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Originally Posted by Phobia
There's no doubt you've seen this, especially with people in the past year. I've had people accusing me of favorable treatment my entire tenure. So when I treat people like bugeater and frazod (who have both been to my house) the same as I treat everybody else when they abuse rep and then we're no longer friends because of it, I'm going to have an attitude about it. I don't have time to coddle assholes and it's not in my job description whatsoever. I was a whole lot kinder a decade ago, no doubt. But I'm not bending over for people like bugeater and frazod when they show me zero respect as a friend first and foremost and as a leader on this site. Their behavior hurt me at first but now I'm a little cavalier about it. That's probably a defense mechanism.
If I'm arrogant about anybody else, I don't know why. I don't have the desire to change people's minds once they've made them up. I'm tired of the lies and the accusations. Those people still insist I read their private messages. I've never once read anybody's private messages. But try to convince them of that.
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Just take Fraz for instance, you've already made it clear to Native that he was a huge, unwelcome factor in that whole ordeal, but at the time it seemed like maybe Fraz bore the brunt of it.
Was some of that partially because Fraz was so indignant? yeah, he went overboard, I'm fine saying that... but maybe some of that zealousness was due to the fact that Native had nary a negative word thrown his way about all of it.
His punishments were swift and sure, but its hard to blame him for thinking that Native got off easy... not so swift and sure.
Anyway, I'm a bit of an outsider piping up here, but it seems like time onboard should mean more than it does sometimes... and not letting things escalate to the point of no return between posters in the name of "gnarly ass no holds barred message board".
My two bits, on with the show...