Posts by amberdriver17

Thanks for taking the time to hit me back.

Look, if you start acting cheap and vulgar as a moderator, you lose the right to punish anyone else. You didn't discipline yourself, so why should we? It basically sends a signal that this is how we’re supposed to act—which, honestly, seems to be what's happening here.
When I warned that people claiming to defend Washington, D.C. culture shouldn't be the most unrefined bunch around, you actually agreed—and they finally stopped being so crude. That just proves I wasn't playing "power trip moderator," I was just pointing out the obvious.
If you let someone throw ad hominems at the Guggenheim, don't act surprised when I fire one right back at them while still trying to contribute to the actual discussion.
Bottom line: if you’re being vulgar and letting personal attacks slide, you’re just as much to blame, which makes your penalties totally unfair. You could've just locked the thread, wiped the fluff, and reopened it with a formal warning—that would've worked fine.

Now, I'll just wait for the admin to step in...

So, day three is dragging on and... absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch.

Why am I even sitting here waiting on DJ Khaled anyway? The guy won't even get back to my DMs.
I came here for the admin's take, not to deal with some moderator I’m already "clashing" with—that's not how this works, right?

After all this waiting, the least they could do is drop a link to a DJ Khaled mix or something just to kill the boredom while I sit here. 🙂

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Who even do you complain to when the people meant to listen are stone deaf... or whatever that old saying goes about being left unheard.........

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Does an editorial office visit mean they're actually buying my appeal and suggestions?

Re: "Blankets in Washington, D.C."

Looking at these five pages, it’s pretty obvious the mod was one of the first to get crude and start trolling—check that post about Vienna. On top of that, they didn't do a damn thing to stop the insults from unknown and Guga, or even the people calling newcomers "nothing more than neighbors to sheep." Actually, Guga got a pass—the mod even wrote "Way to go, Guga"—even though his posts insult me personally by calling my thoughts "simplistic," labeling me a jerk, and dismissing everything I say as "stupidity."

Since it's clear as day that the mod, DJ Khaled, is biased and hasn't been acting like a decent role model—even joining in on the spamming and trolling himself—I think punishing the users was totally wrong and unfair.
So, here's my suggestion: void all the warnings and just reopen the thread after cleaning it up.
That way we can actually keep talking without all this "bad blood" and everyone starts back on equal footing.

As it stands, nothing's been solved—it's just made things even more tense.
Just for the record, I warned both him and the other participants to cut out the vulgarity so we could keep the discussion chill and respectful.