Michael Lee4 said:Just one request to start: read everything I've written, and I mean everything. Thanks.
Oh God, here we go again... First off, I haven't been a moderator nearly as long as you think—it's barely been over a year. If you really believe I deleted anything in that chat you're talking about, feel free to reach out to any admin to check; they can see everything.
You figured it out the second you noticed the topic was gone. Honestly, I think it happened the same day. It’s exactly what I told you back in our PMs, and it’s what I’m telling you now. The Mercedes vs. Benz thread was only pulled because they nuked that other chat—the one about women drivers or whatever it was called. I didn't kill it immediately because I completely forgot it even existed, but once the trolls from that deleted thread migrated over to "your" chat and started acting up and making a mess of things, it had to go.
I don't know how else to break this down for you. If you still don't believe me after what I said in my PM, there's nothing left to say. Honestly, it's insulting that you won't take my word for it and keep twisting my facts.
Kind of true... I’m capable of communicating normally, but once I have to repeat the same thing ten times because someone just isn't getting it, that's where it ends. I don't know how you guys handle those situations, but personally, I only see two possibilities: either you're trying to push my buttons, or there's something broken "under the hood"... and either way, you're getting a reaction.
Sure, you’re on this site 24/7, so you think you see everything I do—who I message, who I warn, what I write before you even step in. But you don't have the full picture. Claiming you won't act because you're afraid of handing me a warning like you did to me is just nonsense. You gave me two warnings because I was trolling, plain and simple. The sheer volume and reasoning behind everyone else's warnings speak much louder than my two.
Just do me a favor and read what I wrote earlier on this thread. If I say I didn't even enter the thread, then I didn't. I don't jump into every single discussion; I'm not on here 24 hours a day, though I am pretty active during the time I am. Again, if anyone had actually reported the issue, it would have been fixed immediately.
I’ll ask you again: go back through my posts and find any proof for those claims. It would be pretty weird if I were biased toward certain brands when I don't even work for the two or three major players on the market. I’ve been doing the same job for ten years, and it has zero to do with cars.
I’ve commented on design plenty of times, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The issue is when people start critiquing someone else's taste. That inevitably leads to bickering, then full-blown fights, and eventually just straight-up swearing once a bunch of random forum trolls jump in to stir the pot. That’s exactly why I try to shut those arguments down immediately. If someone can't wrap their head around that and thinks I'm just attacking their favorite brand, I honestly can't help them.
I’m too attached to this forum to leave over nonsense like this. If the majority decides (and I know who I'm talking about) that it's time for me to go, then I'll leave—at which point I won't need moderation anyway. But as long as I have to deal with trolls and idiots, I'm fine staying.
The poll isn't public because I didn't set it up. Ask the author. My guess is it's to prevent people from just signing up repeatedly to skew the results. I'm not saying that's the reason, but it's probably not as big a deal as everyone is making it.
No clue how long this thread will last. Things move slow because a few people feel the need to repeat themselves constantly, which brings me back to my original doubt: whether someone is just being provocative or if there's something actually wrong "under the hood." 🤷
That’s exactly the kind of response I expected from you—vague, undefined, and loaded with subtle insults while dodging direct questions. Are you planning on running for Congress or something? If so, maybe just leave us alone?
You’re also shifting your rhetoric and basically talking to yourself. You wrote that you only deal with the old-school users, including myself, and that if one of us asked you to leave, you would. Yet now you're limiting your scope to certain users after I—and not just in this thread—explicitly asked you to go.
You claimed you're too attached to this Reddit community—which, in my opinion, is a TOTAL LIE!
You're actually just too attached to your own ego, which gets its full expression here, since in real life you probably spend all day saying, "Yes sir," "Yes dear," or "Whatever you say."
You accused me of trolling. Honestly, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, but even if we assume you're right for the sake of argument—as an old-timer here, I find it much easier to just get hit with a straight ban rather than having someone PM me: "Hey man, sorry, I deleted a few of your posts because you were trolling, no hard feelings, see you on the other platform, just don't do it again." That is the difference between a quality moderator and someone like you.
I'm only using myself as an example because I know you've done the same thing to plenty of others.
The permanent ban on User was definitely something that shouldn't have happened. Sure, he had a short fuse sometimes and tended to overdo it, but this place has lost a lot without him.
I actually asked the author about the poll, but you ended up getting called out, and perhaps rightfully so. A secret poll benefits you more than the rest of us because you can manipulate the results. And don't tell me I'm lying; a different mod did the exact same thing on another platform once, but they did it as a joke, and we all knew it!
