AJ stated some more nonsense:
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"PD has been banned because he is constantly challenging us admins/mods with the way we administer the forum and trying to draw a firefight when we tell him the rules aren't going away."

"PD is in the mindset that Kinsey is a bad choice for an admin. I and many others believe she is the perfect choice because she doesn't have a problem speaking her mind and telling someone they're an asshole when they are acting like one... and this is what pisses PD off so much because Kinsey tells it like it is!"
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This is FREAKING HILARIOUS. I'm banned because I keep stating my opinions without fear of reprisal on VPForums and then Kinsey gets praised in the very next bit for doing the same damn thing (well that plus the FLAMING aspect of calling someone an asshole that I don't do). If that isn't hypocrisy in the SAME PARAGRAPH I don't know what is. He's essentially saying that the ONLY difference between Kinsey and myself is that she's an appointed moderator and I am not, but yet he hates those same "qualities" in me (misplaced as they are, IMO), but LOVES them in Kinsey!! LOL. That's how distorted his view is.

Nevermind that Kinsey is AT LEAST as opinionated as me on almost EVERY topic out there. The only real difference is that if I were in her position, I wouldn't close threads, edit them and/or ban someone over their opinion differing from my own and I sure as heck wouldn't flame them as she's done several times in the past in both the public eye and in private.

But as for this absurd idea that I think Kinsey is the ONLY one responsible is just that, absurd. I blame ALL the staff for my ban because they all agreed to it. I told AJ in an e-mail that his 2-hour talk with Kinsey is probably the #1 reason he's seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses (One can't expect her to be unbiased on the issue when she and the rest of the staff are the ones that implemented the ban), but I sure as heck didn't say or imply she was the only reason we're having this problem. They're all to blame.


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"I'm not sure offhand why Kristian was banned."
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Well no DUH. AJ doesn't seem to know what's REALLY going on period despite a dozen people practically shouting it to him. It's really odd how he and the staff and a few that always agree with them view me as nothing but a troublemaker when the rest of the viewing public can plainly see at worst I'm a strongly opinioned (sometimes loud about it) person that still goes out of his way to help people with their tables, questions, etc. and has himself contributed 14 near commercial quality table releases! Even while I was banned, I was figuring out for Parallax why Scapino's Flash Gordon table wasn't working for him (it says so in the release thread by Scapino himself). The idea that all I ever did on VPForums was cause trouble is patently ABSURD.

As for posting polls, etc., I posted one whole poll about such things and it was on a way to *improve* the mod rules (a way to reduce red tape), which was instantly locked by Plumb (and reopened by AJ; that alone should trigger something in AJ's mind; he saw then that Plumb's action wasn't really reasonable as all I was doing was discussing the rules and looking for ways to IMPROVE THEM).

The other polls were posted by other people (I specifically recall the one posted by The Loafer that worded it so that all mods were implied to be "stealing", permission or not). I talked about this in another forum and BJ started posting false information (say yes it really was stealing) and I called him on it and challenged him to point that out to me in the mod rules and I ended up getting a posting ban for my troubles (that was the 1st time I got banned and it was for 2 weeks). Was I starting trouble? No I was REPLYING to NONSENSE posted by other people. Why should I let them categorize all modders as thieves? Don't I have a right to challenge posturing views? I guess not.....