Michael Vaughn2 said:So, I basically got called out for saying stuff like, "Alright, show me the proof, I’m listening, just give me the specifics..." which is wild because I was literally just talking about legal matters where actual evidence and the law are the whole point... It’s funny how that works... you get someone trying to give you a heads-up, acting like they’re looking out for you, and then out of nowhere they hit you with a "you're playing dumb" line... honestly, it kind of stings when it comes from someone who's supposed to be on your side...
Look, for the hundredth time, we aren't even talking about the specific words you're choosing... it's more about your whole vibe and how you carry yourself here. It might not come across that way in your own head, but honestly, your posts "sound" a certain way to everyone else reading them. And I'm not just nitpicking one single thing you said, either... this has been an ongoing pattern for quite a while now... What else am I even supposed to say to you besides please stop acting like a total idiot... I feel like I’ve explained this exact same thing fifteen different times now, and you’re still sitting there convinced that the wording is the actual issue... 🤷 Look, I know you’re more than capable of grasping exactly what I’m getting at here, but for some reason, you just seem to be digging your heels in and refusing to see it...
Look, Jamie Clark74, 🤦 nobody’s throwing any gloves here, and I’m asking you guys to please stop turning this thread into a total circus by overanalyzing every single card... you already did that on the diaspora boards and in the corner during the last ban...
Jamie Clark74 said:👍 It’s working now! Someone must have gone in and changed the setting without telling me... I had put "the ban isn't working" because it wasn't functioning a day or two ago, but it turns out the ban feature still isn't actually working at all...
Only banned users and the admin crew can post in the banned corner...
Jamie Clark74 said:Can someone please just take a look at the last things I posted? Out of nowhere, I just got hit with a permanent ban...
Look, we don't just hand out partial bans for the hell of it, so you didn't get yours by accident either... You earned it by constantly pushing the limits, making comments about the moderation and how things are run here, spamming, and basically just poking at both the users and the staff to see how far you could go. Not to mention all those insults sent through private messages...
Jamie Clark74 said:Look, I’m not saying I’m perfect—I write a ton, so I definitely make mistakes here and there... and I'm not claiming I haven't broken any rules, either...
It’s honestly just massive at this point, especially since you guys wouldn't listen even after endless warnings, deleted posts, strikes, and those short bans... but every single time, you just go right back to doing the exact same thing...
Jamie Clark74 said:I was just trying to write things out the way I would in English since there weren't any links provided back then, and then translating everything into American... I mean, I'm sure some people are going to call it spamming, but for others, it’s actually solid advice about moving abroad or just sharing real life experiences...
You didn't get hit with any infractions for translating those posts or dropping links about emigration... everything stayed totally clean...
Jamie Clark74 said:If I’m actually messing up or doing something wrong, then why am I constantly getting called out... honestly, just let the moderators ban me already... and I promise you, I won't be sitting here praying for mercy like I am right now...
It’s already happening, it’s just that you guys didn't take the early warnings seriously enough. Unfortunately...
Jamie Clark74 said:And yeah, I messed up back when I was PERMABANNED by making a clone account like banana Bender, I think there are 14 posts over there where you can see I wasn't actually insulting anyone...
It doesn't matter whether you were being rude or not, you still broke the rules by cloning accounts and posting on the diaspora side...
Casey Campbell said:There's this one moderator who’s constantly picking on me, and honestly, I think it's just because she can't actually win an argument against me...
The best defense is a good offense 😉 It isn't about "picking on you" or being "unable to beat your arguments," it’s really just about how often you break the site rules...
Casey Campbell said:She’s been totally unfair to me more times than I can count
And I could say the exact same thing about you...
Casey Campbell said:That moderator gave me a warning, moved my posts to different subforums, and then today she just straight up deleted my post without even leaving a comment...
Any off-topic stuff, spam, trolling, or whatever else just gets deleted or flagged, and I don't see any point in commenting on a post that's gone or a thread that's been moved 🤷 There was a whole stretch where you kept starting threads that already existed, so naturally they were merged or relocated. Look, I get it, maybe it feels totally unfair and like I'm targeting you... 😢 But that last post got nuked because it was dragging the conversation right back to a topic we finally moved past, just repeating things that have already been said ten times over, which is pretty useless... Unfortunately, there's no conspiracy going on against you...
