Unless it was you. I was under the strong impression that it wasn't. That's the only reason I mentioned the name, because I thought it was of no consequence.
Man, I'd love/hate to know how many people don't like me.
Tons of people hate me. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy this community for those who don't. Your logic is lopsided.
Obviously they don't hate you enough to get you banned.
In all seriousness though, you're not going to get an answer, the answer is if you don't like it, you can leave, simple as that. It seems like we go through this same line of questioning every few months.
If I applied your logic to life, that means I might as well be dead if some people hate me. Sort of a negative view to things. If you enjoy your time in a community with the people who do like you, why would some people hating you ruin all your fun?Obviously they don't hate you enough to get you banned.
There's a difference between people just not liking you and constantly posting nonsense in the Deals forum where people have to wade through that crap to find actual coherent discussion of a deal.
Almost no one talks about deals in those threads. They're sparse and they're all covered in the OP. If you want to use the "off topic" excuse, everyone in those threads should be banned.
Damn, that's really deep.
Thanks for reminding me why I stay out of the deals forum.
so in that vein, since I don't like you, you should be banned, correct?
say what?
Obviously not what he was saying. The guy he was responding to had the logic of "If some people on a site don't like you, you shouldn't want to be there." He was just replying with an equally ridiculous line of reasoning.
I have no idea who the offender is, but I'd imagine you're just seeing the result of crappy, inconsistent CAG modding.
I'm kind of new to CAG so I don't want to step on any toes, but it seems that if a user is going to be banned they should at least be given a reason or a chance to resolve an issue before being locked out completely. If a user is about to banned they should have an option perhaps where someone cannot post but still has the ability to log in and talk to a mod to see if the issue can be worked out instead of just locking out the account completely. Just my 2 cents, for what its worth. Banning someone without a reason also leaves it to a guessing game to other CAGs as to what is and what is not acceptable, since no one really knows why a user was banned.
All correct, and all extremely common among most forum modding systems. CAG is just run by mods who are more or less grandfathered in from knowing Cheapy for ages, and thusly can do no wrong. Cheapy himself pulls a lot of inconsistent nonsense and doesn't help the situation at all.
If that's your view on the situation, why stay around the site any longer? It's obvious you have issue with the situation and as you don't seem to be getting any satisfaction, why stay and complain about it any longer?
I was replying to Reds303. I've more or less accepted how things are here. It's lame, it sucks, but that's how it is and how it's going to stay. When I'm making posts like that I'm more just painting an accurate picture of things to someone who's asking or talking about the state of things, rather than complaining.
Absolutely. I don't hate the community nor do I hate the idea behind the site. The only thing I've ever spoken badly of is the moderating, and even then, I haven't simply badmouthed it and "complained", I've given a lot of reasonable suggestions and criticism to making things better.
