Originally posted by rhb
Fairs fair then Exiled - here's a story for ya so you know these post are all about. If any of this is not fact please feel free to alert it.
Mateulose was a good (if inconsistent) player who caused a lot of disruption on the forums regarding cheating accusations at other players.
There were also frequent posts (ususally triggered by a lost game) blaming ...[text shortened]... ventually you will have lost nothing but the respect of a stranger.
(Edits 1&2 for spelling.)
I looked back at the archives of the said poster, in fairness, some of his posts where deleted so I don't know the whole story, but it seems, from a neutral standpoint based on the posts seen, to me a lot of people banded together and bullied the said poster over relatively harmless posts. If anything, such "evidence" is a guilty verdict that the community itself right now is not a group of very admirable people.
I could be wrong, and I'll accept the wrongness if I could see all the mateulose posts from when he first set foot on the site, but if this said player gets verbaly assaulted and sometimes even death threatened over relatively harmless posts, then it doesn't take a genius to figure out why he would post some angry/disruptive/vulgar posts that get deleted. The situation wasn't well handled by Russ it seems.
As for my spelling. All I can say is that I've always been an A+ student in school for almost every subject, so if this "troll" mateulose spells as well as I do, then it's hard for me to imagine such a troll, because normally trolls cannot spell any language, and looking at his past posts, I did not see much trolling. I did see pessimism, controversy, wakcy out of the box thinking, and concern about how things are going around here, but not what I would call trolling, but then again, around 25% of his posts were deleted.
Thanks for wasting my time making me look up some random poster guys😛 But in a way, I learned a lot from it, that poster seems to be yet another example of alerting feature abuse, but I am not certain. And that's the subject, alerting feature abuse, not slandering banned posters who cannot defend themselves anymore.