Honestly, it’s because we have grown adults running things that we ended up without any decent chat topics and stuck with this whole diaspora treatment situation... I mean, you can't just say "if you don't want to read the rules, don't read them" when people keep posting the exact same stuff over and over again, driving everyone else crazy and totally nuking the threads... it's a mess that won't fix itself just by ignoring the problem.
If things need to change, then they really do... I'm all for hearing some actual suggestions on how to make it better.
Hey diaspora, I was thinking... would it be better if we had dedicated info threads that were strictly just links to websites, blogs, and those super helpful posts, while keeping all the actual chatting and debating in the usual country-specific subforums like we have now? That way, all the essential info for newcomers stays in one organized spot, making it easy to find everything without having to wade through the same million questions about visas and job hunting over and over again...
hiddensailor14, seriously... you've been hanging around here long enough to know that a post like this is just going to get nuked. Look, my logic might be flawed, but that doesn't give you a free pass to break the rules. Honestly, it feels like you're just baiting people on purpose, just so you can play the victim and say, "Oh, look, crimsonsailor7 is deleting my posts again." ☕And now you're even bringing up stuff from the Legal board, which is nothing more than pure trolling at this point. You've been warned a million times already, but you're still acting like you have no clue what's going on 🤷
I was just sitting here thinking about how much everything seems to be shifting lately, and I couldn't help but wonder if anyone else feels that same weird tension in the air... It’s like we’re all just waiting for something big to happen, you know? I saw what Chloe Gray86 was saying earlier about the whole situation, and honestly, there's a lot of truth to it, even if it feels a bit overwhelming when you really dig into the details... It makes me wonder if we're actually moving toward something better or if we're just spinning our wheels in the sand while everyone argues about things that won't matter in five years anyway... anyway, just some late-night thoughts drifting through my head... kaže: I was really hoping I could ask if someone else could take a look at my appeal, maybe someone totally different from the person I’m actually filing the complaint against... because honestly, I just don't see the point in having the same person review it when they're the one involved in the whole situation in the first place...
Look, I’m just calling out some total nonsense here. You’ve got every right to be pissed off and vent, but I’ve got just as much right to set the record straight when things get twisted... I guess we’ll just have to wait for the admins to step in and make the final call on this whole mess, and honestly, feel free to pass my PMs along to whoever needs to see them, but you better make sure you share yours too if we're being fair about it...
Chloe Gray86 said:Honestly, trying to tone down what the mods are saying right now feels pretty much pointless, if you ask me... it just doesn't change anything...
Look, I’m sorry, but it feels totally pointless when you take a little heads-up I gave you and twist it into something it absolutely isn't... especially when you start acting like I'm launching some kind of personal attack against you, which just isn't the case at all...
Chloe Gray86 said:but then she turns around and hits me up in my DMs saying stuff like: "you're just talking nonsense and I honestly don't know if you actually know what you're talking about..."
You’re totally taking things out of context here, which doesn't really hold much water as an argument...😉
Chloe Gray86 said:but those weren't deleted (I'm assuming someone else is in charge of that specific region).
All the mods handle everything across the board. That post wasn't nuked because they wanted to prevent it from turning into another pointless off-topic mess like that one over in small-town Ohio...
Chloe Gray86 said:since she was referring to how I reached out to her in a private message...
That’s just not true, you're cherry-picking sentences again and only focusing on the parts that fit your narrative...😉 I've already told you a few times now that I wasn't even addressing her directly...
Kevin Gonzalez79 said:Urban gardening and beekeeping have become massive trends in the USA lately...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_horticultureYou even see people growing herbs and tomatoes on flat rooftops with full support from local city officials.
Back in the day, during the late 70s and 80s, entire neighborhoods in Brooklyn were filled with community gardens. To be clear, these weren't trendy yuppies working high-paying jobs in tech or finance who want organic produce for the aesthetic; these were working-class families who had moved in from rural areas. For them, tending those plots was a necessity to supplement meager wages during those more stable, albeit leaner, economic times.
Honestly, just go for it. What am I going to do about it? Take some before-and-after photos and shove them in the face of any bureaucrat who dares to complain.
