Re: Sniper
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This whole process is rediculous
You guys clammored for a response and he gave you one. He basically said "you are right, I was wrong" but of course that's not enough. Now you want details on how he'll mod in the future, which is impossible to do completely out of any context. Not that I'm even convinced that anything he says will make people satisfied.
You guys act like you've never made any mistakes in your modding during the past 6 months. I think all three choices were bad ones and I hope that I wouldn't make the same errors, but at the same time I hope that when I do make "an error" that I'm not witch-hunted like this.
Some of you don't think his other contributions should matter at all in this process. I completely disagree. Other contributions to 2+2 show a committment to the betterment of the site as a whole and indicate to me a willingness to learn and grow for that end.
Then there's this whole issue of timely response, which to me is a clear indication of the excessive zeal in this spot.
Nothing I say is going to change what people think, but it needed to be said.
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The main problem with Sniper is not the completely ridiculous and bizarre mod decisions, but that he doesn't listen to logic, makes arguments that are completely idiotic, never budges, misquotes Mat and Ryan to further his own stuff, etc. Also as noted by someone he is always the quickest to wag his finger at others that don't follow whatever rules or procedures have been in place. Often in these cases he's in the wrong. In general he adds a lot of noise and makes it more difficult to give and get feedback in this forum.
He didn't make mistakes in these cases, they just exposed his standard operating procedure. Like others, I have made mistakes. Like everyone but sniper, my errors were rectified quickly and nothing came of it because I was able to admit that I had made a mistake and hashed it out with Ryan.
Sniper in the past has shown that he will say whatever it takes to further his aims and protect his ass. With Degen he made a lot of arguments for degen because he was a poster in the finance forum. When that didn't fly he moved on to the argument that degen was an advertiser so it was more complicated. In the other thread, Mat made a post saying that he really wanted Sniper's input. When daryn noted that he hadn't posted yet, sniper claimed that he had been busy outside 2+2. When it was demonstrated that this was false, he claimed that he had been busy reading thousands of posts in the mod forum to review the situation.
The examples above are just a couple that obviously recently come to mind. In both cases we have sniper simply saying what is necesary to cover his own ass or further his own personal situation, even if at odds with the good of the forums at large. In the OP of this thread, he has basically done more of the same. He had to admit that what he'd done is wrong. He pointed to a few things that are 100% obviously wrong.
When someone is in a situation where they HAVE to apologize and they do, I don't see what has changed as a result. As I said, the problem isn't the specific things he claimed were wrong actions on his part, it's more general.
Jared
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