You didn't quote that part entirely, which is obviously a subtle attempt to debase the fact that it is because of YOU that people get balsy and say something. They feel that if a moderator puts her foot down and rants that it gives them all the more reason to as well. Are you denying that every past circumstance is not a result of your having said something and then your close friends coming to your aid?
These people that complain are not random people for the most part. They are the same folks with the same issue and same problem. These are not new people coming forward and backing you up. These have not been instances where it was me against the community. It was me against you and your posse.
The fact is, you have a posse whether you want to admit it or not. This posse will back you up whether you are right or wrong. And you have been wrong before. Don't let this flatter you, because its not a compliment.
If people see a moderator of all people lose it and break, they excuse themselves from civility. And, because they are your friends, you have no way of proving to me or anyone else that you guys don't take advantage of the fact that you can work together pretty well and do every time.
Its not like these are random occurances, though they are isolated incidents. You and yours intentionally come together to vent. But they'll only do it if you're there.
Its actually something quite different if new people came to me to express the same thing. But because they are too shy, afraid, respect me, you, and themselves too much to get involved, etc, etc, they don't. And its better than way for everyone because the less people involved the sooner these things are stopped.
You say you felt your right to get your thought across was violated. How was it when you said pretty much everything you could in one post? It was the FLAME, the ARGUMENT, that I stopped. Not your freedom of speech or your rights, or the rights of anyone else. I allow them to say what they want to, don't I? Yes, I do. But it's much better to stop these events from happening when you know they will happen. I don't see the harm or foul in this.
It is documented and a fact that it is YOU who start these things. There is no retarded chimp to blame, just your anger and your inability to control it at the right time.
You make it seem like I'm the one who yells at people and starts things. I just react. If they can't handle it, is that really my fault? No, I don't think it is. Because then you'd be saying I have no right to defend myself for them having a problem and wanting to yell at me.
I think that while we've had a few of these episodes, one is one too many. When you calm down and you come to your senses you'll realize that what I did was right.
