Posts by Jason Campbell70

I’ll keep this brief regarding these threads.

It's simple—implement a literacy test during forum registration. 😁

nimblegull23 said:The partial ban happened because of a series of rushed decisions. Some of it was my fault, too. But doesn't Jason Campbell70 deserve the credit?.

A target? Right before my eyes. 😲 🙂

wiredangler5 said:What does the esteemed power user Jason Campbell70 think about this final PDF offer from the board, specifically the one labeled "For Power Users"? Should we pass these finalized legislative amendment proposals up to the higher authorities?

I can give it a shot. But what happens if I run into my old buddy Veedar?

How should I wish him a Happy Easter? 😢

How am I supposed to show up in front of him on January 7th without saying "Christ is born" like everyone else does? 🙂
And I have no intention of constantly kicking off heavy discussions. That isn't my style, and you know that better than anyone, Skocmen. 😁

Silence can be loud. Sometimes the quietest ones have the most to say. 🙏 🙂

I'm a power user. A real one. More than just a regular user—I’ve been at this level for a long time. It's right there in the text. 😁

You've got a lot on your plate, Skocmen. 🙂
So, what should my response be?

My heart is just breaking into pieces. 😢

I'm about 90% sure I'll take you up on that offer, but I need some time to sit with it first.

As the learned Reddit editorial team is aware, two years ago I was issued (and served) a ban from the "power user" sub-forum, which falls under the "Information Technology" section.

Even now, I struggle to understand how things reached that point (a triple cross 🙂 😲😁); perhaps I was simply too young and inexperienced back then.

Today, I feel sufficiently seasoned to join the "power users". 🙂

Given the very nature of this forum—dedicated to messages, requests, and general commentary—I find myself drawing inspiration from history. Just as representatives of the people once presented their most famous "popular demands" to King Ferdinand I back in 1848, I would like to present my own request. I am asking to be granted access once again to one of the most brilliant corners Reddit has to offer... a fountain of wisdom, a realm of sages, a kingdom of knowledge, and truly, the dream of all my dreams: the "power user" sub-forum.

Once more, I humbly ask for a review by the appropriate authorities of this esteemed platform.

In hope, and with the desire for a swift resolution to this matter, to our mutual satisfaction,

Sincerely yours,

Jason Campbell70. 🙂

Get to know Paul. 🙏🙏🙏

Please, don't.

A ban for attempting a coup? A ban for an emoji? A ban for "disrespecting Williams," or claiming "Seth and coolness just don't mix"? Plus insulting other users by quoting his own posts—and all of this happening in the general chat.

All this coming from someone who tells others, "Go tell that to your mom at home"?

You know exactly how the Grand Prix threads tend to go.

It all started back in thread 16, and the moderator seems more than happy to jump in constantly.
By the time you hit page 20, everyone is talking about everything under the sun except the actual race.
Yet, I didn't see any bans over there, even though those topics are actually relevant to F1.

mistybear87 said:I've said my piece.

Unfortunately, just like before, you haven't offered any real explanations.

Not that I was expecting them. The actions speak for themselves.

Chris Ortiz said:That’s fair enough, but Kimi was incredibly dominant that season with the most wins—if I recall correctly, he had six while everyone else was stuck with three or four—which makes him more than a deserving champion.

Are you suggesting Hamilton's title carries less weight just because he had fewer wins than Massa?

PS - Webber only has one more win than Alonso. I suspect Alonso will settle that score before the season ends.

mistybear87 said:let me set the record straight here

it doesn't matter what the thread is about or who is being discussed. if someone feels targeted, insulted, or whatever else, they report the post and ask for a penalty, and then action will be taken. It won't always end in a warning, but it can. That’s just how moderation works. ☕

if a post is aimed at me and I feel called out or insulted, I'll take action. It might result in a strike, maybe it won't. But it's an option.

☕

Saying "mistybear87 isn't cool" isn't an insult by any reasonable standard. 😁
I could have said the exact same thing to anyone else in this thread (and in some cases, I did). 😁

So? 🤷

Especially since you were the one who claimed this chat topic was "a bit more relaxed" than the other threads in this section.

Reaching for a moderator intervention seems pretty contradictory to your own stance of "if you can't handle a joke, that's on you."

stormybadger8 said:Honestly, I don't get the logic here.☕>

Dammit, if they’d let Massa keep blocking Alonso, he would’ve done it regardless. And Alonso? He definitely would’ve pushed. What happens then? Most likely they collide or both spin out. It would’ve been so easy for them both to DNF, handing the win to Vettel on a silver platter. Instead of a 1-2, we’d be looking at:
2-3, or just 2, or 1-3, or 3, or even a total zero.

