Originally posted by thebigcali
To address everyone complaining, whether their claims are valid or not.
The Experts forum's size was greatly contracted and new Experts will slowly be trickled in. Anyone who is talking about being booted or kicked out was for the following reasons... They were either kicked for talking shit about me (Brutus), quitting my team in order to GM for another team in my conference (Wise), or not appreciating the forum or not contributing to the forum (everyone else). For anyone it mattered enough to, they contacted me about it, we discussed why people were removed (and some let back in simply due to a mistake since its hard to maintain a list of 150+ people) and in every case of someone just asking what was up, they were readmitted.
Sooo, in the end, the forum needed a facelift since the people in it didn't give a shit about it to begin with for their own varied reasons. I'm not sure what exactly people were expecting in a discussion forum but it's not as though there is some magical key to winning the game that they were hoping to learn or that anyone would be willing to share if they somehow figured it out. I've made clear to anyone who's read the rules of the forum that it's just a place to get a quick opinion from a respected group of guys and really, nothing more than that. For those removed, feel free to copycat my idea or join a different forum, you'll live. For those who want to discredit me, it's just a forum, I can only claim to have as much wisdom as the next guy who's been playing since late in season 1.
EDIT: Oh and I also kicked out any member of the Monmouth Evil Monkeys because they are all pricks and I enjoy sticking it to them in any small, meaningless or meaningful way possible. And yes, I can do this or whatever I like with it since, newsflash, it's my private forum. It's funny how people feel some sense of personal attachment to the forum and it's a slam against them because they aren't a part of it. It meant enough to come here and whine and groan and ultimately, you'll all have something to say if you read this. So if it doesn't matter, act like it and move on. If it did, you should've just spoke to me or is your ego so large you can't even engage in a conversation about it and from that, is it easier to just throw me under the bus because you take it as a personal slight? When you have 3 moderators going through who deserves to stay or not, opinions can vary and mistakes in deletions were made.
Hahaha, wow. Who would honestly want to join your so-called experts forum? The point of an expert forum is so that you can get honest ideas from people who are as knowledgable as yourself. But you are kicking people off, just because you want to? Pretty childish, if you ask me.
However, you are right, it is your forum. You can do whatever you wish and that is why I'm not going to even think about joining your forum.
Is it a requirement for everyone there, to type "Praise thebigcali" after every post? I'm sure it is.
You should really consider changing your "Mission Statement" to:
"To be a member of viss forum, you must agree to zee rules. Vee vill continue to make up any rules vee vish. And, vee vill ban any members vee want to, just for fun."
