rapidskipper8 said:So, dear rustydrifter10, since you moderate the religion board, he keeps lecturing me about being respectful while simultaneously accusing me of acting out there. Isn't that an insult?
Here is a perfect example of your rhetoric.
So, I suppose we are all wrong, nobody knows anything, and you are the sole individual speaking the truth, the only one who is right, and the only victim of constant persecution and harassment?
Yes, you were causing chaos here, and that is simply a fact.
When you were banned, things on this forum were peaceful. As soon as your ban lifted, it was the same old pattern.
The reasons why I supported your partial ban—even though I didn't initiate it, despite your false accusations to that effect (which you have done from day one without cause, even while I endured your insults and bullying)—are the same ones Gregory Turner71 listed.
You recently returned to the forum after a long absence, claiming that the moderators here have been "persecuting" you previously. Fine.
You participated in a thread that devolved into trolling and massive off-topic tangents.
We cleaned it up and cleared the deck. Five of you ended up with cumulative bans, yourself included. Following that, you opened a thread specifically targeting banned users where you resorted to insults:
I don't need the opinion of Gregory Turner71, whose handle alone tells you everything you need to know about him.
Pathetic and sad! But it just shows what kind of people you all are.
Gregory Turner71 is a disgrace to this forum; I honestly don't know who gave him moderator status.
After returning from your ban, you immediately joined the same thread and once again steered the conversation toward politics, despite my explicit warning just moments before that we could no longer discuss political matters (as that was the exact reason for the previous trolling and off-topic mess).
Moderator warnings in color aren't meant to be quoted, debated, or argued with.
You chose to ignore that, then proceeded to quote me along with the remark:
Oh, really?At that point, I could have easily issued a rule violation notice, but I didn't; I simply deleted the post.
Then, you decided to completely disregard the thread guidelines and attempted to pivot the discussion back to war atrocities and genocide by mentioning Srebrenica. Had I allowed that, it would have dragged the thread back into the exact same situation from a few days ago, which I could not permit. You were subsequently issued a rule violation notice resulting in a cumulative ban.
Instead of acknowledging that you were actually in the wrong, you went ahead and opened a new thread on KZB, where it is blatantly obvious from your writing that you either truly don't understand where the issue lies, or you are engaging in intentional trolling (and frankly, I cannot determine which of the two it is). It remains a matter of fact, plain as day, that your perception of events does not align with reality:
Why is everyone against me? Why am I being discriminated against at every turn?
I am demanding an immediate removal of my ban and a formal apology from Grace Kim80, who acted in an utterly unprofessional manner toward me. We had a disagreement during our Religion class, and she simply seized the opportunity to have me banned.
Once again, we have the dissemination of falsehoods. You and I haven't engaged in any actual argument or debate; if anything, we merely exchanged a few comments regarding which post belonged to whom. To be honest, I can't even recall if such an exchange occurred, let alone how you could possibly claim I am hounding you just because you think you won a verbal sparring match. Furthermore, the sheer fact that I have no memory of our correspondence serves as proof of how little of an impact this interaction had on me.
Uncle Sam spoke up, stating that the card definitely holds.
That matter was settled.
You have persisted in insulting both me and Gregory Turner71 by labeling us as selfish brutes.
Then you get unbanned, only to turn around and violate our rules all over again.
It is patently obvious that some people fail to grasp the fundamental mechanics of how this Book works. It isn’t designed to allow the same resolved issues to be dragged through endless pages of repetitive entries. Now that Uncle Sam has already ruled on your appeal regarding that card, you have returned to the Book to address me as if I were some character stepping straight out of Forrest Gump, while you position yourself as the director of the universe coming down to mock me over a card that the administrator already cleared. I suppose I could have easily cited you for violating the rules by repeatedly raising a settled issue and demonstrating clear trolling intentions, but I chose not to.
I attempted to handle this with grace and didn't intend to offend you, yet you chose to persist with your insults in a subsequent post. And all of that, mind you, was written in red font.
Naturally, once Gregory Turner71 witnessed that kind of behavior, you were issued a warning for trolling, which eventually led to an accumulated ban.
Then you go right back to posting on your thread in the banned section, doubling down on the insults by calling us pathetic and lecturing everyone about our egos, before finally telling Gregory Turner71 exactly what a loser he is and adding that we'll see him again in three days.
The question regarding your partiality has finally been raised. It seems the consensus is that you simply refuse to stop, as no amount of outside suggestion ever seems to influence you; you just continue to do exactly what you want regardless.
Now that you've finally emerged from that ban, you’re circling back to this topic again. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing thread on the Forum where you are attempting to convince both me and Bluebird that we are the ones missing the point regarding Sharia law as a legal framework in certain nations—despite us quoting those countries' constitutions verbatim to prove our case. On this same subject, you are once again "arguing" by pivoting toward American foreign policy and our wars in the Middle East. Bluebird is trying to point out in that thread that such a redirection isn't exactly the most relevant approach, yet you just persist in doing things your own way.
You are opening a new thread in parallel.
You report a few posts using the flag icon, and then immediately rush over to the Book to start posting about those same reports. I already told you quite clearly that you need to submit the flags first and wait for them to be handled before bringing the matter up on the Book. You didn't follow that, instead choosing to report things on both the flag system and the Book simultaneously. This creates a situation where users congregate on the PDF to argue and call each other out, which only serves to sour the atmosphere on the platform—something that is entirely unnecessary.
At some point yesterday evening, the decision regarding your partial failure was finalized.
I suppose you didn't give me any indication that you were planning on stopping.
You have an issue with authority.
While I don't particularly care for viewing moderation as some sort of untouchable authority—since I believe most issues can be settled through civil, reasonable discussion—it seems that reaching an understanding with you is simply impossible.
You refuse to accept any suggestion whatsoever; instead, you twist my words and attempt to find some sort of hidden agenda where none exists.
You seem to be playing the victim here. First, you claim people were out to get you on our old message board before you left, then you argue that users over at The New York Times treated you unfairly, and now you’re insisting we’re persecuting you again—all while claiming I personally harbor a grudge over some conversation I don't even remember having. It’s quite a list of grievances.
The problem lies with everyone else, except you.
Because of all this, I found myself supporting the proposal regarding your partials.
When they were assigned to you last night, I felt a certain sense of regret... it wasn't as if I was indifferent. However, when forced to choose between the feelings of a single forum member versus the integrity of the PDF, I have to prioritize the PDF. Your presence seems detrimental to our PDF.
You view us all as enemies. It is unfortunate, and you are certainly free to continue viewing me as an adversary, but I am not your enemy. I harbor no hatred toward you, nor do I take anything personally; had you actually corrected your behavior after that first escapade, this entire thread and the issue of your partials would never have come to pass.
But you didn't.
This is all I intend to say; I truly have nothing left to offer, sorry.