Way smarter than Red Bull.☕>

Boring and slimy.👎 Not insignificant.👎 A setup.🤦

But in the end, it was for the team.👍 For Alonso.👍

Screw it, who cares about $100,000 if that move secures you the championship? Plenty of people bet way more than that, and that's being generous.

Or, as someone once said, quoting Jean Todt....

In a "sport" this expensive, you simply can't risk losing the championship—even over something as small as 7 points in this case.

And it seems Red Bull is the only one that hasn't realized it yet. This will come back to haunt them, just like what happened to McLaren in 2007.🙂

hollowtrucker77 said:
I'm giving you a partial ban from the F1 subforum.

Not cool.

So, you think a warning is acceptable?

EDIT - To clarify—am I not allowed to tell a moderator "that's not cool" in the chat thread?

hollowtrucker77 Asks:
You really can't function without tweaking your settings, can you?

If you take a look... One of the previous pages on this thread.He thinks it doesn't even matter that I directed my previous post toward the moderator. Does he?

Same debate, just as harmless.

Where did the moderator hide the rule about harassment? I can't find it anywhere.

Should I have told him he was cool? Maybe. 🙏

Jason Campbell70 said:The moderator in question is grasping at straws just to hand out warnings—everything from claims of an "attempted coup" to supposedly "insulting users," and most recently, labeling things as "off-topic" or "spam." And the absolute peak of absurdity? A warning for criticizing Williams.

If you see my comments as a personal attack on you, mistybear87, then that’s your issue, not mine.

History repeats itself:

http://www.forum.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=10267

Tragic. 🙄

stormybadger8 said:Look, regardless of anything else, Ferrari has been an absolute mess this season, and Alonso has been the biggest mess of the bunch.
☕
You can't expect much more than that from an inexperienced, green Red Bull crew.
Don't go expecting anything besides the usual from a seasoned pro like Webber.
And expecting any kind of serious business from a rookie like Vettel? Yeah, dream on.

But from a battle-hardened two-time World Champion with ten seasons under his belt—driving for a team that's dominated the world driver championship and world constructors championship more times than I can count—you should really expect a lot more professionalism.
☕

As soon as the Italians started pridefully snatching up those lead positions, it was clear such nonsense was bound to happen.

Domenicali isn't any better than Horner, but then again, you do have one driver who is noticeably faster than the other. 😁

stormyviper11 said:This whole mess with team orders and those idiotic bans is just a direct result of one guy, Rubens Barrichello, acting like a total loose cannon while he was on the ground in Austria. That scandal was so bad he should've been fired on the spot.

Look, if I’m dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a business every single year, I have every right to decide how my drivers—who are being paid a fortune just for the privilege of driving for me—cross the finish line. In any real American corporation, if an employee acted out like that—publicly undermining management and making it obvious they don't give a damn about following orders right in front of investors and partners—they’d be kicked to the curb immediately.

Because of these stupid rules, we had to sit through that pathetic excuse for a press conference yesterday where the drivers were basically forced to dodge or ignore every question. Honestly, I really hope Ferrari hits Massa where it hurts financially for repeating a slightly toned-down version of Barrichello's nonsense... if they don't just fire him outright.

They certainly will, though probably not through any public channel of communication. 🤦

redheron12 said:This subforum is basically full of conspiracy theorists—last year, everyone was convinced every new user was some kind of bot, though they couldn't even agree on whose clone it actually was.

It seems this year, everyone is obsessed with finding hidden team orders in every single radio transmission.

Look, just tell me—if Sebastian Vettel is sitting in 3rd, five seconds back, while Mark Webber is in 6th, over twenty seconds behind him, but right on the heels of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton... what's the point of slowing down for Vettel? Isn't the actual goal to take points away from McLaren and close that gap?

I'm certain we'll see exactly what I mean in the upcoming races.

And the FIA? They’ll just keep playing dumb. 🤣

redheron12 said:Why wouldn't you bring up 2007, when Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton finished 2nd and 3rd—basically stripping points from one another—only for them both to end up with 109 while Kimi took it with 110?

It’s pure incompetence within a team, much like what we're seeing at Red Bull this year.

When that happened a couple of years ago, I felt the exact same way.

You have two massive egos in the garage, constantly clashing and sabotaging each other, while the third driver cruises to the championship.

That's exactly how this season seems to be playing out so far.🤣

mistybear87 said:Pretty much so.

2008 is perhaps the clearest example. Losing a wheel happens all the time in various sports, and I'm sure there are at least a dozen similar instances in F1 over the last few years, but this one clearly decided the champion. Whether it was intentional or not, we'll never truly know; we can only speculate (though it's certainly not the first time something like that has happened to Williams...).

Even if they botched the wheel nut on purpose, any damage caused only hurts their own side.

They held everything in their hands, much like Ferrari did yesterday.

And they chose what was best for the team.

Did anyone lose out? No.

