I've got two questions (for Stinky)

What ever folks, I know exactly what I'm getting at. I even came in here with a positive attitude. My only issue was that I felt you were implying we shouldn't question mods, when we have every right to, and can do. I feel I've explained myself correctly if I haven't then I'm sorry. I ain't sitting here n' having my personality insulted though, especially when I've done nothing but have a high opinion of most if not all the mod's on this board. I wouldn't say I'm a disrespectful person, maybe too inquisitive for some peoples liking. However I don't expect be shafted down the throat with assumptions and BS like FBR's.

That's all fine and dandy, but the point is, we do not, by ANY means, have to explain our actions. At all.

Question all you want, just don't always expect an answer.

Remember, it's not what you say, but how you say it. ;)

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Originally Posted by Its a Plant

That's all fine and dandy, but the point is, we do not, by ANY means, have to explain our actions. At all.

Question all you want, just don't always expect an answer.

Remember, it's not what you say, but how you say it. ;)

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|I wasn't suggesting you had to give me an answer, you can see that from my replies. All I was debating is that we can ask questions. I was polite and sure not to insult anyone (bar maybe my bit of sarcasm in one of my later posts). Instead like I said it felt like I got a shafting for nothing. It even feels now that your shafting me as if I'm still wrong or out of order.

FBR and IAP, like I said kudos to you guys for what you do but I still feel you're being rather hypocritical. Especially since IAP gave reasons for his banning. He explained the members previous history of infractions. Aren't they supposed to be private?

Nation,I find your sense of entitlement to be BS and if you want to keep debating me on this I am going to win every day of the week and twice on Sunday. You don't have the right to question the actions on a private website that is free to you to use. Why ask a question if you aren't expecting a reply? That could be considered a form of trolling, don't you think?

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Originally Posted by FakeBoobsRule

Nation,I find your sense of entitlement to be BS and if you want to keep debating me on this I am going to win every day of the week and twice on Sunday. You don't have the right to question the actions on a private website that is free to you to use. Why ask a question if you aren't expecting a reply? That could be considered a form of trolling, don't you think?

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No because the OP did get a reply and reason. Leading me to believe we will get some form of reply. I'm afraid to say the only way you will win is from abuse, no other way.

How quickly you forget Nation your first response in this thread was a response to It's a Plant telling him you are going to question things and for him to suck it up.

His judgement, sensibility, intelligence, respect and post history earned him his voluntary job a moderator but you feel like pestering him and others by answering questions you have no right to. When you become a mod, which doesn't look like that will happen, then you can question him and others all you want.

I think it is time to close this up.

I agree that questioning is fine and to be expected from intelligent, inquiring minds. Goodness knows I questioned stuff before I was a mod and still do now, both in my own actions and in that of others. I spent too long as a smart alec in my youth and as a writer/reporter in my adult life not to. In truth, I think questions keep us honest, keep our actions justifiable, and serve as a type of check-and-balance system, but we also have the rules and infraction system to serve the same purpose so we follow a set process in disciplining people and can see the embarrassing details of someone's history without it being made public and further embarrassing our "repeat offenders." It's the privacy of those people we're trying to protect, along with the integrity of the boards as a place for friendly discussion.

If everyone's fine with the fact that their questions won't always be answered, then I think we've arrived at a logical stopping point for this thread.

I don't feel like pestering him at all. I thought he would have appreciated me sticking up for our right of questioning authority. I was very wrong apparently. About the sucking it up thing, I said we all have to do it he isn't the only one. And as his voluntary job as a moderator I would have expected him to be used to questioning or be understanding about it (which he may be, I just didn't see why he was upset about it). It's different, if it's obvious the person is just trying to get a rise out of the mod by asking questions, but this wasn't the case. It was a polite question, not a harassment, or direct insult.

I really hope this doesn't change your opinion of me since I don't feel it should. I just feel I'm standing on steady ground here.

Much appreciated Birdie.

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Originally Posted by Nation_1ne

I was very wrong apparently.

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QFT.

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Originally Posted by Nation_1ne

It even feels now that your shafting me as if I'm still wrong or out of order.

FBR and IAP, like I said kudos to you guys for what you do but I still feel you're being rather hypocritical. Especially since IAP gave reasons for his banning. He explained the members previous history of infractions. Aren't they supposed to be private?

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I'm simply trying to get you to understand where I'm coming from man. You seem to think you're entitled to more than you're allowed, that's all.

As for my "breach of privacy"...

Where did I once go into detail about what that long list of infractions entailed? I just made it clear that there WAS a list of infractions, to at least make it known that he was not banned for no good reason; a mistake I now realize. I never once "explained" any infraction my man. Don't twist my words around into something they're not. ;)

From now on I think these types of threads where unnecessary curiosity about fellow members will simply be deleted from the get-go. All the gossip and hearsay that follows just doesn't belong here, period. I agree with the closing, too.

LOL...I just feel sorry for that poor, beaten horse. :beatdeadhorse: