A long read but sums up this situation and pretty much any situation that gets out of hand on these boards...
Going to add my final thoughts to this before being done with it because I really don't like the way it played out:
All of this spanned from the repping bullshit (which everyone knows my feelings on reps - there shouldn't be any...Sponsors should handle their own posting just like they always did in the past, being the ones to build relationships with the members...Not using FM/Kilo or fake handles to pull members to them)...The two situations though that most know what I am referring to were completely different scenarios, not going to bother getting into that aspect.
But for what, over a year these guys all went at each other when ultimately it was the Staff's decision in both cases...Friends holding grudges because they were upset this one was banned and that one wasn't (when eventually everyone was allowed back and shit should have been finished)!
In the end none of this should have taken place...CG shouldn't have continued going back and forth with them (and sure as shit shouldn't have gotten as personal as he did in some cases, even a primate like me knows there are certain boundaries lol...But when attacked we go into survival mode and use whatever means we have) and MT should have never committed to a personal war (for the most part dragging MTF and tenny into things with him)!
Now everyone knows I'm a fossil that shouldn't be in this day and age...I have the mouth of a 70's drill instructor, am too blunt with no filter most of the time and even though my mind has evolved to keep up with the tech my attitude is still stuck in the 80's
Now I've never followed MT (never followed the competition aspect of this industry)...tenny and I have butted heads plenty of times due to conflicting attitudes and CG and I have butted heads many times over differences of opinion.
And I've never been one to ban a member for talking shit to me...If they do get banned it's so we can take things off the main board and can handle it in the other room, and 9 times out of 10 they are back within a couple hours to a couple days.
tenny decides he's going to message me talking shit...I tell him shut the fuck up he doesn't know what he's talking about. He decides to continue with the bullshit...So ok fuck it we can all handle this shit in the other room!
MT comes in and admits that he hacked CG's account but that tenny did not know about it and had nothing to do with it...CG's did cross the line bringing MT's wife into the conversation and the same as the rest of us (or at least I've found myself in this situation more times then I would like since being on these boards), where he had two choice once he reached that anger point - stand up and fight the man (which obviously isn't going to happen in this day and age...none of us are really going to jump on a fucking plane to fly out to crack off with someone over shit talking...Shit I don't want to drive to Walmart to pick up milk and bread lol...If I'm planning on doing that it's because you stole from me!).
My response is fuck it man...I completely understand your point of view, CG got personal, you retaliated in the only manner you could..Tenny is your buddy, so stuck up for you not knowing...I'll unban tenny and let the other guys decide what to do with the rest of the mess...But that he put us and the board in a shit position because now you got guys saying the boards unsafe and the Mods don't give a shit.
Hit send and bam there's tenny still talking shit...Fuck, you didn't bother to read what MT just wrote?! Dude you were wrong and out of line...Just say my bad like I did to GIYA - "My bad man, I overreacted to shit...You're still an asshole and I don't like you but my bad for that shit...We cool?".
So the end result of all this useless nonsense and a wasted year + was two solid members banned which all spanned from repping bullshit that had nothing to do with them and at the end of the day the two reps are the ones still here lol???!??!!
No one should have been banned and this shit should have never gotten out of hand! But this is the same shit we continue seeing all the time on the boards, with the cliques and with the rep shit...And that's why my mouth and attitude continues to get worse and worse each year because we get stuck in the middle of the bullshit!