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« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2007, 04:27:35 AM »
Of course, you guys know they sacked him because he was gay. Spread the word.
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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2007, 04:32:50 AM »
Oh yeah  he's gay . (he kept reminding us all the time)

So..... do you think he'd really register over here?

....or not?


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« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2007, 04:43:01 AM »
Yeah, well, after the way he got treated by those homophobes, I don't see why not.
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« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2007, 05:03:32 AM »
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Darren MacLennan publicly rebuked Curt for a "personal attack", but edited out the "cum-guzzling whore" bit, leaving a red-text, "edited by mods."
Actually that was Eric, who IMO has been a much better mod since he took a vacation recently.
They've done a proper de-mod on Curt too, you can Ignore list him now where before ex-mods were still mod enough that you couldnt ignore them.
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« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2007, 06:30:44 AM »
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Well, it remains to be seen how long he'll stay away. My experience is that people who say of a forum, "Fuck this, I'm never coming back here again!" almost always do. The ones who really are leaving just go without a word.


He's also taken a powder from rpg.net publicly in the past, yet he came back.  Not that past behavior is any indication of future behavior.
 

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« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2007, 06:41:51 AM »
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He's also taken a powder from rpg.net publicly in the past, yet he came back.  Not that past behavior is any indication of future behavior.
It's a pretty safe bet, though.

- Curt gets on rpg.net, acts like a royal sack of shit to posters he disagrees with.
- Curt gets 'perma'banned, acts like a royal sack of shit with a sockpuppet because they can't IP ban him without taking out mods.
- Curt gets back on rpg.net, acts like royal sack of shit with ban powers.
- Curt takes a break from modding, acts like a royal sack of shit to posters he disagrees with.
- Curt 'leaves' rpg.net.....

So, who's gonna volunteer to prowl Tangency looking for a new aggressively gay poster that isn't Curt, no really, I'm totally not him? :rolleyes:
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« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2007, 06:42:30 AM »
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Actually that was Eric, who IMO has been a much better mod since he took a vacation recently.
They've done a proper de-mod on Curt too, you can Ignore list him now where before ex-mods were still mod enough that you couldnt ignore them.
:haw:

I'ma go do that. Never seen a post with that hamster on it that didn't set my teeth on edge.
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« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2007, 06:56:59 AM »
It's worth noting that no-one in the farewell thread has expressed surprise at the sacking though. Just regret at his leaving altogether. That probably shows the decision to remove his modhood to be a good one overall.

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« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2007, 07:12:55 AM »
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It's worth noting that no-one in the farewell thread has expressed surprise at the sacking though. Just regret at his leaving altogether. That probably shows the decision to remove his modhood to be a good one overall.


Good point.

One has to wonder why it took so much time. This just goes to show again that there are genuine issues at RPG.net currently. It's a dysfunctional environment.


As for Curt and his job over there, here's the nicest way I can put it:

Curt was a power-hungry, venomous sack of shit with a persecution complex.

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« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2007, 07:20:32 AM »
The New Horizons SotC thread at rpg.net was generally fairly polite, save for Curt seriously stirring shit and insulting people.

Quite needlessly too.  It was bloody embarassing, given technically I was on his side of the debate, some folk you really don't need on your side, you know?  He made the rest of us look like zealots, which was not at all the case.

Meh, he should never have been a mod, his demodding is well overdue.

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« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2007, 08:16:11 AM »
...wow. I didn't bother to read the New Horizons thread on tBP, since I'd read about the game here and figured rpg.net would be soiling their pants in glee over the chance to look more liberal than the poster before them. But that thread was something else. While it did contain some points from other posters, I can easily see that being the back-breaking straw as far as the hamster was concerned.
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« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2007, 09:23:50 AM »
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The New Horizons SotC thread at rpg.net was generally fairly polite, save for Curt seriously stirring shit and insulting people.

Quite needlessly too.
Wow, on that thread he sounds like a Bitter Non-Gamer!
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Anybody who thinks a campaign centered on/dealing with issues of racial,sexual, political or orientation discrimination in the 20s and 30s is going to be happy-go-lucky, feel-good and overly cheerful is either woefully ignorant (which is very common on RPG.net) or just plain stupid (even more common, in the case of the people who usually comment negatively on threads like this, I've noted).
Now, either rpg.net just happens to have the 36,448 most stupid gamers around, or Curt's saying most gamers are "woefully ignorant" or "just plain stupid."

However, he's spot on about this,
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Strange how I didn't see anybody demanding that anyone buy this book or deal with the themes in it. One thing that constantly amazes me about conversations like this on RPG.net is the brigade of people (usually the same people) who come out of the woodwork to tell you that any time anything something isn't exactly to their tastes or deals with issues (ZOMG! ISSUES!) that the very existence of said product somehow offends/oppresses them.
Except, of course, that a certain line about not pointing out the mote in your brother's eye when there is a beam of wood in your own comes to mind...

He certainly sounded burned-out, though:
Quote from: Curt on rpg.net
I've been reading here for seven years or so now, posting for most of that. After a while, it gets to the point where you start seeing the patterns of groundhogs popping up their heads at various stimuli rather than bothering to differentiate the individual rodents.

It really does boil down to the same six or seven arguments, repeated ad nauseam, ad infinitum and pretending that the arguments are new and shiny gets old after the first few years.
Sounds like he needs less talking about gaming, and more gaming. But that's most of us ;)
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« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2007, 10:11:22 AM »
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Looks like there is a line, and it was FINALLY crossed. NOw maybe the moderation there will achieve a modicum of normality.


Naaaawww....

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« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2007, 10:24:10 AM »
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One has to wonder why it took so much time.


Rather the opposite, I think. I wonder why they did it. The moderation environment at TBP is such because that's the way they like it.

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Curt was a power-hungry, venomous sack of shit with a persecution complex.


That describes the majority of the moderation staff over there. You take a good poster, make him a mod, and within days he's using his mod voice to  sarcastically put down people as he closes threads, etc.. If you call them on it, they tell you how hard moderation is and excuse their behavior by saying they're just volunteers.

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« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2007, 11:01:40 AM »
Honestly, Curt should never have been a mod. There were people who said as much. The next one they should get rid of is Darren. Those two were (and are) prime examples of people who have too many issues to be worried about policing others.

That said, I do think the res of the mods do the job they have been tasked for and I would not want to do it.

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