3681

Seems to me that after his stupidity in the nerd rage thread he’s decided that the forum is hostile territory and posts with that in mind, i.e. we’re the enemy.

Incidentally, he appears to be 48 years old.

3682

Did nobody learn anything? You don’t fuck with the Wongs.

3683

Two Wongs shouldn’t make a wight.

3684

Well, I took stusser’s advice to heart and reported every racist post spatzi made in the old EE thread.

3685

Wow, mmalloy and Bahimron are made for each other.

3686

Thread locked, suspect banned. Fun gone.

3687

And Bahimiron, mmalloy, BobJustBob, Cory banned as well. This is the only thread where we can actually say this, so: That is not how to fucking moderate a forum. Yes, technically they broke a forum law. Unfortunately it was the utter failure to deal with the initial problem that caused all this.

3688

And scharmers. Anyone else? Not Bill, surprisingly (please don’t take that to mean I want him to be banned!)

3689

Ooooh! Forum drama. But I missed it. :(

Can anyone do a recap for me?

We need a defcon system.

3690

Could not agree more.

3691

The thread is a mere 5 pages! And yeah, I missed it, too. The thread title was not particularly scintillating.

The “gently touched” label is nice, though. No more weird mystery about whether somebody is banned or not. It also adds to these flamewar threads when you read through them and it is all “gently touched”, “gently touched”, “gently touched”. A little foreshadowing, if you will.

3692

I don’t know but the posts in here made mmalloy and Bahimiron sound like smug, sanctimonious, superiority-complex jerks.

3693

Recap is there’s a thread in EE about nerd rage which I think you’ve posted in recently. In that, spatzi went on a rant about how rude Asian people are and that they’re a big problem in Vancouver whenever he’s walking down the street, coz they always knock into him or elbow him or some such nonsense.

Needless to say this didn’t go down well, he was called on it, and he just dialled up the idiot-o-meter to 100 as a result. Attack being the best form of defence, I guess.

Fast forward several months and he posts the thread in the Games forum about Steam being the devil because he has a bug in Far Cry 2 amongst other things, as well as taking swipes at everyone for “worshipping” Steam (I paraphrase). Obviously people respond in a less than cheerful manner, and BJB & Cory realise that it’s the racist idiot from the EE thread and start calling him on it, while everyone else responds to the posts he makes and calls him an idiot as a result of that. Again he dials the obnoxious up to 100 and makes endless comments about THE ASIANS in response to the baiting.

Stusser comes in and flames everyone claiming that he’s only responding to the baiting when it’s obvious that most people didn’t know what the fuck BJB/Cory were referring to and that the opening post and the followups were enough to earn the negative reaction from these people. Stusser gets angry, people who argued with spatzi previously get angry with Stusser, banhammer morphs into banMLRS and this is the outcome.

Um, I think that’s it.

3694

I’ve had my run-ins with both but your utter inability to withhold comment on people you’ve argued with in the past when it’s nothing to do with you does not show you in a good light at all. For your own sake, stop it. It’s the Warren shit all over again.

3695

Hey dude, there may be exceptions when it comes to massive flame-outs, but don’t kick them while they’re down.

3696

Someone save that. Ha ha. Great forum drama writeup JM. We need a reading of this by Dr Jon Danger!

3697

And Tom confirms they’re banned for breaking the rule about bringing in stuff from other sub-forums.

3698

. . . now listen here you . . . ah crap. Ok, agreed. Will withhold. Sucks when people get banned.

3699

Good recap. As I said in the thread, I’d never heard of spatzi before he posted his anti-Steam rant. All of a sudden, there was shoulder-checking Asians in Vancouver and I had no idea what he was talking about.

3700

Tons of people piled on the baiting and again, I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but I am not a mod. I don’t ban anybody and I have no say. I don’t write the rules or enforce them. All I do is maintain the server and edit spam when I see it.

I was trying to head off the bannings. And I got attacked for it.