TheLoveBandit
Retired Never Was, Coulda been wannabe
BLUA, forum rules, any sense of class? NULL AND VOID! But what about the facts?
Nice one. Care to elaborate on why you dropped facts and went to personal attacks? No, I suppose not. That's why you threw your words up and left. Very professional. 8) Hell, fuck professional. That's not even good enough to be 'cool' in high school. Excellent! And before anyone else points out the back-and-forth salvos of ad homs, let's ask who threw the stone first?
Not public knowledge, but part of what's been communicated to me is that more transparency would be a good thing for the site overall. We'll see what we can do. For the record, her husband recused himself from the vote to avoid such an accusation. But you wouldn't know that. *I* didn't know that some of the people voting didn't realize she was married to a smod until just now - fact. And the rest of us who did vote on who to promote for smod did it with a consideration to balance additional smods across social AND drug forums, lest we become too one sided in how sr. staff interacts with members. We also try to see who has a feel for what's going on in various areas of the site, and we do try to keep a 'round the clock availability in mind as well, so global location comes into it. Yeah, maybe not so much a global balance when we've two smods are in the same house, but my point is that we do think long and hard about what makes sense before making such selections. It's not a popularity contest, we actually do consider a person's background, maturity, and how much we can trust them with the additional responsibility. Which leads me to ...
In GM's case, he's not upset about being passed over in the selection process. No, of course not. Way to pick out pff as being chosen for favoritism and not being a good choice when she takes one of the 'drug smod' positions you might have had, and way to latch onto the assumption her husband had any involvement when you weren't there for the discussion held on the subject. Jump to conclusions much? Here's a note you might want to record - in fact anyone, aspiring to be something more than they are (and this applies to life, not just some volunteer position on a web site) - most people, when making a selection, consider a person's background, maturity, and how much we can trust them with the additional responsibility. Thanks for confirming out decision NOT to promote you. Good luck with that.
I'll still concede GM has historically been an impressive wit, and he still crafts a good LOUNGE jab, whether in angst or jest. He's made it clear it isn't in jest, but his admirable ownership of wordcraft remains throughout (spelling not withstanding). As to Mariposa specifically in this instance, she's able to defend herself. But, if you've spent any time outside of OD and LOUNGE, you'd recognize the work she's done in SLR alone. What you, and the rest of the members don't see, is the time she's put into other forums from her Smod role. Notably in TDS, trying to help not only the mods cope with the mental and emotional mayhem constantly thrown about, but in keeping it (and the site) legally and professionally sound WHILE trying to help individual members. Do you know how many suicides she's tried to talk down? How much of her own time, money (yeah, phone bills cost money), and heart she's put into that forum alone? And it's not the only one. But you guys don't see that. For GM to state she doesn't give a shit about any of you means one of two things - either he has her on ignore and has missed the huge amount of communication she puts into the staff forum trying to help the likes of SLR and TDS (mods and members) OR....he is just trolling 'the public' for more sympathy by purposely misstating what he knows is fact.
Members don't see what happens in mod threads, but it is fact - Mariposa has poured more into the various areas of this site than the cumulative sum of GM's work in OD (I won't include the LOUNGE, because that content is immense and after a 5 second lul moment, completely useless in terms of harm reduction....that standard he keeps throwing at other staff members).
There is an opportunity for more transparency here, some way of letting members know wtf staff is doing that takes so much time and isn't seen by posting in forum discussion or doing overt edits to posts....but we also have to balance the privacy of the person effected. Do we need to know Mariposa supplied eDDe with the hotline to KFC? Well, it'd be nice to know the hard work she put in, but eDDe probably doesn't need that information broadcast
But hell, we're open to any suggestions from the members on how we could approach this better. Granted, we've got nifty titles, so your opinions are wrong, but it'll give us something to snicker about in our private staff forums. But seriously, if you (anyone) sees a problem, or an opportunity - raise it. It's a big reason we have a SUPPORT forum, feedback is invaluable. If you don't want it public, you can always PM one of us, any of us. But if you see a problem or opportunity, and it appears the staff is oblivious....hell, raise it, because it just may be something that makes sense and we can pursue, but we might never know it if we're not open to the member's and what they see. But, I'm getting too serious here. Moving along.
