Thread:BeyonderGod/@comment-61022-20140530153329/@comment-61022-20140530213030

Okay, allow me to clarify some things and hopefully this will clear things out for you:

(1) I did not publicly insult you. I was criticizing your ability to debate, your ability to spell, and your lack of ability to research. I called you lazy in your work and naive in your research. If you interpreted that as me calling you stupid or intimidating that is on your own interpretation. The spirit of debate is to point out the flaws in an argument. I was pointing out the very obvious flaws and even pointed out where you could probably improve on your research skills. I'm sorry that you chose to interpret it the wrong way, but that was not my intent.

Frankly, I don't know you from anybody. I have no idea how old you are, what your education is. I was criticizing your work and pointing out the flaws in your argument. If that makes you feel like you're being insulted and feel stupid, that's how you choose to interpret it as such was not my inference, that was not the context I was using. There is a difference between criticising your work and criticising your person. I pointed out that by the way you present yourself on here you show a lack of care to detail. Unlike the comments you made about me, which were attacks my age, sexual preference, and my living conditions which were personal attacks on my person. Frankly, I couldn't care what your opinions or thoughts about my lifestyle pertain to (frankly, I've heard worse and more creative insults hurled at me) however you were in the wrong for your choice of attacking my character.

(2) Yes I banned you for a year. Because what you did was against Wiki policy. We do not allow course language and insults and personal attacks being hurled at our users. As Jamie pointed out, it was in my right to do so and I felt it was warranted. I banned you not because I am an admin either, I saw your choice of language and saw that if it wasn't me you'd talk to in this way, it could be any of our normal users. Which frankly, we deal with a diverse group of people with different tolerances to name calling. It's ironic that you mention bullying because quite frankly someone without my tough skin would have been terribly upset by what you said about them.

(3) I did not edit your comments to humiliate you. If you want to talk about potential humiliation, those comments you posted were up for 10 hours before I saw them. If I were someone to get upset about such comments being made about me, I would have had a huge issue with what you said being up there for 10 hours without my knowledge. I changed your post to make an example out of you. There's a difference, you did something that goes against Wiki policy, and you even did it to an administrator. Your comments were on the site for 10 full hours for anyone to see. So an example was made to show that that sort of behaviour would not be taken lightly.

(4) I'm not forcing you to do anything. You can choose not to apologize to the community for insulting one of its users. That is your prerogative. An apology to the community and an admission that you engaged in conduct that was unacceptable is my condition to unbanning you. Actions have consequences and if you want to be a part of this community you have to treat others with the respect they deserve. You can argue with someone all you want but when you're swearing at them and accusing them of being basement dwelling virgins with no lives is unacceptable. I am not demanding an apology. I am telling you to apologize to the community if you want to be allowed to post here again. An apology to me is useless because as I said, I frankly don't care what you think about me personally. You owe an apology to the community because that sort of conduct is inclusive and people shouldn't worry that someone like you is going to hurl insults at them as soon as a debate doesn't go the way you want it to go.

(5) Which considering the above, I think your interpretation of my "bullying" you in baseless.

At any rate, the moment you are ready to provide a genuine apology I'll unban you myself. You can appeal if you'd like in which case I leave that at the discretion of my fellow admins.

But if you choose to apologize, again that is not up to you. You can either swallow your pride or move on, there are plenty of other message boards out there that you can post your comments on.