is not being a pushover.
That trait, frankly, is more apparent in me than you. You attempt to block my freedom of speech by spam reporting me to the mods to silence my opinion because you ran out of arguments to substantiate yours. That I fought this with the mods shows that I am in fact, the one who is not the pushover you hoped I would be.
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@Lemming
That we each think each other's opinions on this subject to be wrong, is clear enough by our opinions stated.
Then the obvious was stated. If you feel you want to elaborate and discuss / debate your opinion, you are more than welcome to do so. I'll leave that onus on you. 


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Personally, I would have been fine with them locking it.
That's fine. You would have been wrong though. 
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Why I won't let up on RCB (RationalCrybaby), and I encourage Airmax to ignore him from now on
This is a direct call-out thread and he isn't even using my proper username which is itself a form of harassment but sure, if it's RM who is targetted nobody cares.

If I did this to Lunatic (don't even need to change his username to mock him) you would close the thread and ban me.
It's funny you use the "If I did this to lunatic" argument.

You know how many times I've asked myself lately "If I reported all of RM's ad homs and insults, I could easily get him banned". The difference between you and me is that I won't stoop that low and you will. I actually stand for something. You don't. You stand for yourself only. 

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@Vader
I appreciate the post and compliment

I am hopeful to push more a more lassiez fair agenda in the future to create a fun and engaging site for people to commentate on.

I am also hopeful that we can start an ad campaign to garner traffic to the site so we can get new users to come and engage on the site

2 goals for the future
Noble goals! I support you in your endeavor good sir. 
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Bravo, you got away with directly violating site rules to harass a user that you mis-name to further humiliate him on top of the rest of what you do.
The difference between me violating site rules and you violating them when making call out threads, is that I will point out how the rules are fundamentally flawed to begin with, where you only like said rules when they work in your favor, and hate them when they don't. It shows that you don't actually stand for anything, except for the narcissistic nature of you.

Keep sucking up to the mods and saying you 'respect' them so much until they cave in to your demands. It only lasts so long.
An incorrect mod decision was unanimously made by one mod, and the other two mods (with more power) basically stated they disagreed with the decision to begin with. This is probably the only thread I have ever made in direct support of the mods, so telling me that I am a suck up is hilarious. 

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When you finally decide to grow up and be a big boy, and stop blocking and gaslighting people who dis-agree with you, I will give you the respect of calling you your actual username again.
You will find it will be sooner than that, it's just a waiting game for me. Keep up the disrespect though, don't bother trying to be respectful and nice now.
You growing up will be sooner rather than later? Good to know. I am proud of you. Whose a big boi! Whose a good boy?! RCB is! 


You are the one who gaslights but I am done talking about a term you have no idea about.
I mean I literally can prove and point out instances where you do it, you can't do that for me though lol. 

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It doesn't matter if you do or don't as he is the type of guy who would have continually abused and harassed me whether you did or didn't close that thread (why else is he calling me RationalCrybaby again and again instead of RM).
When you finally decide to grow up and be a big boy, and stop blocking and gaslighting people who dis-agree with you, I will give you the respect of calling you your actual username again.

Whether you unlocked it or not, he'd keep abusing me until you set up an RO where his abusive tendencies would inevitably have led to him either violating it or coming after another user. He can't help himself, it's just a waiting game for me. The only way he's unbanned at the moment is due to favouritism and sticking to forum games where the way he talks is considered okay.
This is more gaslighting. You ignore the fact that an extensive dialogue has been going on for over 100 posts, and the majority of the time that dialogue wasn't in support of me. Dismissing me as a favorite is absolutely irrational. You of course don't accuse the mods of favoritism when they act on enforcing your bans however.

He will eventually find that the rules apply to him, your leniency on him will only last so long. I am aware I am fighting with my hand tied behind my back since you'd ban me the instant I was even half as nasty back at him.
All of the "nastiness" has originated from you gaslighting me, and making this personal RM. The second you want to be an adult, and talk like an adult and debate me in a more professional way, we can do that. The onus is on you. Until then you can be RationalCrybaby though.

I also don't want to engage him like that, it doesn't achieve anything. He's a bully who won't stop what he's doing whether I am passive or active in my defense against it. The only time he'd stop is if I totally give in and don't respond at all.
Your incapable of not responding however, because the truth is RCB, YOU are the bully. 
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This thread was correctly unlocked. 

