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There are some arguments and comments that you
will always find people throwing in your face when they don't like the way
something was handled. Some of them can be pretty amusing, or assinine, or
both. Here are a few of the more memorable ones.
First is the "This is America and I have the right to say whatever I
want." Which can be very funny when the person is not talking to someone
in America, or about a place that might not be in America. The LPMud I was an
Admin on was originally based out of Switzerland. Yet, you would get people who
got in trouble whining "I am an American! This is America! You can't
infringe on my freedom of statement!" People need to keep in mind that
while a large number of people on the net might be Americans, not everyone is,
nor is every site. The rights they feel are absolute in their country may not
be elsewhere, or even in their country. The US Supreme Court has acknowledged
some limits to freedom of statement, which would mean it is not an absolute
right after all. Is it any wonder this statement is usually snickered at?
A second argument is "You need to treat people like adults!" Which is
actually a fair argument, so long as people ACT like adults. I have seen people
use that battle cry after they have been in trouble for some of the most
childish behaviour. Such as flamebaiting people, bashing people, name calling,
etc. Then when they get in trouble they whine about it and complain that they
aren't being treated like an adult. Any wonder why?
Another is "You just threatened me." This commonly occurs after a
Moderator addresses someone. After AmericanWoman1 started acting up
during Big Brother 2 and stated she would head off into the sunset I made a
post she took as a threat. It addressed her whining about being Moderated,
leaving her with a question which to this day she has not answered. (She stated
she had been around for over a year and never moderated, in posts complaining
about having been moderated. A little contradictory.) I also made the statement
that if she continued in the vein she was going (constant complaining and
flamebait), and wasn't able to go off into the sunset like she stated she
would, someone would help her. The immediate response was, that was a threat. .
To me it was a statement of fact. She was getting antsy, flamebaiting, and
started whining that she might just leave. If she had continued in that
direction, and didn't want to stop, she would have ended up being tossed on her
ass.
A more current example would be a warning I gave to one poster just a few days
ago about flamebaiting, which another poster got pissy about. Mainly because he
had the hots for her. So, he claimed it was a threat so he could leap to her
defense. Anything to impress I guess. (And he is one of the people who had used
the "treat us like adults" cry in the past.) As I have always said,
people will take whatever they want and interpret it their own way; as a
threat, a word of caution, advice, whatever their little mind desires.
One of my all time favourites is "I am leaving here and never coming
back!" I can't tell you how many times I have heard that line. Usually it
is a ploy for either sympathy or attention. The people who leave and don't come
back very rarely advertise. They just leave. Those who make those threats might
leave, but tend to be back within a few weeks. There was a couple on the LPMud
who would pull that all the time. They would leave long rambling posts
castigating everyone and everything, going on about how much they hated the
site, how stupid everyone but they are, etc. The longest one of them ever
stayed away was about 6 months. Usually they returned within a week. Even when
they say they are leaving, people tend to lurk. Whether it is as another
character on a game like an LPMud, or just read and not post on an internet
board. Is it any wonder that this is usually seen as an idle, and childish
threat?
Lastly we have ye olde "If you don't like it, leave." This one
usually gets applied to Moderators and Admins, whether they actually said it
that way or not. It could easily fall under the "I was threatened"
category, but deserves mention on its own. Usually, a Moderator will reply to
someone whining about having been moderated by saying: This is a moderated
site, if you don't like it there are unmoderated sites out there for you. I
have used that exact phrase more than a few times myself. As with things that
get construed as a threat, it can be taken many ways, and people will take it
whatever way they want. So, if you are someone who has an axe to grind, or is
looking for something to whine about, it gets taken as "Like it or leave
it." or "If you don't like it start your own site.". When I say
it, it means just what it says, nothing more, nothing less. TVCH is a moderated
site. If you don't like being moderated, and post in such a manner that you
will end up being moderated, it may not be the type of site you want to be at.
