Dave Farabee wrote: Matt, so sorry I almost disturbed your sleep when one of your board members went nuts, made borderline threatening posts, then took them down to hide behind a wall of cowardice. I just thought you might be interested in doing your fucking job as a moderator. No other halfway decent moderated forum would've let Mike's behavior stand.

I'm sorry, Dave, but what part of 12:30 AM in the morning, me being asleep, and being called out for, you know, not doing something in the middle of the night don't you understand?  Good God, but you can be a pompous ass when you want to be.  You took what Mike wrote personally, but reading it in context he didn't liken you to Hitler or anyone else.  He wasn't talking about you, he was speaking in generalities.  But, oh no.  Bastion of all-things PC "Big Tex" Dave Farabee gets his feelers hurt, and he can't possibly understand context.  No, instead he calls on the mods to do his bidding...in the middle of the f**king night. My behavior?  Mine?  Yeah. I dared to ask you to clarify "advanced copy" and then went to bed.  Wow.  Gotta watch that kind of behavior from now on lest I rub Big Tex the wrong way.

Cry me a river and give me a frickin' break.  Take you pit accusations of this forum and go play with the other kewl kids on Ain't It Cool, Dave. 

Dave Farabee wrote: No other halfway decent moderated forum would've let Mike's behavior stand.

Oh yeah, one more thing...bullshit.  Your own Ain't It Cool does worse than that on a daily basis...or don't you read other message boards?  Hmmm...riiiiiiiight.  Never seen anything like that at all on Newsarama.

Waiting for Dave to totally not get it and come back with "but I thought you guys were better than that".

Dave Farabee wrote: But Ian's right, this is Byrne's world, and if that's to be the accepted behavior, I leave the board to this back-patting confederacy.

Yippee!  Haven't had an "I'm leaving and I'm leaving for good" post in a long, looooooong time. 

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Yeah, I know you were looking for originality, but a classic is a classic for a reason.

I just don't get the deleting of posts - it happens a lot and I'm left with a disjointed picture of whatever just happened.  If I felt I were having my words twisted about, I wouldn't up and remove them.  Creates doubt.

Also (and I understand this may well be none of my business) am I reading this correctly that Dave contacted Matt at home about this thread?  That's just silly.  Matt posts here about every 2 nanoseconds; I'm sure he would've read this thread & done whatever he felt he needed to do as moderator - if anything.  And if he were inclined NOT to do anything, how is a phone call going to change that?  Reminds me of Demi Moore strenuously objecting in A Few Good Men.

Edited to add: Matt's post below mine clears things up nicely, so rather than post again I was going to mention here that he cleared it up nicely, but then I thought he might not see my mention that he cleared it up nicely, so NOW I'm going to leave this edit here, which doesn't really say ANYTHING except what I'm about to say again as soon as I post.  Hint for the kids: never edit to add something before you are fully awake!

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