Sorry for the long post here, but Im doing my best to lay my entire case on the table here upfront. I had no intention of going CSI on the MGMNH thread, but i felt obligated to now that apparently I am facing a tempban. This is the post in question which has led to me posting here.
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Originally Posted by Rapini
We're gonna leave this one to the other mods given my bias that I think you're an ******* based on your posting itt, but given your recent posting you should at least catch a tempban for deliberately misinforming the community.
I'll send them a PM so they can rule on it when I'm in front of a computer next, but don't post again itt until then.
If anyone has comments on Tomark or his posts itt (or mine), please post your thoughts in the CCP moderation thread. Thanks.
before this post by him, I mentioned that the mods ought to do something about Rapini, as you can see, he has gone with the "the best defense is a good offense" to all of a sudden decide that it is in fact I who should be banned. This is the type of behavior I would expect of him, considering that I consider him the most absolutely underhanded and aggressive person to post on the forums (i try to keep my personal attacks to a minimum, but there is no real way to discuss the specific issue with a poster without describing his character.). I have posted on the forums in threads which he moderates for literally years. I have never been tempbanned by him, and yet all of a sudden he thinks a ban is warranted in response to me suggesting that the mods ought to do something about him.
He even goes so far as to stack the cards against me by putting "or mine" in parenthesis, as if his own behavior is an afterthought of this discussion.
The fact is, he doesnt think i should be banned for "misinforming the community", he thinks I should be banned because I dared question his authority. I see no reason for why I should be put on trial for the mere act of mentioning the moderator's misconduct.
His basic MO is that he condescendingly shuts down any idea or suggestion or criticism in a poker thread. He has more recently taken it upon himself to (as best I can tell) follow me around to other threads in the forums and post after my posts making thinly veiled personal attacks against me.
Here is an example post:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...l#post53724457
After this specific post, back in April I reached out to him, and asked him to just not respond to me. I recognize that it is within his right to respond to me, but, I was trying to handle this situation like an adult, to avoid a completely unnecessary blow up.
specifically I said:
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please stop trolling my posts. You always post this garbage under any negative post I make. Youre just calling me an a-hole under thinly veiled “forum guidance” guise.
I dont know where you get the idea that Im only negative, I post a wide variety of opinions on these forums, positive and otherwise, feel free to actually read thru my posting history as you so love to suggest. I most recently thanked JG for helping with a room, and complimented potomac poker open. But to be honest I dont care what you think because you bring very little content to the forums, and seem to just spend your time shutting down productive conversation you disagree with. I would honestly prefer if youd keep your cancerous shilling miles away from anything I post. I reported your post, please stop, id rather whatever your issue with me is not escalate.
and he responded with
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What makes you think I was talking about you? Seems narcissistic to me. If you actually "post a wide variety of opinions, positive and otherwise," then I couldn't possibly have been talking about you, right?
I then just asked again
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Youre being disingenuous. Im not going to prove your intentions back to you.
All im asking is for you to stop trolling me and leave me alone. I want it to be as clear as possible: this beef goes one way, i dont care what you want to post, just dont post about or in response to me any more, and there isnt a problem. Act like an adult.
he then responded
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Sorry, but I won't be taking your desires into consideration when posting.
After this, I recognized I was talking to an unreasonable person, and I put an end to it. I left him alone for months since then, and have posted in these forums in general less often because he has single handedly turned me off to the whole forum. (it has actually sort of affected my posting in LLSNL more, because my irritation with him caused me to boil over and act foolishly towards someone in those forums, and I didnt want to take my frustration out on someone who didnt deserve it again. Also because I find the MGMNH thread to be a more overall useful thread to me, which means it was where I would check when using 2+2 in a more "bare bones" style.)
Most recently I said in the MGM thread
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Originally Posted by Tomark
0 of the 2 total toilets have toilet paper right now.
to which he responded
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Originally Posted by Rapini
Did you notify someone locally who could fix the situation for you right away? It's fine to bring a complaint here after exhausting other options that are more immediate.
As usual, Rapini tries to undermine my post, telling me the specific hoops im required to jump thru in order to post my statement of fact onto the forums.
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...3/index49.html
You can see the majority of the posters took my side, Trob888, Loonybird, zippythepinhead, and dcmidnight all specifically stated they agreed with my complaint. This is important because it shows the type of poster that Rapini is. Someone who tries to delegitimize nearly 100% of complaints, no matter how universally agreed upon they are in the community.
I just ignored his typical taunting behavior, as I have done for the months since when I tried to get him to act like an adult. I mean, what else am I to do? I like to post on the forums, and he is a moderator with infinite time on his hands, I figured the moment he hears resistance from me again, he comes for blood, and we fight in his home turf with his friends backing him up.
Just 5 days ago, Rapini goes at it again, not with me this time, trying to delegitize jacmrose's suggestion of a 2/3 stakes (seriously, its these minor of suggestions that puts him off the rails in this thread. One time when people were concerned about impending parking fees, he actually said that it might be a good thing if they implemented parking fees because it would keep the nits away!)
