I Am Not Obligated To Be Nice To You
Now for the 2nd time in a few weeks somebody has called in to question my behaviour as an admin. For some reason people think just because I have the title of admin that means I’m obligated to be some shining angel of virtue and valour, who is perfectly prepared to wipe the shit from your ass. Well guess what kids, I’m not.
And you know what, it’s not like I’m mean to everybody. I treat people how their behaviour warrants. If you run around posting stupid argumentative threads and try and pick a fight with any person who does as much as express an opinion, or you feel that your post count or join date makes you superior to anyone else. Then I will treat you with the contempt and attitude you deserve. I do not feel that my position affects this in any way. If I felt it did I would step down. I am not, and never will be in the habit of treating assholes as anything other than assholes.
But on the flip side; if you’re a perfectly reasonable community member and do not tread in to the realms of idiocy. I will treat you with nothing but the respect you deserve. It’s far too easy to be a complete asshole on the internet. Anybody who acts in a kind and reasonable manner deserves nothing less than respect and good words.
While this is certainly true, it doesn’t mean you have to be a total asshole to the people who are leaving, etc. Nor does it mean that when you see someone looking to start an argument, you shouldn’t ignore it- provoke an argument back instead. And then you can complain about how they like to aggravate.
Members are calling the people who are leaving “immature” when all they do is flame the leaving thread themselves.
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The only people who are leaving whom I’ve been assholes to are the people who are assholes themselves, As I mentioned above. And the only leaving thread where members have flamed that I can recall of in recent memory was one where the person leaving flamed everyone.
That was pretty much reiterated in my above post. I guess people are just too lazy to actually read, and make their judgements and post their comments on my title alone.
I was lolling because once again you have blown this pathetically out of proportion, but I do apologise because I now realise that it was an immature response to a post you took time to write out.
What I should have said would be something along the lines of that if you really do not care about something, you should not care about it. This is not what I would call not caring. In advance, I know you did not mention anything about caring or not in this post; I am generally referring to others.
Regardless of your nature, you as a human should be obligated to be nice to anyone. Whether someone’s behaviour warrants it or not is out of the question. If you think otherwise, which apparently you do, I would be rather intrigued to know why.
I don’t know if you’re actually talking about me in this post, but I am not worried about your behaviour as an admin. I am more concerned with the fact that other people are noticing it too and it not being a good look for the forums, and that you are sinking to the levels of some of the people you are “not being nice to”. The way I see it, this is unacceptable from anyone, although I’ll admit that it’s probably more noticeable from you just because of the rank you have.
Oh. I assume you declined my request to “talk”? Don’t worry, I wasn’t going to dump you or anything.
Your whole point about not caring about something is completely moronic. If you’re trying to imply I do care because I made that post you’re wrong. This post only has the intention to justify why I don’t have to be nice to people. I thought that would was clear enough.
And as to the way I act towards people making the forums look bad? No. That’s bullshit. The people who are starting these arguments and making other people feel small are what is making the community look bad, and people like you would rather we tip-toed around them and just let them do it? That would ruin the community a hundred times more than standing up to them would. And as I stated above I am not in the habit of making concessions for idiots, and I never will be. Whats more hilarious is I’m not the only one on the staff who is behaving in this way towards these people. I’m not going to name names. But I’m the only one whose been called in to question over this. It seems more like people picking on me, rather than picking on my actions. Which I’m fine with. I love it when people take digs at me in fact. It’s like baseball to me. Retards throw their idiotic insults and rhetoric at me and I whack them out of the park. After all, why do you think I bother with this blog if I didn’t love verbally beating retards?
And no, I wasn’t addressing you, or anyone else in this blog post. I actually wrote this up 6 days ago. But didn’t want to post it then because of the fact I’d just posted another blog a day earlier. And I wasn’t even aware of your request to ‘talk’ but if I was I would have declined it. I have no real need or desire to talk to you. Plus you’ve not been on my MSN list for a year+ now. I see no reason to change that.
So be it, Brad. I see no reason to continue this because of as usual, you cannot lose.
For me this was never was about winning or losing. The people I’m speaking out against are the sort of people who will never admit defeat. I never wanted to ‘win’. I wanted to make people understand.
I guess with the majority of the rsbandb demographic that’s near impossible.
So it seems.