Did Mod cause the collapse of evcforum?

I agree that the point you made to NJ was well argued, and seems reasonable. However, I do think his distaste for moral relativism was genuine, and that his religion was very important to him.As for trolling, there's a point about NJ's experience on this site that maybe should be mentioned. He used to get attacked, slagged off and insulted all the time. Those of us who pretty much disagreed with him on just about everything might argue that he asked for it, but we should admit that he was on the receiving end of far more insults than he gave out.Looking through his posts, I came across a reply to one by a character called "bluegenes" which said something like "only superstitious fools would base their morality on texts from a semi-barbaric bronze age culture."That's really just like saying "you're a superstitious fool, mate", and is arguably treading on the board's guidelines.So, when you look at his posts, read some of the replies from many different people. The guy took a lot more stick than he gave, I think, and perhaps that puts what appears to you to be trolling into context.I'm not sure about people participating on this board claiming a right not to be offended. I don't claim it. I've been told that I'm going to hell, and I think it's fine for people to express that opinion on this board, or anything else they believe, and I wouldn't dream of complaining to the mods about such things.I'm well aware that the religious people here can be very offended by the views of people like myself, but I don't think they have a right not to be offended. Offence is inevitable here.

Quite humorous to have a discussion about the effective application of the moderation on this site, with modulous claiming that it is one thing to have a vague discussion about homosexuality being morally equivalent to bestiality (or as wholesome or as thoroughly enjoyable or as likely to being happening simultaneously or who knows what they are saying) but it is another to DIRECTLY reference the stunted monkey like inability of a PARTICULAR individual to dissect a phallic-like fruit.I think the offense taken is somewhat understandable.And yet the hypocrisy abounds:AzPaul3 writes: You see members, let it be known, personal insults simply will not be tolerated.So just suck it up, grow a pair, and take your bullshit elsewhere you overly sensitive, adolescent, screwed up psyche sensitives trolls! Take you sand bucket and play elsewhere if you can't take us not allowing insults, you shit throwing little kids!!!!~!

Yeah but that would be true of any one of us, just by the numbers. That's fair, but maybe there are some subjects you would be offended about - perhaps, if we started calling your wife or mother a filthy whore? - and that you wouldn't consider neither an appropriate subject for debate nor consistent with the Forum Guideline about treating other people with respect.I might indeed be making a very interesting, salient philosophical point with a post that began "now, suppose that bluegenes' filthy whore mother was right in front of you, with her suppurating herpes sores and ragged vagina, spread wide from dozens of her johns" and you might very reasonably say something like "dude, seriously, knock that shit off. It's really fucking offensive."An adult would respond by changing his language, using different examples that weren't so personal or offensive. If NJ wanted to talk about moral relativism, and how moral relativists determine that one thing is right while another is wrong, there are dozens of innocuous examples he could have used. Why is Scrabble ok but murder is bad? Why is shoe shopping allowed but female genital mutilation verboten? He could have gone literally anywhere.Instead he chose to return again and again to the example that he had been repeatedly told caused offense and distracted from his argument.Why did he do that, if not to troll homosexuals and their allies?

Yeah, it's a bit akin to arguing about angels on the head of a pin.

I am quite sure I will be the one accused of subverting the rules."You see Bolder-dash, AZPaul3 was just making a social commentary about frogs shitting in sandboxes, but when you uttered the word fruit, that was off topic. I am suspending you for 24 hours. See you tomorrow. Percy"