As someone who has been a stark complainer of mods in the past, I would now like to take a moment to shout them out positively, as is only fair. Today the mods proved me wrong, and showed that they are willing to listen to reason. It was my impression in the past that when decisions were made, they would fight tooth and nail to stick to that decision.

The addition of whiteflame as head mod, and supadudz having more authority may have played the biggest role here, but I will give credit to ragnar in some regard too even though I know he stands by locking the thread, he at least caved to the better reasoning and rationale of his highly respected peers. There is hope for moderation on the website. There is still a long way to go in acheiving the laissez faire style that I know will bring activity and purpose to this website, but the decision they made today shows that they have every intention of meeting that goal. 

The community should remain vigilant in bringing up issues with moderation decisions, but we should also be fair and applaud them when they make the right decisions. 

Thankyou mod team of DART.


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Thankyou. 
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Want to know what is sheer hilarity to me?
I doubt anyone does.

One guy talks 'respect' to every single mod like a teacher's pet while simultaneously threatening to ditch the entire site if his beloved Airmax loses the election.
You are misqouting me. I responded to this earlier, how I never actually threatened to ditch the site, just that I would be less active lol. If I had the same low standards as you, I could report you for misqouting me, than ragnar can give you the same treatment he gave me by lecturing you publicly about "qoutations". The funny thing is yours isn't sarcastic, yours is a serious misqoute. 

The other has remain despite direct mod abuse against him, doesn't suck up to anybody and is seen as the frail one who needs to keep his ego in check.
"Doesn't suck up to anyone" Try that again after not reporting every post I make for a day, hypocrite lol.

If Lunatic was really such a 'man', 
Lol I never claimed to be "such a man" lmao

so above this and I was the manipulative tantrum-thrower why did he research for four hours and more to have quotes for a mafia game about quotes from me? 
Because you have said some genuinely hilarious sh1t. Not all of the qoutes/roles are at your expense either, really only one or two are. Some of it is sh1t I actually like and agree with lol. But even if it was purely at your exense, and I wanted to make fun of you a bit (off site mind you) about some of the absolute ridiculous antics you have had on the site over the years, I doubt anyone could blame me for that.

Why isn't he campaigning against 3RU7AL? 
I have openly stated that I don't support 3RU7AL as president, what do you mean lol? You were just accusing me of saying I would leave the site if he won, and now you are back tracking that lol. Which one is it, am I so undedicated to the site that I would leave because 3RU7AL is president, or am I secretly supporting him because I am not actively making threads against him? Can't have your cake and eat it too.

But if you want to know why I am not actively making threads against 3RU7AL, it's because I don't actually find his campaign threatening to airmax. I feel most of his supporters only support him, because of the foolish reason of "not knowing who airmax is". If he was actively trying to put down airmax's campaign like you were (while pretending to support him) I would have made threads pointing out the logical inconsistencies with him just as I did with you. He would have made a worthier opponent than you I suspect, because he wouldn't just outright block me when he was proven wrong multiple times ;-)

Why's he so focused on humiliating and abusing his fellow supporter of Airmax and pressuring to ditch Airmax?
Despite your consistent claims that you support airmax, you have single handedly tried to harm his campaign more than anyone else. You have insulted airmax personally, made a call out thread against him, and continue to stand by the argument that he is a power hungry prick. 3RU7AL has done none of this. 

The reason is simple, he's the problem. I've never seen such a whiny type of harasser in a long time who thinks he's thick-skinned and all that.
That the rationalcrybaby himself calls me whiny is ironic. That he supports me whining to the mods in support of them reversing a ban against RM but not elsewhere, shows that he is a narccissist that only cares about rules being applied when they are in his favor.

This we all already know. 
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I am mainly asking you unlock the thread out of principle here than utility. If no further discussion comes from the thread and it dies, great. I suspect that is most likely to happen, and there probably won't be another post in the damn thread. 

Unlocking the thread will be a big step in proving that moderation intends on becoming less strict, which is what I've been told has been the general aim. It also removes the precedant that the reporter is valued over the reportee, and will be a step in the right direction at removing any stigma that users can just get their way by tattling to the mod, and having the mod comply simply because recieving an overwhelming amount of reports is too much of a pain in the butt.

Prove me, mikal and wylted wrong here by showing that moderation aren't just stubborn guys who make a decision and stand by that decision to the point where any length of reasoning will be pursued to justify a wrongful action taken. That has been my impression of moderation so far. Any time I have brought an issue up I might get responses for a little, but eventually they stop, and the decision stands. 

