To everyone else:
People are not treated equally here. We've never been under the illusion that you were.
If you contribute to the community in a positive way, you will get a lot more leeway. If you are more trouble than you are worth, well, we've both just shown what can happen. It's not great, and it's not pretty and I'm positive there are MUCH better ways to go about it, but it happened.
We do want suggestions. I don't want complaints. Complaining is empty and self-entitled. Offer to help. Give real ideas to make things better. That will go a lot further.
We're not perfect. Admin means we set this place up, pay for it, and manage all of the behind the scenes. We also get to deal with the awesome backlash of running a community, like getting death threats. That is just
awesome (no, wait, it really isn't). It doesn't mean we're perfect. It means we get a lot of shit and hardly any thanks though (seriously, when's the last time you said, hey, thanks for you know, doing all of this), so cut us some slack.
Josh's writing style can come off as a total asshole. Nah, that's underplaying. Josh's online personality IS a total asshole. We know this. It doesn't make it ok, but honestly, it's one of the reasons we wanted a place where people could argue without mods stepping in and breaking it up. He DOES need to improve, I'm not excusing it (that last post to BB WAS baiting to be clear), but you all aren't exactly Prince Charming either. Except for Tshern. I love me some Scandinavian dudes.
The mods will deal with 97% of all issues. They are much better at it and much more adept. They know the community better, that's why we asked them to help out. They are super awesome and again, the vast majority of the time, they will deal with reports, issues, and help us work out issues too, like giving suggestions to Josh about his being an asshole (we have a whole thread on that going on our moderator board).
I step in when I feel they are getting bogged down with a specific person or persons or issue. And when it gets to that point, it's often already escalated.
So don't get to that point. Don't think that the crappy treatment BB just got will apply to you. Because you won't be so crappy in the first place... right?
Also, to stay on topic... Hi, I'm Meg and I disagree with a LOT of statements made by Josh.