Dunk the RedWolf! (Obligary Furry Admin Criticism thread)

[Christwriter]

I'd say StrRed does a fair-to-good job on his own. A big problem is that I don't know him really well (He has a comic? Since when does he have a comic? Why have I never seen this comic?) so when he shows up it IS a little like "Oh man, what is he going to change now and how long will the flame war last before we can have our nice, peaceful forums back?" I haven't MINDED most of the changes, but I have minded the out-and-out revolts that go on in here when something DOES change.

Personally, I kinda feel like StrRed has a Marie Antwonette thing going. Not the beheading part, but the forgen queen from Austria part. I don't feel like he really cares about us beyond his job, which may be wrong on my part. However, I don't know one way or another because he's never here unless there is an emergancy. And we've already had several sessions of "He messed up our happy life let's go tear his bed to pieces" so being a little more PR savvy might help. Stuff like this.

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Oh, and...um...

will ya'll kill me if I said the lesbian avatar thing is starting to bug me a little?

CW

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Now I guess you'll have something to answer to this post too? Some "valid arguments", as you think? Replying to this will only show that you can't stay out of fight.

That's a pretty lame way to force somebody into letting you have the last word, McDuff...that's all I'm sayin'.

Yeah, I strongly agree here.

If bumping threads is so bad, then why did you do it, McD? You're being a hypocrite.

I didn't repeatedly attack the contest! I said the themes suck, a guy flamed me, I argued with him that I wasn't that harsh and could have been a lot worse, then whoever created the contest made some self rightous post about how he/she couldn't possibly be capable of flaming and how could I possibly think he/she would do that? I just rolled my eyes at that. The only thing that bothered me was Phactorri's post (btw, I swear I remember Phactorri saying "To clear things up, I'm a girl" or something to that effect). I complained about that.

It wouldn't have bothered me so much if he had been talking to my face, but instead he did that crap where he pretended I wasn't there and talked to someone else about me right in front of me. You ever have somebody do that to you? Like, if I just said to (insert forumgoer) "McD is a total jerk that nobody likes", how would that make you feel? When you insult somebody right in front of them, but speaking with someone else, that's basically saying you don't think they're worthy of talking to or hearing a defense from. I wouldn't have cared nearly as much if he'd said it directly to me.

Edit: Oh, three more things. He said I piss a lot of people off, like he was speaking for everyone.

And CW, how much is it bothering you? I can take mine down if you want.

If you don't mind my asking, why does it bother you?

And Wolf told me I could make my complaint and he wouldn't mallet me, McD, so that's what I'm doing.

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Anyway, my biggest complaint is that I got sacked for doing things that everyone here does (btw, right now I feel you're borderline flaming me, McD). I might argue a lot, but that's a basic characteristic of me and I do it with everyone, even close friends. It doesn't mean I don't respect you. Everyone argues, everyone criticizes, and I don't think I bumped anything in the OT board. I remember a 900+ post thread, an 1100+ post thread, and a discussion about how much the forums can support.

[Carlin]

I'd just like to add that you probably could have provided a simple link to the old thread in question to demonstrate your point. Bumping them up for the world to see wasn't really necessary...

[Kevin Wolf]

And CW, how much is it bothering you? I can take mine down if you want.

If you don't mind my asking, why does it bother you?

Already hopped off that train. It was fun while it lasted (one evening).

[CJBurgandy]

Anyway, my biggest complaint is that I got sacked for doing things that everyone here does (btw, right now I feel you're borderline flaming me, McD). I might argue a lot, but that's a basic characteristic of me and I do it with everyone, even close friends. It doesn't mean I don't respect you. Everyone argues, everyone criticizes, and I don't think I bumped anything in the OT board. I remember a 900+ post thread, an 1100+ post thread, and a discussion about how much the forums can support.

actually the reason why you got sacked was you were asked to calm down and you didn't. Admin saw that as an attack. Most people who flame on the board will calm down and stop when people ask them too.

now it kills me to back kelly up, but I have to on this one. Sorry.

[Mercury Hat]

McDuffies doesn't bump up ancient threads like you did.

Plus I think it was mentioned before that it wasn't your actions, but how you presented them. Sam was talking civilly with Kelly and Kisai about the forum matter while you just went "LURR DE DURR LOOK OLD LONG THREADS I'M HELPING". It was your tone of arrogancy and immaturity that caused me and other people to point Kelly in your direction.

[Christwriter]

And CW, how much is it bothering you? I can take mine down if you want.

If you don't mind my asking, why does it bother you?

Already hopped off that train. It was fun while it lasted (one evening).

Mostly, it implies that sex is either occoring or about to occor. For some reason, same-sex couples kissing screams "sex" more than opposite sex couples kissing. probably because I've been desensatized to the male-female kiss.

And thanks for the offer. If you REALLY don't mind, I'll take you up on it. Just...makes it a little hard to browse the forums. Sorry.


CW

[Kevin Wolf]

I knew eventually somebody would get bothered by it, and I told myself I'd swap it out as soon as it happened. That said, your explanation of why it bothered you confuses and disturbs me.

[Driving Without Pants]

Maybe she's afraid she'll catch "the gay."

[Kevin Wolf]

Same-sex kissing images are more likely to be found in pornography than in "mainstream" entertainment, therefore it is very likely that any random same-sex kiss image is in fact a prelude to sex. For instance, the two girls I briefly had in my avatar eventually get down to a good ol' naked, corn-syrup-covered, mutual masturbation session.

However, associating same-sex kissing so closely with sex seems to speak to the stereotype of gays as rampant sex maniacs, which is uncool.

[Christwriter]

I knew eventually somebody would get bothered by it, and I told myself I'd swap it out as soon as it happened. That said, your explanation of why it bothered you confuses and disturbs me.

Well...it's not exactly something I've figured out real well, either. I guess when I figure it out better, I'll let you know.

But thanks, anyway. REALLY thanks. More because you were nice enough to take it down and not make a really big fuss about it than for the taking-down part.

CW

[Spriteville, USA]

You would be surprised at the socially instilled stigmas that can be put in under the radar when you not looking. Or from when you're younger.

[Nyke]

I was going to jump on the bandwagon, but I decided not to.

[Kevin Wolf]

See, I find your avatar much worse than a couple of cute Japanese girls tongue-kissing. But I'm not going to ask you to change it.

[Nyke]

See, I find your avatar much worse than a couple of cute Japanese girls tongue-kissing. But I'm not going to ask you to change it.

See, to annoy people, you don't have to jump on a lesbian avatar bandwagon.

[Christwriter]

...can I pre-emptively apologise for starting it if this turns into another thing?

CW

[Kevin Wolf]

Thing? Huh?

[McDuffies]

Anyway, my biggest complaint is that I got sacked for doing things that everyone here does (btw, right now I feel you're borderline flaming me, McD). I might argue a lot, but that's a basic characteristic of me and I do it with everyone, even close friends. It doesn't mean I don't respect you. Everyone argues, everyone criticizes, and I don't think I bumped anything in the OT board. I remember a 900+ post thread, an 1100+ post thread, and a discussion about how much the forums can support.

*sigh*
Ok. I give up. I was tryong to give you a good advice, not to argue with you. Go ahead and keep doing what you were doing before, but then don't ask why everyone hates you.

[Faub]

Could people take the lesbian avatar discussion to another thread? This is NOT the place for it.

My only beef with Striker is that he gets on chat while I'm doing homework so I never get to read what he has to say. Of course, when he does get on, it's usually a technical discussion with Kisai.