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Originally Posted by manguydude21
to be perfectly honest, Steve-O reminds me of myself.
Steve-O, and comment on this?
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Well, in the sense that he used it I guess I can agree somewhat. I do what
I think is right and will handle the consequences if they arise. I think this comes from my management background, you can't make everyone happy so you have to do what is logically correct, not do things on emotion. Trying to make everyone happy just makes people hate you more. Sometimes you have to make a decision for the betterment of all that you know will piss off cetain people.
I try to be friendly with everyone on here but as you can tell, I am never too friendly with any of you. If I get too friendly than I cannot moderate the site properly my personal feelings will get in the way. I think this is what happened with Marm, he let his personal feelings get in the way because he was very friendly with some involved.
He, and a few others, also had some preconcieved notion of my personality which is way off. If you ask anyone who knows me they'll tell you I'm the most laid back easy going person they know. All this "steve is the type who has road rage and starts barfights" crap makes me laugh. Ask my girlfriend, I never get mad when I'm cut-off or someone does something stupid and I have been in exactly 1 real fight in my entire life, I'm 1 - 0 boys
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They have done a real good job of smeaing my personality and selling their outlook on me over the last few months. Like I said in the original post, 1 temp ban and it had nothing to do with a disagreement it had to do with 5,000 one word posts, it just came to a boil out of a highly debated thread. Yet they go around saying that I ban anyone who disagrees with me, I don't get it.
Ever since the Bonch banning they have gone out of their way to troll and flame my posts, put derogotary comments about me in their sigs, and nitpick every little decision I made. And they convinced others on here to drink the kool aid.
If I am such a bad guy, ask yourself this, have you personally ever had a problem with me??? And if you have did we straighten it out privately???? I have argued with Trons, Alex, and others heatedly and we worked it out just fine. I ban noone!!!!! i temp banned a member who had at least 5,000 troll/flame posts. It was not from a single incident but a build up over a long period of time.
All that said, If you really eaxamine the threads I was very calm during and after the bans, I didn't respond to any of the personal attack posts made about myself, Beavis's thread and others. I even responded to Marm nicely a few times after he overturned everything the following morning. BTW, look at the what is going on here thread, everything was calm and fine after Alex and I explained, then it flares up when marm came on.
If you look at the timeline I got mad when Marm rebuffed my attempts to talk to him and started posting private conversations. He makes it seem that he posted these after he was threatened, the truth is: he was threatened BECAUSE he posted them.
Anyone who wouldn't get mad at having private conversations posted is lobotomized.
I'll reiterate these main points,
Irexes said he deserved the ban and that it was boiling over from a previous disagreement. Something that I had long let go but apparently he hadn't. I wish he would have, although i disagreed with his moderation style he was a very good poster on the forum. Again Irexes wanted to get banned and wanted to go out with a bang to get his points across about me.
Beavis dislikes me for whatever reason, idealogical differences whatever, and frankly I don't care anymore. One thing I'd like to get straightened out with him, he keeps saying he invited me here but actully Alex contacted me first. Beavis has been a different person since he was rebuffed from being a mod. He took it way to personally and held it against all the staff.
Marm, got caught up in defending his friends and not looking at the facts. He went over the entire staffs head to unban someone who said they deserved the ban! he the broke the entire staffs trust when he posted private conversations. I could post some whoppers from private conversations myself, but like I said I am above that and respect the privacy that those conversations were held in.
Like i said, the forum lives on. They may come back they may not. With 5,000 members and more signing up every day our discussions will be fine.
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