Dry as a Bone, Part 2

[raz_atoth]

From what I gather in talking to other Blitz members that I know who no longer bother to post on this MB because they are fearful of speaking freely, there is/was no love lost between Canuck and Red Devil

As Steel God alreay pointed,you can count the members who got banned in the entire history of the blitz on the fingers of one hand.What you try to picture in here-a world in which you tremble in fear just because your opinion happens to be different from the "official" line,is simply not true.Even the fact that you could post the above lines without vanishing into thin air,never to be heard of,is a proof,that things aren't exactly like that.Why be afraid to speak freely then,if the way you say it,is decent enaugh?Have any of those members you speak about,been at least warned for something else than obvious obnoxious behaviour?

Canuck freely admits, if you talk to him, that he was rude and belligerent IN PRIVATE, so it does not surprise me that things escalated quickly from the point that Canuck's post got deleted. And thus the ban occured. My take on it is that it still smells, but it's a dead horse and flogging it HERE is a waste of time and energy.

Should i understand from the capitalized "IN PRIVATE" that it's not ok to be rude in public,but it's ok to be in private?How about if i'll start to make racist remarks,threaten you or your family-you name it-in private?You'd truly want such behaviour to be posible without any action from an mod/officer because they were made in private?

A gaming club is only a "good" club if everybody has the perception that things are handled fairly and honorably. I am not accusing anyone of unfairness or acting dishonorably, I am suggesting that there is the perception that this banning was not handled in the best way. And once people perceive, rightly or wrongly, that things might not be on the up and up, then the club will suffer.

It's obvious-but correct me if i'm wrong please-that you believe that Canuck's banning wasn't handed fairly and honorably.You already know,he was banned for his statsments in private.The only way we could proove we did conduct this in a fairly way would be to make this private messages,public,right?Now,i ask you,do you truly want this done?What if it was you,the target of those messages.You'd really want all the insults displayed on the message board?I don't know about you,but i certainly wouldn't.The best situation in a case like this is-as questionable it might seem to some people-to simply let the mods quietly take care of things.And another thing:assuming my assumption that you believe Canuck was treated unfair is true,may i know what are the reasons?Why automatically assume the blitz officers conducted in an unfair way?Do you have any previous cases of members being unfairly banned to back up your story?