Ok you have been around long enough. You should know not to tell someone to "settle down" like you are the boss or something.
Funny you should mention that; I got into a lot of trouble as a resident once for telling an irate neurosurgeon to "settle down" ... sorry, it's just something I say reflexively to people who appear disproportionately angsty about something. I'm not telling you to shut up.
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I was attempting to have a conversation with you and others and you must admit that I have been extremely controlled in this subject. All I have done is ask for some dialog on the subject. So don't tell me to "settle down".
Fair enough, I'll give full credit where it's due - you've been civil, if perhaps a bit disingenuous.
As you and the others mods know, I am very familiar with the rules here. But we can discuss the big picture here without discussing the particulars of the events.
It's difficult, because every time I want to rebut or contradict you, doing so requires specific examples, and those specific examples run up against our privacy policy.
Tell you what - if Jet stops by after his post-hold is up, and voluntarily posts the post-hold PM I sent him, +/- the other PMs other mods sent him, I'd be happy to hash out the particulars with him and you.
The big picture I can discuss with you here and now, is the same big picture I've discussed before: to wit, I think a moderator's place is to do
as little as possible
And for your information, I have been talking with Jet. I know what's going on and therefore, I am upset at the censorship of a member of this forum. There was a time when censorship was occurring on this forum from other mods outside the anesth forum. We made huge strides in preventing this back then and now it appears our current mods have lost what most here considered to be a valued piece of this forum.
Well, history is open to interpretation. I've been here a while, longer than my join date confirms, but that's neither here nor there. I remember previous mods' tenures, from the very good to the very bad. I remember the attempts to pseudo-split the gas forum off from SDN proper, and there are reasons why that didn't last.
Bullying is all a matter of opinion. We have all had those attendings that had a very brash way of making a point. Did we run crying to the administrators in residency? I didn't. I doubt that any of the more well adjusted members here did either. It's a part of life and a bigger part of medicine.
You're confusing issues here.
First, the mere fact that most of us had the maturity and self-preservation instincts to put up with douchebag attendings rather than cry to administrators, doesn't mean those guys weren't douchebags.
Second, where the analogy further fails is that here, we the mods ARE the administrators, and there's a certain level of TOS-violating douchebaggery that we are, in fact, obligated to, you know,
moderate.
And for everyone's information, I closed the last thread. It lost focus. This one is trying to do the same so let's try to stay on subject here, everyone.
I never accused pgg of locking the thread. He is a mod. He should know who locked it. That was the question. If he didn't know it was me then he isn't paying attention close enough to be a mod.
😛 Yes, I/we all knew you locked it. I thought perhaps you were talking about another thread that got locked - because otherwise this quote doesn't make any sense:
Noyac said:
Pgg, are you seriously telling me you don't know who locked my last thread? The fact that you are making it clear that it wasn't a mod tells me that you are feeling somewhat guarded.
Well, I guess it makes some sense if you were playing games with trying to insinuate that anti-censorship Noyac didn't lock his own thread, hoping you wouldn't get called on it.
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