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I don't really know where to go with this. My experience is that the people who make these accusations resort to more accusations whenever someone disagrees with them, like the comment that I must be "personal friends" with Merle because I'm sticking up for her. I'm not entirely sure what that means. If you mean friends who met outside of WP, the answer is no. If you mean do I consider myself friends with Merle, the answer is yes. When I first came to WP, I heard all of these rumors of unfairness, and at first I believed them. But when I tried to ask more questions of the people spreading the rumors, what I received back were nasty comments and threats, nothing that added up. When I finally got up the courage to PM Merle, she gave me actual answers. She listened to what I had to say and she responded with logical reasoning that addressed the things that I've said. If it's somehow wrong to stick up for someone who is nice to you and makes sense, when the people who are accusing them of nasty things don't make sense at all.. well I must be horrible. If all you have is quips about how I must be biased if I'm sticking up for her, you're just being malicious and creating trouble on purpose-- and convincing me that you're the one in the wrong here.

Yes, Merle gave you answers, about her side. She's very sly and clever. So her being "nice", could well be an act. I think people who got wound up when you were asking them questions, were probably doing the normal aspie thing when they're in a nasty situation and feel helpless. Merle also PM'd me when I first joined, and was very nice to me. But when she saw posts about the sexist thread "where males stand in this forum" "if men say something we don't like, it'll be deleted". She turned on me, and I saw a totally different side to her. A very sadistic and scary one.

Yeah, you're right Pika. Well I just wanted to add my experience to this issue. I'm pretty sure Alex can find out all the answers here, so lets leave it to him.

I have a PM box full of messages that appear as if I'm dealing with a psychotic in their mode of communicating, via sport with using manipulation to intimidate. Both there and on the forums this has been directed at me. I see the other mod using very low-grade insults and language directed at another then locking the thread behind it and the two seem supportive of each others actions backing each other up in other situations. My sense is they are abusing their power as moderators and pushing their weight and "authority" around quite a lot.

Okay I do not wish to talk about her publicly here. MaggieDoll knows my side of the story as we discussed through PM so I'll leave it at that. She can choose to believe or choose to think I am one of those "trolls." After hearing her side about Sins, well she could be misunderstood because she also goes by patterns in behavior and MD explained what I said to my reply to her final warning sound like something trolls do to back out and a accusation. Because she has dealt with so many trolls, that could be why she didn't answer my questions to help me understand better what she told me. It just proved my point she is bad news when she didn't answer. But because she has accused innocent people of being trolls and banning them unfairly, they were hurt and went to other forums and bad talked about her because they were hurt. So now there is all this hate talk about her and I just don't see why a troll would go to another forum and lie about how they were banned from here. It's more logical to lie about it here under a new account so I just can't see why they would lie at the other board to everyone. I was hurt by her so I ranted about her elsewhere on forums because I was hurt and upset and I needed to vent and let it out. I knew doing it here would not be the answer. I won't say more.

I find it wonderful that, the moment we lose our moderation privileges, how swiftly the membership shows their gratitude to our service. Or at least, I hope, a minority.

When we moderate, we do it for the good of the forum as a whole. I take a utilitarian approach to moderation. That means the strongest amount of good to the most amount of people. If other people are disruptive, and continue to do so, well, we will ban them. This, first and foremost, is a support site for people with AS, not a shooting range or a chance to show off that you or your opinion is foremost amongst all others.

And this is how you treat us in return? You disgust me. Pathetic, petty little minds who cannot get over slights either imagined or exaggerated as justification for doing what you want, regardless of how others feel. You are poor examples of the human race as a whole, regardless of whether or not you have Asperger's, autism, or are an NT.

Deleting an entire post history is not something you do by mistake. lac

sinsboldly wrote:

Mysty wrote:

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alex wrote:

I am not aware of entire threads disappearing.

If this was caused by a moderator, the intent was clearly malicious, and that person will never be a moderator on my forum (or any other one for that matter).

so in one sweeping gesture, you think of only one reason, the very worst you could think of and you throw every one of your moderators under the bus. Alex, the saddest thing is I actually thought when the chips were down, you be a better man than you are.

Merle

Thrown under the bus just because you don't have moderator privileges? That's rather unfair to the rest of us who aren't moderators. Not being a moderator isn't a negative -- it's normal.

in order to be clear it is expressly this comment by Mr. Plank that infers he has prejudged the situation i.e. 'thrown the moderators under the bus'.

Alex wrote:

]If this was caused by a moderator, the intent was clearly malicious, and that person will never be a moderator on my forum (or any other one for that matter).

why would it be 'clearly malicious' without investigation?

Merle

Because it's not that easy to do. Clicking a ban button is an easy mistake, deleting a post is pretty easy too deleting an account involves a lot more at at least on SMF boards and to delete all of someones posts even more than that. It screws with the tables on the back up and can cause instability which is way it's not done much.

Moderators manipulating and abusing their authority and power disgusts me.