In Praise of Josh Timonen

[lordpasternack]

And Rule #1 here is Play Nice. Which you are distinctly not doing. Leave the snottiness at the door, please.

Coming from a regular in a community which has been practically burning effigies of Josh Timonen ever since day one here. This defective critical thinking, this nonexistent self-probing, and quite frankly this level of all-around bad faith dialogue, might be expected from a community which seems to do little else but insult people and deal in frivolous gossip.

Why are you here?

+1. If you fucked off that would be jolly good.

This isn't exactly playing nice, either...

[Salviati]

Your snotty little tu quoque jibes about Kevin or the rest of the membership at large (with whom you are clearly not familiar at all) are not particularly relevant in this thread, and should have been moved. If your only motive here is to attract negative attention, break rules, and plead the victim in it all - then you might just get some things to feel all victimised about from the forum.

I'm not going to forgive him before he apologizes for permanently banning my account for no good reason. If he admits that he was an utter control freak and heavy-handed wanker back in those days, then I might just forgive him, yes.

The Richard Prins administration was an improvement, but not by much. The idiotic, impractical, debate-stifling, hand-binding "no personal attacks" diktat was still very much prevalent. Plus, Richard Prins was an annoying busybody.

The rest of the moderators I didn't have much of a problem with. Then again, I wasn't terribly impressed by them either. Far too susceptible to "group-think" for my liking. I wouldn't like to be living in their neighbourhood if the time and place so happened to be 1930s Germany or Soviet Russia.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your snotty little tu quoque jibes about Kevin or the rest of the membership at large (with whom you are clearly not familiar at all) are not particularly relevant in this thread, and should have been moved. If your only motive here is to attract negative attention, break rules, and plead the victim in it all - then you might just get some things to feel all victimised about from the forum.

I'm not going to forgive him before he apologizes for permanently banning my account for no good reason. If he admits that he was an utter control freak and heavy-handed wanker back in those days, then I might just forgive him, yes.

The Richard Prins administration was an improvement, but not by much. The idiotic, impractical, debate-stifling, hand-binding "no personal attacks" diktat was still very much prevalent. Plus, Richard Prins was an annoying busybody.

The rest of the moderators I didn't have much of a problem with. Then again, I wasn't terribly impressed by them either. Far too susceptible to "group-think" for my liking. I wouldn't like to be living in their neighbourhood if the time and place so happened to be 1930s Germany or Soviet Russia.

Salviati, NOBODY says you have to like him, speak to him or read his posts. But you don't attack another member here. You get that protect, and we extend it to other members.

[lordpasternack]

Your snotty little tu quoque jibes about Kevin or the rest of the membership at large (with whom you are clearly not familiar at all) are not particularly relevant in this thread, and should have been moved. If your only motive here is to attract negative attention, break rules, and plead the victim in it all - then you might just get some things to feel all victimised about from the forum.

I'm not going to forgive him before he apologizes for permanently banning my account for no good reason. If he admits that he was an utter control freak and heavy-handed wanker back in those days, then I might just forgive him, yes.

The Richard Prins administration was an improvement, but not by much. The idiotic, impractical, debate-stifling, hand-binding "no personal attacks" diktat was still very much prevalent. Plus, Richard Prins was an annoying busybody.

The rest of the moderators I didn't have much of a problem with. Then again, I wasn't terribly impressed by them either. Far too susceptible to "group-think" for my liking. I wouldn't like to be living in their neighbourhood if the time and place so happened to be 1930s Germany or Soviet Russia.

That's fine, but again, it's tangential to this thread and this particular subforum...

[Salviati]

Saying that I think someone used to be a wanker isn't exactly going to impoverish (further) the quality of conversation here. The moderators should only jump in when the insults are repeated and unambiguously detract from the content.

The "no personal attacks" edict is dogma, plain and simple. A lump of hand-me-down dogshite dating all the way back to the Ronayne era.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Saying that I think someone used to be a wanker isn't exactly going to impoverish (further) the quality of conversation here. The moderators should only jump in when the insults are repeated and unambiguously detract from the content.

The "no personal attacks" edict is dogma, plain and simple. A lump of hand-me-down dogshite dating all the way back to the Ronayne era.

Okay, you don't like our rules? The solution is obvious.

