SavageOne
Regular Member
I think expecting something, or in the case of another poster, demanding something be done, is a quick way of someone on the other end of that expectation or demand to dig in their heels out of their own principle. Considering the posting here flowed purely from that edit, as well as a now banned person contacting you off-line (I received a PM from you about J.Gleason) and basically screaming to the top of his lungs about supposedly "libeling" him and threatening to sue me (in a similar fashion to a robber threatening to sue the victim for calling him a robber or a violent criminal before he's convicted of a crime or after his charges is dismissed), you face the problem of this post being the fruit of J.Gleason's poisonous tree, at least if I was the owner of the forum, which I am not.
As the victim of the specific "anon edit", I'm not particularly complaining. This isn't a governmental site, nor is it a Sarbanes-Oxley regulated company. If you're already questioning the integrity of the forum and publicly posting a suggestion rather than addressing it directly via PM to Administrator (John), then it seems to me that nothing he can do to reassure people questioning it's integrity will actually hold and work. Someone will always complain, someone will always scream conspiracy, and someone will always threaten another poster with a lawsuit when they exercise their first amendment right to criticize a persons criminal action.
Edit: I'm not speaking for Administrator here or for the forum, but as the only person who was got anon edited at issue and doing forum administration work in other forums besides OCDO, it needs to be pointed out that running forums on purely "principle" and doing what was suggested gives rise to numerous problems and issues that may occur, and unnecessarily hamstrings forum administration work due to continual arguments of "You promised this", "You stated that", and so on. PM Administrator or ask him to post here for an official OCDO position, which may be different from my own.
Why should you complain. The anon edit was of a possible personal attack you made. You basically stated that in your humble opinion Gleason was a felon. You now once again portray him as a criminal. This once again reinforces my original question(which was deleted without trace), are the mods the only ones who are allowed to make personal attacks?
You compare Gleason(whom I don't even know) to a violent criminal who has not been convicted or had the charges dismissed. Guess what in this country that means they're NOT a criminal. Regardless of what the "victim" thinks. This uproar (at least for me) is not about Gleason's banning, it's about how when a moderator made a comment that could have been taken as a personal attack it was edited to remove it with no tag as if the comment was never made.
To add insult to injury you continue to compare someone to criminal when they haven't even been accused, and no other mods call you on it. We can't call it a blue wall of silence since your fellow mods are secret. I guess I'll just have to call it the white wall of silence.