What to do when the Majority can't handle a Minority of One

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Open letter to Etoile and Laurel, in response to Etoile's "Final Warning":

Re: Final warning

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It has been more than obvious to one and all that I have been subjected to months of verbal abuse and harassment at the hands of the trolls in BDSM Talk.

The misapplication of existing rules and the creation of new ones which you refuse to provide links for demonstrates a simple urge to have me banned, and to create enough rules to provide an excuse to cover up censorship.

We are now to believe that a discussion which uses a bdsm story as an example can only occur in BDSM Talk if we provide a link, not the text verbatim, despite the fact you claimed to move my discussion to Story Feedback because, according to you, I was trying to discuss a BDSM story in BDSM Talk.

Despite the fact I started several on-topic discussions in BDSM Talk and there is no posted rule regarding the number of discussions we can start, I was accused of "flooding" and the discussions merged.

Now I am threatened with something called "slow-motion flooding", one discussion a day on "similar topics", despite the fact that the topics of recent posts have differed and were all on-topic.

Any objective examination of any thread I've started will reveal copious amounts of verbal abuse from the trolls, and the quote you've cited is an appropriate response to such efforts.

Indeed, it actually slowed down such comments and gave the trolls reason to reconsider their approach.

Now I am told I cannot respond appropriately to the verbal abuse.

Etoile, you have been a participant in this verbal abuse since before you became a mod for BDSM Talk. You were responsible for many attempts to hi-jack my discussions with the posting of cat pictures, alone with verbal abuse. Your personal animosity was established long ago.

This is clearly an effort to censor someone who not only disagrees with the cherished beliefs of your friends, but who can effectively argue his position and withstand verbal abuse for months.

In my opinion you are irresponsible with your powers in BDSM Talk. Inventing rules and public threats of suspension/banishment have made a joke out of any claim to trying to promote diversity and free speech in BDSM Talk. You are simply trying to limit any use of the board to those the trolls aprove of, and should you be successful the trolls will be even more encouraged to treat others the way they have treated me.

Instead of a public board, use of the board will be limited to only those the trolls approve of ... in other words they will 'own' the forum and you will execute their demands.

I am submitting delete requests for my three published stories due to the egregious vote-rigging conducted by the trolls. I suggest your forego any effort to pretend to have legitimate cause to banish me and simply ignore any commitment to diversity and free speech.

Censorship would be a lot easier for you if you simply admit that the trolls will never rest until all other brands of BDSM but theirs are silenced.

Laurel: I will be hapy to provide citations for all of this, but to be honest I doubt you have the time or inclination to actually do the research to ensure you've placed an honest and objective person in the position of mod for BDSM Talk, nor do I expect you to remove a mod you've chosen for the board. I am sure Etoile is counting on both as she has frequently encouraged me to contact you with respect to her decisions.

To be honest, I expect the only outcome will be banishment, honesty and integrity being as scarce as they are in the modern world.

However, I will continue to respond to verbal abuse as is quoted in the citation below. If anyone has been bumping my discussions to the top of the board it is the trolls who feel a need to post abuse, not me for responding to the abuse.

Do as you will.

Strategies

Paint a Rosy Picture

Control the medium, and you control the message.

The casual community has learned this lesson well.

By ensuring they are in positions of control: site owners, group owners, moderators, etc they are in a position to ensure only the message they want others to hear will be heard, and no other.

From this position they can make any claim, and as they have the authority to control what is heard, dissent is never heard.

And anyone who doesn't get with the program can be made an example of for others.

-- Excerpt from "Casual 'BDSM' and Emotional Abuse: The Case for Love"

 

[flesh4fancy]

BLoved asked me to post the following on his behalf:

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

"Free speech"? "Diversity"?

You people don't know the meaning of the words.

 

[Etoile]

BLoved asked me to post the following on his behalf:

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

"Free speech"? "Diversity"?

You people don't know the meaning of the words.

You have PMs blocked, so I'll have to say it here. You just posted this in three threads in a two-minute span. That's how a flood starts. I see you're offline now, so you're not actually flooding, but please be aware that the rules really do apply to everyone.