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This is a thread I started without thinking that it might be "spam." Please delete it or whatever, as you see fit. Why? 'Cause Stephie said so!

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=432973

Eutrusca, I said it was spam in the thread. I never reported it to moderation or anything. You're in quite the mood today aren't you? Every thread I've seen you in today you're insulting people and then after making several references to me as being a "surrogate" to posters who couldn't hold their own (which was not the case) you post this thread in question.

As I said in one of the threads, I just wish you could go a day without insulting people who may not agree with you. That was all.

(I am not reporting Eutrusca for anything, just for the record.)

Or maybe NOT because 'Stephie' said so...but because spam is what it is? You're not developing a persecution complex, are you?

Lay off the bickering, please.

It's spam. Locked.

Lay off the bickering, please.

*nods*

Etrusca, a thought. Feel free to completely disregard - it's just an opinion.

Maybe it'd help not worrying so much about what everyone else may or may not think, so long as you're making an attempt to operate within the parameters set out by the mods. People don't have to agree with you, they don't have to even like you - it's all ok. We have enough differences on these forums that I think even the mildest statement could find someone up in arms over it, in spite of best efforts to the contrary. It happens.

Point is, so long as you're within the bounds set, doesn't matter what anyone else labels it unless that person is a mod. No one else has the power to do anything about it anyway. Rather than get into arguments or even heated discussions over it, perhaps it'd be better all around to just let comments like that slide. We all know how certain areas of the forums are more sensitive to commentary and in some cases, are more like a box of dried tinder just waiting for a spark to set them off. Some people even seem to enjoy all the fighting and just look for opportunities to get their grrr on, for whatever reasons.

I dunno. Just seems that perhaps if even when confronted with someone who really gets our back up, if we all could make a better effort in letting the little, unimportant things slide, and choose our battles more wisely - save it for the things that really matter - that maybe, just maybe, the forums overall would be a more hospitable place. Guess after all these years of playing, the constant bickering wears thin. Not saying people don't have a right to complain or argue, mind, just wish it wasn't on everything from how a particular word is spelled and why their way is superior, to what the proper way to eat a hot dog is, to what side of the bed to make first, to who is 'right' in matters of religion, politics, etc. *shrugs*

Best of luck with it all anyway. Hope whatever the current issues that seem to have folks a bit touchy soon smooth over.

--Nathi's Player

I think the biggest problem with that is when the opinion comes from a former Moderator. Correct or not, people often still ascribe the same power, or if not power, the perception seems to be that if you were a Moderator at one time, you have the ear of the current staff in a way that the regular player simply does not. Thus, if Tactical Grace makes a comment on a thread, even if TG makes it clear that he or she is not speaking as a moderator, it's going to have more of an effect than if anyone else does. I'm not saying that to single out TG specifically, but that's a rather recent example.

So, perhaps Stephistan's comment that Eutrusca's thread was spam in her eyes was taken for a longer ride than it should have been, but therein lies the rub. Unless someone has seen a person completely fall from grace as a Moderator, that person's words are going to resonate more fully with a player than a normal poster's would.

So, perhaps Stephistan's comment that Eutrusca's thread was spam in her eyes was taken for a longer ride than it should have been, but therein lies the rub. Unless someone has seen a person completely fall from grace as a Moderator, that person's words are going to resonate more fully with a player than a normal poster's would.

I doubt that my posting "*spam*" in a thread where the people were already questioning the logic of the thread quite a few posts before I simply posted one word "*Spam*" was given anymore weight than any other poster on this forum. As it turned out, it was spam.

However, I'd personally like to take Fris's suggestion and quit the bickering.

So, that's all I'm going to say on the matter.

Steph.