I think a lot of us still remember TV’s Frink being permbanned years ago, not for rule breaking, but for just “being annoying” according to Jay. Have to imagine there’s still some bitterness towards the general style of moderation that has lead to some of these longtime users feeling like the site has become a different place. People seemed to like Off Topic much more when it didn’t have such strict and sometimes confusing moderation.
But it’s fine. The projects sections still live on. Not every site needs an off topic section that people care about.
Collipso, I still interact with him on Fanedit.org and he’s a good guy, but he definitely crossed the line in the Off-Topic fiasco. And he admits as such.
Frink on the other hand, his ban was pretty unfair.
That whole situation is what I had in mind in my comment earlier. I completely agreed with the mods at the time, I really wouldn’t want some of those off topic threads showing up in the top results on google, but the veteran users were proposing fair and reasonable compromises, only to be struck down.
Now we have the mods editing and now removing comments that poked holes in their side of the story (and again, mine was simply proposing a simple way to get to the bottom of it all), for frankly very dubious reasons, it’s shady as hell and makes me lose a lot of sympathy for them. Kind of makes me think that Junior’s comment was onto something…
Something that always bothered me though, was that the (relatively civil) politics threads were an embarrassment to the site, but the creepy-ass Beautiful Women thread was a-okay.