It shouldn't be a surprise that we frown upon foul language and rudeness. Please review the forum rules.Speaking of MODS, I just had reputation points taken away because they didn't like one of my posts.
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It shouldn't be a surprise that we frown upon foul language and rudeness. Please review the forum rules.Speaking of MODS, I just had reputation points taken away because they didn't like one of my posts.
For good reason. If you disagree with something, explain why, rather than just cursing.Speaking of MODS, I just had reputation points taken away because they didn't like one of my posts.
That is great news. I thought he was telling a large segment of TMC that although they mean well they are simply blinded to the truth and are dismissive of alternative viewpoints because they were traumatized in the past by negative comments about Tesla. Glad to know that isn't the case.
The point of the thread was not that I was just unhappy with moderation, as the altered thread title suggests, but the fact that I was unhappy with being personally attacked and subject to arbitrary moderation on top of that which made the situation worse.
Didn't he say goodbye long ago?
or was that just drama?
So, can site administrators also un-ban people, if they so choose?
I certainly don't claim to have read all that wk057 may have written on the forums, or to know all that may have gone down.
I can say that I know that he has made great contributions in a number of areas. I also recognize that at times some of his posts, like posts many of us have made at times, may have crossed a line. Did he cross that line once too often? I can't say. Was he warned that he was getting close to being banned, and that further action along the same lines could result in his being banned? Again, I can't say.
What I can say is that if someone is going to argue a position that is seen as being anti-Tesla here, you'd better be pretty thick-skinned, as the posters on the pro-Tesla side, will almost certainly outnumber the posters on the anti-side, no matter the validity of the argument. And very often the posts made by those members do get nasty and do get personal. Sure, the moderators try to moderate even-handedly, but it still takes a thick skin to put up with being attacked constantly.
On top of that, I don't know of any other poster here who ever had to put up with being harassed off line, via phone calls and text messages, due to a position he or she had taken on TMC. That was just so far beyond anything reasonable, that I think if it resulted in a few extra snippy posts by wk057, perhaps the admin that banned him might want to reconsider.
The bottom line is that I feel strongly that TMC is a better community with wk057's involvement than without it. Yes, we happen to be on the same side in this particular argument, but I think even most on the other side of this argument would agree on this point. I hope the admin that banned Jason can and will reverse that action.
I'm sure it's a temporary ban, and he shouldn't be shown greater consideration than anyone else.
Didn't he say goodbye long ago?
or was that just drama?
And one of the factors causing him to back off a bit was the off-line harassment he had received, presumably from a member or lurker here, who had tracked down his phone number and started calling him and sending him repeated text messages because they disagreed with some of the positions he was taking on topics here.
I must have missed it but was he really banned or did he just change his tag line to "Banned"?
You mean like the members who were more rude and more snippy yet didn't get banned?