You ask why I want more staff members? Because I'm not always around and so aren't the other staff members and I also don't wan't the staff required to spend too much time moderating here, so I'm getting more staff so it would be easier for everyone.
Not asking really, more just pointing out my amusement with the utter inanity and ridiculousness of the forum administration. Specifically, the highly masturbatory administrative style where the admins (other than Bizkitroach) seem to enjoy amusing themselves by throwing their weight around and mocking/condescending to their users, acting as if they've attained some kind of position of actual importance, when in fact they are administrating over a forum on the internet with 346 users. Of which about 20 or 30 are even active. Now that's an impressive display of power.
That doesn't address my question. I'm not asking what you allow and what you don't. I'm asking WHY you chose to make things llike that, and how it benefits the forum.
As I thought I explained above, it's a simple matter there not being a subforum that could be used for YM. The issue has been under discussion by the moderators, but I didn't want to do any moves before we get new moderators.
You still haven't answered my question. The situation as it stands, where forum users are allowed to trade copyrighted music and you are allowed to sell pirated copies of in-print X CDs and DVDs-- but god forbid anyone discuss Yoshiki Mobile messages-- did not fall out of the sky. You decided on this. Saying "because there isn't a subforum" does not answer the question of WHY you decided to create this double-standard.
How does this arrangement, subforum or no subforum, benefit X Freaks?
One reason for the new rules (as the old rules were a mess and created around the days the forum started) was to give everyone a clean sheet to start over, yes.
Given that PN was the only one whose slate was "unclean" when the new rules were enacted, how does enacting new rules just to give PN a clean slate benefit the forum?
Are you sure PN was the only one who has edited/removed posts that weren't breaching any particular rules? I'm quite sure I have done so. But no one has ever complained. Where is the catch here?
OK, so... is it supposed to be a positive thing, or somehow work in your favor, that you are now also claiming to have abused your administrative powers? I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but I'm highly entertained.
Well, uh, while we're at it, would you care to point out where not just PN but you too have abused your administrative powers by editing and removing posts that did not violate any rules? :lol:
And would you care to explain how giving PN (and you?) a clean slate after abusing your admin powers will benefit the forum?
Still unanswered:
How many times does PN need to screw up again before you actually do something about it? Where are you going to draw the line?
And yes, that's on-topic for this thread, given the direct connection between the PN situation and the rules.
As per your own rules, you DON'T get to exclude yourself from any of the rules.
Actually, I can.
As I said, I am fully aware that you
can. The question then becomes: why do you think you
should? How does this benefit your forum? How long do you expect to keep up the preadolescent "nah nah nah, I can do whatever I want!" behavior before you end up looking like an immature, hypocritical moron?
Where is it written that admins need to communicate? I know it's normal on other boards, but this isn't 'other boards'.
This isn't 'other boards'? Now that's for goddamn sure.
Really, this whole situation amuses me to no end. In fact I think it's the funniest and most inane forum situation I've ever seen, bar none, in the 13 years I've been on the internet. You promote an inactive mod to admin, she abuses her admin power every possible way she's able and pisses off most of the active members of your forum, cheerfully deleting anything that doesn't sit well with her YoshikixToshi fangirl fantasies just because she can. 31 people complain about at least some aspect of this, at which point you make new rules which no one wanted, just to retroactively justify everything PN has done, because apparently everything she says and does is so perfect, holy and immaculate that it's like it was farted out of Jesus himself. When questioned about any of this, you proceed through an awkward process of first trying to (unsuccessfully) shut people up, then spouting out such incredible hypocrisy that you contradict yourself about five times per post, then trying to ignore it all, then pretending you weren't ignoring it, then coming back with the hypocrisy again (and another shutup threat, just in case the hypocrisy fails again), along with such scintillatingly insightful gems as "I wasn't calling you stupid, I was telling you not to be stupid". And now you're trying to justify PN's capricious, abusive, and (by your own admission in the quote above) "abnormal" behavior by saying you've been just as capricious and abusive and bizarre as she has, which I guess is supposed to explain everything and endear you (and PN) to us all.
Or something.
What the fuck?