actually im too lazy to badmouth you on other sites, getting banned from places after little real activity for ages is a bit of habit of mine.

may the force be with you!

You can trash me whereever you want, be it hongfire or rolleyes or somewhere else. I’m not the one who decided it was necessary to drag a trivial thing like a week’s ban from some mediocre forum onto a site admin’s private site. I’m just the one who retaliated by extending the ban a little bit.

Or rather, what exactly did I do to you? I undeleted two of your posts and locked the thread. And they were posts that were made after the question was answered, were generally offtopic, and were also pointless. I can’t really feel bad about that. If you’ve got a problem with how you were treated by the moderators, you should have taken it up with them, or with me, but this is pretty clearly not the place to do it.

I’m not sure what you intend to accomplish by whatever you decide to do. If you come back, I don’t care. If you re-register with different info, that’s fine… as long as you stay within the bounds of good forum conduct. But trying to drag my name through the mud for my attempts to keep the forums functional and garbage-free is just petty and childish.

And speaking of childish, “ROAST!” (paulyboy), I’m quite a bit more aware of my physical appearance than you are, thank you very much. And I talk about my life and my thoughts for two reasons: to be able to look back at given points in time later and see what I was thinking and doing (because you can’t see your own gradual changes without the perspective given by time), and because my family and friends generally like hearing it. It lets them know what I’m thinking, without me having to go and explain it to everyone. It also keeps me honest, and prevents me from having to present a different face to each of them. By establishing myself as a person whose thoughts are open to the public, I force myself to actually decide, to take sides, rather than just going along adrift in the sea of other people’s opinions. It’s actually a problem I had before I started this … keeping too many disparate half-beliefs, and not really knowing what I thought.

Forcing myself to introspect, to engage in the research and the observation and the internal debate, and ultimately to pick a side is something I view as a worthwhile exercise. It certainly gives me a more well-defined belief structure, and arms me better to engage other people in debate.

But you can’t really criticize the intelligence of what I write if you can’t even fucking get basic grammar and spelling down. Ellipses is three dots, not seven or eleven. Learn to use “to” and “too” correctly, learn how to use a fucking comma to separate clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. Don’t give me shit about trying to “keep it short” until you can figure out a way to say the same thing with the same flavor in many fewer words. And questioning my sexuality is just … plain out there. Seriously, how mature is that?

Thanks for the feedback on the pictures. I have, in fact, taken pictures of myself, and there are a couple on the gallery. Most of the time I’m pretty displeased with them … I can never get a good perspective, or a good balance, and I tend to be focused on taking the picture, so I end up with either a blank expression, or an intent and angry-looking one. Which is why they don’t get posted … because I don’t like them. However, that’s not going to stop me from posting pictures of myself that I like … after all, I’m the guy who’s paying the 8 bucks a month for hosting, I’ll do what I want with it.

I don’t understand what’s wrong with you children. I probably shouldn’t gratify your crap with any sort of response at all… but that’s my stupidity in action for you.

i suppose i could re-register under another name/email/ip/etc but that defeats the point – i dont want to be part of a system where complaining about rep points results in being told off.

i only contributed a little to the basilisk thread by uploading the episodes so im no great loss to gotwoot in general.

anyways, goodluck with gotwoot – i guess i can call you an idiot on hongfire instead…. until they get sick of me and ban me too, hehe.

live long and prosper dude.