thoreau wrote:
there is much that makes me laugh about the mods and the anorak on ickes - the laugh is tainted with much sadness bewilderment and a measure of WTF!!
Without meaning to upset anyone who has a belief in the sorts of things i am about to ridicule - the place is in the name of someone who believes the world is run by lizards - the web admin is a guy who thinks that jewish run groups are paying people to send psychic attacks to the mod team - the mod team includes someone who thinks he fell into a wall. someone else who believes they are regularly abducted by aliens and someone with severe mental health problems....
I think the worst aspect though is the way it stands for everything it says it doesn't. Here has been plagued with bitch fights and flouncing, but it's imperfect humans being imperfect. The fact that stuff happens in a weird way makes it better - nobody AFAIK - has had a mod do anything about someone telling that mod they're chatting shit/are a shit mod etc and the fact any minor controversy has everyone chucking in twopennorth does make the forum look a bit daft and gossipy at times, but it also shows people can have an oopinion on what's going on.
On the DIF it's all swept under the carpet. I discovered this place because posters were suddenly disappearing like some third world dictatorship liquidating people. And it's forbidden to ask why lest you also be liquidated. You can't criticise what govts do if in your own tiny trivial way you behave like some tinpot dictator.
I got a lot of points from Ex-Sheep on the DIF simply because I'm sceptical of 911 theories. He'd hover around suspending me and giving permanent points for ridiculous reasons - because he did not like what he believed being challenged and used his power rather than rational debate.
We reflect the people at the top in how we act, except we do not have the power they have.