IAHM-COL wrote:bomber wrote:So anyone else got a problem with this signature that can reason in an adult manner ?
Probably. It is inflammatory. We can't deny that. Wasn't it devised to cause stir?
But IT didn't stir, not by itself...... [if a non moderator had started this topic, there wouldn't have been my follow up posts and this thread wouldn't have gone the way it did]
It required the knowledge that Vincent had gained as a moderator to inflame his sensibilities so much that upon seeing it he had to start a topic not as a moderator but as an ordinary user.
So something went from being private and moderator, to public and users.
And that's one of the issues I'm trying to raise is that most people can't separate being an ordinary user and moderator..... it gets too emotional.
Now you say you've had this private debate whether to allow name calling or not and I can only assume that you've instructed Lydiot that he can't.... but you didn't tell me or everyone else on this forum that the rules have changed. So I must assume (again) that it's only Lydiot that can't name call, maybe even Jwocky but I can't be sure and nor could Lydiot.
So Vincent attempts to have a conversation/debate 'after the fact' of issuing a private demand to an individual user with regards his actions..
Why ?
You've already decided the new rules, you didn't involve any of the users who originally came here on the grounds that they could let off steam and call bugman a wanker... so why have the conversation at all..?
Was their ever the possibility that if the community had decided that name calling as it was a 'founding action' of this forum should remain a right of all it's users, that you'd contact Lydiot and tell him "yeh you can go slag off Jwocky, the big girls blouse to your hearts content".... was their heck as like.
So owner(s) and moderators.... you've created this mess.
When what you should have done is to have
1) involved the community as a whole in a neutral discussion, ie naming no names or obvious quotes
2) made a proclaimation to this community about any resulting rule changes
3) privately informed Lydiot, Jwocky and me that it will not longer we tolerated that I call bugman a wanker,,, even if it is only a healthy past time.
As they say the ball is in your court.
Simon