Karlos wrote:
But you don't get your point across (at least with your initial remark), that's the problem. You just end up looking like a petty tosspot taking cheap shots at users who frequent another site. Many of whom also frequent this and other sites.
It's strange how everyone knows what site I'm talking about, isn't it (well, apart from Wayne). I think this says all I needed to say. Infamy is its own reward. I'm
not the only one to take offence over the years.
If you think there is a deliberate smear campaign going on, then sure, discuss it away. But don't just slag off the ordinary users, it's contemptible.
I don't think it's anything as coherent as a deliberate campaign (not even this supposed exodus they set up from AO). But it simply does nothing for its reputation when it overtly instils such fanatacism in people. Some of its moderators are among the most obnoxious trolls every to grace an Amiga forum and seem to take a delight rewarding extremist views. While trying to remain respectable in public they are the type who will spoof as another user and post obsceneties (yeah, we got them when Moo revealed its IPs!) or abuse their power to launch personal attacks. (Having the ANN and Moobunny archives available really changes your view of the Amiga community, you wouldn't believe it!)
Even two of the more mature moderators there were kicked out off Amiga.org for causing trouble and abusing its rules, that's something I've never even managed yet. With those people behind the wheel moderating with all the subtlety and balance as the Reverend Ian Paisley does in Northern Ireland,
that site is a magnet and a reward for zealots. How
can ordinary users visit it? (Certainly
I'm not allowed to, even though I've never made an offensive comment of any sort there. Which is why now I use different nicks to different sites, so small minded prats like that can't get at me again.)
What was the story last week...ah, that all MorphOS users were pirates and didn't want to pay for software so Epic should just wake up and make software for OS4 instead? Or the usual "MOS/MUI/CGX/Rave3D is crap, xxx rulez" threads. I mean, how would
you feel if MOS users made such a site and set up all the most extreme of them as moderators, spread lies about OS4, and simply moderated or shouted out anyone who contested them?
