To me, veganshawn's use of his moderator abilities has been questionable in the past, and over the last few days it's been ridiculous. I've PMed mikefork, twitch, and grimcity regarding and mikefork was cool enough to reply very quickly. I'm posting our PMs for everyone to see and I'd like to hear opinions about this. I just don't think a guy that gets into such heated arguments with posters and acts as immature, especially with his privileges as a moderator, as he does should have thje ability to delete people's posts and threads. A normal poster, fine, but a moderator should not get to the point where his challenging people to come "talk their shit to his face in Portland."
ps. (and by me just feeling the need to write the following sentence, there is something obviously wrong): veganshawn, please don't delete this. let's see what everyone has to say...
So here is the brief exchange I have had with Mike fork up to this point today:
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« Sent to: mike fork on: Today at 11:57:30 AM »
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So it's become pretty obvious that Veganshawn is not doing a good job, and his immaturity with respect to his moderating privileges is very apparent. Is there a process where he can have his moderator title taken away? He has done some very questionable things on this board since I've been on it over the last couple years, nothing personally involving me, but I've witnessed it and the guy has abused his powers. The free speech thread is kind of the last straw. He deleted posts which pointed out flaws in his argument. This is ridiculous. If he's going to make personal attacks and arguments in threads, there is no way he should have the ability to edit other peoples arguments by deleting their posts. Please let me know or start the process or create a thread discussing the issue. Thanks.
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« Sent to: dudebro on: Today at 12:07:48 PM »
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I'm not picking side, but what has happened over the past couple of days is ridiculous. I have been trying to stay unbiased but you can only take so much before you want to do something. Some people were just not made for the internet. I can't do anything myself, however you can email/p.m twitch telling him what has happened over the past few years and especially the past few days, and what you think should happen. Odds are he'll listen since a few people have sent him messages about it
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« Sent to: mike fork on: Today at 12:18:39 PM »
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Thanks for replying so quick. I don't want to post your PM without your permission, but it would really helpful of you to post something like this in/as a thread so that everyone sees that one of the moderators realizes veganshawn is not doing a good job. If its just the same few antagonistic posters (Dr. Newton, Kilgor, etc), people don't really take it seriously, but if you or another moderator made it publickly known that you dont' approve of his actions, i think people would really think about what he's done and question his role as a moderator. People in this forum should be able to post without having the fear of a crazed moderator shutting down their thoughts just because they don't agree with him.
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« Sent to: dudebro on: Today at 12:31:01 PM »
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You can post it if you want. That was pretty much a summary of what i wrote on the first page of his thread, but i think it was just avoided by most people. At a few points I was on the verge of deleting my account and never coming back because I didn't want to be involved with any of this nonsense but I figured that I might as well stay around and see what happens as a result. I started to think that Shawn's constantly clashing opinions and relentlessness attitude to jump into an argument is affecting his ability to watch over the boards and keep everything in order. Still though, I am trying to not take sides so whatever happens, happens for the best in my opinion. If Shawn calms down and is able to do what he's supposed to then great, if he loses his mod status then it was for the best. No hard feelings either way