Zio wrote:
I do wonder if those so against CUS being suspended for a week actually saw that post he made that upset Dimmers so. I certainly did, and I think that's grounds enough for a suspension.
I admit that I myself have not seen it, but I did see it being discussed.
CUS did post an explanation of what he meant later on:
CUS (in the Kudos, Craster thread) wrote:
From the main MafiaScum thread, in an innocent hope of clarification:
kalmar wrote:
CUS basically implied that a while ago loads of people complained about Dimrill on this board, which I find hard to believe myself.
Ehhhhhhhhhh. That was a good point made extremely, terribly badly by me. Which I'll attempt to now to re-do, for what little it's worth.
"Back in the days when you were all Bistro, everyone was coming and going, sending me PMs all the while, asking if I had contacted X, if Y knew that I was contacting Z and so on. Because it was World of CUS, and everyone was PMing me like crazy.
In fact, some people had clearly been planning an 'escape' for some time, or so it seemed. I had a few folk write me quite extensive lists of what they thought 'needed to stay' and 'needed to go', as one put it. Now, despite the fact that I had lots of insistency directed by me, at certain issues, that doesn't mean they were right.
They were, basically, a clique of sorts. And just because there were a few of them, doesn't meant they had good ideas. Such as? Well, here's a particularly stupid example of others' idiocy.
You know the reviews on the site? Like, that awesome Assassin's Creed one what I did? Well, SOME people thought it 'silly' to have picture reviews - you know like what Dimrill did. In fact, a few people said some harsh words about it to me, "Because you're his mate", to ask him to well, not.
I politely said 'No, fuck off, it's not my site, he can do what he wants, and furthermore I like them as do others. If you feel strongly about this or anything, put it to a vote'. Except, see, they basically wanted no cartoons, no comics, no 'silly' things.
Who are they? Doesn't matter, except aha, they're none of them here on BETEO. A couple of them are still on Wos, and a couple I didn't recognise the usernames of. And oh, how we have suffered! Suffered for their lack of...whatever, and instead perished under the weight of amusing drawings!
So, that's what I think of listening to 'mass opinion'."
That's what I was trying to say yesterday. Except, I sometimes manage to be terse, unusually for me! And unfortunately, when I do, it seems the perfect time for me to accidentally cause... confusion and hurt. Despite that being the last thing on my mind and in fact, quite the opposite.
I don't think that CUS would have said all of the above if he didn't mean it - I don't think he's the kind of guy who would say 'oh, I didn't mean it like that, let me clarify' if it weren't the case, just to win people's affections - that never seemed to interest him.
I think that might have been a genuine case of CUS not thinking how his posts might appear to someone else, which is his fault entirely, but might just be a genuine mistake.