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Seriously XYZ, you are terribly whiney.

There is enough in there that justifies my classification of you as a whiney bitch. First off, you are not a mod, so you are not the person to question the correctness of that thread being in The Rant Room. Second, you are not in any position to demand off-topic answers to questions you pose in that thread.

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XYZ wrote:

He shouldn't be a mod.

We think he does a fine job.

isn't everyone a princess at heart?

I don't really care one way or the other but iThink you lose any claim to the "high road" when you use a term like "whiney bitch". That's the language of 14 yo's with self esteem issues and drunken beligerent frat boys. I expect, and for the most part see, better from the mods here.
Again, I don't care, but after alien's tirade in MiniThink of a week or so ago, I'm surprised his modship wasn't rescinded. He went off on someone in a manner that gets the avarage user a stern warning at least.

Oh god! Did I just come to xyz's defense??!!

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

Damnit.

Where's this tirade?

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/66244/1

Alien wrote:

NokX wrote:

Alien wrote:

Next time, I hope it's you, NokX. Seriously. FOAD.

anyone who runs from the cops during a situation like this should be shot.  but i do appreciate the death wish.

You're quite welcome. Now kindly go smurf yourself and croak, will ya. You smurfing piece of human waste.

what if the guy was strapped and your brother/sister/son/father was on that train and he killed them because the cops let him run...  you'd be singing a different tune then.  but - of course you all would be right, as always.

What if, what of, what if? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's nice and easy for ya, right there. Good thing they shot him, huh? I really,t ruly hope some copper someday will mistake you for a terrist and blow your smurfing head off.

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Alien wrote:

No. NokX would die a happy man knowing that the guy blowing his dysfunctional brains out was doing the right thing by taking out the threat that is NokX. And the world would be a better place, rid of human garbage like him.

Everybody wins!

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Onthebeach wrote:

Alien wrote:

You are an idiot.

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Is that "moderator" under your name just decoration?

I totally agree with Alien on most of his points but that behavior is not all that becoming of a moderator.

Last edited by Freakout Jackson (2005-07-31 11:23 am)

Difference is, I'm not about to betray the trust that others have placed in me.

As for my tirade in MiniThink, well, I'm still a user here, as well. Once upon a time we had forum software that made it easier to distinguish between moderational and personal posts; we don't anymore. But I'm not about to hide behind some alternick to posts stuff like that. What I expressed there was my personal opinion, and anyone who is too stupid to grasp that the opinions I express are not necessairly those of the Mod Squad as a whole, MacAddict Forums, MacAddict Magazine or Future Publishing can quite frankly go stuff themselves.

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Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

Alien wrote:

Difference is, I'm not about to betray the trust that others have placed in me.

Joke. Sorry, bit inappropriate.

Not necessarily. I just think it's high time the message got out that that is in fact the issue with what happened, not that some normally-closed-off section of the forums was accessible to a couple of juvenile turds. Any sort of mishap could've caused that. Anyway.

As for my tirade in MiniThink, well, I'm still a user here, as well. Once upon a time we had forum software that made it easier to distinguish between moderational and personal posts; we don't anymore. But I'm not about to hide behind some alternick to posts stuff like that. What I expressed there was my personal opinion, and anyone who is too stupid to grasp that the opinions I express are not necessairly those of the Mod Squad as a whole, MacAddict Forums, MacAddict Magazine or Future Publishing can quite frankly go stuff themselves.

That's no the point. The omnipresent (except when using long reply) Moderator label means that you are always in uniform. You're still allowed opinions and personality. Just not to extremes. Maybe its just because other mods are naturally more restrained.

Well, I guess we just see things differently, there. To me, all that Moderator badge says is that when I say something forum-related to a member (as opposed to, say, XYZ), they better listen up and do as I tell them. All it means is that besides being a member here, I also happen to be a mod. If people think that my opnion carries more weight because of that badge, well, then that is their problem.

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IcarusFountain wrote:

Its a typical point of tension for mods.  Do we always take the high road and never EVER post like normal people, or are we allowed to actually be human?

Most seem to, including you.

Personally, I'd have never publicly called XYZ a bitch.  That's just my mannorism, though.

That's sort of my point.

I think Alien is allowed to express his opinions, and it shouldn't be held against him.  Its my belief that we're members first and moderators second.

See the MiniThink article quoted above; most members would be given a cooling off period for that, esp. as it continued throughout the thread.

And XYZ, you do whine too much.  And Alien was right on when he pointed out that you create drama.  You know I've agreed with you on a lot of things, but if you're the same in real life as you are around here, you're definitely one of those people that give the majority of homosexuals in the world a bad name.  You're a drama queen.

So? It was the manner with which Alien objected and again see the MiniThink article.

A moderator should show greater restraint than the average member. Alien seems to demonstrate the opposite.

Alien wrote:

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

A moderator should show greater restraint than the average member. Alien seems to demonstrate the opposite.

Let's get one thing straight: this is your opinion of how moderators hsould behave, not a general rule around these forums.

Yes, and an impression of gained from other moderators ; I don't believe that your modship should be rescinded but that you should've been given a cooling off period, as any member would have suffered, following the MiniThink incident.

If you have a problem with Alien, take it up with him.  He and I butted heads once, we talked it over, each of us apologized, and we're good now.

The fact is that a moderator is no less human than the rest of us, and no less fallible.  It's also good to keep in mind that this is just an internet forum.  It's really nothing worth getting worked up over.

Yeah. I... know. I'm sorry. I just wish that Alien wouldn't be so nasty ; it's horrible to see mods bitch