OK, first of all, Gas, you can just bluntly refer to me in the Adriano thread when you said "name-calling." OK, I apologize for name-calling but I'll also let you know that it's because of this repressed feeling I kept private about you walking around this forum acting like you're higher than anyone else. "I know more about this than you." "You should do this and this not that." "Hey you (member xxx) you shouldn't do this, it's not acceptable." "Close La Grande Inter and only have one forum!"
Like XL said, maybe you did it unconsciously and you don't mean it, but imagine if I go to the forum you're mod-ing and tell you how to run things, won't you be pissed? For me, you're insulting our intelligence here. We already discussed these things among the mods and then you, out there, are telling us what to do. And also, we are mods in an online forum, not the president of the USA or something. We should be allowed to let loose sometimes.
Second of all, with regards to Ehsan's post on how we still allow some trolls in the forum, I personally believe it's because we are too democratic. We have been actively discussing about these issues lately but there are also differences of opinion among the moderators. I'd like to hear what you have to say about this forum, you clearly seem to be one of the most intelligent posters here. If you don't wanna be in the spotlight by posting your opinion here, feel free to PM me.
Finally, I just want to say that because you think there is a lack of action by us, it doesn't mean that we're not doing anything. We are warning members by PM, which means that you don't know if we are warning them. We discuss things in the mod forum, which is unfortunately invisible from the members. It's like the current US government, you see. Just because the $700 billion bailout plan was rejected by the Senate (or the House, can't remember) earlier on, it doesn't mean that there are not people who are drafting and lobbying the plans to the others.
I hope this clarify some issues here, and that you guys still enjoy posting here.
Thanks for your answer. I appreciate that.
I didn't refer to you, you are one of the greatest members. I just ment it in general. We all share the same interest, so we already all have a band and I think we shouldn't call eachother unacceptable names.
I will apologize here openly to everybody that felt atracted to my words. It was more a reaction of me to the things that were said by others. I shouldn't have done it, it was a weak reaction of me.
All the things that I said besides that, were just ment positive. I never ment to act like a leader or what ever, I just want to steer some things in the right way, and I hoped it could work the way I did it. I don't know how else I can open the eyes of some members....but I just want the best for everybody, and I think it's nice for ever member when the levels get's a bit higher than just argues that shouldn't even be in a topic.
But I must say that I really like this forum. You can think I don't like it, because I critice things. But if I wouldn't like it, I wouldn't return every day. This counts for all the other members as well. Now I just hope the mood of all of us can become a bit happier, so we could go on more well with eachother. Ofcourse there can be missunderstandings between members, there can happend things that someone else don't like. But those things will always happend, and can just been talked out or what ever on a normal way as well.
I don't want to see that people act different because this is internet. When you meet an Interista in a cafe, you will not call him to fuck off and that he sucks etc just because he doesn't think Ibrahimovic is our perfect striker. So there is also no need to act like that on the internet in my opinion.
I know I probably ask too much, and I want things too perfect. But I hope it can just become a bit better.
I am sure you moderators will do a lot of work. And as always, they are always the ones to blame. I didn't mean it wrong, I'm sorry. I also know half of the work is never being seen by normal members. But on the forum I work, we jump in when things go wrong. And because I saw all the argues going on, and nothing happened, I just thought that maybe there wasn't any action being taking from above. This could have been another mistake by me. At least I don't mean it bad.
For me things are cleared out now. I hope the members will all try to help to bring this forum to a respectable place for all other the members.