Also: Don't ban me either, because that would send a strong message to the community!Durf wrote: Just going to say something about each point:
* You appear to be unwilling to leave Lucifer and Z-man alone, and
unwilling to wait for there to be a better moderation framework in
place.
This is a lie, how can I not be leaving them alone for consecutively banning me when no rules were broken? They were unwilling to leave me alone.
* The only time you've actually apologized for anything wasn't until you
were actually banned. Example: even if your "threat" was a
mis-understanding, you could have apologized for that mis-understanding.
I have not apologized, even after my ban(s). The misunderstanding was not my fault. If I say something and someone goes out of their way to think it's a threat when it is not, that isn't my problem. Nor should I have to be sorry for being banned because of that mistake someone else did. The fact he wants me to apologize for anything shows how he is afraid of losing moral superiority (when he never had it).
* You argued that utilizing an exploit was legal. This did not give me a
nice feeling, as it felt like justifying an action.
I didn't argue that using an exploit was legal, I argued that an exploit is not "hacking" by its definition (though today many people throw the word around for things that aren't hacking). All I said was that if he was going to try to charge someone for hacking when they didn't, the court would just laugh at him for not updating his own security. It's like going into court and saying "they guess my password was 'password'" and expecting them to believe you were "hacked" into. The justification of an action pertains to his assumption that I had made any threat (i.e. it's only because he went out of his way to assume I made a threat that when I talk about using an exploit not "hacking", he thinks that's me saying "it's right to use and exploit", which only came up in conversation to address his hacking threat accusations).
* Your legal threat effectively forced me to take action to prevent
cyber-bullying. The most effective way to prevent it in your case was to
remove you from the forums.
My legal "threat" was a statement that if I were to take this type of thing to a courtroom, the court would side with me because of "cyber-bullying" actually being something you can go to jail for nowadays. It had little to do with the conversation but he's using it to feed his delusions about my "threat(s)". But you can see for yourself, Tank Program thinks that the best way to prevent cyber-bullying is to remove the victim, and prevent them from being able to use the service that's meant for everyone.
* You've been causing a lot of tension on the forums for quite a while
now which I feel has been detrimental all around. Overall, you're being
more trouble than help.
Tension? I've been standing up to the moderator abuse and hypocrisy, and for good reason. Hell yes it will get tense, and I think this community has the maturity to handle it when some change it needed. Overall, I was being more trouble to his control freak complex because I would blatantly point out their abuse of the community they claim to care about. People don't have to accept this behavior simply because they are the developers (who appointed themselves as moderators even though there might be actual and willing tronners who are better suited. its their pride.)
* A lot of your e-mails, posts, and PMs are browbeating. That is to say,
since you're so fond of "abuse", that's what your communications are
starting to feel like.
I speak condescendingly to people I consider lower than myself. I know that I do not abuse other people when I have a responsibility towards them (e.g. when I'm an admin, I enforce a policy that ensures a fair environment for everyone, not my "friends", and if any admin abuses under my watch, they are never admin again). So yes they are "browbeating" when presented with the truth of the matter than Tank doesn't give two shits about the people in the community; seems to him they are expendable worshipers with which he is free to abuse and harass at will in an unfair and biased environment. Many tronners cannot use the forums because of the unyeilding prejudice in that sect of the tron community. But more than half of my posts on the forums talk about the need for people to start showing more acceptance of each other and stop harassing or mistreating over stupid personal reasons (problems).
There is a difference between pwning someone with logic and exposing their bullshit, and abuse / browbeating. Just because it's painful to his ego doesn't make it "abuse".
* You don't know when to let go.
this was told to me after I was accused of threatening to hack the forums and abused by moderators. I simply maintain the position that I never made any such threat, and simply because I speak for myself, "I don't know when to let go". They have always wanted me to simply accept their accusations and allow the community to think I made a threat. I never did, and I will always say that because I didn't. It's easy to prove as well, but hard when there's that bias shouting overtop (<insert accusation here><if you say anything it means you cant let it go><if you cant let it go you get banned>) the pattern that was used to create the unfair bias.
* You were eating into my work time.
this should be self explanatory...How is that my responsibility? If I'm posting in reply to his accusations, how is it MY reposibility that he has to spend the extra time trying to orchestrate a story for how his accusations can compete with facts. Or simply, why is it my responsibilty to manage his work schedule? I'm blamed for everything wrong that happened in the forums so that he could rally more people to agree to banning me (unjustly - simply because "the majority" wants me gone, then its "legal". He never made a poll, he never asked anyone.)
Keep in mind that these are partial reasons for banning me permanently. His responsibilities, are the reasons why I'm banned. His assumptions are the reasons why I'm banned. His pride is the reason why I'm banned. I simply asked for a fair environment, and for people to hear me out when I say I didn't make any threat. But the possibility of the community realizing that they would have made that accusation simply to orchestrate a reason for the public to rally together to accept my ban, well, it would be too revealing about their intentions and how they use (abuse) the community for their own deluded concept of admiration. Realizing how they lie and manipulate would invalidate their ability to "rule" the community (but moderators shouldn't "rule" should they? A developer of a game is in service to the community; the community is what makes a game successful, not the developer.)
Now consider that he said it gives him time to put better rules in place...it's been over a year now? Still banned, and no new rules. He talks out of his ass just to get what he wants.