I have to say, I am eagerly anticipating the final races of the season.

It’s going to be a dark comedy listening to the excuses race engineers cook up to explain away slowing down or letting someone through. 🤣

So far, we've heard "oil pressure" and "fuel saving." 🎉

mistybear87 said:Let's be real: implementing team orders during those final races when the second driver has zero chance at the title is the most normal thing in the world. It happens in almost every major sport. No matter how much people try to prevent it, that's just how the game works. There is no "I" in team. 😉

I'm not going to spend my time hunting for them right now, but if you actually have an example where both drivers in the final race had a legitimate shot at the title, please feel free to share it so we can discuss. 😉
(And by that, I mean situations where one driver could have overtaken the other to clinch the championship, not those weird tactical scenarios where they just shuffle around 😉).

Ferrari pulled that move way back at the start of the 2002 season, and frankly, it felt totally unnecessary. Jean Todt famously remarked at the time, "Why should we risk losing the championship over 3 points? We'd look pretty foolish if we didn't act," which, considering how dominant their car was, felt like a massive understatement. We all know how 2002 wrapped up anyway... whether it was the driver shouting at the pit wall to let him through or the team making the call, does it even matter?

If you want a different perspective, check out Top Gear, Season 15, Episode 3. It’s worth seeing what Red Bull has to say about that whole incident. 😉

That's my point too.

Whether it's the last race or not, it's obvious Massa has no shot at the title. He can pad his win count or his total points, but hey, he's part of Ferrari, and Ferrari is here strictly for the championship.
Every single race matters for the title, whether it's the first one or the last.

It's just easier to see clearly once the season starts winding down.

mistybear87 said:Let's be real: implementing team orders during those final races when the second driver has zero chance at the title is the most normal thing in the world. It happens in almost every major sport. No matter how much people try to prevent it, that's just how the game works. There is no "I" in team. 😉

I'm not going to spend my time hunting for them right now, but if you actually have an example where both drivers in the final race had a legitimate shot at the title, please feel free to share it so we can discuss. 😉
(And by that, I mean situations where one driver could have overtaken the other to clinch the championship, not those weird tactical scenarios where they just shuffle around 😉).

Ferrari pulled that move way back at the start of the 2002 season, and frankly, it felt totally unnecessary. Jean Todt famously remarked at the time, "Why should we risk losing the championship over 3 points? We'd look pretty foolish if we didn't act," which, considering how dominant their car was, felt like a massive understatement. We all know how 2002 wrapped up anyway... whether it was the driver shouting at the pit wall to let him through or the team making the call, does it even matter?

If you want a different perspective, check out Top Gear, Season 15, Episode 3. It’s worth seeing what Red Bull has to say about that whole incident. 😉

It isn't exactly common.

Senna - Prost, back in '89—and we all know how peacefully that ended. 😁
Then maybe '96, which ended with a wheel flying off. The result of all that "teamwork"? Who knows.🤷

For example—in 2008, Kovalainen clearly let Hamilton past several times without even fighting. The result? A few extra points for Hamilton, and ultimately, Hamilton wins the championship by a single point. Can we call Hockenheim 2008 a key race of that season?

cosmicridge5 said:I like Button too, but I just can't wrap my head around McLaren.

😁

mistybear87 said:Sure, if we look back over the last 15 to 20 years, almost every single one of them—regardless of how much we might dislike the idea

was actually faster than their teammates. In certain seasons, they were absolutely dominant. But does that change the fact that most of those championships wouldn't have turned out the way they did without that privileged status?

I wouldn't be quite that extreme.

But it’s interesting how people always point to the Austrian GP 2002 as the textbook example of team orders.

A swap of positions that ended up yielding a completely insignificant 4 points for the final standings.

It was much more interesting—and far more critical for the title race—when championships were decided by a single point. And that has happened. Whether it was orchestrated by Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, or even Williams(😲 😁).

stormybadger8 said:Exactly.😢

But honestly, this is what's always been disgusting about F1. They write these rules and say, "Hey, that's banned, 🙂"
but then they turn a blind eye for certain people. Meanwhile, others follow the rules and get called out for it. Then you've got a third group constantly whining about illegal parts, while they're actually just ripping off other cars, packing themselves with illegal bits, lying, cheating, and using team orders. It's all just a massive joke.🤣

Look, it's simple. If you want to win a title in F1, you have to be a total jerk. Your team needs to be packed with scammers and liars, and you need a driver who isn't afraid to play dirty and shove people around.

Anything else is just a fantasy.😢

P. S: And remember when Button tried to see what it was like to squeeze his teammate? I guess Rubens told him it was suuuuper, so he figured he'd give it a shot too.🤣

Or, you could just be an honest person, let the drivers fight it out without any team orders, and lose everything. 😁

Besides, those kinds of team orders are never going to go away (nor should they).