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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 12:25:32 GMT -5
I think his username was actually "EdgeHeaded" but he was another one of the nutjobs from the old forum. He thought it was funny to talk about how hot guys were to skeeve people out, but I never believed he was legitimately bisexual. ...Yeah, he was probably gone by the time I got here. Hence why there's no way I could have him and Joey confused. :evilgrin: Oh no he was definitely around after you showed up. He was around off-and-on right up until the end of the old THQ board
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Post by WSS? on Mar 6, 2014 12:27:22 GMT -5
I think his username was actually "EdgeHeaded" but he was another one of the nutjobs from the old forum. He thought it was funny to talk about how hot guys were to skeeve people out, but I never believed he was legitimately bisexual. So he is just like IDK. ...You do realize you're talking about the guy who grouped himself off with HighlandDiva when people started talking about the forum duos (Like you and Raven, Tom and Bane, Wild and Mike, etc.), right?
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Post by setokaiba on Mar 6, 2014 12:28:08 GMT -5
I think his username was actually "EdgeHeaded" but he was another one of the nutjobs from the old forum. He thought it was funny to talk about how hot guys were to skeeve people out, but I never believed he was legitimately bisexual. ...Yeah, he was probably gone by the time I got here. Hence why there's no way I could have him and Joey confused. :evilgrin: No he was there. I was the last of this little group to join(well return under a new name) and he was still around.
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Post by WSS? on Mar 6, 2014 12:28:14 GMT -5
...Yeah, he was probably gone by the time I got here. Hence why there's no way I could have him and Joey confused. :evilgrin: Oh no he was definitely around after you showed up. He was around off-and-on right up until the end of the old THQ board No, doesn't ring a bell.
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 12:30:22 GMT -5
It doesn't have to ring a bell, it was a real thing LOL Put down the bong or something 8)
Joey was not bi-sexual. In fact one of the reasons for his eternal war with Cole was that Joey made some comments that Cole took to be anti-gay.
Cole claimed to be bi-sexual on occasion, but again he always struck me as someone who was saying it due to an agenda rather than any actual sexual attraction.
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Post by setokaiba on Mar 6, 2014 12:31:59 GMT -5
...You do realize you're talking about the guy who grouped himself off with HighlandDiva when people started talking about the forum duos (Like you and Raven, Tom and Bane, Wild and Mike, etc.), right? The only thing I remember from that time was Randy getting mad at Raven and I over everything. *Oh how I miss him* As for HighlandDiva didn't she leave because people started flirting with her or something?
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 12:33:12 GMT -5
Randy *eyeroll*
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Post by setokaiba on Mar 6, 2014 12:35:53 GMT -5
You two fought more than Cole and Aubry(or whatever he name was again)
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 6, 2014 12:41:02 GMT -5
You two fought more than Cole and Aubry(or whatever he name was again) Cole despised Aubrey. Even after I spent several days with Aubrey and tried to tell Cole that he's actually a pretty decent guy Cole still refused to come back to the forum. Even this one.
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Post by setokaiba on Mar 6, 2014 12:45:20 GMT -5
You two fought more than Cole and Aubry(or whatever he name was again) Cole despised Aubrey. Even after I spent several days with Aubrey and tried to tell Cole that he's actually a pretty decent guy Cole still refused to come back to the forum. Even this one. I always wondered what cause them to fight all the time.
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Post by WSS? on Mar 6, 2014 12:51:52 GMT -5
:lol: I'm the last person you'll have to worry about being on drugs. I may not live in the ghetto, but I've seen my fair share of people destroyed by drugs. ...False. I'm telling you, man, he said he was bisexual, and Mike thought that meant he was into Ramsay. I know I'm not imagining this crap.
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 13:15:29 GMT -5
[False. I'm telling you, man, he said he was bisexual, and Mike thought that meant he was into Ramsay. I know I'm not imagining this crap. LOL yes you are 8)
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 13:17:44 GMT -5
You two fought more than Cole and Aubry(or whatever he name was again) I have a family that I love more than anything in the world. Him faking a family and consistently using his wife (girlfriend, whatever) and supposed child as an excuse for his behavior disgusts me on a very personal level. It's inexcusable. For him to claim that his child was hospitalized with serious medical issues and he was posting on a $#@!ing wrestling board is just despicable. Once a person sinks to certain lows, I cannot reconcile treating them as a human being until they acknowledge their error.
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Post by WSS? on Mar 6, 2014 13:22:47 GMT -5
Randy was an odd one. He seemed like an okay guy on the 2K Forums ('Cept for that whole "This thread doesn't interest me, and has no reason to exist" thing), then I joined the FCW forums and he went ape on me. I guess since there were so few people there, he'd ran out of people he could bully without getting banned, so when I popped up there, I guess was fresh meat or something.
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 6, 2014 13:37:41 GMT -5
I love what this thread has become. I'm sick of thinking about stupid Nirvana anyway.
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 13:47:27 GMT -5
For the record, I strongly disagreed (and still do) with Aubrey's perspective. If someone walks in and starts acting like an asshole, and the people supposedly in charge won't do anything about it, then it shouldn't be everyone else's responsibility to just ignore the asshole. The only thing that makes that situation worse is when, after the asshole has been appropriate responded to, the authority figures decide to THEN show up and punish the responder rather than the person that started the ruckus.
