ironyisadeadscene wrote:
well, i didnt want to call anyone out or make this public, but ever since i got a PM from schony saying i wouldnt be missed if i left, i havnt been a massive fan.
EDIT : WALL OF TEXT WARNINGI guess that's not surprising. Here's more of the stuff that was said over there early on. I was a little hesitant to post this, because daz makes a good point about 'fuel on the fire', but after everything that has transpired, I think that this does need to come out. The yellow text was added by me. The 'Drunkie' comment is in reference to their board name : Sabres Drunkie.
End the Curse wrote:
I can say with complete certainty that this site will not become a divisive, toxic, festering pit of hostile douchebaggery. Here's where I think Cross went wrong, and none of these mistakes will happen here.
1. Permitting a puffed-up, douchebag mod to bully members, establish "clicks", and create a general atmosphere of hostility. This is in reference to me.
2. Creating/permitting a constant stream of divisive, combative threads about religion and politics that have no place in a friendly hockey community. Anyone can look to see that ETC was a very active thread starter and contributor when it came to politics and religious discussions. I fail to understand how one can complain about these types of threads, yet be such an active participant in them.
3. Opening the floodgates to the entire cast of Teenage Angst, who proceeded to reduce the intelligence, culture, and maturity of the board to that of a dormitory. Again, this goes back to the idea that Sabres Junkie was supposed to be a secret, invite only message board, which was false from day 1
Drunkie will remain exclusive to people of known quality, decency and integrity, restricted to those over 30 years of age, and threads about politics or religion will absolutely, positively not be permitted under penalty of death by drunken dismemberment.
I feel very backstabbed by ETC out of all of this. Some time back, he was being quite disruptive, and I sent a message to all the other mods. This is back when it was me, XC, Ice, and SG were all mods. We all discussed it, and were all on board that ETC needed a couple day timeout. Not long after that ended, he PMed me to apologize, and I did so in turn, since I didn't always treat him with respect in discussions. After all that, to be refered to as a 'puffed up douchebag'.... well, I was a little surprised to see it.
Next, we have some of Icehound's early comments.
Icehound wrote:
And Captain BanHammer - Who exercised unlimited license in banning folks for no goaddamn good reason - Shoulda backed his homey-Mod up. And kept his fucking drunken mouth shut; arrogant moron that he was...
I checked, and since we moved to SJ, Icehound and SchonyGal banned more members each than XC and myself have. I also want to again point out that I was stone cold sober when I made the inappropriate comments towards Schony.
Sorry. But the truth often hurts, if one is on the "losing" side of it. Losing Schony - alienating and insulting and humiliating her, like that - was unforgiveable. Fucking utterly ingracious and ungrateful.
Fuck them. It's absolutely no way to treat a decent human being, who gives almost unthinkingly of their time, so others can enjoy their recreational time under the protection of said volunteer, and the almost unlimited generosity they offer (of their busy and precious lives.)
Apparently the time that XC, myself, and SatW put in as mods doesn't apply. Only hers. Sorry for the sarcasm.
They are all to blame for this injustice. Every last ungrateful one of them. May they rot in hell...
Icehound also made a comment, as I mentioned earlier, that XC was simply trying to drive up membership to profit off the Google ads at the bottom. Of course, he had no objection to ETC putting two ads on his site that weren't there to start with.
He also fails to mention that even though it was such an egregious offense that I questioned Schony, it was not such a bad thing when Schony overruled me when I permabanned Markus. I accepted that criticism and tried to be better; she got pissed and left.
I have no lingering animosity towards anyone who's joined over there. We have a couple members still around that are in both places, that's no big deal.
I do however take umbrage with the vitrol and rage that has been directed towards the other members of these boards. They can hate on me all they want; they're entitled to their opinions. None of them factor in at all into my life, none of them have met me personally to be qualified to form that opinion.
I just don't like it that the general membership of this board has been disparaged so much. Sure, we don't always agree on everything, but I do believe that everyone here is a good person, and doesn't deserve that treatment. That's why this is all coming out now.
Honestly, I think that all the folks over there are good people too. I'm sure they're mother fucking me harder now after reading this, maybe they'll all have 'Live by the fucking Squanto, die by the fucking Squanto' as a signature by now. (Yes, that happened.)
Maybe it's not the right thing to do to air all this dirty laundry, but there it is. It's been hard to sit by for the last month and see myself get motherfucked left and right over a simpler difference of opinion, but it's done with now. If they want to keep on focusing their rage towards me, ETC has things hidden now so I won't know about it anymore.
Regardless, I've been man enough to admit my mistake in this whole mess and apologize. If that makes me a mother fucking douchebag, I'm proud to wear that title.