No, Frog, you did not answer the question. You gave me your excuse, your vehicle. You never answered to the motivation.Why are you here, Frog?To piss and moan over a three year old difference of opinion? Don't give us this crap about Rrhain and Mod's heated discussion. That's just your excuse.Look Frog, the facts are these:1. Some people got kicked out of the sandbox.Frankly, I don't give a flying flip why it happened. It's all there in the archives for everyone to see. Everyone can form there own opinion. It's irrelevant.2. In protest others said they wanted to get kicked out. They were obliged.3. Still others, you included, took their toys and left the sandbox on your own as further protest.4. Now three years later you storm back in here throwing sand at everyone.You say you are not holding a grudge?Sure as hell looks like you are.I think we deserve to know why you are doing this, Frog.It has got to be more than just NJ's attitude and his stalking; more than just Mod and the other moderators' judgement, that has so poisoned your attitude to such a caustic extent. Unless you're a petulant little child unable to control yourself, unable to let go. That might be your explanation.I don't know because you have not yet answered the question.So why are you here, Frog?Do you have some deep-seated need, borne of petulance and ego, to rant and rave over your difference of opinion with the moderators stemming from a long cold, dead incident three years ago? Are you so insecure you needed to come back to show everyone that you were right; that your opinion is the only correct one to have about some long cold, dead incident from three years ago? Are you so immature you can't let go of your hatred toward Mod, Percy, this site and this community because it didn't collapse like you wanted it to three years ago?Are you trolling? Just looking to stir up a fight? What?Is there something else that happened that could justify your coming back here this late full of such bitterness and hatred?We cannot know since you dodge and weave about evading the question.Are you afraid of something?I don't care about your views of NJ and his attitude. I don't care about your warnings of disaster to the moderation team. I don't care about who should or should not have been stronger, weaker, more or less benevolent toward this one or that one.I really don't care about any of your opinions on this ancient history at all, Frog.What I want to know is why you feel justified in coming back in here and pissing on everybody?What the hell are you doing back here, Frog?

Very good, Bolder-dash! Now you're getting it!

Isn't it possible that you have misunderstood? I understand that you read the quote from NJ as insulting, but I also see it from a different way. Welcome back crashfrog, I hope you decide to stay for a while.

Please, call me "Crash." And I told you why I was here.Why are you here? In this thread, I mean? Er, no, that's not what happened at all. I never left as "further protest"; the events that I would have left in protest over happened after I had already left. As I said in A Few People Asked... AZPaul, I don't expect everyone, or really anyone, to jump up and down and say "Crashfrog is back, hooray!" And that's fine. I was a divisive figure before and I fully expect to remain one, now.But what you're saying are "facts" just aren't so. You're just making things up. Then I'm somewhat forced to wonder why you're so intent on participating in a thread that's about NJ and his attitude, my warnings of disaster to the moderation team, and who should or should not have been stronger/weaker/benevolent to this one or that one, since you've just said you don't care about any of those things.Why are you here, Paul?

It's possible, but I've already explained why it's unlikely, why the more charitable interpretation is flawed, and moreover a troll like NJ doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. He had, and exhausted, the benefit of the doubt the first time he engaged in gay-baiting and was politely asked to stop.

Then I stand corrected. To find out why you feel justified in storming in here after a three-year absence pissing on everyone.Care to answer the question now, Crash?

I wouldn't read it like that.Perhaps I happen to have friends or family that are "retarded", and your work has made life easier for them. Perhaps I simply like the way you work with "retarded" people, and you have inspired me to be a good person as best I can. All this would fit in with what you said. I'm not one to immediately assume the worst when a person writes something like that.Secondly, I couldn't give a flying fuck if you did call me retarded.My response to something like that? (If I thought you were insulting me)"I find it admirable that you take your time and spend it changing peoples diapers, because they can't do it anymore themselves."And that's a mild one.

I wasn't absent. I've been lurking since I posted "A Few People Asked...".When Rrhain brought up the GenDiscMod11 thread, and Modulous opened this thread to re-hash those issues, I decided to oblige him. Like I said before. I had, and now I just did. Think you could answer mine, now? It's clear you're not interested in any part of this thread, so why are you in it? Just to call me names? Maybe you could put those in an email instead and save everybody the trouble of pointedly ignoring them.

Not bad, and I trust that means you take my point.Yes, a charitable reading of NJ's post is possible (as long as you completely ignore grammar and logic.) But NJ didn't deserve the charity. He'd long exhausted the benefit of the doubt.

Thank you. Well, like I said, if I thought you were insulting me, I'd say that. But then again, I wouldn't immediately assume you were. Well, I wasn't there, and haven't had the "pleasure" of conversing with NJ really. So I guess I'm not informed enough to accuraterly asses the situation.I will bow out of this thread. Thank you for the conversation.