Post by observer on Apr 8, 2006 18:35:39 GMT -5
I recently discovered, much to my surprise, that I was getting bashed on Eplaya. I was surprised because I hadn't been in an argument with anybody there for months, and in most of the arguments I was in, I was defending Burning Man, Eplaya and the Burning Man Limited Liability Corporation against the people at Stopburningman.org and a few other detractors. While I wouldn't expect somebody to bow down and pay me homage for doing a thing like that, I would certainly have hoped that it wouldn't have counted against me.
I would have hoped in vain. It's a long, convoluted story, but I'll try to simplify it as much as I can. I was astounded to learn that I had been accused of being the sockpuppet of some guy calling himself "Dustbuddy", as had the moderator for this board ("Traveller"). Looking at Traveller's profile, I found a link to this board and decide to talk to you guys about the latest. This link will take you to a thread where ... oh, just read the posts. Just thinking about the summary I would write is giving me a headache.
Title: "Distress Call"
Strangely, unintentionally appropriate. It's Fate, I guess. Somewhere, I can picture Rex Scates and Ed Mitchell saying "we told you so" and they sure did. I am absolutely staggered by the depth of the betrayal and by how much I didn't see this coming. I look back on so much I wrote in defense of this event and the people who surround it, and now I wonder why I ever bothered. All of that verbiage I posted about how the tone on Eplaya was improving and how much community spirit there was, and I was so incredibly wrong. Why didn't I see it?
Your names are showing up as well, so check it out and see what you think about your community. Do you still want to be part of it?
I would have hoped in vain. It's a long, convoluted story, but I'll try to simplify it as much as I can. I was astounded to learn that I had been accused of being the sockpuppet of some guy calling himself "Dustbuddy", as had the moderator for this board ("Traveller"). Looking at Traveller's profile, I found a link to this board and decide to talk to you guys about the latest. This link will take you to a thread where ... oh, just read the posts. Just thinking about the summary I would write is giving me a headache.
Title: "Distress Call"
Strangely, unintentionally appropriate. It's Fate, I guess. Somewhere, I can picture Rex Scates and Ed Mitchell saying "we told you so" and they sure did. I am absolutely staggered by the depth of the betrayal and by how much I didn't see this coming. I look back on so much I wrote in defense of this event and the people who surround it, and now I wonder why I ever bothered. All of that verbiage I posted about how the tone on Eplaya was improving and how much community spirit there was, and I was so incredibly wrong. Why didn't I see it?
Your names are showing up as well, so check it out and see what you think about your community. Do you still want to be part of it?
Goodbye anonymity. If anybody ever wants to do something official to this guy, you all know where to send the papers.
