I said:
2. Please make constructive posts. A certain amount of good natured off topic is ok, but negative and bantering comments without facts to back them up and direct offenses are not allowed. Constructive criticism is welcomed. This rule is not enforced as harshly in the Offtopic section of the board.
This, combined with the lack of rules about what will be done to bad mods/admins, presents an absolutely fantastic loophole for capricious staff members to do as they will.
You said:
Don't be stupid, you know what I mean.
When you ask me to not be stupid, shall I interpet that as "good natured off topic" or as "contructive criticism"?
It's constructive criticism.
Thank you sir, you prove my point. I understand that from now on I will also be allowed to call other users "stupid"?
It's not a double standard. Downloads are not allowed, YM messages are not allowed.
Earlier on the thread:
Rules #10 and #11 present an incredibly strange double-standard.
Umm yeah, combine rule #12 and you have a triple standard?
You already said it was a double-standard. If you want your rules and the intention behind them to seem credible to users, I constructively, good-naturedly, usefully and helpfully suggest that you make up your mind before contradicting yourself more than necessary.
I still have not received an answer as to why illegal activity 1 (posting Yoshiki's YM messages) is restricted but illegal activity 2 (sharing Yoshiki's copyrighted music) is allowed and encouraged.
As for the photo disclaimer issue, your own rule 13 invalidates any need for photo disclaimers:
13. Board members are solely responsible for the content of their post. The board owner, administrators and moderators accept no responsibility for any kind of offensive or illegal posts.
If board members are solely responsible for the legality of their posts, what are the photo disclaimers for? I understand that you are having difficulty managing your forum, and that in times like these it is probably some measure of comfort to exercise your power as an admin in arbitrary and highly visible ways, such as asking forum members to needlessly jump through hoops and include this and that in their posts. Unfortunately, it does not actually help anyone or benefit the forum (if you were concerned legally about this issue and wanted to help, you could post an image disclaimer for the whole forum, just like this disclaimer you posted in rule 13). It comes across as petty and gives the impression of a struggling administration losing control over its forum.
Most of the rules were here already in an unwritten form (thanks to my lazyness).
Rules "in an unwritten form" are not rules. These are new rules, they were not "here already". Some of them are PN's spontaneously-invented new rules; I suppose their inclusion now as actual rules might be intended as some kind of retroactive claim that PN was enforcing the rules all along (she wasn't).
So, one more inappropriate edit/deletion as she's de-adminned? Sounds fair, I can live with that.
The 'list' Hollywood managed to put together was 30 people, who had even the slightest complaint about PN, mostly neutral people; against 10 people, who were clearly on PNs side. I wouldn't call that 'everyone'.
Can you think of any other mod or admin that 31 people-- a very high percentage of the active members here-- have "even the slightest complaint" about?