Is it really neccesary to do that here with something as minor as a locked thread? I am not even asking you guys to unban someone at this point, which is usually what I raise stinks about. 
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Well I can't say how your personal experience is with Ragnar is, but if it makes you feel better, we technically can override a decision he makes
Oh great! Can you then override the decision to lock that thread then, considering the head mod said about 4 different times that locking the thread wasn't the right call?

It's a whole lot harder to justify in an instance where interactions are two-sided, largely because it's just an extension of what has been going on in other threads bubbling over into a new thread. That can be a bit spammy at times, but I don't think it necessarily warrants locking the thread, and I wouldn't say that this rose to the level of spam. - Whiteflame

We don't just take the reporter's word for it that a given response is warranted, though I'll fully admit that we don't always come to a decision having become fully aware of the context. So, when it comes to this decision, I respect that there were good reasons to let the thread stand as it was.  - Whiteflame

This is something we should have discussed, especially given the blurred lines you mentioned. And I respect as well that, in the face of uncertainty, it may have been better not to intervene. We employ that standard in other areas of moderation, so this wouldn't have been the first time. - Whiteflame

Applying that type of decision-making here may not have been the best move, but we're new to leading this process ourselves and learning from it. I don't say this to excuse our call, but just to give some insight into what we've been considering before and after we made that call. - Whiteflame 

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@Vader
I don't know about other mods, but I haven't done that, in fact I deny more RM reports than approve
I know supa. Out of all the mods, the only one I still ever take issue with is ragnar. The more infuriating thing about this is that when I conversate with him in direct messages he usually agrees with just about everything I have to say when I point out how ridiculous certain reports are. He understands the logic and reasoning, but STILL doesn't put it into effect. Look at the difference between whiteflames response and his just now. Whiteflame admits taking the post down in hindsight probably wasn't the best move, and admits that action was taken prior to knowing full context. Ragnar admits that my logic and reasoning is right, but defends the action of removing the post. Instead of just saying "Hey I made a mistake, let me reverse that" he doubles down. It's really infuriating. 

The most direct example of this is him admitting that the doxxing accusation was complete bogus and still is asking me to edit a photo so as not to "Aggrivate" RM. You know what that says about him? That he is relenting under the pressure of RM's constant reports. He's taking the disneyland dad approach here and instead of punishing the child throwing the tantrum, buys him the candy bar so he will stop whining at him for 5 minutes. Thus encouraging the kid to throw more tantrums.


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@Barney
You realize if I was a dick I could play the same game as RM here and report every post of his I find to be toxic in hopes that maybe one or two will be acted upon and I can go and gloat that I am the Victor because he was banned... and I know you guys would be more inclined to take action against him as well because of who he is and his problems in the past.

Obviously that goes against every belief I have and I was one of the largest supporters against his lengthy ban to begin with. He knows this and thus knows I won't go to the same manipulative lengths he does.

It's laughable that he would call me a bully in light of the fact that I could have probably helped influence a decision on his ban 2 years ago and may even still have been able to do so now but I won't.

In a way, I created this monster, but only out of ignorance that the mods would ever cater to his reports this way. That said, I wouldn't go back and change standing up for him either way.

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The way RM blocks people left right and sideways, you would assume he would be in support of shadow banning. That he is not shows that you should question the motives he has behind blocking people. It's all manipulation and mind games. 
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@ResurgetExFavilla
It makes his pp hard and then he feels like a big man. He gets so mad about this proposal because he wants to be able to block people without it actually affecting the way he uses the site. He finds the very act of blocking to be erotic and wants to do it to as many people as possible, and making that act contingent on never seeing another poster's posts again means he'd actually have to to weigh the pros and cons instead of blocking people reflexively.
You are right in questioning his intentions with blocking, though I won't comment about the sexual arousal part of it. Blocking someone for him is a manipulative tool, a sort of threat that he doesn't realize is empty. He follows up with the block by seeking moderator action by spamming them with reports knowing they will probably do something so they don't have to deal with his reports anymore. Than when the mods do act, he takes it as a victory. He has been doing this for 3 years here and getting away with it. It's a way he can win any exchange without having to actually debate or prove logical prowess in the slightest. It's a slimy move, but from a guy like him it's to be expected. He has no moral value, and he bullies in this way while ironically claiming the other person is the bully. It's rather sad and pathetic, but as long as the mods cater to his behavior it will never change and he won't stop.


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