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Originally Posted by Yakmelk
AFAIK rep is actually a solid (live) poker player.
for the record, i'm the only person itt who still makes his living playing online, and i'm a solid to big winner in many different formats/games
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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
Yea I think Nat got into a rut of bad posting and eating a temp ban allowed him to re-compose himself and come back as a good poster again.
Unfortunately, while rep has shown himself to be a great community contributor (hooking people up with the wagyu connection, getting in a contest with grear, meeting up with howard, etc.) he hasn't always been a good poster.
I've been willing to look the other way on his posting, because many regs are able to ignore him when he gets into flamewars, and because of his great community contributions. However, rep the poster is often quite bad, while rep the community member is often quite great.
If rep were to internalize the feedback he has gotten, reflect on it, and improve, his ceiling as a poster is quite high. Unfortunately, it's a near lock that rep will not give a **** and just leave oot in a pout.
agree with everything written except the bolded. for example-
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Originally Posted by +rep_lol
personal duels are a 2-way street, but i agree with the bolded- this is potentially a character flaw of mine.
i am capable of self reflection. i recognize that i'm not perfect, i engage in plenty of ****posting/wars, i have little regard for the feelings of others and i often post in an intentionally provocative manner with the explicit intention of rustling feathers. my post volume can also be high if i'm just sitting in front of the computer taking a break between poker sessions. this can lead to some unpleasant derails that i'm sure not everybody appreciates scrolling/reading through.
that said, i think it's nice and also fair of you to point out that i'm a good "community member", because that's definitely true. i try to help people when they need or ask for it, i contribute in a substantive manner to serious discussions and while i like to rustle feathers, i make good threads (AMA, gardening, packages that snap sell-out, etc) and i also like to make people laugh, potentially at my own expense (g10 dick measuring contest, for example...how bad would it have been to lose to a dwarf?)
i push the boundaries of what's ridiculous/acceptable because that's just the type of person i am. but i'm also good hearted- a double edged sword, if you will. containing me to some ****hole thread in OOT and denying me the ability to partake in serious discussion in other forums (such as politics) is imo heavy-handed and detrimental to the forum. pretty sure if you polled regular posters in there, considerably more of them would want me to stay than want me banished. when i had an issue that i took to NVG moderation thread, we had a productive and civil discussion wherein i offered to stop posting entirely in NVG and the mods said they would rather i not do that and instead tame myself a bit because my posting can be valuable/enjoyable. i have been doing that.
27offsuit has demonstrated to me time and time again that he's just petty and vindictive, and this isn't my own personal opinion. for him to barge into babs' thread and "contain" me like he runs the place is ridiculous. dude isn't a regular in there and that thread is basically an asylum run by inmates.
while i sit here and reflect on my flaws as a poster/person, i've never once seen 27o acknowledge his own issues with respect to letting his blind rage towards me cloud his judgment. like for real this dude went off half-cocked in this very thread about how i aids up every thread in OOT when i literally only post in one of them! def haven't done any aids'ing in my gardening thread either. his perception of reality is so far off because he lets his emotions get in the way of being rational. i'm just a regular poker playing forum poster- imo it's even worse for him in his capacity as a moderator.
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Originally Posted by plaaynde
I think mods need to be civil.
and i obv agree with this. when you take on a position of "authority", you should be held to a higher standard of behavior/judgment. 27offsuit fails spectacularly in that regard imo, as evidenced by the posts i've linked to and the shared opinion of several highly regarded posters in this forum.
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Originally Posted by 27offsuit
Exactly. I unexiled MLY ffs and she didn't even ask. I have nothing against you lolreplol, just don't suck.
rofl just because you say this doesn't make it true. your history clearly shows otherwise.
i'm about to embark on a 5 hr journey to do some fishing at the beach this weekend, i may or may not be popping in at all today/tmrw but i still protest the attempt at "containment", for reasons that i think are pretty obvious and well-articulated by this point.