Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
The way I'm reading his statement is that some mods, when they see something that offends them, will attempt to suspend the user under a rule that doesn't necessarily apply. He is saying that he doesn't do that.
If Dadd himself doesn't, then good. However, the problem remains that other mods do.
Look at jdbolick. I'm willing to bet that in his case, he did what he's known for doing: put together a blistering TL;DR epic tirade with his unique trademarked blend of incredibly well-thought-out logical arguments mixed with trolly personal insults. It's the sort of thing he does all the time -- and the sort of thing he gets away with all the time, because a certain percentage of the mod staff finds him to be entertaining. But THIS time, a different mod comes along and gives him a forum ban -- for doing the exact same thing he does consequence-free in almost all of his other forum arguments.
I'll tell ya straight up right now, I don't like jdbolick at all. But I fully understand his frustration. If I robbed banks on a regular basis while the police simply watched me and did nothing, then I'd be frustrated too if I robbed yet another bank and then all of a sudden got arrested. If the police were letting me do it before, isn't it okay to keep doing it?
Well, the mods have been letting him do this for so long that when he suddenly gets punished for doing the same thing, he goes on a tirade about it in Suggestions. As LOL as that is, he's also absolutely right about the inconsistency of the forum moderation on GLB. His story is a great illustration of that inconsistency.
The way I'm reading his statement is that some mods, when they see something that offends them, will attempt to suspend the user under a rule that doesn't necessarily apply. He is saying that he doesn't do that.
If Dadd himself doesn't, then good. However, the problem remains that other mods do.
Look at jdbolick. I'm willing to bet that in his case, he did what he's known for doing: put together a blistering TL;DR epic tirade with his unique trademarked blend of incredibly well-thought-out logical arguments mixed with trolly personal insults. It's the sort of thing he does all the time -- and the sort of thing he gets away with all the time, because a certain percentage of the mod staff finds him to be entertaining. But THIS time, a different mod comes along and gives him a forum ban -- for doing the exact same thing he does consequence-free in almost all of his other forum arguments.
I'll tell ya straight up right now, I don't like jdbolick at all. But I fully understand his frustration. If I robbed banks on a regular basis while the police simply watched me and did nothing, then I'd be frustrated too if I robbed yet another bank and then all of a sudden got arrested. If the police were letting me do it before, isn't it okay to keep doing it?
Well, the mods have been letting him do this for so long that when he suddenly gets punished for doing the same thing, he goes on a tirade about it in Suggestions. As LOL as that is, he's also absolutely right about the inconsistency of the forum moderation on GLB. His story is a great illustration of that inconsistency.
post back on Page 1, which is one of his favorite ways to dismiss someone out-of-hand who he thinks he is completely intellectually superior to. It's obnoxious.
