But you’re completely dancing around and purposely avoiding my underlying point here: how does what I said, my history of arguments with bloggers and how I reacted justify the way this particular situation was handled by a mod? (Hint: it doesn’t) I feel like I’m beating a dead horse here and don’t try to blow smoke up my a** with the idea that emojis mean nothing, it’s pretty easy to see how they really felt when you put 2 and 2 together. The emojis and reactions to those posts when complemented by was what was actually said to me only further supported the notion that Rain Cold was picking sides/favorites and was doing absolutely nothing to diffuse the situation and making it even worse which is evidenced by their responses to me. Even after I repeatedly on multiple occasions asked for the personal/ad hominem attacks to please stop and tried to change the conversation to the topic in the thread and posted evidence to back up my claims,
@Rain Cold continued to produce “gotcha!” one-liners, hurl insults, personal jabs, & snark my way has subsequently tried to justify their intolerable actions as evidenced by the responses in this thread. It’s just pathetic, abhorrent behavior that’s unacceptable for the high standards of a moderator, there’s no sugar coating it. Me being a meteorologist certainly doesn’t in any way, shape, or form justify anything they did or mean that it’s okay for a moderator to continually attack me because I was being snarky and effectively take an eye for an eye. Then, to later accuse me of overreacting or saying it wasn’t a “big deal” all the while still rambling on about it and still singling me out, only makes this situation look even worse for said moderator, makes me feel even worse and more upset, brings about more vitriol and doesn’t deflate the tense set of circumstances, which again is your job as a moderator. This kind of reaction and handling of the way said moderator went about this situation makes this place more like Americanwx, the very place we’ve vowed not to become since day 1.
The above is all I’m asking about and it seems like no one wants to admit their fault in how it was gone about and instead of some consolation, I’ve only received more snark, more pushback, more hostility, more personal attacks, and I’m getting singled out as being the clear issue in this situation although there was more than one party involved. Not to mention, I’ve received more nonsensical bs that had nothing do with the conversation in the covid thread that was derailed and reinforced by Rain Cold and a few others in the thread. I have a meteorologist tag but you, rain cold, etc are moderators and arguably held to the highest standard here in this particular setting and it’s 100% exactly in your job description (not mine) to avoid, amend, and fix these exact situations, if you are incapable of doing that which is your job (doesn’t matter if you’re a volunteer or not) because you can’t take the moral high road as a moderator to what another blogger said, then why are you doing this job and maybe you should find someone else to replace you. I don’t see what’s so wrong about this stance and I fully stand behind this opinion