It ends with jacmrose saying:
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Originally Posted by jacmrose
Dude seriously I was just throwing out an idea. I don’t know why you have to always be so condescending.
I admittedly +1'd this post (although I also said that I agreed with Rapini's general point, even if the tone was certainly poor), and a secondary poster gives jacmrose a
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Originally Posted by mdl_player
+100
As far as other posters who Rapini is known to harass, Havax was his old whipping boy before me. He basically went in on him page 1 of the MGMNH thread with a sarcastic post about Havax's complaints, then page 2 just put "no" in bold after all of Havox's ideas (except one), then page 3 accused him of being a nit for another one of his complaints. (link below to page 3, im sure you can click thru to page 2 and 1)
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...43/index3.html
It is worth noting here that my issues with rapinis behavior ive posted here are coming from
about 4-6 total pages of almost entirely one thread. I am not a moderator, and I am spending about an hour of my personal time to make my complaint here as clear as I possibly can, but I can only put but so much time towards providing evidence, as I have not been left with the task of moderating the forums. If you were to turn to a random page of MGMNH, theres a decent chance of finding at least one post by Rapini where he is trying to discredit someone, or is acting condescending towards someone.
Now to the confrontation for today. There is a major smoke problem in the forums, something that nearly every single regular at the casino has complained about. People have said that it physically keeps them from being capable of playing, they are still being bothered by the smoke hours afterwards. This goes on for pages and pages and pages, and here is even Rapini admitting that even he believes the wide range of people saying that the problem is extreme:
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Originally Posted by Rapini
I believe everyone who is saying that there's smoke clouds, that they're going to die, etc.
I mention that a problem this severe likely ought to be reported to the appropriate authorities as follows:
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Originally Posted by Tomark
Snacks should be closed. Not because the big business gives a crap about us, or our comfort, but because filling a room of 400 people with smoke every day ought to be illegal, and likely IS. Dcmidnight honestly you probably know whatever org these issues should be reported to, and i would assume that if the appropriate inspector were called, Snacks would close whether the suits care about the health hazard or not.
The DC metro ignored their minor smoke problems for a while, and then one day it filled a whole train with smoke and killed someone. Imagine how this thread of people begging for management to close Snacks would play out in court if someone died of smoke inhalation at mgmnh.
Smoke inhalation is something I take very seriously. I am not joking around and trying to incite fear for fun. My brother in law was on the DC metro train that I mentioned. he was 2 seats away from the woman who died. Further, in March of this year while I was out of town, my house burned to the ground, nearly everything I owned was burned up, and both of my cats got stuck inside the burning house, one of them died from smoke inhalation, and the other nearly did as well. The little bit of things I own from my past life still smell like smoke to this day. (i can provide evidence of all of this if Rapini is so low as to think I am lying about any of this) Do you really think I am talking about the smoke problem because Im trying to get a rise out of people or misinform the community? (before Rapini posts, it would be well within Rapini's usual conduct to come in and claim some absurd secondary thing that was in fact what he was talking about for his "misinforming the community" comment, since he tends to leave everything he says vague enough to allow for him to change his content down the road as needed. However I see no other thing he could reasonably be talking about for my supposed "misinformation")
This is a legitimate concern for the MGMNH community, and yet Rapini has gone so far to (as best I can tell) argue that I deserve "at least" a temporary ban for "misinforming the community". This is incredibly insulting, and fits entirely in line with his MO of discrediting anyone who has a complaint or suggestion of any kind in the thread.
So we go on to this post:
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Originally Posted by punkass
I only played there a few times, but isn't "filling a room of 400 people with smoke every day" an exaggeration?
which Rapini posts and says
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Originally Posted by Rapini
Of course it is. But did you not expect that?
so, again, here he is making another thinly veiled personal attack on me, as is his MO. It irritated me enough to ask the mods to do something, which of course caused him to try to start a war.
His post (the one right at the top that I started with) has him just outright calling me an *******, and its posted in the thread right this very moment, and further told me that I cannot post itt until a ruling is made, thus already tempbanning me from the thread effective immediately.
The fact is that just like before, this beef goes one way. He hates me for some reason, and I just dont want him to troll me anymore. I dont see a need for either of us to be banned, as I have no issue going about my business and Rapini going about his. I dont care if he keeps moderating, if he gets banned or doesnt, id just like him to lay off me. That was my initial plea, and its my plea now. I dont think I ask for much, and I think its particularly relevant that
I didnt do anything to him.
I try to be respectful in these forums, even if sometimes I fail to do so. I honestly cant believe that this has somehow been reverse suplexed into a trial about
my conduct. Its an embarrassment for the moderation of these forums that Rapini would even try to respond to a complaint about his conduct in this way, and speaks volumes about his character.
This whole thing stresses me out and irritates me, and I honestly regret not letting Rapini run roughshod over me and everyone else he takes a disliking to for the rest of eternity like I have let happen over the course of the past year, becuase it isnt worth the stress. I will be playing poker this weekend and would honestly rather not be posting back and forth here and possibly get tilted, so I will likely check again Sunday night if you need more information.
Last edited by Tomark; 10-19-2018 at 12:53 AM.