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canceling my membership
Hey, all, I just wanted to let you know how the actions of Julius Squeezer led to my cancelling my membership to this forum.
If you'll check out the "she likes her new room mate!!" thread in the "Boas" forum you'll see where it started. A member was advised to separate her snakes, and another member advised not to believe everything he/she was told, "especially on here".
Julius S. then posted, saying that he had intended to delete that member's post due to the insult contained within, but that since he'd followed it up with such "crap" he'd leave the post as is, since "any idiot" could see who knew what they were talking about.
I pm'd Julius, telling him that I wasn't taking the other guy's side, but that I was disturbed by the abuse of power I'd seen. I don't mind if two people want to throw insults back and forth as equals. But to use your position to threaten deletion of posts you find personally insulting and then to proceed to issue further insults I found to be disturbing and hypocritical. I asked him whether you're only allowed to insult people if you hold a position of power? See, it was the threat to delete the other's post that disturbed me. If he'd decided not to delete it, why bring it up? It was an intimidation tactic. I told him that while it was not my debate, I couldn't in good conscience stand by and leave that unchallenged.
He wrote back entirely unapologetic. Apparently since he didn't actually use the words "you...are..an...idiot" he wasn't hypocritically insulting the other guy, and the fact that he perceived the words "especially on here" to be an insult to every RTB member justified his actions. He managed to entirely miss the point of my message. So I'm leaving. I stand behind my convictions, and I won't be a part of any group that allows its staff to use their elevated positions to intimidate and belittle other members.
Take care.
aerin19
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