Barbelith Underground > Conversation > Burning down the Haus part 2

Bump and bollocks. I’m loath to start a new thread on this and kind of annoyed that I’m posting seriously in this thread.

From the thread in the Policy on What it Takes to Get you Banned on Barbelith

Haus.

"oh, all right, if you insist.

Mod hat: Reidcourchie, you are rotting this thread. You are rotting it in a number of ways, but right now you are rotting it with a series of personal attacks on other members of Barbelith. Also, you are using the bombings last July as a way to raise the emotional temperature and score points against people you do not like, which is likely to cause _further_ threadrot, the isssue of lack of respect aside. Also, you are giving yourself the right to make rhetorical overstatements and denying it of anyone else, in particular with your religious adherence to taking Flyboy absolutely literally, which is likely to and indeed has caused threadrot.

What you are not doing, and have so far not done is devoted any attention to the question at issue rather than your hurt feelings. If you want to start a thread on how boo hoo it is to be you, please do so. If you want to start a thread continuing whatever feuds are occupying you at the moment, again do so. If you want to talk about the subjects being discussed in this thread, then this thread is a great place to do it."

Where to start? First of all it's great being me.

Haus' position is that although it was all right for FB to use sarcasm in a comment on this thread it was not all right for me to respond with sarcasm. Now I didn't think FBs comment was a little out I thought it was way out and unreasonable and disingenuous the board in general however an attempt to explain myself and substantiate what I said is of course both threadrot and in someway unreasonably emotionally manipulative. Though bizarrely whilst he is telling me that I am denying people the right to make "rhetorical overstatments" (Who? FB? I've not denied him anything, I will respond in a way I feel appropriate but I'm not telling him how to post and over statement is two words.) he tells me I cannot defend myself against his criticisms. Now you'll forgive me, I don't think I have a persecution complex, nor do I think I post like someone who does, perhaps I'm wrong but this does seem to me that we can hear one voice but not the other.

Now personal attacks. I attacked what FB said, arguably not well, and just to let you know I will avoid caps in future, the second reference to FB was an attempt to explain why I felt the way I did about what FB had said. Let me make this completely and totally clear. I have no problem with the FB suit; in fact I have problems with the concept of disliking a suit. I have disagreed with FB in the past I've also agreed with him, most recently in the JKR section in Books were he managed to very succinctly encapsulate what I would've liked to have been able to say in a few paragraphs whilst myself and another poster pointlessly raved at each other. The disliking FB thing to me seemed to come way out of left field and have very little to do with what's going on.

Just for the record I don’t dislike the Haus suit either, I at times feel he is unnecessarily harsh but largely I find him quite entertaining.

Largely I've posted this to make my position clear as it was totally misrepresented by Haus and of course to defend myself in the thread were all this happened (i.e. to disagree with Haus) would be threadrot. And that is a particularly clever debating tactic if you are more interested in being right than listening to other people, post something you’re pretty sure will get a reaction than very quickly afterwards post something along the lines of: “Now lets hear no more of this.” Very dismissive, something Haus does a lot but does it really need to be backed with moderator authority? My position is that this is an abuse of the moderator position however as Flyboy pointed out:

"There's already been at least three threads like that about Haus and he's teflon, dude."

What I would like is some assurances that the moderator position is not for dismissing people attempting to defend themselves from criticism because I’m not sure that I think the Haus suit is as objective as he seems to think.

Haus you will want to make fun of my inability to use the bold quote facility on Barbelith.

Incidentally I really do apologise if this comes across as “poor me” as I really do feel that this is self defence.

Burning down the Haus part 2 - Attack of the Clones