I mean, I could totally sue them for trespassing or whatever... like, at the end of the day, that's private property and they have zero right to be there...
Kevin Gonzalez79 said:Urban gardening and beekeeping have become massive trends in the USA lately...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_horticultureYou even see people growing herbs and tomatoes on flat rooftops with full support from local city officials.
Back in the day, during the late 70s and 80s, entire neighborhoods in Brooklyn were filled with community gardens. To be clear, these weren't trendy yuppies working high-paying jobs in tech or finance who want organic produce for the aesthetic; these were working-class families who had moved in from rural areas. For them, tending those plots was a necessity to supplement meager wages during those more stable, albeit leaner, economic times.
Honestly, just go for it. What am I going to do about it? Take some before-and-after photos and shove them in the face of any bureaucrat who dares to complain.
That bureaucrat is going to be the least of his worries, honestly...
I went ahead and pulled this post because I really didn't want the conversation to spiral in that direction, especially since it started out about one thing and just kind of veered off into something else entirely... Regarding the whole debate over child custody favoring mothers, there’s actually a specific thread dedicated to that, so you can totally lay out all your thoughts there without feeling like you have to hold back... We're trying to keep this particular discussion within certain boundaries.
If you happen to spot a post that you think definitely deserves a flag or some kind of action, please just report it... Look, we aren't robots, and sometimes things just slip through the cracks even for us...
Yeah, I’m with you there. But what happens if someone drops a four-paragraph post where everything is actually super relevant and on-point, but then they sneak in one little paragraph just to troll, spam, or throw an insult...? It feels like such a waste to delete the whole thing when most of it is genuinely helpful to the discussion, but if you don't scrub that off-topic junk, everyone else is just going to follow their lead and start acting out too... In cases like that, I usually find myself just editing the post rather than handing out a ban or nuking the entire message from existence...
It’s honestly such a bummer because it feels like around here we just focus on handing out punishments 😁 instead of actually connecting with people or giving them a heads-up first... It’s just frustrating, you know? Like, when someone rolls in with 5,000 or 10,000 posts under their belt, someone who’s opening their fourth or fifth thread in the Legal section asking "how do I dodge my cable bill," even though the massive thread about subscriptions is sitting right there on the front page and clearly visible in the topic list... it just shows they didn't put in even a shred of effort to check the FAQs or the pinned PDFs. There are plenty of users here who know exactly how to post in the right spot from day one, so I really expect at least that much basic courtesy from the veterans 🤷
What really gets under my skin is when someone drops a super specific question—say, about a cable package subscription—and she just brushes them off with: "just scroll through the thread." But there are a million pages of junk there 🙄take the annual plan and deal with it🙂 or "just use the search bar"🤣
And honestly, what the hell am I supposed to type in there?😂
To wrap this up: You aren't necessarily bad at this, you're just being too rigid—maybe just loosen up a bit and everything will be fine. It’s not like the server is going to crash if someone asks the same question more than once.
Nah, it won't crash, but everyone who actually hangs out here all the time gets pretty burned out having to answer the exact same thing a hundred times... especially when the answer is sitting right there just a few posts up 🙂
neondriver5 said:I felt 🤣 a bit frustrated yesterday when she shut down that one thread, which is why I’m posting here instead. They moved the discussion from the Detroit section—where everyone was talking about driver's licenses and penalties—over to the Legal subforum, only for her to snap it shut in record time, like an Olympic sprinter, with that classic "this topic already exists" excuse.
I mean, no shit. It’s not the original poster's fault if they moved the whole conversation to a different part of the site, especially since we were just discussing Fords and how the police handle traffic stops.
Look, there's already a thread for those kinds of questions and I put the link right there... we don't need two separate threads, and it’s also not helpful to merge a new thread into an old one when the question about personal penalties has already been answered a million times over. If people could just try to see the bigger picture once in a while, things would be a lot smoother for everyone... 😉
As for everything else, it's all been covered, especially regarding the search tool, which by the way, you can use within individual threads (just use the 'search this thread' option in the top right corner) and like rustydrifter10 mentioned, you can even search through specific PDFs...
So yeah, I think we've covered all the bases now? 🤔
