For Amazo.

Apologies to everyone else for this thread, apparently the personal message system isn't for personal messages.

I sent this to Amazo via a PM after he reported eleven threads that needed their titles changing in the Reader's Rides section, complete with a sarcastic comment and the accusation of hypocrisy:

Hi Amazo,

I'd love for everybody to title all of their threads properly, but they don't. I change tens of thread titles every day on here (For Sale section mostly these days) - every one of them annoys me and wastes my time. I don't need your help to point them out, I don't need your accusations of hypocrisy and I certainly don't need anyone changing the thread titles back again after I've already done it.

Please stop having a game at my expense, I'm not a willing moderator but I feel it a necessary evil that comes with a successful forum which many enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job that we do on here, please don't make it a personal goal to upset people - just be quiet, or leave.

Simon.

Despite the fact that dealing with a childish one-sided vendetta against the whole RR moderation team is driving me crazy, I attempted to be polite and friendly, at least as much as is possible when you've been consistently baited by a person for years.

This is the reply I received:

I've deleted your PM without reading it Rmad; if you have anything constructive to say you, can either email me, say it in public on the forum or contact me on Facebook (I shouldn't be that hard to find).
I respect you enough to to be fair and even-handed with RR's rules; if you aren't, well that's my bad for holding you to a higher standard than everyone else because you're holding a position of (supposed) reponsibility.
Please don't let me down.

- David.


Despite the fact I'd much rather not be doing it here, I don't want the accusations that using the PM system to send polite messages is somehow underhand so I'll go along with it. I'm not going to email you because I don't really use email for non-work stuff, I'm not going to use Facebook because a. we're not friends, b. Finding you on Facebook, even if I wanted to doesn't seem that easy as, up until a few minutes ago all i knew you as is 'Amazo' and even with the revelation that your name is David that doesn't really narrow it down much.

So here's the message that I would've have sent on my next PM:

Amazo, I've just deleted your account.