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Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I can see why someone in the mod server was angry at the way the recipient was treated. It was thoughtless and smallminded. However I'm getting more and more the impression that whoever shared the details was just itching for a reason to break containment; this was their excuse.

Someone already offered to share the mod's other identity with the recipient directly - which doesn't seem helpful to me but still has a sliver of justification.

If Coal wanted to avoid this mod, we could avoid their exchange. We didn't need extra names.

Wondering if the OP has a grudge against this mod personally, tbh.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah my guess was OP had a beef with either this mod or the mod who made that comment about lying. That doesn't take away from my personal enjoyment of this wank at all though! This has been some of the best exchange wank in ages.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

The "lying" mod was EO. You're spoiled for choice about who has bad blood with him.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC I agree on all counts. A+ wank.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I would not have done it because my inclination would have been to let the recipient know directly (if I could track them down). But I am ok enjoying the fruit of someone else’s wank labor.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Frankly, who doesn't dislike E_O at least a little.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Eh.

I like some of his fic just fine even though coalies like to grump that it's all mid and I don't personally care about his commenting patterns all that much; it's enough to make me avoid him as a recipient as a poor match for my particular recip commenting preferences but I don't really think any worse of him for it. I was neutral on him before this.

What gets my goat is the recurring trend of using ND issues as a shield for everything from why commenting specifically is hard to (in this case) why people calling him out on his shitty accusatory word choice is extra painful to him specifically for ND reasons/because he has a bad history with people picking apart his word choices. The former is kind of tacky, the latter puts him in "This is someone who's extremely unlikely to take responsibility for anything, red flag, do not engage with" territory.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Both of those people (especially e_o) have been longstanding coal favorite targets, you can assume that part is true

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Do people hate adastreia? I never heard of them, and I love tea so I'm surprised I would have missed it entirely.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I had never heard of them either, though I figured they might be the new mod even before the wank. They wrote this year’s pinned post in the Relationshipping channel on EAD.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Their name's come up in the anon comms other times but I don't think for anything big before.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Untrue; having their actual account name gives that much more of a chance to avoid them in other exchanges. Not a guaranteed chance, because mod socks exist, but more of one.

Knowing who they are in order to avoid matching or filling pinch hits or treating? Also a thing. Assholery shouldn't be rewarded.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

No. I simply disagree with you that this is a justified action proportionate to current or potential future harm.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

what current or potential future harm are you talking about? the mod cabal catering to their hurt feelings?

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Connected unconnected identities is a harm.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

dc

You modcalled on FFA about this, didn't you. 🙄

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not crying that a bully can't bully anymore.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

This is some top tier disingenuous bullshit.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

well they weren't the one who made the asshole comments right? That was the other one

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

And yet, the biggest baddest coward on coal decided they need to be named for great justice. Because otherwise someone might one day write them a treat or pinch hit!

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

You realize you're white knighting the person who gave EO the chance to be an asshole by... dragging these email that the sender expected to be confidential out in direct, identifiable quotes to a server of a hundred people and inviting them to mock and belittle the person.

Nah, fuck adastreia, fuck EO, fuck the 18 mods who joined in, and fuck you too.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

dc

They went to the mod server to ask a modding question. They're not responsible for what other people did with the question they were asking.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC

The other participating mods remain unnamed and I don't understand why. adastreia and EO are the most egregious, but the others are implicated too. They deserve the same scrutiny.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

So which one of them are you, EO or adastreia? Lol. Fucking lol.