What can I say, some people on this site have gone above and beyond to treat me specifically inconstantly with the rules of the site, and they make no attempts to defend their actions.
StackOverflow wanted to stop me from running in elections, so when they knew I was going to win they hard-coded another rule so anyone who was suspended from any site on the network within the last year, regardless of the one that they're running for -- they would be suspended from the elections.
So I'm in the top 5% of like most of the sites on this network, and the top 1% of a many of the networks so of course during the year, I slip up sometimes and sometimes people fail to deescalate and then sometimes (like in the case of the poor moderation on SuperUser) it's just straight up not my fault. Anyway, if you link your accounts you can't run in the election. If I unlink my account I can. Afterward. But, that's just silly.
Despite being the only person on this network who has express written permission from the owners to sockpuppet, I refuse to do it. I AM EVAN CARROLL. Etc.,
Since when is "encouraging fantasies" something people get kicked for? see what I mean. It's the information and the failure of moderators to want to engage anyone who disagrees with them.
@EvanCarroll FWIW, @EvanCarroll, I'm pretty sympathetic to the idea that people who joke about drowning other users they've had disputes with should not be moderators
@EvanCarroll Though I'm curious - what got you suspended on superuser that was "straight up not your fault"? Tales of moderator misbehaviour are interesting.
@MarkAmery I asked about 10 questions on StackOverflow, in agreement with StackOverflow moderators we migrated them all to SU. They're still there, look up TempleOS. They were all purely technical and they fit with the theme of theme of the sight. In fact, many of them have gone positive since the drama.
They were closed, and I had to fight to keep them open. That was perfectly fine, it's part of the process. But it's important that the group responsible for closing all of them, were moderators, and users in the chan. They organized resistance to all of my questions specifically. They didn't even bother closing other TempleOS questions on the network.
So then months later I got into ReactOS, and again asked questions. And, again the same treatment. The same problems from the same moderators, and the same users.
@MarkAmery now go on and ask the moderators from SuperUser why my questions on TempleOS were closed? The answer I was given is that they were closed because ReactOS is BETA. But, keep this in mind -- that's not a rule, it's not applied to any other piece of software.
Moreover, the actual staff of StackExchange told me the questions were on topic at SuperUser. It's just those mods don't like me, and that's the problem.
@forest The policy was enacted not because all such users are inherently bad, but to prevent drama from people bringing up past suspensions as they derail discussions.
Especially with users with a long history of certain classes of action it is essential both to give then a fair shake and not let us be bullied into certain courses of inaction
Inconsistent and capricious decisions about what justifies closing questions are unfortunately common on Stack Overflow too; I have had many moments of impotent rage when I've not been able to protect good questions I wanted preserved from the prevailing whims of the day
I am sympathetic to the idea that the network is so large and varied now that bans in one place on the network will tainting your account on dozens of other communities is pretty harsh.
@JourneymanGeek Nah, one day, everyone will be using TempleOS, and praising god's temple. It's just a matter of time before we all learn the true beauty of 640x480 16-bit color and no networking (because god said so).
Anyway, I'm gonna kill some zombies before bed. I'll read the rest of this convo in the morning and see if there's a big reveal about all @JourneymanGeek's evil abuses of power.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog ohhh, he's been suspended from chat. I thought you meant he was automatically suspended from Super User, blocking him from being a mod.