I always figured it was common sense, and that if you were on a moderated site
then seeing posts moderated, or even being moderated should not be that big a
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We received this nice letter from the ezop
at Reality TV Addicts:
Hello...I am the ezop and webmaster of RealityTvAddicts.com.
I wanted to personally apologize on behalf of all my administrators and
moderators. We have had to use the application feature on our board due to the
recent events at Reality 411. Unfortunately we were caught up in their board
war.
I joined Letztalk on the same day that
Reality411 started the board war with them. They thought I was part of the war
since I began posting on Reality's board first and deleted my posts. Mike from
Sendagig came over to my board and posted an apology and invited me back to the
board. We have decided to link each others boards since I became friends with
all the administrators and mods at letztalk which now has developed into a war
with Reality411. We have also gained quite a few members from Reality411 since
this thing started. My ezboard account has since been hacked into..posts were
deleted and access denied to many people ( I assume including you).
We deeply apologize and you are welcome at any time to view and post at our
board.
Thank You
Reality Tv Junkee
Reality Tv Addicts.com
Thanks RTVJ! |
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We are getting numerous e-mails concerning the
state of the Top 50 lists for Big
Brother, Survivor, and
Reality TV. All three lists have been
wiped, and some brave few are reapplying, but even then the lists seem to be
having some technical difficulties, and more wipes seem possible.
We have tried to contact the owner of the lists, to no avail. Posts to their
technical support are also not answered.
We did find some interesting links at their home site - an
Operator list which
seems to be very outdated, and a page on
Becoming and Operator,
which also seems somewhat outdated. And if you want to see what the operators
look like, click here.
We suspect with the problems is net advertising, that the Top 50 owner has lost
interest in this project. We would like to hear from him to tell us the future
of the Top 50 list. Otherwise webmasters should begin looking for another,
better maintained list. |
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From the home office at
TVClubhouse we have this issues
Top 10 list.
The Top 10 Stupidest Excuses and Complaints. (pulled from actual posts)
10. There is no rule against anything I did, so fuck you.
9. The moderators are a bunch of power hungry net nerds and that's why I was
moderated.
8. Someone else started it!
7. The moderator is playing favorites w/ the HG's
6. That was never in my post, the moderators must have put that there.
5. This is America and I have the constitutional right to say whatever I want.
4. I knew my post was flame bait and even said so in my post, so why was I
moderated?
3. I didn't say anything that the HGs haven't said!
2. I got moderated and what I said wasn't bad and I have seen much worse things
left on the board.
and the number one stupid excuse/complaint is
1. Dear moderator -- I've made the same post about how so-and-so is such a
bitch three times now, and it keeps disappearing. What's happening to my posts?
Honourable mention:
I am leaving here and never coming back!
I did nothing wrong, you are just picking on me.
I guess I'm just looking for trouble tonight. |
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We were hoping our star reporter would come back,
but Juez N. Jurado has decided in the aftermath of the World Trade
Center to spend time as a volunteer helping in the recovery. God be with you
Juez.
Are these people crazy? Elite TV is
planning on running a Big Brother type game at their site. Isn't this the same
type of game that was run on TVCH twice, resulting in two board
splits, of which ETV is one?
Of the recent board wars, it seems that Letz
Talk has emerged relatively unscathed. Continuing to keep an open board, it
seems more and more posters are showing up at the site.
Our favorite troll continues to post on our messageboard, though he also
continues to tell us goodbye. We may have to upgrade his status from troll to
stalker.
We realize Reality TV Junky received some flak for posting/advertising
his messageboard on ours. That type of posting is fine by us - we like to hear
about new boards and events on existing boards, so feel free to post such
information. That is part of our reason for existence - a central place that
reality tv netizens can find out news about other sites.
Just don't let it turn into spam. |
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What can we say about JT5292 at
Reality TV Fans? Nothing, really,
except that we like how they write and we doubt that they will receive much
recognition in the RTVF weekly blurb here.
So we thought it would be nice to make them this issue's Favorite Poster!
Now get back to work! |
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