natomasreefer
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I'm sure within 2 replies and 20 views this post will be "CLOSED" arbitrarily by admins that are abusing their power.
But here goes anyway.
I started a thread called, "For sale argument", that got alot of intelligent responses and input, both for and against my argument. It was a good discussion thread nonetheless, and then the admin that initially started my 'march on washington' sent a reply to the thread and CLOSED it. He closed it why? Well I could speculate, so I will. He closed it because he likes to have the last word. He closed it because he was afraid of what some people my say in response to his 'final word'. He closed it because he CAN. Because he enjoys his POWER. And enjoys abusing it.
I'm terribly offended at this point. Not because my intial for sale post was closed (I understand the rules now, I didn't when I initially posted my tank for sale) but because the same admin has decided that we as a community can't even DISCUSS the why's and what-fors of the rule. He is living in the wrong country, and the wrong time in history to be treating this site like his own private amusement park.
Is there a place in the "reef central" rulebook that states we as a community cannot discuss, intelligently, the rules of the website?
Am I totally missing something?
Is everyone here terribly afraid of the admins and so they just let the abuse persist? I'm recalling passages in Orwelle's 1984 at this moment and am shocked and appalled that such a world may in fact exist in virtual reality!
I posted last night many things that were valid and intelligent, and a few things that were merely to up my post count. Yet the aptly named "degenerate" reduced my post count back to my "Pre for sale" life. What kind of power trip? Who can I complain to?
Seriously, here is my one request, can someone PM me a name of someone that I can complain to about this situation? I feel like my only outlet is to post openly, but knowing full well that this guy is going to close this post as soon as he sees it, so it will not see the light of day.
This isn't right.
And if I get banned for saying that, then someone better carry this torch if you have any fight left in you. Nothing in my public posts thus far can be grounds for banning me, but I have a feeling that the ego of the admin may not care, then I will drift off into the deep darkness, never to be seen again, and the rest of you will (I hope you won't) go back to being numb about this whole situation.
Have any of you seen Wall-E? There are some similarities.... suspicious strangeness..... is Big Brother afraid we're going to rise up and take his power away?
And just so everyone knows: this whole thing started because the 'for sale' sticky doesn't mention anything in the initial post about needing to be a member for a certain period, or have a certain post count. I'm sorry I didn't read every word of that sticky thread... I figured the meat would be in the initial post!
And while we're at it: I sincerely believe in the idea that the member needs to be a member for a certain period of time before he can post for sale stuff.... but the whole, "you gotta post" doesn't seem right to me. I was ignorant when I got into the hobby, and I'm still ignorant! When I read things on here, I think to myself, "jeez I don't know jack about reef keeping! Why is my stuff still alive!?" I really got lucky in this hobby, I've read so many posts about how difficult the hobby is, and it really wasn't that hard for me. But I'm still totally ignorant about it.... I don't know the names of half the stuff in my tank. I couldn't remember how big my tank was until I measured it upon my intitial for sale post. The point is, I hardly ever felt worthy enough to comment, so the only thing I would do is create threads asking stupid questions, then I found out that almost if not all of my stupid questions had already been answered in the past, and I just needed to search for the keywords to find the answer.... after that, I dono... I just didn't like the hobby enough to go to the group trading parties.... or maybe I'm just lazy, I really don't know....
But seriously there are people that don't post that feel as I do, but luckily they haven't needed to sell anything I guess!
If I don't get to post again..... good luck, and don't let control freaks ruin this forum!
But here goes anyway.
I started a thread called, "For sale argument", that got alot of intelligent responses and input, both for and against my argument. It was a good discussion thread nonetheless, and then the admin that initially started my 'march on washington' sent a reply to the thread and CLOSED it. He closed it why? Well I could speculate, so I will. He closed it because he likes to have the last word. He closed it because he was afraid of what some people my say in response to his 'final word'. He closed it because he CAN. Because he enjoys his POWER. And enjoys abusing it.
I'm terribly offended at this point. Not because my intial for sale post was closed (I understand the rules now, I didn't when I initially posted my tank for sale) but because the same admin has decided that we as a community can't even DISCUSS the why's and what-fors of the rule. He is living in the wrong country, and the wrong time in history to be treating this site like his own private amusement park.
Is there a place in the "reef central" rulebook that states we as a community cannot discuss, intelligently, the rules of the website?
Am I totally missing something?
Is everyone here terribly afraid of the admins and so they just let the abuse persist? I'm recalling passages in Orwelle's 1984 at this moment and am shocked and appalled that such a world may in fact exist in virtual reality!
I posted last night many things that were valid and intelligent, and a few things that were merely to up my post count. Yet the aptly named "degenerate" reduced my post count back to my "Pre for sale" life. What kind of power trip? Who can I complain to?
Seriously, here is my one request, can someone PM me a name of someone that I can complain to about this situation? I feel like my only outlet is to post openly, but knowing full well that this guy is going to close this post as soon as he sees it, so it will not see the light of day.
This isn't right.
And if I get banned for saying that, then someone better carry this torch if you have any fight left in you. Nothing in my public posts thus far can be grounds for banning me, but I have a feeling that the ego of the admin may not care, then I will drift off into the deep darkness, never to be seen again, and the rest of you will (I hope you won't) go back to being numb about this whole situation.
Have any of you seen Wall-E? There are some similarities.... suspicious strangeness..... is Big Brother afraid we're going to rise up and take his power away?
And just so everyone knows: this whole thing started because the 'for sale' sticky doesn't mention anything in the initial post about needing to be a member for a certain period, or have a certain post count. I'm sorry I didn't read every word of that sticky thread... I figured the meat would be in the initial post!
And while we're at it: I sincerely believe in the idea that the member needs to be a member for a certain period of time before he can post for sale stuff.... but the whole, "you gotta post" doesn't seem right to me. I was ignorant when I got into the hobby, and I'm still ignorant! When I read things on here, I think to myself, "jeez I don't know jack about reef keeping! Why is my stuff still alive!?" I really got lucky in this hobby, I've read so many posts about how difficult the hobby is, and it really wasn't that hard for me. But I'm still totally ignorant about it.... I don't know the names of half the stuff in my tank. I couldn't remember how big my tank was until I measured it upon my intitial for sale post. The point is, I hardly ever felt worthy enough to comment, so the only thing I would do is create threads asking stupid questions, then I found out that almost if not all of my stupid questions had already been answered in the past, and I just needed to search for the keywords to find the answer.... after that, I dono... I just didn't like the hobby enough to go to the group trading parties.... or maybe I'm just lazy, I really don't know....
But seriously there are people that don't post that feel as I do, but luckily they haven't needed to sell anything I guess!
If I don't get to post again..... good luck, and don't let control freaks ruin this forum!