moderators editing members posts

[Sean]

Originally Posted by dubman

1. as much as can be dished out on a board. i'm still a member. all the same things that make me a regular poster are still there. i'd say the same whether i was a mod or not.

Understood. But the public airing of private messages is a bit taboo as my understanding of standard forum etiquette goes. As a moderator, I expected that maybe you'd be more mindful of that fact. If you don't intend to be, then that's good to know.

Originally Posted by dubman

2. wasnt apologizing and dont intend to. i'll cop to something when im called out on it, but thats about it.

That's too bad. A moderator changing a forum member's post for their own amusement seems to cross a line that I would've expected at least a mild apology for. But your refusal to do so does tell me that you're a moderator to be wary of, so I guess I still get something out of the deal.

Originally Posted by dubman

3. sean, i wasn't calling you an asshole (come to think of it, did i? lol. dont remember. ah well) but what i was mainly saying was how you were doing everything but calling me an asshole, which is all you wanted to do if you shave the extraneous bullshit. i dont see how not doing that was sticking to the point, it actually made it funnier. especially since what you did wasnt any different, just more restrained.

Yeah, actually you did. You called me a "pedantic asshole" to be specific. Frankly, I don't really care what you call me, I was just pointing out that it's a difference in our approaches.

But to be clear in regards to what you've assumed here about my intent (and to verify the "pedantic" aspect of your name-calling at the same time ), no, what I wrote was not meant to imply that I think you're an asshole. I've never met you, so I don't know if you're an asshole or not. You could be a super guy. All I can do is react to your arguments, and those are what I was referring to. Saying that I believed your arguments displayed to me that you were "out of your depth" on the subject meant just that. Nothing in that statement implies that I'm pretending to know anything about your overall personality. All I know is that though you had ample opportunities, I never felt you represented your steadfast stance in a meaningful way, and so I believe that you had displayed that you were out of your depth in the argument. Sure, that wasn't a nice thing for me to say, but I don't think we were too worried about being "nice" at that point. The point is that there's a big difference between criticizing your arguments and criticizing you as a person.

I do find it interesting though that you've been consistent in dismissing any critical thought about those you disagree with, instead opting to assign whatever label to them that suits your argument. In the GWB thread, it was calling people on the pro-life side of the argument "fucking retards" rather than recognizing the legitimate point that their stance is based on their view of the sanctity of a fetus' life - and in my case, rather than acknowledge that I said your arguments were essentially weak, ineffective and unfair, you've deemed that what I was really saying was that I think you're an asshole. And don't read anything else into this observation. Honest to god, it's just what I said it is - an observation that I find interesting, and that I'll keep in mind in future debates with you.