[Mousy]

Saying that I think someone used to be a wanker isn't exactly going to impoverish (further) the quality of conversation here. The moderators should only jump in when the insults are repeated and unambiguously detract from the content.

The "no personal attacks" edict is dogma, plain and simple. A lump of hand-me-down dogshite dating all the way back to the Ronayne era.

... why are you here?

[Blondie]

Your snotty little tu quoque jibes about Kevin or the rest of the membership at large (with whom you are clearly not familiar at all) are not particularly relevant in this thread, and should have been moved. If your only motive here is to attract negative attention, break rules, and plead the victim in it all - then you might just get some things to feel all victimised about from the forum.

I'm not going to forgive him before he apologizes for permanently banning my account for no good reason. If he admits that he was an utter control freak and heavy-handed wanker back in those days, then I might just forgive him, yes.

The Richard Prins administration was an improvement, but not by much. The idiotic, impractical, debate-stifling, hand-binding "no personal attacks" diktat was still very much prevalent. Plus, Richard Prins was an annoying busybody.

The rest of the moderators I didn't have much of a problem with. Then again, I wasn't terribly impressed by them either. Far too susceptible to "group-think" for my liking. I wouldn't like to be living in their neighbourhood if the time and place so happened to be 1930s Germany or Soviet Russia.

That's fine, but again, it's tangential to this thread and this particular subforum...

I don't see how it's even tangential.. I meant for it to be tangent to the circle of discussion it must intersect it at a single point, no? Neither is it secant to the discussion. It is entirely irrelevant!

Sorry for the trig jokes, but I'm a trig cove.

[virphen]

Saying that I think someone used to be a wanker isn't exactly going to impoverish (further) the quality of conversation here. The moderators should only jump in when the insults are repeated and unambiguously detract from the content.

The "no personal attacks" edict is dogma, plain and simple. A lump of hand-me-down dogshite dating all the way back to the Ronayne era.

Their (well our) house, their rules. They (we) want to keep it laid back and friendly.
Join in with that spirit in mind and you'll be welcomed (I sure as hell was) fight against it, and I doubt we'll be seeing much of you.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your snotty little tu quoque jibes about Kevin or the rest of the membership at large (with whom you are clearly not familiar at all) are not particularly relevant in this thread, and should have been moved. If your only motive here is to attract negative attention, break rules, and plead the victim in it all - then you might just get some things to feel all victimised about from the forum.

I'm not going to forgive him before he apologizes for permanently banning my account for no good reason. If he admits that he was an utter control freak and heavy-handed wanker back in those days, then I might just forgive him, yes.

The Richard Prins administration was an improvement, but not by much. The idiotic, impractical, debate-stifling, hand-binding "no personal attacks" diktat was still very much prevalent. Plus, Richard Prins was an annoying busybody.

The rest of the moderators I didn't have much of a problem with. Then again, I wasn't terribly impressed by them either. Far too susceptible to "group-think" for my liking. I wouldn't like to be living in their neighbourhood if the time and place so happened to be 1930s Germany or Soviet Russia.

That's fine, but again, it's tangential to this thread and this particular subforum...

I don't see how it's even tangential.. I meant for it to be tangent to the circle of discussion it must intersect it at a single point, no? Neither is it secant to the discussion. It is entirely irrelevant!

Sorry for the trig jokes, but I'm a trig cove.

I didn't expect such a triggy answer. I'm just a plane guy.

[95Theses]

I find it so amusing to see the mental turmoil going on in peoples heads who hate a website, but love complaining about that website an equal amount.

[Tigger]

It's a sine of the times.

[Salviati]

That's fine, but again, it's tangential to this thread and this particular subforum...

Yeah, tangential all the way to the bank -- or at least it would be if my initial post still stood.

The relevance to this thread is quite simply that I don't believe Timonen's antics were worse than that which was habitual for the oh-so-traumatized moderating staff.

[Ayaan]

Oh dear, oh dear. More puns. Will you people never learn? I've already warned Mr. Zilla. Your warning is on it's way Tigger.

[virphen]

Oh dear, oh dear. More puns. Will you people never learn? I've already warned Mr. Zilla. Your warning is on it's way Tigger.

I think you should bounce his arse right off this forum .