I work fast. Often, when the Admins want something done, whether an upgrade or a modification to something, I do it as quickly as I can, because I like to get work done. I'm not backtracking. If the Admins would have said "fuck no, keep it as it is," I'd still be cheerfully telling some of you to kiss my ass, just as I have been since the Violet Room was implemented. As for the Help Desk issue, when a permission set is created, there are about 100 options to choose from, and those options are connected to other permission sets that are connected to other permission sets that are assembled into a user permissions group. This group is combined to create the permissions profile for each user. Sometimes, I miss an option while I'm putting it together. It happens. The Help Desk issue was rectified as soon as I discovered something was wrong. I'm sure you'll attach a value judgment to that, too. On another note, some of the other Admins were under the impression that gturner was banned from the Red Room only, and that he could access the rest of the board. That wasn't so. When I setup the permission, I excluded every room but the Help Desk and the Violet Room, as that is what I thought they meant when they were talking about being restricted to the Violet Room. So it was a bit of miscommunication. NOW, on to the other subject: why do I talk so much when they don't? Well, I like to talk. That, and I'm a friendly face, much like the lovable Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. That, and I'm pretty sure I make @Volpone hot and bothered when I'm broaching these issues, and I try to make people happy wherever I can.
You have given no full answers. You offered an initial explanation for the banning, which you have doubled down on and just regurgitated over and over. Face's questions are perfectly reasonable. What were the exact warnings given to gtardo? What is the de facto new rule and how does it impact the rest of us? Why are you, as a volunteer admin, being left to face the music while the other owners hide away? ShootER didn't support this, so you're covering the blushes of Anna and Gul. Is his Majesty Gul the First too important to come out and address the plebeians? These questions remain unanswered, and the extent of gtardo's access doesn't change the uncertainty for other members that this whole mess has created.
Because I don't have to tell you a fucking thing, @Faceman. You're not the one who was restricted to the Violet Room. This is a courtesy.
Fuck off with the lies and playing dumb. You've just set up a new subforum with a new unarticulated rule, and you're saying it doesn't impact any of the rest of us? Well, thanks for confirming outright that this was nothing more than a conspiracy to drive gturner off, because if it wasn't then you'd understand what Face is asking.
So you're saying there is no risk that any other WF member will share gturners fate? That the violations were violations only gturner was capable of committing? I have to say that's pretty unlikely the way things are going. I'm asking what all WF member must do to avoid gturners fate. We will only be able to follow the rules if you tell us what they are. Surely you get this. Stop playing lawyerball and answer the questions. Your hesitancy to speaks volumes.
There is no conspiracy. Everything has been right out in the open. Seriously, when you get upset, do you lose the ability to read? @shootER wanted him banned. He said as much. I actually said that when I put the Violet Room together, I had @gturner in mind, because I figured he was going to be the first to go there. Not an iota of this has been withheld from you. How do you continue to miss it? I mean, @Faceman does it because he's a cock who enjoys drama. Why do you do it? Because you sure as shit aren't reading what I've linked for you every time you ask this question. Here they are again, READ THEM. http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/the-violet-room.111377/page-2#post-2903804 http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/the-violet-room.111377/page-3#post-2903833 http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/the-violet-room.111377/page-3#post-2903857 http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/the-violet-room.111377/page-5#post-2903900
Well, hell, you don't need answers from me. Looks like you've figured out the ones you wanted already. It's like I said earlier, you just like drama, which is why your protests hold no weight with me.
Your links contain nothing by hints and presumes that he clicks on a post every time he gets tagged. He is not a big rep user and he gets tagged frequently. How do you know he even read his alerts and therefore those posts? What was explicitly said to gturner directly? Where is the articulated rule that we all need to be wary of? Who are the posters driven away by gturner, as per the claim today and in the links in your post? Who else is being watched?
I changed my sig right before I implemented the Violet Room. Also, I had just watched "Past Tense" the night before, and it really seemed fitting. The sig does two things: (1), shows my love of DS9, and (2), reminds me that the Violet Room is something to be used sparingly, and that, yes, good intentions can lead to bad results.
Do you know why they look like hints to you instead of straight up answers? Because you think there's more underneath. There isn't.
@shootER wanted him banned and openly said so. How are you not absorbing this information? It has been repeatedly handed to you.
You've admitted you sent him PMs telling him how to change his behavior and avoid banning. What did you tell him?
He said he wanted to outright ban him. He said he did not agree with this halfway house horseshit. How are you not absorbing that fact that I have said repeatedly to you that you should either have changed the rules or had the guts to just outright ban him and be honest that that's all it was ever about? It's the halfway house politician bullshit that's making it worse, as is the cowardice of Gul and Anna by offering you up as the lamb for slaughter.
When discussing the merits of a particular decision, I don't think the simple fact that one person wanted to go further is all that relevant. This is not a binary thing where only two options are possible.
It is whenever someone thinks it's all a grand conspiracy to get rid of a poster. What I'm saying is that none of this has been hidden, nor have the intentions of the Admins. It's been clear and right out in the open about what the Admins think of gturner. That people tie conspiracies to it is absurd.
John is so full of crap, everyone should make sure to stay a mile or more away from him - he is liable to burst and spread his crap everywhere. In fact, it looks like he already has.