Jay, please reread the FIRST POST in this thread. Pez did not post anything new. But nice try. I know what you're trying to do. Stop it.
As to the rest, the Kags thread should have been handled differently, I totally agree. But the only reason I think this is because Kags herself was in the thread and could Report/complain about content if it bothered her. I also think that Pez is taking it to the next level with the way he handles things. Starting out a PM with the subject "Don't Push Me" is not conducive to an adult conversation, no matter what the contents of the message say. As his response to Vrii? Oi. I thought I'd addressed the issues in the first post I made in this thread, but people are still continuing.
And now there's people following him around doing shit just to provoke him. Chippy had a couple posts removed BY ME and then continued. So he's gone for 24 hours. So what did he do then? Posted as a guest and continued his shit. So now it's a week and I had to suspend Guest posting. Because of one person acting like an asshole.
I've been through that thread a couple times and Adam made the first salvo. Pez then answered using the aforementioned "Don't Push Me", which was a terrible reaction to have. But even though that happened, I still think Pez has the right idea about the cosplay sub. The rules he posted (after the fact) are pretty spot on and are those which I totally agree. That doesn't absolve him from escalating the situation when it didn't need to be, but right now I'm trying to play cleanup and exercise some preventive steps.
First, I'm not talking about the warnings that were given. I only talked about Chippy because it needed to be put out there as to why Guest posting (which has been great and I love it!) has been temporarily suspended. If you think I'm going to go around and publicly shame people you're going to be sorely disappointed. Praise in public, punish in private.
Second, Pez can read and he knows exactly how I feel about the situation. He also knows that I'm not going to make snap decisions in the heat of the moment and that I'm going to have his back if he deserves it. What happened yesterday is not enough to take away his subforum, no matter how much his style differs from how you think it should be run.
Third, I have removed the "Really, REALLY?!?" thing. I left "Disagree" in there but that's considered a neutral rating. I know that's a small thing, but the constant thread stalking by multiple people - including Pez - is frickin' annoying. The biggest issue is that it's spread so far around the boards that it's very, very difficult to tell who did what first to whom. It's like football. I could punish it when I see it but that's usually not the one who deserves it. I don't want to punish someone for forum self defense.
Fourth, I think Vrii is right that Pez's "Final Thoughts" is not exactly conducive to active participation. I will be addressing this with him directly. Vrii is spot on when it comes across like he's "taking the ball and going home" - sorry, Pez. I realize the boards will stay open so the analogy doesn't quite work out, but it does come across like that.
In the end, everyone calm down, let us talk about stuff (and that means both everyone in this thread as well as the mods in the mod forum) and then we'll figure something out. But we're not going to make a snap decision based on the posts of a few vocal users on either side of the issue.
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GasBandit , I know what you meant. But the politics sub and the cosplay sub are so different your point didn't make sense in context.