Laying ghosts to rest/Damien post.

Hate meme got taken down because RL addresses were posted; Liz, Hela and I are being accused of having spammed it with addresses in order to get it down. Hela already e-mailed me to check if it was my fault, because of a friend of mine who knows the person who started the meme offered to get certain threads screened, and I replied and told her no, that I had originally agreed to the screening idea and then taken it back once I'd realized it wouldn't change anything -- what's said is said, and free speech is sacrosanct.

Including the right to believe that I'm going to plot with the other mods to spam that thing with RL info to get it taken down. Even though, you know, that would be endangering whoever's info we give out and that's kinda not an ethical move to make. At all.

*gives up* Seriously. I'm over in Austria and was asleep due to insane parental control over my online time. I didn't have a chance to do that, even if I would have. I did, admittedly, have the idea occur to me because it was an obvious loophole and I'm not stupid (I think), but that seemed like an insanely petty thing to do, and I'm not a fan of being petty.

Not to mention that it's obvious enough that other people getting bashed probably thought of it too. Nice to know only we're held in such contempt that people think us capable of it.

Real story behind why the hate meme was taken down can be found here, thanks to Ape having the courage to come forwards and post. The original post saying why it was taken down has also been altered to reflect that.

Now, down to the actual accusations:

( Cut to spare your flist and if you're just not interested. )

I'm leaving this post open but since I'm going offline for a week for a holiday that was planned ages ago, I won't be able to reply to anything instantly but that at least gives you plenty of time to plan out your response. I'd appreciate it if they were signed-in replies from actual journals, since after all the venom from the anon meme, I'm kind of scared of it dogpiling over here as well, but I understand that some people are scared to use their real identities/char identities because of mod/brps reprecussion. So, anon comments are enabled.

Comments about the other mods or players will be deleted because this isn't the place for them. This is not another anon meme. This is me, Damien, trying to settle matters with the people that dislike me (because let's face it, whoever said I dislike conflict was dead on with that) and figure out what I'm doing wrong and if it's fixable. I'd rather know for my own peace of mind that I tried to talk politely with people who dislike me than have it lying on my conscience that there's some sort of consensus that I'm a sucky mod and that I did nothing about it.

Obviously, I'd rather have civil, well-thought comments than one-liners about me needing to grow balls since again, this is not an anon meme. It's an attempt to open for discussion. Please don't spam my journal, or get impatient if I don't reply instantly since like I said, I'm going to be away. I realize the timing of this sucks, but I didn't put up the meme to coincide with my holidays and I didn't feel like leaving this post until I get back because I might have chickened out if I'd given myself more time to think about it.

So. Have at it. And again, civility will be appreciated, please.

Edit: The ex-DE-clique has a free pass to hate me for handling that situation badly. And Crowley-mun is -- okay, hate seems kinda extreme in her case -- free to severely dislike me, if she wants to. Anyone else, I'd like reasons, please.