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Not even. I said that as a member of this board, not a moderator.

Censorship tastes like candy.

Clint who? Never heard of him.

I am a smug, sarcastic, arrogant, caustic, ego-driven, overblown asshole. Why is this still news? Is it a slow week?

And no, I never did like Clint, because every other post of his mentioned his website. I dislike people who come to a website to drive them to another website. Spam bothers me. Heck, it's in the rules thread. I was well within my rights.

As for the topics you noted, the first example is a bad one because people that post in Helheim can post in one, and not in the other, so the threads will be different because quite a few stubbornly remain guests.

If you, personally, started threads about Dead Soul Tribe all over the place, then I'd delete those. If two people do it, I wouldn't have a problem.

You can admit you're an asshole all day long. Fact remains, people don't like assholes. Thus you'll get negative responses. It doesn't bother me either way, really. I'm not you.

But you're a moderator, and as a moderator you may want to leave those traits of yours at the door. They don't bode well with others, and using them as a springboard to verbally berate others under the guise of being "well within your rights" is stupid.

Can't disagree.



Did you not find the reasoning within the remainder of my post to be adequate?

Well, this is crappy news. DM, you are "exercising you rights" as WIC would if he was in your position.

Wow, just wow. There are 1,001 more professional ways to deal with this.



Sir, yes sir! :roll:
This isn't boot camp, it's a message forum on a music site. Again, there are many more ways to tactfully make a point.



:shock:

You raelly take pride in that statement? That's disturbing to say the least. Well, those are exactly the qualities that we don't want in a moderator.

Partially, yes. I don't see the need for multiple threads. But I think your approach was way off base. Also, I really don't think the amount of posts about his site are enough to warrant such seething sarcasm.

Allow me to clarify.

The reason I changed the title of this topic is simple: Because Clint doesn't need to have more than one topic about his website. He never did. I could have gotten the message across in a far more eloquent manner, but I'm not always polite, especially not these days. Perhaps I should pay more attention to what I say.

I didn't mean to drive Clint away; I just wanted him to stop posting new topics about his website. One is enough.

I don't take pride in that statement; just me acknowledging what I am. There's no pride to be found in that fact.



Upon further consideration, I agree. I'll call him over and see if I can smooth over the damage.

Sorry, guys. Let me know again if I ever act like a power-mad tyrant.

EDIT- Never mind, it doesn't seem like that'll be a problem.

Ouch. Was it by choice DM?

No.

Twas my fault. I regret my actions, but they're set in e-stone now.

*Australian voice*
This is very rare folks. DM admits he is wrong you are in for a real treat here. I've seen him do this once before and it was a very epic moment.

No pride.

That should ring very loud when you read it back.

What I am.

If you can't be proud of what you are, you change. I don't know what issues you have going on in your personal life, but when I was young my life sucked: alcoholic, abusive father that didn't work, we were poor, my mother was miserable, my family were a bunch theiving assholes, etc...etc (and worse). I could have turned out like an angry, hateful scumbag, but at an early age I figured I'd not turn out that way. It's not hard, just deal with it internally, not externally (when you do that you find yourself in situations like this).

Change. It's a simple concept, really.


I think you should.


REPENT!

...you're quite a bit more forward with this then my last psychologist.

Yes, my family situation is a load of caustic, miserable shit. Crazy fuckup sister who'll probably rend my heart in two when she dies of overdose at 20, idiot verbal-abusive stepfather who bullies my mother and hates my sister, mother who is one step away from a nervous breakdown at all times, father who I love but don't see nearly enough, an inability to focus on real issues... I could babble on, but this is just way too personal to discuss on a message board in front of strangers by the dozen. I probably shouldn't even post the above, but you were kind enough to show us all a tad of what once was.

It's not that big a deal as long as there's not much detail.



I did. Let's see if he returns the message.



I've done what I can.

Metalrevies > Dr Phil

Seriously you and you alone are in charge of you life you can either change it for the good or leave it in the bad but only YOU can change it.

The thing is that if you have bad things in life and continue to let bad things in your life it's going to eat you up for the rest of your life.

Eyesore and DM thanks for opening yourselves up to us and I hope down the road things go good for both of ya.

That sounds familiar and there's probably nothing you can do about it. At 19 years old I'd been dealing with shit like for 8 years at that point. It took me beating the living shit out of my father and realizing that I probably could have killed him INTENTIONALLY to set me into a proactive mode. I'd not been much of a miserable prick outside of my house, but that was scary and made me change. I joined the Air Force then, I didn't want to but it got me away from it all.

And with me gone, my Mother had no protector anymore. That made her smarten up and after 9 years of abuse she finally left him. Now he's a homeless crack addict.

It's a cycle that I needed to extract myself from. I used to get into fights in school all the time, I had a short fuse, or, rather, a low tolerance for bullshit (i.e. you bump into me on purpose in the hallway because you think you're tough with your 4 friends, fine, I'll fuck all 5 of you up, that didn't happen often, but I tried...hahaha). Still, I directed it all at assholes and pieces of shit wannabe gangsters, not just anyone. I picked my battles wisely, I guess.

I also just tried to have fun any chance I could. Being miserable will kill you, I was miserable at home. That's where it stayed. It's a precarious balance, but it's not a hard one. You've gotta walk that line right down the middle until you can remove yourself from the situation. It's impossible to be 100% happy, but you can't be 100% miserable. Walk the line.

You don't have to respond to any of this. I'm 30 years old now. Life is good. I've had a long time to reflect on it all and I don't care if anyone knows my story. As I'm sure you can gather, I'm not the only one who went through something like that. Talking about your frustrations, though, can be much more helpful than taking them out on people.

Ok winter, now it's your turn.