Since I've paid $$$ and have access to this thread, I just wanted to comment on this thread being here.
This thread has nothing to do with being a Donator. It should be public, or public/closed.
Hopefully constructive criticism ahead:
Before moving the thread, Aaron, you could have checked with more than just one or two mods; at least one of the guys you spoke to (Pixel) had no idea what was going on and probably wasn't your best second opinion.
Re: the above: Aaron, I know you only want to help and take action to resolve the issue, and that's great. But your responses in this thread are like walls of text, most of it being your own subjective opinions, referring to unexplained terms ("blowing up") and don't reflect the moderator staff as a team. If you look at Road's post, he's saying many things with very few words, he keeps it short and fairly objective. If people responds, he doesn't necessarily respond just because he has something to say. That helps things staying somewhat neutral and not turning into a "member vs mod" dialogue.
We as a community agreed after the last incident to be more open; and fair enough, Belle could have written "referring to infractions on dates x, y and z, I believe the mods should take matter on the last incident reported two days ago, please follow procedure and take action" instead of referring in detail to the case in particular, but I believe she did this because she wanted to explain why it was important that someone take action.
That being said, I think a lot of us thought of this as purely teenage bitching and not as actual harassment. But apparently we have a member on board that isn't capable of saying "okay whatever" but has to keep bugging one of our members instead. Do the infractions and ban if necessary.
Yop, you're a tech admin, you need to act like the boss and only step in when it's utterly urgent, and then you should have your minions do a summary for you so you know what the case is about. Jumping in writing two sentences of derp does not give off the impression that you care
Also, Tiff, kudos for your posts in this thread. Whether this started out as a disagreement from both sides between you two or not, it seems you've done everything you can now to just let it go. That's the mature thing to do.
Whereas, to the member in question: I saw the thread over at that other forum, and not to bring outside TLS stuff into TLS, but: Seeking sympathy from others by saying your are bullied when clearly this is a disagreement at the most (meaning you did your part in this, at least, you know that), will just not get you anywhere in life.
If you believe a post or an image is about you, stuff it in the "on hold" drawer and make sure it's really about you before taking it further. Jamiroquai said
Paranoia will destroy ya and that's certainly true.
I know it's hard being young, I do. But at some point you got to learn to have the confidence to take a deep breath, step away from the computer and go do something else instead. Or, go to a different online community or read Reddit or whatever. There is a point in everyones life where we send SMS's or PM's or emails or whatever to someone we believe owes us a reply.
That does not mean they owe you a reply.
Nobody here is ganging up on you. You brought this on yourself through your actions, and now you have to take responsibility for them.
Okay I see the thread has been moved now
PS the minion thing is a joke. I don't believe all the mods are Yop's bitches.
Unless you want to be
You were going to be contacted about your report eventually. I think the real issue here is that action was not taken swiftly enough. And, we probably should have told you we were looking into the matter. For that I apologize. 