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Arbitrary Defrocking of wilderness

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E. R. Olovetto Posted: Sun, Jun 27 2010 11:29 PM
I've been recently defrocked of my MVP title for questioning the legitimacy of the state of Israel. Now, another member of the community who had already quit because of the behavior of senior officials, got randomly defrocked as well. He has stated his displeasure with the ruling elite of the fora and had barely posted for the past two months as far as I can tell. However, his MVP tag was removed, but not the others who had acquired it in the (now abandoned?) monthly MVP program. The senior officials have blatantly ignored my questioning of this issue, thus the new thread.

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I should have removed all the MVP badges at once. I apologize. I've gone through and removed all the MVP badges, even the numerous "legacy" badges.
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Ah yes, a conspiracy to reward all of his enemies with MVP tags, and then to take them away weeks after they quit the forum. Dastardly!

What unspeakable evil will be perpetrated next? Will Lilburne rescue a cat from a tree, only to abandon it to its rightful owners? Or will he help a little old lady across the street, and then selfishly indulge himself to her gratitude?!

Tune in next week, for the amazing adventures of "Neurotic and Paranoid Obsession with Unexplained Forum Phenomena!"

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Ooooo  I can't wait. 

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There's an easy explanation. Lilburne doesn't like me and wilderness. BTW, I thought I would check here if I am allowed to make a thread on the comparison between the policies of Nazi Germany vs. Israel. You seemed to confuse denouncing the state's atrocities with racism against Jews, which is why I was defrocked.

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E. R. Olovetto:
There's an easy explanation. Lilburne doesn't like me and wilderness.

Right, which is why he made sure you had MVP tags in the first place. You have really uncovered a dark conspiracy here.

If Lilburne wanted to punish Wilderness, he didn't have to let him back on the forum. But he did. Likewise, another mod banned you for 2 weeks, and he shortened it to a couple days. Because as you said, Lilburne is a "carebear" and it works as much to the advantage of his detractors as it does to the enemies of those detractors. It is incredibly even handed. But that's not enough for you. You want carte blanche, and everyone you don't like to be discriminated against. And if it isn't done as you expect, then you want us to believe that it is somehow a reflection on Lilburne's lack of character, not your own.

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So, is that topic allowed or not?

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Marko replied on Thu, Jul 1 2010 4:46 PM
It is a fact MVP tags had been taken away arbitrarily before. So you have no grounds to complain about people jumping to conclusions. It was to be expected.

It is good this story has been closed with the clean up.
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Marko:

So you have no grounds to complain about people jumping to conclusions. It was to be expected.

I am not complaining.

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