Quote: SCLORCH said: If I really felt like leveraging anyone, I'd make an offer to buy the servers and the rights to The Shroomery. But I'm not going to be a dick like that even though I could afford to be.
Sclorch.. You were reged '99, that makes you a senior member. Whuat you are saying here sounds a lot like:
If I wanted to leverage people I'd simply buy the Shroomery, because I can afford it.
How shall I address this. Ummmm.. The Shroomery is not for sale! It is a pro deo organisation of volunteers! We are NOT sell-outs to the highest bidder! This is pretty damn insulting to the Administry. Would the City Council sell the town? THE SHROOMERY IS NOT FOR SALE !!
Quote: HUEHUECOYOTL said:
I've read most of Swami's posts over the last few months, and I have seen people get upset because he questioned their beliefs. He generally kept a good sense of humor and would make sarcastic comments occasionally to point out fallacious logic. If you consider this to be "harrasment" you are really thin skinned.
I really MUST ask you to reread my posts in these threads because several times I stated plain and simple that that, in my view, is *absolutely not the case* It's not sarcasm nor false superiority, but you are not reading what I am writing and I'm very specific in my wordings. I do not hold the notion that I'm better then you nor was I trying to be sarcastic. If I went sarcastic I would get flamed, because this is a tense topic, and I'm here to give my view so people come together again.
Quote: your "view" is difficult for many others to see as having any objectivity whatsoever.
Are views ever objective? In this thread I can not give anything else but my personal view as a member who happens to be a moderator. If I didn't give my view, you wouldn't even have my view 
Since I'm going on & on about my view now for something personal:
I do not want Swami to be permanently banned. I can see he is liked by many here. There however seems to be a range of tricks Swami uses to bait, annoy and harass many members, which has nothing to do with logic or points of view but can rather be described as subtle psychologic warfare for pesonal gain. Many in the Administry see this and some see it for a long time. Administry people who strongly disagreed with the charges against Swami have seen proof in his latest postings that it is all true, that they were taken in by his charm. I do not want to see Swami banned if he stops his private psychologic guerilla war that he has been made aware of. If he however continues to use his intellect for the purpose of insidiously making people feel very bad I feel he should be banned forever.
WhiteRasta:
"FEH!", does that mean spitting in disapproval? Is it an abbreviation? You use that alot when you disagree.
Quote: Each poster here adds to the "value" of the Shroomery as a commodity.
The Shroomery is not a commodity. It will not be sold and nobody recieves any money. Instead advertising money goes into server updates, software updates, connectivity and little projects like Shroomery Radio (I keep missing the broadcasts, darn!)
Quote: On Swami he HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT HIMSELF,If that now is "not approved" what next?
If Swami cannot separate his psychological warfare effort from his postings of logic and debating then a permanent banning is next. It's great you have such faith in Swami that you say he never was anything but himself. Try this one:
Suppose someone hacks into the server. All the time, dozens of times? Well, in my opinion it is very widely agreed upon based on Administry evidence that Swami hacks into people. All the time, hundreds of times. And with hacking I mean hax0ring with the intent to screw up the member. Not logic, not debating: insidious, intentional psychological abuse with the purpose of making people feel bad without letting them know what hit them. Clever. If you led or modded a website, would you let that slip by? I for one wouldn't. As far as I'm concerned he can either clean up his act and be very welcome or leave and not come back. Question is whether he likes the Shroomery enough to stop his insidious emotion play.
Quote: Now please Wiccan can you tell me why and who locked my thread in feed back?
Sorry, I can't. What I can and will do is ask the person involved to write you a PM but as you understand this is politics. Picture me as having voluntarily chosen to have no freedom of speech at all in the best interest of the community. We are passing a joint sitting on a mound of gunpowder here. There has been too much community drama already.
Quote: Now tell me I was not being baited to elicit just what he got?
Trust me: you were not being baited. I can tell you with 99% certainty. I have PM-ed around on said 1 hour ban when it happened with questions of my own.
Quote: I never recieved the PM we gave when I moderated in ODD explaining the lock?
I agree that was and is against standard policy and if you indeed did not get a PM for that I personally can't justify it to myself. I will contact the one who made the call to ban and ask that person to PM you. Given the circumstances I know of I don't think it was a bad call but then we're getting into politics again. I will contact said person but don't scream bloody murder once you got a name, ok? 
Quote: Handling via PM's is great but needs start with YOU guys when you lock or delete posts,this helps calm anger and educate the poster on where they stepped out of line.
In the vast majority of cases, I fully agree. You were a quite a bit pissed off that night tho (here it was night) so I dunno if that would've helped.
Please, if you want to get personal stuff off your chest in times of high drama do so by PM instead of in public. You've been a mod yourself, you know the workings.
Personally I don't believe in really short bans. If I ban someone (only did that once) it'll be nothing less then the full 24 hours, and that means a situation where i see no option but to deal the full blow, after I have exhausted all viable options. Knowing what I do now I would not have banned in that instance but written a warning PM that would've scared the egg out of a chicken.  No moderator takes banning lightly and bad calls are dealt with sternly like it should be. If you have seen that puppet show called "Dinosaurs" daddy dinosaur worked for a company called WESAYSO. There are times I wish the Shroomery Administry was being so dysfunctionally bossy and offer some members a nice warm cup of STFU but the Shroomery Administry is nothing like that. There's a very strong need for internal justification.
If I were in a funny mood and pressed BAN on you then I can look forward to between 5-10 mods and admins chewing me out and perhaps get an official warning by the latter. People seem to think anything goes "once you got power" but I for one got 10x more responsibilities then Shroomery Siddhi's. There's a substantial degree of politics involved with being a moderator.
If you (anyone) give poor heroin advice on ODD and a kid dies, you're a fuckoff. If a moderator slips up like that the man might bring the Shroomery down and confiscate the server because "the Shroomery killed this kid". There's a ton of politics involved with being a mod people just don't realize. You're literally taking on a volunteer's JOB with a ton of responsibilities.
Have faith in the Administry. The Shroomery is not for sale, we're not a powerhungry bunch and we are in fact all very gung ho to create to throw the finest psychedelic party in town.
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