According to Starr, GreyICE received a warning for this post:
@Calilasseia
You don't fucking understand how this works. I'm through being kind, because apparently you're through playing by the rules. And I don't mean the FUA, I mean the rules of how to run a successful forum. Now, lets sort out a few of the truths here.
The first truth is this: the forum exists because of us. The posters. Not the moderators, not the site admin, the posters. Forums are a dime a dozen, good posters are rare. And you yourself have revealed the vast flaw that you don't understand, and that apparently is hellbent on destroying this forum. "I care that bad ideas are subject to withering critical fire."
Well don't that just say it all. And who the fuck decides they're bad ideas? Well, lets face it. You. You've set yourself up as the judge, jury, and executioner of those who promote bad ideas. Do you see the fucking problem? You're a MODERATOR, a fucking moderator. Go look that word up in the dictionary, because apparently you have no clue what it means. Do you know what we call a debate when the moderator is partial to one side? A fucking travesty. You have decided to wander into the pits of partiality, and you know what that means?
You're not a moderator anymore. You're just a member with abusive privileges. You have no moral authority, you have no authority at all.
And this? This is the second truth:
All you are is the biggest bully in the sandbox.
Kid, there are many sandboxes. We don't need yours.
and this post:
What is the difference between a moderator and a bully? One word: Impartiality.
Moderators have vast amounts of power on forums. They can edit what is said, they can change people's posts, they can close topics of discussion, and they can simply end threads, users, whatever they like.
This power has vast ability for abuse. Only through maintaining impartiality is the process of discussion allowed to flow. An impartial moderator does not abuse those powers, and separates personal feelings from actions. A bully, on the other hand, uses their superior power as leverage to abuse and silence those who disagree with them or those that they have singled out as targets.
If a moderator is not impartial, if a moderator has a 'vision' for how discussions should go and attacks users who go against that 'vision for the forums' and carry out vindictive crusades against users, then they're just a bully.
There's at least one bully on the mod team. The fact that they remain suggest that behavior is tolerated. Not by me.
Apparently these were his third and fourth warnings, which have resulted in a one month suspension.
