04-05-2003, 04:15 AM
CelticHound,Apr 4 2003, 07:59 PM Wrote:I'm not really thrilled with bashing another site here. To me, it feels too much like talking about someone behind their back. I'd much rather bash Bolty in front of his face. ;) (But that's because after his major contribution to the D2 community in building the LL, I have extremely high expectations of him - quit an honour don't you think? :P )Well, that can create problems. There are those who place WAAAY too much stock in my opinion. All I do is maintain this website. The posters here do all the work. But for some reason people then give me too much credit.
That's why I sometimes hesitate before posting. I worry that if I post my opinion on something gaming-related, I'll stifle the opposing viewpoint and/or encourage anyone with my viewpoint to feel they can "jump on the bandwagon" simply because I said it. Yes, the work I do on the site gives me some privileges, like the right to ban anyone I catch cheating. But it doesn't give me the right to just boot off someone I disagree with.
Anyway, threads like this are dangerous. I made a post in this thread stating that I didn't agree with dii.net's policies, although I think they run a great site. After that I noticed the dii.net-bashing suddenly increase. And then take for example Conner's next post after mine:
Conner Macleod, Mar 22 2003:
Quote:I'm happy to see Bolty is on board there. LMAO! Let the outright carpet-flaming of Dii.net begin!
I don't like seeing blatant ripping on the dii.net posters, since generalizations like that will just lead to dii.net posters making generalizations that LL posters are a bunch of jerks. It goes both ways. And I don't like seeing blatant public ripping on the dii.net web admins. They are fellow fansite administrators of mine. They have put in more work than many will ever know (a heck of a lot more than me, as they have 50 times the content of the LL) on a venture that makes little dough. They have the right to run the site as they please, and you have the right to either go there or not. But the open personal attacks on their webmasters here just makes this place look bad and embarrasses me. If the LL is supposed to be "so much better" than dii.net, then what's with the petty namecalling? Anyone else catch the irony?
Sorry CelticHound, this isn't aimed at you, just the thread in general.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.