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Subject: Harrassment in The Virtual Tavern

cainbrogan opened this issue on Jan 19, 2003 ยท 92 posts


CyberStretch posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 9:17 PM

Actually, AgentSmith, cain provided a link in the second thread. === Cain, If you want my honest opinion: The first thread was seemingly resulting in a potential flamewar between you and cambert; which is probably why it was locked. I cannot vouch for how many fora you posted the link into, but it would seem that it was enough for cambert to request you to stop. IIRC, I saw the same thread in the Poser forum - or one of the ones I frequent - so that would make at least 3 that it was posted to. Multiple posts of the same nature, especially when there is a financial aspect to it, is considered Spamming. Others could have ignored it as I had, and went on their merry way. However, each of us have a "personal threshold" and some are lower than others. The second thread, IMHO, lost any potential validity when you said "Kevin, put up or shut up!" in post 3. That could be seen as a challenge and, of course, all the members who frequent the Tavern will protect it. Although there was some harassment on both sides of the fence, it did not start until after post 3. kbennet, IMHO, conducted himself like any mod would and I do not see any vindictiveness toward you except after the challenge and several attempts to reason with you. I am sure you realize that I am not a R'osity shill by any means; just look through my history and you will see that I question their motives more than I applaud for them. A few words of advice: 1) Some things go over well, others do not. IMHO, the ones that are resulting in a flop are probably better left to die. No amount of discussion will likely change anyone's stance when both sides staunchly defend their opinions. 2) If you want only positive feedback, issuing a challenge is not the best way to achieve it. Lead by example. Sometimes, it is best to ignore the negative and still attempt to get the positive from the person you addressed it to. I am not taking sides one way or the other, but you asked for opinions and I presented mine.