Tis the season of love.... (excerpts from a touching letter)
Hello member of TOL. My name is Axacta. I was banned from TOL Dec. 15 for no reason that I have ever been notified of. All of a sudden my account was inaccessible to me, and I received no email of explanation. It happened right after I suggested that the administrator, Knight, resign from being TOL administrator. Please allow me a moment of your time to explain. I think you will find it interesting what sort of people you will be supporting and interacting with by participating on TOL.
But as you can see Knight cannot keep me out. He can keep banning my identities as I reveal them, but I can keep making more. So I wrote a letter to Knight and posted a challenge for him to resign because he was covering up his own inept management of his moderators, and he owed a public apology to Freak, along with a clearing of his name. But before I made this post I emailed it to 35 of the most active members so they would know to expect it, and thus prevent it from being removed. Well on that thread Geoff (a five year member) agreed with me and was immediately banned by Yxboom, the same clique moderator that had banned Freak the last time. Later in that thread a member named "me again" legitimately objected to some of the actions being taken. He was civil and non-confrontational, and still Yxboom deleted all of his posts. Somewhere around this time a member named Kitty was banned without explanation, and very likely for questionable reasons.
Since that day not one explanation has been offered for these actions. There is a cavalier arrogance to this clique of Knight, Yxboom, Dee Dee, Pilgrimagain, cirisme and a few lesser lights who are fairly easy to recognize from their sycophantic behavior. They think nothing of ganging up on those they don't like or agree with, and ridiculing them to the point of leaving. And since that day I have been fighting back. TOL needs a house-cleaning form the top on down, and I encourage you to withhold your participation until that happens. After all, some time down the road you or a friend of yours could run afoul of this clique, and be ridiculed off the board, or just disappear without explanation. Don't let any denials fool you - they have offered no refutation to any of my factual posts since this has began. If you have any questions or comments I can be reached at samwise888@hotmail.com.
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I would like to address one last thing, if I may:
I would like to address this simple refrain by the simple sycophants on the board who think that, "after all it's Knight's forum, so he can do what he wants with it". Apparently, to these simple sycophants this sort of simple reasoning justifies the horrendous treatment accorded to Freak, Geoff, me again, and myself (and I am willing to bet, Kitty as well - and who knows if there are more).
Because simple minds think in simple ways, I have to ask this simple question of these simple minds - if it was them who were unjustifiably penalized by Knight with no right to defend themselves, would their simple minds still be spouting their simple refrain? Quite simply - no! They would be quite simply, angry! and quite simply, hurt! and quite simply, outraged! But we who have been unjustifiably penalized - these simpletons think we should simply think simple like them. Sorry - but my brain is just not capable of thinking THAT STUPID!?!
By the way, these simple sycophants may be too simple to simply grasp what "sycophant" means, so in case they ask, here it is in simple terms: "A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people." They obviously want into the clique.
Saddam Hussein would love to have these simple little simpleton sycophants as simple Iraqi citizens. Heck they could be a part of his personal guard - or at least they could lick the blood off his boots after he returns from a hard day slaughtering innocent children - "After all it's his country!"