PacDude
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- Sep 19, 2003
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Well, I hate to say the old days are back at VPF, but they certainly seem to be going that direction. I report a flaming post by Leo Wanker there and in return, I get a fracking ATTACK by Greywolf because I DARED to disagree with his point-of-view in a PM. He then escalated it and told me NOT to reply to him again in a PM. OK, so much for handling matters privately. I took it public next, of course.
The funny thing is I already talked to an admin there about it before Greywolf replies and agreed to just stick Leo on ignore. Greywolf decided to take this to a different level, though. I don't like being told a crock of BS, though so I mentioned I felt greywolf thought I was lying. Greywolf went ballistic and is now having a hissy fit there and giving me an official WARNING for calmly DISCUSSING the matter publicly. Apparently, he's saying he's allowed to talk about it publicly, call me a liar and a hypocrite and a troll and I'm not supposed to reply back by way of his official warning???
That guy should be removed from the staff immediately. You want to talk about an abuse of power? That makes even some of the old staff look unbiased. The guy obviously can't stand me (reminds me of how he went bonkers when I made a new version of Firepower) and cannot remotely be objective about any of this. Several people agreed with me that me calling Leo Wanker, "Mr. Wanker" is only adding an acceptable title (by society's standards) to his name whereas changing my name from PacDude to PacDUD is clearly and without a doubt a personal insult and theefore breaks VPF's policy of no personal flames. I didn't respond back to Leo. I calmly his the report abusive post button like I was told to do when I was reinstated if I had a problem and pointed out the obvious flame there and asked them to do something about it. They then told me I had to basically suck up to Leo's demands that I refer to him PRECISELY (down to the punctuation if there was any) by his screen name or face a D/A in order to get him to AGREE to stop calling me PacDud. And I'm not supposed to think that's a crock of steaming poo? Give me a break. They are supposed to stop personal flames there, not play Let's Make a Deal.
So now Greywolf is going bonkers and making up his own set of rules as he goes and I'm supposed to what, just sit there and let him?
Frankly, if the staff backs him up on this, it's going to be VPFF all over again. Gottlieb actually seems to have lightened up quite a bit lately and I have to say his forums are almost preferable to putting up with a staff that lets Greywolf get away with calling me a liar, hypocrite, troll and hand out arbitrary official warnings with no rule violation in site. He strikes me as being Leo's buddy, having a personal stake in it and frankly I think he'd like to see me banned for personal reasons alone. He should be removed from power immediately, IMO.
The funny thing is I already talked to an admin there about it before Greywolf replies and agreed to just stick Leo on ignore. Greywolf decided to take this to a different level, though. I don't like being told a crock of BS, though so I mentioned I felt greywolf thought I was lying. Greywolf went ballistic and is now having a hissy fit there and giving me an official WARNING for calmly DISCUSSING the matter publicly. Apparently, he's saying he's allowed to talk about it publicly, call me a liar and a hypocrite and a troll and I'm not supposed to reply back by way of his official warning???
That guy should be removed from the staff immediately. You want to talk about an abuse of power? That makes even some of the old staff look unbiased. The guy obviously can't stand me (reminds me of how he went bonkers when I made a new version of Firepower) and cannot remotely be objective about any of this. Several people agreed with me that me calling Leo Wanker, "Mr. Wanker" is only adding an acceptable title (by society's standards) to his name whereas changing my name from PacDude to PacDUD is clearly and without a doubt a personal insult and theefore breaks VPF's policy of no personal flames. I didn't respond back to Leo. I calmly his the report abusive post button like I was told to do when I was reinstated if I had a problem and pointed out the obvious flame there and asked them to do something about it. They then told me I had to basically suck up to Leo's demands that I refer to him PRECISELY (down to the punctuation if there was any) by his screen name or face a D/A in order to get him to AGREE to stop calling me PacDud. And I'm not supposed to think that's a crock of steaming poo? Give me a break. They are supposed to stop personal flames there, not play Let's Make a Deal.
So now Greywolf is going bonkers and making up his own set of rules as he goes and I'm supposed to what, just sit there and let him?
Frankly, if the staff backs him up on this, it's going to be VPFF all over again. Gottlieb actually seems to have lightened up quite a bit lately and I have to say his forums are almost preferable to putting up with a staff that lets Greywolf get away with calling me a liar, hypocrite, troll and hand out arbitrary official warnings with no rule violation in site. He strikes me as being Leo's buddy, having a personal stake in it and frankly I think he'd like to see me banned for personal reasons alone. He should be removed from power immediately, IMO.