you've been the one with an axe to grind, dude. as soon as you got your modstick, you made a post stating to me essentially "i've talked to a lot of loungers, and none of them like you, and i'm going to do whatever i can to ban you."
sure, everything you've done has been within the scope of the rules, but the rules apparently only exist to have a good excuse to drive away people you dislike. they certainly aren't evenly applied to everyone -- especially yourself. you've even changed rules specifically to suit yourself.
you often say, when people have an issue with you -- "look at the list of posters that don't like me -- x, y, z, a, b, d -- all people that suck." the thing is, you created a self-fulfilling prophecy. you used your powers to attack people that you don't like, and then when they complained you say "oh well they don't like me anyway."
you're a sociopath.
going back through the thread... seen phr say a few times "well all current loungers are okay with things, or else they'd leave." what about all the people that DID leave after you were put in charge?
it's not because they're sensitive special little snowflakes, its not because they can't take a good ribbing, its because you have done everything in your power to make the lounge a place they didn't want to be in anymore. you made it your own little playground.
at some point the lounge changed from a place to give people a playful ribbing, and started being a place to take out aggression. it stopped being mean funny and just started being mean.
it is a *huge* part of it. he has quite obviously made it his mission to drive away people he doesn't like. many of them being well-liked and appreciated posters.
idk how many people have asked me to start lounging again. at least a dozen, if not more. multiply that by all the other good posters that have been driven away, and it is clear to see how the quality of the lounge has gone down a lot.
and again, this is not me being unable to take a joke. this is me being harassed every time i post anywhere in the lounge, often with the harassment qualified by saying "and i'm not even trying to be funny, i seriously think you're pathetic."
tho, like phr said, we have different opinions on what "pathetic" is.
the fact that most of the senior staff aren't lounge regulars is a big part of why he's been able to get away with it for so long. when people complain about him, he can always just say "well they don't like me / they have a problem with authority," and since that conversation happens behind closed doors, the people making the complaints don't have the opportunity to present evidence that he is in fact unfairly biased against people he doesn't like.
Fact #1: I've banned, infracted, warned, and soft warned every single TL regular. Some received month+ long bans. Example: Droppers, Waylost, wao, Clyde, jiggly, cosmic
Fact #2: Every single reported post in TL, warning, and infraction is viewed not only by TL staff and senior staff, but staff on the whole site. TL content gets the highest view counts -not even close.
Fact #3: Each infraction/ban I've given to people "i don't like" led to them bitching about it in Anon. Guess how many were overturned? ZERO
Fact #4: I have no friends on senior staff, hell, I don't think any of them like me to begin with. Nobody bends things in my favor.
Are you mad because I didn't bend the rules and let whatever the hell you did slide? I don't even fucking remember what you did, for crying out loud. Oh wait, nm, you posted nude photos of gloeek from a different site. She was fucking pissed about that, by the way, iirc. #revengeporn
Look, the people above use don't like TL because of the nature of our content. We go too far.
It's pretty simple. If our content wasn't offensive, they wouldn't care how dead our forum is (shout out to all the dead forums) or the other issues everyone in here is bringing up.
The only reason TL is on anyone's radar, throughout the last, I dunno, decade is because people don't like what's going on there.
TL as you know it is over. Enjoy whatever PG-13 rated version rolls out.
Then, in half a year to year you can come back and still bitch about how I ruined TL.
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Tude, I was trying to lighten the mood with a TL-esque joke.
