One thing it seems you haven't been paying attention to, is that he can defend himself. If you read the thread with the actual case, you would have seen: Which has not changed, he still can talk. Kai has been posting, he simply hasn't been on in the last few days.
I did see that, and I saw Kai's rebuttal. There was still a power imbalance IMO and at some point Kai
asked for others who were not moderators to chime in. I probably would've stayed out of it if he hadn't asked.
As to the issue of referring to violators that were muted on the forums as acting like an !@#$%^&, I do not approve of it but I am not going to condemn it either at this time.
The moderators made the poor choice, which is certainly partially my fault, of making the rule for not allowing insults and such, "Don't be an !@#$%^&. No insulting or derogatory behavior toward other players or forum users," which implies those whose who break that rule are being an !@#$%^&, which may or may not be true, the issue being leaders give an example and when we implicitly say they are being !@#$%^&s, then members of the forum will see it ok to say those who break that rule are being !@#$%^&s.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if not for the appearance of a double-standard. There is quite a bit of similarity between Kai's OOC msgs and Geronus's commentary. They both were about "some people", and we know who "some people" are in both cases. But Velax was much more to-the-point when he said,
"What's that saying? 'If everybody you meet is an !@#$%^&, then you're the !@#$%^&.'" It's clearly personal, but he used "scare quotes" so it's like
"I didn't call him an !@#$%^&, I'm just quoting."Two other things I would like state. One, stating he is being an !@#$%^&, does not mean he is one simply that he is acting like one at the present time, which is certainly what Geronus's post sounds like.
Yes, you can argue that they were attacking Kevin's !@#$%^& behaviour, not Kevin as a person. But then you should also look at Kevin's OOC msg through the same lens: He was attacking his team mate's
game play decisions, not calling him a bad person.
