Thread Split vs close

[tommac]

In other words ... everyone has a different set of rules.

The rules are the same for everyone, what you're apparently missing is that everyone starts out with a bag with a limited amount of leniency. This bag is exhausted or filled by the users themselves through their behavior. How the rules (the same rules for everyone) are managed in the case of each user depends on how full their bag is.
That you skirt the rules repeatedly is why it's even relevant to talk about interpreting rules, if you didn't keep going to the edge of the rules there would be no need for the moderators to interpret the rules.
That you keep going there, and you start a new thread to complain every single time it happens emptied your bag long ago and makes sure it isn't refilled.

Your complaint threads are as predictable as clockwork, both in when they appear, in what you say, in what the response is from anyone who isn't you and in how much you learn from it.

[tommac]

How can it be wrong? Who is claiming that it is wrong? The mods are clear that depending on the person the rules are different. Some peoples threads will get locked others may not others may get suspended and others may get banned and others may get backed by the mods themselves for exactly the same action. This is not under dispute.

Yes I know that's what you meant to say. What I'm saying is, you're wrong.

I wonder how many other people need to tell you that you are wrong before you will consider the possibility that you might be wrong.

[tommac]

Yeah I am OK with all of this. I dont have a problem. But just wanted to point out that there are different rules for different people. If someone hijacks my thread ... it will get closed ... not because of anything I did but because there are different rules for me than there are for others. It is not a toleration level ... it is just that the rules are different for different people and I am fine with that ... it is your board you can manage it the way you like. I am just pointing it out.

No. There's not. One set of rules, one set of precedents, one busy mod team, and you, who, in several years of inappropriate topics and threadjacking, seem incapable of learning (or unwilling to learn) what threads/discussions are not appropriate in protected fora.

It's not rocket science, Tommac.

There is a limited amount of tolerance given, so that people who are learning the ropes, or someone who stumbles into the edge of them once a year or so can survive unharmed. You've burned through your share of tolerance, in many ways - the same ways - years ago. And you have done nothing at all to earn more. Bluntly, because we're reluctant to ban for non-critical matters, we've wound up being _very_ lenient with your pattern of behavior, and I suspect it's long since time to review that stance.

"How do you quit getting speeding tickets? Quit speeding." - Many cops.

[Swift]

I dont have a problem. But just wanted to point out that there are different rules for different people.

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Gillianren]

In other words ... everyone has a different set of rules.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Everyone gets a different amount of play within the same rules. It's not as though anyone can get away with a lot of the basics--if I register a sock puppet, it and I will both get banned, just the same as anyone else. However, I can probably get away with being slightly more rude than certain people because I have developed a reputation for staying away from the line. People who play with fire will eventually get burned. People who only strike a single match from time to time probably won't.

[Moose]

It is not a toleration level ...

It is absolutely a toleration level. And this persistent little selective hearing problem of yours has burnt up every last bit of the considerable tolerance you used to enjoy. All of it. To fine particles of what used to be ash.

So yes, you go right on telling yourself everything's fine on your end. Make no adjustments to your behavior. I'm sure that'll learn us.

[Garrison]

No ... what I mean to say is that : There are different sets of rules for different people.

You keep saying it, you keep failing to back up you claim. There is one set of rules and a subset of board members who think they should be exempt from them, or can cleverly game their way around them, and then throw tantrums when it turns out they were wrong. Really how many times are you going to bring this up before you accept that the rules are not going to be rewritten to comply with your version of acceptable conduct?

[Garrison]

Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. Everyone gets a different amount of play within the same rules.

It's the same in every aspect of life. The police will treat a first time offender more leniently, within the law, than a habitual criminal. Your boss at work will cut the guy who goes sick once a year more slack than the one gets a bad back every time there's a football game.

[Paul Beardsley]

You keep saying it, you keep failing to back up you claim. There is one set of rules and a subset of board members who think they should be exempt from them, or can cleverly game their way around them, and then throw tantrums when it turns out they were wrong. Really how many times are you going to bring this up before you accept that the rules are not going to be rewritten to comply with your version of acceptable conduct?

And everybody gets this, except for... well, you guessed it.

[HenrikOlsen]

It it wasn't for the near-certainty that it would spawn another complaint thread I'd suggest closing the thread.
It's clear that everyone's already said what they have to say, often several times, and it's not going to do any good or change anyone's opinions anyway.

[Moose]

Nah, that's a good point. This thread, like most of the others, isn't going anywhere. Closed.