... I may regret doing this, but what the hell.
Someone has to.
Talya wrote:
To an extent it is. Or at least, there'd be less of a problem.
I'm well aware that Montegue isn't the only problem. He's just far and away the worst offender, and has consistently been so across a very long posting history. And while it may not precisely excuse it, much of the other behavior you see is fueled by his vitriol and the impotence to do anything about it because of a complete lack of any moderation.
Yes, there's some kicking and biting being done by others, but ultimately it changes nothing. I used to believe that it would, but it won't. It used to even bother me a little bit, but at this point, I've utterly written Montegue off. I just don't
care when anyone says to or about him anymore. I really don't. If you think that Montegue's behavior would change even one
iota if everyone started treating him with the utmost of civility, then forgive me, but you haven't been paying attention. Understandable, if you've been avoiding Hellfire.
You see, I tried that tact for many, many years here. I may have asked sharp questions and challenged his nonsense, but to the best of my ability, I've remained civil. I have received nothing but ranting, screaming, name-calling and abuse for my efforts, and I'm certainly not the only one.
So you know what? **** him. I've held my tongue about this for entirely too long. I have finally well and truly snapped.
Montegue:
You have done nothing but **** up every topic you "participate" in for as long as I can remember, but in the last 2 years or so, it has become completely intolerable. It is unbearably ironic when you call anyone else a hate-mongerer, etc. You are beyond any shadow of a doubt the most hateful person I have ever had the misfortune of interacting with, in person or even on the
**** Internet. You deserve no quarter and I am no longer frustrated by the behavior of others when they refuse to give it to you. Are they sometimes rude, childish, and vindictive in their responses to you? Yes. But you know something? You have it coming to you in
**** SPADES. You reap what you **** sow, so don't ***** to me about your bitter harvest.
This well is completely tapped out. I can no longer bring myself to have any measure of sympathy for you. The only thing that others can say about you that will still annoy me are things like: "Monte
can't understand logic ...", "Montegue
can't engage in rational discussion", blah, blah, blah.
Bullshit. If that were true, you would be a figure of pity, not of scorn. The truth is much more damning: Montegue
won't be rational. Montegue
won't stop dehumanizing and slandering everyone who doesn't fit with his little world-view. Montegue
won't engage in civil behavior. This "minor" difference in choice of verbs makes all the difference in the world. Maybe this "can't" business works for other people, you're not getting off of
my hook with it.
YOU are responsible for your atrocious behavior, and it
is atrocious. I honestly know of no other board that would have tolerated so much for so long. You love to rant about a conservative bias in the moderation staff here. Let me clue you in on something, **** -- it is
only because of the extreme tolerance that the moderation staff on this board has shown to you even still exist on this board to rant and scream about it. FarSky has given you far,
far more leeway and forgiveness than you would have received anywhere else. You have been given chance after chance after chance to clean up your act, and you refuse to do it, always blaming everyone but yourself for you vile behavior.
It was not but a few weeks ago that you actually accused Beryllin of being a anti-semite, for ****'s sake. I truly can't imagine any other message board where that would have earned you anything other than an instant ban, and possibly even a permanent one at that. And goodness knows, I've had my share of arguments with Bery, so don't even try your stupid "oh, you're just a conservative jumping to Bery's aid" bullshit. Your accusations are extremely out of line, to see the least. To but to say what I honestly think, they demonstrate what a vile and hateful person you really have become.
But the
really damning thing in all of this? Up until very recently I was probably one of the few remaining people on this board that would be willing to come to your defense. When FarSky unbanned you for Hellfire on Glade 3.0, I thought it was probably a bad idea, but you know what -- I actually agreed with it. I was willing, against all better judgment, to give you your
Nth chance, here. I'm one of those people that just has trouble saying no. Your behavior has been so relentlessly horrible that you have managed to alienate even that precious handful of people that were still begrudgingly willing to be your advocate. This ought to
mean something to you, but I'm not holding out any hope.
Do you know that in my entire history not just on the Internet, but stretching all the way back to the shadowed corners of BBSes when the online world was small and disconnected, I have never once put anyone on ignore? Not once on any message board or in any game have I felt the need to avail myself of that function. I don't think it's inaccurate at all to say that my tolerance level for other posters is about as high as you're going to ever find in this world. And yet for the first time and damn near 20 years of digital discourse, I actually find myself giving serious consideration to using for the very first time. I wish I had the words to express to you just how utterly
**** up that is, but I probably don't. And moreover, even if I had the words, I now fully believe that they would fall on deaf ears. Because all of your bleeding-heart posturing to the contrary, you don't really give a **** about anyone other than yourself and your own precious little feelings.
But at the end of the day, I know of nothing that I could say about you which is more terrible than this. It is something that regardless of any arguments past or present, and regardless of any altercations or tantrums thrown, I cannot honestly say of any other poster here:
You contribute nothing of value to this community.
TL;DR -- In this thread, Stathol finally flips the **** out and gives it to Montegue with both barrels.
Mods/admins/interested parties: if I just earned myself a ban/suspension for this, I understand completely. I certainly wouldn't hold it against you.
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