Oh look - Odeon's back to destroying free speech by editing poll options.
Joy! This place sure lives up to what it was intended as
Yep. Here's's a similar example of somebody destroying free speech in the film Love actually:
(NB,. Just in in case of confusuion, I should say: the band, Blue didn't really declare that they had little pricks . It was just that intellectually dishonest character, Billy Mack making it look like they were saying that)
It's more than that. For one thing, der Fuhrer here obliterated the actual words, and voting. It was even done
(due to the way SMF works) without recording the fact in a visible manner.
It's a habit with our Fearless Leader to use his admin powers in such a manner. I mean sure,
Scrap's obnoxious as all hell sometimes (like here), but the reaction is worse than the original offense.
Moreover, one expects more (not less) from those in power.
And it's not like he hasn't acted in just such a manner, unprovoked, in the past.
He's a fucking baby.
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I agree with a lot of your points , Cal, but not your conclusion. You forget this was never actually a serious thread, just a self-evident bit of dick-waving of a type we;ve seen countless times before. Odeon's response was a self-evidently childish prank of a type that , arguably, ought to be beneath a forum admin, but " the reaction is worse than the original offense" ? Don't make me laugh.
Odeon's reaction, for the record, was to insert "Scrap is a wanker" as every poll option (though the votes were not altered- for what that;'s worth"). Scap's counter to that is to change every option to "odeot molests little boys" which is of an entire;y different order to the "Wanker " taunt isn't it? Indeed, people have been known to quit I^2 in a huff over Odeon's refusal to treat sex crime taunts as a bannable offense. That one
really gets peoples hackles up, not just Odeon's.
Unless you actually buy Scrap's little conspiracy theory that Odeon's "abuses of power" are merely the tip of the iceberg, and we;re really looking at a power-mad narcissist, surrounded by a cohort of sycophants. then it's pretty damned clear that Scrap's behaviour is worse.
I've never see4n anything to suggest that Odeon's overt behaviour us merely the tip of the iceberg. Looks to me that what you see is pretty much what you get.
What
I'm looking at here is a sort of "playground monitor loses his rag" situation. Nothing more sinister than that,. Shouldn't happen in an ideal world , like you said., but What the heck, playground monitors sometuimes turn out to be human...even on Spazz boards. There's actually been a thread about that (can't be arsed with looking it up) where a few of us had a bit of a go at Odeon about it, and a reasonable discussion ensued. is Scrap inviting a reasonable discussion? the hell he is.
Well that all goes to show how right you are when you say " Scrap's obnoxious as all hell sometimes", doesn't it?
When I was looking at this thread earlier, i wondered to myself if scrap had twigged that Odeon has reason to feel a tad more vulnerable today? or if he might just have the humanity to lay off awhile, once he does twig it?
Just found my answer FFS:
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,19253.msg1201670.html#msg1201670So, Odeon's a baby, if you like. Or rather, odeon can be pricked into using his Admin tooks in a thoroughly childish fashion. Dear me,. Civilizatuion will come to an end if we let this go on.
I've been on fora where the Admin surreptitiosly deleted dozens of (active) user accounts, on the suspicion those users were malcontents . And I've been on fora where consensus said that that the site owner has every right to act like a petty tyrant, if he pleases., even down to surreptitios deletions , public slander and abusive PMs ...well, ok though , those latter two made people pretty damned nervous though, even to the point of creating yet more actual malcontents ripe for deletion. One of those Admins just pulled the plug on the whole damned forum eventually- without so much as a second's notice. Now
that is tyranny.
That is abuse of power.
Needless to say, scrap wouldn't havbe lasted ten seconds on one of those other fora; and nobody would ever have known where he got to; they'd just be encouraged to assume that he quit. of his own accord.
I really don't see you , I, Scrap, or anyone here, including Odeon, ever allowing that sort of thing to take root on I^2. . The childish japes are not the tip of the iceberg , they;re the whole damned story, IMO., and somebody's being a drama llama about it. Or something. I don't see
anybody acting like a grown up...well, nobody except for those who maintain a cautious distance from the whole sorry show.
