Quote: Nowhereman said: Yes, but he is also the main reason a lot of people stopped visiting that forum.
Actually, those "people who stopped visiting" are the reason why those "people who stopped visiting" stopped visiting the board.
You've sure got that right.
Until G-man became a moderator, POLITICS forum was more like the off-topicoffensiveposts2 forum.
Where assholes would de-rail serious discussions just to harass people whose political views differed from their own. I recall one topic in particular, where WBAM began a topic on Christianity, and trolls repeatedly overwhelmed the topic with off-topic insults and banter, to the point that after 3 or 4 pages, WBAM just finally stopped posting.
I saw that happen a lot before G-man became moderator. But when G-man became moderator, he made it clear that OFF-TOPIC inappropriate bullshit would not be tolerated, and would be moved or deleted. And it was.
And you had people like r3x29yz4a, Prometheus, Mxy, BSAMS and a few others who constantly spammed the POLITICS forum to harass G-man, but their harassments were relatively minor, relative to before G-man became moderator.
If it returns to that, then fuck you assholes, I just won't participate.
All this babyshit whining about G-man as moderator.
It reminds me of a cop friend of mine who talks about incidents where he goes to arrest an identified suspect at their known home address, who happens to be black, and the suspect fights him and/or pulls a weapon on him. So he disarms the guy, wrestles him to the ground and cuffs him. Then later the suspect and his family file a false complaint, saying he used excessive force, called him a "nigger", etc., as vindictive payback on the cop for simply doing his job.
So say what you will about G-man, but he did a good job, and it was appreciated, by those of us who aren't spammers, trolls and/or politically intolerant of any view that opposes their own.
With no guiding hand to reign in the trolls, I fully expect POLITICS to become the off-topic2 forum.
Again.
