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Have you ever been in a situation where you respect somebody greatly, whether for their intelligence, compassion, achievements, skills, or some random thing, and then they do one thing and your respect for them just dies? I have, and it actually ruined my life a bit.

Before I came to NS I was a big poster on Asimovians (It was a forum and web-site for the Late Great Isaac Asimov). I haven't posted there in months and I'm still on the top ten list of posters. Anyway, the number one poster (Also a Mod) and I had a rather good relationship and had many pretty darn good discussions on many different topics. Me being a male American, she beign a femal Mexican, we could see the different sides of many different discussions. Good times. Anyway, there was this one other poster on Asimovians (Iroincally the second biggest poster) who this person hated. She was only a Mod, not an Admin, so she couldn't just ban him because she wanted to. What does she do? Abuses her Mod powers and played a ver dirty trick.

She posted a very insulting and provocative post towards the person she didn't like. He responded in kind, and she Mod-deleted her original insulting post. The result: That person she doesn't like has posted an extremely insulting and awful post with no visible reson for it. She then deleted his user name and banned him.

After that I really felt that my respect for her had gone down the toilet. Our discussions and conversations lost a lot of their appeal and, since she pretty much ran it, I slowly stopped going to Asimovians. Now, since Asimovians was my main internet stop (I spent more time there than I do on NS now) I really had nothing to do with my time. It wasn't until many months later that I was introduced to NS and had something to pick up the slack.

Now you talk.

"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutley"

Sorry you found out your friend was such a bitch dude. Are you friends with the guy she fucked over as well?

Have you ever been in a situation where you respect somebody greatly, whether for their intelligence, compassion, achievements, skills, or some random thing, and then they do one thing and your respect for them just dies? I have, and it actually ruined my life a bit.

Before I came to NS I was a big poster on Asimovians (It was a forum and web-site for the Late Great Isaac Asimov). I haven't posted there in months and I'm still on the top ten list of posters. Anyway, the number one poster (Also a Mod) and I had a rather good relationship and had many pretty darn good discussions on many different topics. Me being a male American, she beign a femal Mexican, we could see the different sides of many different discussions. Good times. Anyway, there was this one other poster on Asimovians (Iroincally the second biggest poster) who this person hated. She was only a Mod, not an Admin, so she couldn't just ban him because she wanted to. What does she do? Abuses her Mod powers and played a ver dirty trick.

She posted a very insulting and provocative post towards the person she didn't like. He responded in kind, and she Mod-deleted her original insulting post. The result: That person she doesn't like has posted an extremely insulting and awful post with no visible reson for it. She then deleted his user name and banned him.

After that I really felt that my respect for her had gone down the toilet. Our discussions and conversations lost a lot of their appeal and, since she pretty much ran it, I slowly stopped going to Asimovians. Now, since Asimovians was my main internet stop (I spent more time there than I do on NS now) I really had nothing to do with my time. It wasn't until many months later that I was introduced to NS and had something to pick up the slack.

Now you talk.



That's pretty low. I mean if I really dislike a person, I'll say it right to their face (screen in this case) and then the debate can begin. This happened to me in grade 6, when I had a teacher who I respected alot and found very intellegent and worth listening to until she began to make jokes after our field trip to China Town about some of the religious customs that the shop keepers did (Buddhist, they were). From there on in till the end of the year, I became furstrated with her narrow minded views on other religions and even though I had been wuite open with her before with what she said, I began to say nothing.

I would say more power to the gal. Thats a swift piece of work there, and its quite admirable. However, as it changes your perception of them, there is nothing you can do about it.

Its kind of like Primo Levi.

The man writes decades worth of uplifting stuff that makes you believe "You know what? This man lived through the Holocaust, and his entire family died. Yet he still goes on, and writes with such a belief in humanity that he truly symbolizes the supremacy of optimism over barbarism". Then Primo Levi kills himself, and all you can do is wonder "Was I wrong all along? Was I misreading what I thought I saw?", and his image is tarnished forever.

Your sort of thing happened to me, but with Daryl Strawberry.

I respected him greatly as a baseball player, and also after he finished cancer treatment. However when I heard he was doing drugs I lost a great deal of respect for the man.

Same stuff goes on in here too,
people shouldn't be allowed to moderate until their 18.

"absolute power tends to corrupt absolutley"

All of the sudden, anything in the Bible about God makes sense.

All of the sudden, anything in the Bible about God makes sense.

I know.

Same stuff goes on in here too,
people shouldn't be allowed to moderate until their 18.

Yeah, except nothing like that goes on in here.

Now, imagine if she was the president? She would have shot the guy!
Anarchy is the way!

Same stuff goes on in here too,
people shouldn't be allowed to moderate until their 18.Yeah, except nothing like that goes on in here.

And she was in her 30's

I got a nation forumbanned here for just pointing out mod hypocracy.

Power corrupts.

Power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

As a man who spent the last 3 weeks tending with a bad car battery, I find that highly amusing (Damn connections are hard to clean!). ;)

Seriously though, its a pity about your friend. I often wonder just how many friends I have offended with some chance remark or ill-concived action. Probably many. I wonder how many I would truly regret had I known.

I am reminded about Cao Cao and Chen Gong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after wrongly killing some people when fleeing for their lives, Cao Cao says "Better I wrong the entire world than the entire world wrong me!" and Chen Gong, ashamed by his newfound ally's lack of character, leaves him in the night.