LOL It's insult to the intelligence of anybody who reads this to think the only way that could happen is you overtly directly moderators to harass/ban people for hating on you. You could be delegating it, it could be people attempting to suck up to you by defending you or it could be a general culture of nobody ****s with the Top Dog (that moniker says a lot about your attitude and approach by the way - good technology companies don't have a Top Dog they have a Chief Coach who enables those below them to do their best work).

No. 2+2 has a Top Dog. That's the way our organization is structured. Furthermore, even though the authority for moderation is delegated to someone else, I do have the ability to do moderation when it's my decision to do so. Also, by my instructions, personal insults are something we moderate for. So please enjoy your three day vacation.

Best wishes,
mason

Wanted to clarify something because even though I used I, I was offering a general explanation as to why people are here and not why people who might have had an issue with Mason are still here or why I'm here.

I felt it was like the poster was saying the architect should get credit for people being at a museum instead of the exhibits. Nothing more.

I don't think Mason gave himself that undertitle and if he didn't give himself the undertitle, your point is even less valid.

If personal insults are something that is moderated for and people seem to be banned for, can you explain why nothing seems to have been done to the person who made post #65 in the following thread?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55...l#post26700732

Maybe everyone here should take Sgt. Hulka's advice: "Lighten up, Francis."

Maybe people hate the man because he likes to 'sign off' at the end of his posts. He write out his well formed thoughts and then give us a space or two before adding "MM" or "Mason Malmuth".
Why do people do this online?

Their mamas taught them to be polite.

Cordially,
ANobleGent

It is nice to know that my perception of Mason as a player vs Roy Cooke is in line with this. My perceptions are based soley on their writings, I have never played with either.

Good form would dictate that if you don't like your host leave, if you choose to stay be respectful. MM has always framed criticism as positive and something to learn from (if valid) but the sideways comments shouldn't be and hopefully won't be tolerated.

If 2+2's no nonsense confrontational tone when dealing with trolls and idiots makes it less like facebook, isn't that a good thing?

You learn a man's vices by looking at his friends. You learn a man's virtues by looking at his enemies.

FWIW, I think the thread title is incorrect. I think some people, and not everyone, have problems with Mason. Plus, no one can say everyone likes them.

For sure.

Did MM seriously ban this guy for commenting on his management style??? How is that a personal insult?? If someone on the forums states that they don't like how Howard Lederer managed FTP will they be banned for personally insulting Howard?? I guess freedom of expression is not permissible on 2+2 if it is less than sycophantic or contradicts management's POV. I find this totalitarian action reminiscent of an Orwell novel and am extremely disturbed by it. This self serving and rather petty action has; however, allowed me to understand the origin of this thread's title. That's not an insult, it is my point of view regarding censorship of free thought in what is suppose to be a free society; please don't minsconstrue one for the other.

+1 for balls, -1 for obligatory Orwell reference.

New account with "Posts Per Day: 8.96" and trolling the site owner with miss-information. I am surprised it is only a 3 day ban.

Let's see, new poster comes ITT to troll Mason, not to mention insult him. Big surprise?
Gimme a break.

Maybe the fact that his post barely contained any personal insults whatsoever worked in his favor to lighten the sentence.

Everybody knew this was eventually going to happen. Mason and/or Sklansky were going to reply to this thread with the typical "haters gonna hate/people hate us because of how much better at life we are than them" replies, someone was eventually going to point out that maybe, just MAYBE, there's more to it than that, and then Mason was going to get flustered and prove them right. I'm just surprised it took this long.

That was a very bad summary of what I wrote. First I admitted in my post that was sometimes more to it than that. Second I was talking about people in the industry, not players, and thirdly I said nothing about better at life.

What I said was that incompetant people entered the industry in the days before it was realized that good poker writing required similiar thinking ability as other skill games and those incompetants hated us for exposing them and costing them money.

There may be people who dislike us a little because of our curtness. But again, the ones who actually hate us are the people I was referring to.

There are also those that find you extremely odd/creepy after learning more about your lifestyle during Brandi-gate.

A large % of people would find most online poker players to be odd/creepy. Oh well.

Hmmm so, if i follow correctly, AQs > JJ; is that what we're getting at here?

Uh could you point out which part of his post contained the personal attack? I see a general criticism of what he perceives the organization of the site to be, and in less than mild words, but certainly no personal attack.

I think it's somewhat humorous that the way you respond to personal criticism (whether it be accurate or not) is to ban the offender and drop a cheesy "enjoy the vacation" one-liner. Reminds me of the co-manager of the local Blockbuster video company who adds an additional $1.50 in late fees to a customer who's annoyed him and then revels in the glory that is his vast and unlimited power.

I'm looking forward to my witty catch-phrase accompanied 3 day ban for this post by the way.

LOL @ the thought that someone is keeping tabs on anyone who posted something negative so they can ban them months later as some kind of vengeance.

I believe he chooses to use the account that is his.

Hint: It's not D.S.

And it's an insult to all the moderators here to suggest that their moderating decisions are guided by whether posts show respect to MM. Your posts show a serious misunderstanding of how things work around here, which is understandable since there's no reason you would have any knowledge of the inner workings of the site.

Using phrases like "totalitarian action reminiscent of an Orwell novel" when discussing one person's tempban on a privately owned forum, I would hope this post is meant as a joke.

If you are actually serious, the bolded sentence above seems to indicate you don't get around these forums very much.