Before I do step away from the comments about Mariposa, I'll do a quick job of reminding the public of something they know, and expand it to things they may not know. She's been one of our longest standing smods, and for those that don't recall we DID actually post in SUPPORT for making the public aware of the position, it's expectations, and responsibilities. If such a thing were closed to discussion, it would have been an ANNOUNCEMENT, or a closed thread. But no, it's an open thread, still available in SUPPORT. If you aren't aware of it, I'm sorry we stopped printing old articles and delivering them to your door weekly. But part of the role is having the ability to ban. Before then, we had mods abusing their position and banning people because they don't like them or because of a joke or because they got hammered on their DOC and got belligerent. So, the authority to ban was pulled from mods and given to admins only. Over time, recognizing time zone differences and the limited number of admins, we extended that power to smods. This is public knowledge, or at least publicly available.
The part the public doesn't know or see - what goes into the process of banning someone. If a sr staff member is banning people willy-nilly or without cause - every staff member knows it, and they WILL get called out on it. Additionally, the general course of procedure is that some fuckhead gets a few edits or PMs from the forum mods. They have their crap reported (RP'd) by members and mods alike, and the staff discuss how to handle the offender .... leaving it to the mods to take the initial action on how they handle their forum. Fuckhead continues to be a fuckhead...he gets a warning. Get enough warnings (either a lot of petty ones or a few serious ones) and you get a "vacation", a temporary ban - something the staff have worked to ensure is evenly handed out (same duration for first time temp bans and then for secondary temp bans). HOWEVER, nobody is getting banned unless the forum mods have been repeatedly pleading for someone to help alleviate their forum of the problem member after the initial gentle nudges have failed. And we discuss ad-nausueum amongst most of the staff before banning someone. Again, the public doesn't know this is going on, but any staff member (ex or current...say like GM for example) would be able to tell you that this is going on and that no sr staff member is banning members for the orgasm it gives them
Okay, I didn't respond to this because my mother was raped. She never reported it, but she told me why I grew up without a daddy. The only person who knew this was her, and the rapist. That you admit to being a serial rapist is no surprise. That you are my daddy, now THAT would even shock Montel. I don't know how this revelation will help the site, but maybe we'll find a positive way to spin a father-son reunion on a drug board. I think Oprah hasn't done a show on that yet.....I think.
Btw, expect a lawsuit for the 18 yrs of child support you owe me.
Don't make me post a picture of you to remind everyone that you look like something that should be living under a bridge eating goats.
Nice one. Care to elaborate on why you dropped facts and went to personal attacks? No, I suppose not. That's why you threw your words up and left. Very professional. 8) Hell, fuck professional. That's not even good enough to be 'cool' in high school. Excellent! And before anyone else points out the back-and-forth salvos of ad homs, let's ask who threw the stone first?
purplefirefly was appointed Senior Moderator because sonic, her husband, is one.
Not public knowledge, but part of what's been communicated to me is that more transparency would be a good thing for the site overall. We'll see what we can do. For the record, her husband recused himself from the vote to avoid such an accusation. But you wouldn't know that. *I* didn't know that some of the people voting didn't realize she was married to a smod until just now - fact. And the rest of us who did vote on who to promote for smod did it with a consideration to balance additional smods across social AND drug forums, lest we become too one sided in how sr. staff interacts with members. We also try to see who has a feel for what's going on in various areas of the site, and we do try to keep a 'round the clock availability in mind as well, so global location comes into it. Yeah, maybe not so much a global balance when we've two smods are in the same house, but my point is that we do think long and hard about what makes sense before making such selections. It's not a popularity contest, we actually do consider a person's background, maturity, and how much we can trust them with the additional responsibility. Which leads me to ...
In GM's case, he's not upset about being passed over in the selection process. No, of course not. Way to pick out pff as being chosen for favoritism and not being a good choice when she takes one of the 'drug smod' positions you might have had, and way to latch onto the assumption her husband had any involvement when you weren't there for the discussion held on the subject. Jump to conclusions much? Here's a note you might want to record - in fact anyone, aspiring to be something more than they are (and this applies to life, not just some volunteer position on a web site) - most people, when making a selection, consider a person's background, maturity, and how much we can trust them with the additional responsibility. Thanks for confirming out decision NOT to promote you. Good luck with that.
For Mariposa, like the vast majority, being Senior Staff has become a fucking elitist social club for her and she doesn't really contribute to Harm Reduction, if she ever did. I wouldn't be suprised if she had an orgasm every time she hit the "Ban User" button, and as often as she does, I doubt she really gives a shit about any of you.
