aw group hug!
Get off me you bummer </spaced>
How on Earth do a bunch of people who came together in the first place for the love of a common pastime end up at such loggerheads??? :shrug:
I think its because the members did and the big man didn't. As has been said, people have to tread on eggshells around him in case they incur his wrath. You can't treat him like any other member and post an honest opinion. You must respect his authoritay! Its like even if you don't break any rules of the forum he'll ban you if he thinks you're having a pop at him in some way.
Doesn't seem like the wisest of business decisions by Spie either to start peeing off so many regular customers.
Seems to be his main hobby though. The console forum was fun last year. He neglected to inform the mod team that the store was selling Xbox's and just told them to clamp down on competitor chat. The members didn't have a clue why because the sites they mentioned weren't competitors. So the mod's didn't know why they were being asked to ban people. No-one knew a thing apart from Spie. He could have said something and it would have been cleared up right away. He didn't and the result was mass banings across the console forum and half the forum left. Then theres the time where he removed half the mod team because of uber paranoia. :shrug: