I wasn't around for a while.. what happened to them?
I'm intrigued as well now! Is it maybe story time?
Story time with DeathShot *cue music* who else is watching the live stream right now?
Sub here.
I wrote the following down shortly after I was banned as an exercise in recording what had happened from my perspective.
Note: I was a super mod on the forum at the time I was banned.
It was decided that there should be a section on the forum which is relaxed in the rules. A section where you can post anything you want, other than porn, goatse, or things of that nature. This is something none of the active moderators had any input on, but I think there was a consensus that this was a good idea.
It’s implemented. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I was very confused at first as to what was exactly allowed and what wasn’t. It was fuzzy. Immediately people started to insult each other, and I didn’t see anyone stepping in from the team, so I assumed that this was what was intended.
I assumed that this rule was put into place as a reaction from Skyrider instantly banning people when they called him Guyrider in the Force Pit, or from Skyrider instantly banning me when I made that parody thread containing a 3d model of a penis I made in 20 seconds
(Modern day edit: That was a great thread). I viewed it as operating on the same wave length as reddit -- You had freedom to post whatever.
The rules are then changed. This was announced by giving Zeonix a warning for insulting Robiz. He flips his shit, of course, because he was being punished for a rule change that he was not informed about. He argues his way into a banning. Zeonix had no chance for a goodbye.
Eon sees this. I think he had no more reason to visit the forum with Zeonix gone. He gets himself banned. Eon had no chance for a goodbye.
Fast forward. Moderating staff blamed for the mess that we had no input on. It was announced that there would be a meeting to discuss what to do about the Mosh Pit, and we were told about this meeting like 5 hours in advance. I then see a post about how disappointing it is that none of the moderators showed up to a meeting that none of us knew about until it was too late to attend.
I get IMed by my boy Dark who tells me hes leaving the forum. I get imed from Deathshot and same deal. These people were my reason for continuing to visit the forum.
I decide that everyone should get a nice farewell seeing as how we were all members of the community for 10+ years. I arrange it so that Zeonix and Eon post something not completely off the walls, I demand to read their response before they post and I demand that they be respectful.
I made Eon remove shit that went too far from his post. I created the thread, and those who wanted to posted their goodbyes. I check the forum the next day and I see DeathShot banned. I expected to be banned for letting Eon and Zeo have a final goodbye, but the banning of DeathShot has cemented in my mind that the way the forum is managed extremely poorly. He literally did nothing other than make a respectful post about resigning.
I fully expect this post to be removed, but the person removing this post should ask themselves whether that's right. DJ Ready deserves the explanation.