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piratePenguin:
This is basically what Kintaro's post consisted (don't expect this to be exact - it's from memory):
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I am sure you all pay attention to the patches those faggot developers throw into your system through apt-get.
"
Kintaro, I know you use language such as this leisurely, hence my response: I reported your post for language and more specifically I responded with "horrible language, hate to be you". Normally I use bad language to further my point - but I'd tend to use words like idiot developers here rather than faggot developers, because that serves my purpose much better.
Kintaro:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me."
Also...
--- Quote from: Lead Head on 17 June 2010, 01:51 ---Excuse me? Someone reported the post, which means somebody took offense to it. He called the developers faggots, and for all I know PiratePenguin could be a developer for Ubuntu/Debian/any other OS that uses apt.
A lot of Kintaro's posts have been reported, and this is the only one that I've really found that could be offensive. (well not counting the "I've always wanted to fuck an albino", but I wasn't sure about that one, didn't really bother me all that much). Most of the reported posts were just trivial stuff that did not matter at all, like the whole English national anthem thing. I would have restored it, but I didn't want to step on anybody's toes. For that matter, I haven't binned a single thread by Kintaro and have no clue as to why this one and all the others ended up in the DTZ.
As far as me not using this site, I read the forums almost every day and check out almost all the new posts. Just because I don't always reply to things doesn't mean I don't use the site.
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And you are not the only one doing this, just about every member is a moderator and is binning others threads. "What is lost?" seems to be the attitude towards it. Well, in the case I mentioned, what has been lost is the discussion me and Aloone Jones were having. These are informal discussions, that is why forums exist anywhere, and moderating them in this fashion is an act of taking all of this far too seriously.
I don't understand how you guys are so protective and overbearing of this place. It is almost like this site is the only thing that gives your lives meaning, well, god bless you. Because in doing it, you take away any meaning this site could possibly have to the outside observer. To anyone outside, this group just looks like a bunch of idiots getting erections over their mod powers. So nobody ever comes in, and in doing that, you inform nobody of your cause and actually help Microsoft.
Enjoy helping Microsoft.
piratePenguin:
I looked at the moderator log and this is what I notice:
* refalm has a billion entries editing stuff - what is this refalm? Is it scripts updating posts or something?
* Other moderators are just doing their job
I think it's a credit to this community that a large handful of all of the committed, tried and tested members can all have administrative rights and they AREN'T abused.
Kintaro:
Well, all I know is that every time a post is made it goes in the draw to win the grand prize of being randomly deleted.
Why is everyone a moderator in the first place? Because they got made moderators in response to the influx of trolls many years ago. After that, they were never removed, and with the moderator powers everyone else was scared away. Now this forum is just a circlejerk of overbearing cunts and as a place for discussion is rendered useless.
Kintaro:
Anyway, just a note for Refalm who I been unable to contact...
We have talked about this a little. Removing everyone from being a moderator would stir everyone up. Suddenly, the only power these individuals have in their lives will be lost and it might seem that they will all leave the forum. I want to assure you that there is no meaning in the lives of these people either, so that cannot happen, they will always come back. This change will finally allow the forum to expand and stop intimidating new members.
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