What a lovely thread filled with ancient grudges that are being dredged up. Personally I had deemed it obvious that Goober wasn't fit for admin leadership for years now, and I had thought that had become pretty apparent in the thread about avatars. Where he displayed all his strange ideas about hierarchy on a dead forum for a 20 year old dead game about fictional space ships. And if that wasn't enough, the thread where he publicly humiliate himself for all to see in his 'rapture is coming because a few stars are going to allign' should have tanked any and all credibility he may have once had.
I find it pretty telling about the state of HLP that all of this thread isn't even related to FS2 but was caused by american politics. Actual posting about the game and its mods seems to have almost completely dried up while a 'drama' thread gets all the attention. Whether Goobs stays as admin in this wasteland or not doesn't really concern me all that much at this point, for these are my final two posts on HLP. But he should probably stand back and stand by. :V
In fact, I learned this point on my very first day here:
My first post on HLP offered proofreading services to campaign designers. The original version of the post included some text that I intended as a lame "har har" joke.
But someone happened to find that extra text deeply offensive. And the whole thing blew up in my face.
Fun fact about that thread:
If TopAce hadn't jumped in right away with his, uh, distraction, I would have left that first day and never come back, humiliated as I was.
But luckily, things turned out differently.
Suppose that a ton of people had found that text offensive and not just one person. In that scenario, it might well have been reasonable to expect me to post a public apology for a remark that many perceived as inflammatory, even if I thought it was completely innocuous. Because, once again, perceptions matter.
And I was a nobody who had just joined. Consider how much higher the stakes would have been for an incident of far greater magnitude involving someone who had been on the forum for years, with "Administrator" under their name.
Oh, and for the record, I did apologize. Here's an excerpt from a PM I sent to Goober shortly after that:
And as I mentioned on IRC, I'm really sorry about this mess. I didn't expect my post to cause any of that, although in retrospect I guess I should have. I was expecting that people would look at the username, roll their eyes, and ignore it. I guess that's what they would have done if I hadn't included that extra paragraph about the username origin.
(For anyone who didn't know, "jg18" is not the username I registered under.)
''''Deeply offensive.'''' No lol, try 'mildly annoyed'. Even looking back at that thread I still find myself agreeing with the point I made, it's pretty dumb to join a community and starting off by selecting a name and a first post specifically to let everyone know that you found an old joke in someone's signature offensive. I would say that you could have done what you expected other people to be doing. Roll your eyes and ignore it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That being said, though. Boy, is it rough reading some of my old posts. Young Spoon had no chill, and I was often needlessly confrontational and probably under the impression that the world owed me something and that my opinions on things were
important for all to hear. So yeah, even if I still agree with the point of my posts then, I could have delivered it in a significantly more diplomatic way. Or, ideally, I should have just rolled my eyes and ignored it.
So yeah, I'll just do what Goober seems incapable of doing here, and apologize for needlessly being a jerk to you back then, jg18.
Also know that it was never anything personal and I never held it against you or anything, it was just the way I posted back then, communicating in a very direct manner (speaking my mind) without really giving too much thought about the feelings of the person on the other end of the internet tube.
Anyway, peace out nerds.