I'll still concede GM has historically been an impressive wit, and he still crafts a good LOUNGE jab, whether in angst or jest. He's made it clear it isn't in jest, but his admirable ownership of wordcraft remains throughout (spelling not withstanding). As to Mariposa specifically in this instance, she's able to defend herself. But, if you've spent any time outside of OD and LOUNGE, you'd recognize the work she's done in SLR alone. What you, and the rest of the members don't see, is the time she's put into other forums from her Smod role. Notably in TDS, trying to help not only the mods cope with the mental and emotional mayhem constantly thrown about, but in keeping it (and the site) legally and professionally sound WHILE trying to help individual members. Do you know how many suicides she's tried to talk down? How much of her own time, money (yeah, phone bills cost money), and heart she's put into that forum alone? And it's not the only one. But you guys don't see that. For GM to state she doesn't give a shit about any of you means one of two things - either he has her on ignore and has missed the huge amount of communication she puts into the staff forum trying to help the likes of SLR and TDS (mods and members) OR....he is just trolling 'the public' for more sympathy by purposely misstating what he knows is fact.
Members don't see what happens in mod threads, but it is fact - Mariposa has poured more into the various areas of this site than the cumulative sum of GM's work in OD (I won't include the LOUNGE, because that content is immense and after a 5 second lul moment, completely useless in terms of harm reduction....that standard he keeps throwing at other staff members).
There is an opportunity for more transparency here, some way of letting members know wtf staff is doing that takes so much time and isn't seen by posting in forum discussion or doing overt edits to posts....but we also have to balance the privacy of the person effected. Do we need to know Mariposa supplied eDDe with the hotline to KFC? Well, it'd be nice to know the hard work she put in, but eDDe probably doesn't need that information broadcast

Before I do step away from the comments about Mariposa, I'll do a quick job of reminding the public of something they know, and expand it to things they may not know. She's been one of our longest standing smods, and for those that don't recall we DID actually post in SUPPORT for making the public aware of the position, it's expectations, and responsibilities. If such a thing were closed to discussion, it would have been an ANNOUNCEMENT, or a closed thread. But no, it's an open thread, still available in SUPPORT. If you aren't aware of it, I'm sorry we stopped printing old articles and delivering them to your door weekly. But part of the role is having the ability to ban. Before then, we had mods abusing their position and banning people because they don't like them or because of a joke or because they got hammered on their DOC and got belligerent. So, the authority to ban was pulled from mods and given to admins only. Over time, recognizing time zone differences and the limited number of admins, we extended that power to smods. This is public knowledge, or at least publicly available.
The part the public doesn't know or see - what goes into the process of banning someone. If a sr staff member is banning people willy-nilly or without cause - every staff member knows it, and they WILL get called out on it. Additionally, the general course of procedure is that some fuckhead gets a few edits or PMs from the forum mods. They have their crap reported (RP'd) by members and mods alike, and the staff discuss how to handle the offender .... leaving it to the mods to take the initial action on how they handle their forum. Fuckhead continues to be a fuckhead...he gets a warning. Get enough warnings (either a lot of petty ones or a few serious ones) and you get a "vacation", a temporary ban - something the staff have worked to ensure is evenly handed out (same duration for first time temp bans and then for secondary temp bans). HOWEVER, nobody is getting banned unless the forum mods have been repeatedly pleading for someone to help alleviate their forum of the problem member after the initial gentle nudges have failed. And we discuss ad-nausueum amongst most of the staff before banning someone. Again, the public doesn't know this is going on, but any staff member (ex or current...say like GM for example) would be able to tell you that this is going on and that no sr staff member is banning members for the orgasm it gives them

TheLovebandit would hand his mother over to a serial rapist if it would make Bluelight look good in the eyes of the media.
Okay, I didn't respond to this because my mother was raped. She never reported it, but she told me why I grew up without a daddy. The only person who knew this was her, and the rapist. That you admit to being a serial rapist is no surprise. That you are my daddy, now THAT would even shock Montel. I don't know how this revelation will help the site, but maybe we'll find a positive way to spin a father-son reunion on a drug board. I think Oprah hasn't done a show on that yet.....I think.
Btw, expect a lawsuit for the 18 yrs of child support you owe me.