epilogue wrote:Man, I try really hard not to engage with you, verb. For what should be obvious reasons. But what the fuck is "the 5 Montana bros"?
He’s referring to me, strat, snatcher, trag, and i guess bammer from that photo we took in Missoula
Ah. Well, the jokes on him because you, trag and snatcher all have serious issues with me. Bammer sucks and I would have banned him a long time ago if I was as power hungry and corrupt as they think I am.
Strat's great, though.
I don’t have an issue with you! I just don’t ask your opinion on new songs anymore!
My own unfortunate missteps aside, you're one of my very favorite people and we've never met face to face.
washing machine wrote:What rules were broken? What is "being shitty"? Like someone else said, it feels like the mods are the arbiters of good taste on this board of grown-ups, so maybe the mods can give us a detailed list of what's "shitty"?:
Many posts violated community standards. Misogyny and abusive language toward women is a violation of community standards. There were several posts that were worthy of a ban issue. I didn't ban anyone. I didn't even warn anyone in for those posts because, as you say, you're all supposed to be fucking adults.
I didn't read the thread, but was there a complaint or something, or just your own judgement?
No one flagged a post or issued a formal complaint to me.
Perhaps, and I'm being completely serious here, what this community needs is to add a fresh batch of mods of a different mindset to balance out this clear risk of unilateral gatekeeping.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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washing machine wrote:What rules were broken? What is "being shitty"? Like someone else said, it feels like the mods are the arbiters of good taste on this board of grown-ups, so maybe the mods can give us a detailed list of what's "shitty"?:
Many posts violated community standards. Misogyny and abusive language toward women is a violation of community standards. There were several posts that were worthy of a ban issue. I didn't ban anyone. I didn't even warn anyone in for those posts because, as you say, you're all supposed to be fucking adults.
I didn't read the thread, but was there a complaint or something, or just your own judgement?
No one flagged a post or issued a formal complaint to me.
washing machine wrote:What rules were broken? What is "being shitty"? Like someone else said, it feels like the mods are the arbiters of good taste on this board of grown-ups, so maybe the mods can give us a detailed list of what's "shitty"?:
Many posts violated community standards. Misogyny and abusive language toward women is a violation of community standards. There were several posts that were worthy of a ban issue. I didn't ban anyone. I didn't even warn anyone in for those posts because, as you say, you're all supposed to be fucking adults.
I didn't read the thread, but was there a complaint or something, or just your own judgement?
No one flagged a post or issued a formal complaint to me.
Perhaps, and I'm being completely serious here, what this community needs is to add a fresh batch of mods of a different mindset to balance out this clear risk of unilateral gatekeeping.
I'm all for adding new/different mods.
But keep in mind that the point is to moderate the forum. Mods are here to uphold rules and community standards. Also, keep in my mind that I'm the "newest" or "youngest" mod. So that seems to fly in the face of you point about new blood. The issue seems to be that you don't like mods who do their job. Fair enough. But it's still the job we agreed to do.
epilogue wrote:Man, I try really hard not to engage with you, verb. For what should be obvious reasons. But what the fuck is "the 5 Montana bros"?
He’s referring to me, strat, snatcher, trag, and i guess bammer from that photo we took in Missoula
Ah. Well, the jokes on him because you, trag and snatcher all have serious issues with me. Bammer sucks and I would have banned him a long time ago if I was as power hungry and corrupt as they think I am.
tree_ wrote:My question to epilogue would be: when, if ever, would it be appropriate to use the word "slut" on this message board?
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
You left off “you ignorant slut.”
That would have been good. Damn.
Lol, I caught a ban for saying that to Mickey a couple years back. Some RMicans are more equal than others it seems.
Likely, I don't recall this particular incident so I could be wrong, it had more to do with previous warnings and last straws than the post itself. But, again, I really don't remember what you're talking about.
tree_ wrote:It's a trigger word for him. I used the "s" word once, in a hypothetical story about a woman who freely sleeps with lots of people, in the infamous Oscars thread, and he pm'd me a warning to never do it again, and I haven't, cause I like it here.
Tree should probably be banned for sharing the contents of a PM.
washing machine wrote:What rules were broken? What is "being shitty"? Like someone else said, it feels like the mods are the arbiters of good taste on this board of grown-ups, so maybe the mods can give us a detailed list of what's "shitty"?:
Many posts violated community standards. Misogyny and abusive language toward women is a violation of community standards. There were several posts that were worthy of a ban issue. I didn't ban anyone. I didn't even warn anyone in for those posts because, as you say, you're all supposed to be fucking adults.
I didn't read the thread, but was there a complaint or something, or just your own judgement?
No one flagged a post or issued a formal complaint to me.
Because nobody wanted the thread removed but you
But am I not a member of the community? Who cares that no one else complained. The thread violated community standards and was offensive. Should have flagged the post and complained to another mod?