... which is exactly what Aubrey did.
Insanely, insanely stupid policy. Stupid beyond belief.
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 6, 2014 13:49:04 GMT -5
Cole despised Aubrey. Even after I spent several days with Aubrey and tried to tell Cole that he's actually a pretty decent guy Cole still refused to come back to the forum. Even this one. I always wondered what cause them to fight all the time. It's a long story. Care to learn about some of the issues of the old THQ forum? Every admin on the THQ staff dealt with problems, and by extension how the mod team was supposed to handle those problems, differently. Aubrey was new and met with a lot of resistance right away, but it was exacerbated by the fact that he had a much more relaxed nature about dealing with people who caused problems on the site. Rather than nip problem users in the bud he preferred people to shrug them off, ignore them and generally "not feed the trolls". It's fine that he had this philosophy, it's a matter of personal preference, but I and some of the other mods had worked pretty hard and had a difficult time cleaning up the place in those months before Aubrey arrived because the website's tools and structure left a lot to be desired. Many of the major actions that we took had to be cleared through an admin, and because the site regularly brought in different administrators it meant that we had regularly changing policies. Some of the admins let us make all the decisions because they considered us to be the "front line" guys who knew all the users and dealt with the drama firsthand, and some of the admins preferred to advise us how to deal with each issue on a case-by-case basis. That was the way Aubrey preferred to handle things, and his time with the forum came right after a different admin who'd preferred to let us handle things ourselves. As a result we had to change our methods immediately which made for an awkward and sometimes difficult adjustment period. That was still okay, it was just a difference in management style, but it did lead to some disagreements. The reason is because a certain pattern and atmosphere had been cultivated by previous mods and it now ran contrary to how Aubrey was trying to do things. People were getting away with stuff that they hadn't gotten away with before, users were constantly asking us why this guy or that guy hadn't been warned or banned or whatever. Many on the forum, including myself, blamed Aubrey for this- we felt that he was doing nothing to stop the problem users and instead blaming the good users who were responding to them, and I myself was personally upset because I thought that all the work we'd done to clean the place after a disastrous late 2011 were coming apart. The site's crummy mod tools made the whole thing twice as stressful as it needed to be. While I was upset at the time and it led to several heated discussions with Aubrey, I eventually came to see that it wasn't his fault. He had his own way of doing things and it they weren't necessarily "wrong", his style was just another in a long line of atmospheric shifts that came about because of THQ's revolving door of admins, actions and policies. There was no single set of consistent guidelines to dictate how the mods should behave (despite the fact that I asked for them, specifically and repeatedly, when I was first modded by Marcus who left 2 months later), there was only the general understanding that we'd act how the admins determined we should act and each admin had his own philosophy which meant that the forum was changing roughly every six to eight months. Had the place been organized enough to have a single entity in charge of the entire affair- to dictate not just the permanent rules but also the direction of the moderators and even the administrators themselves, that site wouldn't have been the mess that it often became. So anyway, enough ranting. Aubrey's style wasn't bad- he felt that people should govern themselves better and not engage in a flame war every time some idiot insulted them, and I agreed. The problem is that Aubrey's stint came right after that of Marcus, who had the opposite philosophy- that people who cause deliberate provocation should be dealt with immediately. There were trolls who noticed the change between these two philosophies and took advantage of it, pushing people because they knew that they could get away with it. As a result many of the people who were pushed, Cole in particular, felt that Aubrey was enabling the forum's self-destruction by turning a blind eye to the antagonists. Cole reacted to this...rather poorly. While I had my problems adjusting to Aubrey's style and was, admittedly, one of the people who felt that it was going to ruin the site, I still at least recognized that it was just a matter of personal philosophy. Cole, on the other hand, came to view him as the enemy, an incompetent stranger who just didn't care. And he made sure to remind Aubrey of this fairly quickly. And fairly often. Another thing that set Aubrey apart from the admins before him is that he would willingly engage a smartass and be a smartass right back, and you can imagine that this went over pretty well with Cole too. Very long story short, THQ's disorganization and revolving door of leaders created an atmosphere where its users were often required to adapt to the (sometimes vastly different) policies of a new administrator. Aubrey's policies were met with fierce opposition from Cole, who was much happier with the previous policies. Cole made his feelings clear. Aubrey made his own feelings clear in return. Cole offered a rebuttal, and Aubrey washed his hands of him. Cole continued to speak his mind, and Aubrey made use of his privileges as administrator. Cole made an enemy for life, refused to come back. The end.
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Post by WSS? on Mar 6, 2014 13:49:14 GMT -5
...Why isn't Justin Bieber an option?
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 13:49:43 GMT -5
Well... Mike double posting is a change of pace from his usual thing of posting, having the post disappear, and then reappear after posts that respond to it...
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Post by wildknight on Mar 6, 2014 13:50:37 GMT -5
...Why isn't Justin Bieber an option? Because he hasn't been around long enough to be truly overrated. For all we know, 20 years from now nobody might remember Bieber at all, or might remember him in a HAR HAR! sort of way, like they remember the New Kids.
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