Well that was a … thing, wasn’t it? You were warned, you were given an explanation, and nevertheless… what a bunch of Elizabeth Warrens you all are
I feel a bit bad for that one guy though. You shouldn’t go to the supermarket when you’re hungry, and you shouldn’t moderate a forum when you’re grumpy. You definitely shouldn’t moderate a supermarket when you’re hangry, but I digress. He must have put a lot of work into that place and it’s sad we couldn’t all get along better.
Ten years though. At least a permaban is professional, ten years just sounds spiteful. Maybe it’s the tools. A temporary mute would have nipped ModusOperandi in the bud. Hey, what about a timeout corner? Too many flags and for the next 24 hours you can only post in the Timeout Corner thread. That could even be kind of fun.
No one really knows, but I have long suspected it was Rob Beschizza’s wife. The fact that Falcor has bowed out just as her pregnancy has advanced seems like it might reinforce this hypothesis.
I’m gonna set up a Kickstarter for my new product: a portable vaporizer (for oregano of course) that has a lifetime VPN built in! And a special USB extension! What would you pay for this???
maybe it’s just me, but a lot of the times, beschizza seemed like he was much more in tune with the jokey and weird bbs
culture than the others, who popped in occasionally or not at all.
Yes, It felt like most of the others just threw a piece of meat over the wall and ran away. And that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy their writing and their voice in the blog posts. But Rob was the only one I noticed repeatedly to jump over the wall and have some fun with the lions and tigers. rawr.
