[SeaRex]

I did what I did for the sake of this forum, because at the time it looked to me all this was was one big play ground for hobo's army of doom. If it's not, and I'm mistaking, then I suggest you prove to me and everyone else that I f*cked up.

Well, you took a single, isolated incident as this place turning into a "play ground." That's an exaggeration if I ever heard one. You overreacted, fucked up, as you put it.

Of course, that's not to say that I didn't fuck up in allowing the whole incident to take place.

But untill then, I expect that you and everyone else who was/is involved in this to at least understand my reaction to it.

I do. At least, I understand that you and several others were hurt by the incident. I was being completely honest in the Rule Revamp thread when I said...

It has become apparent to me that our general member base favors a change in forum rules and policy. The consensus seems to be stricter enforcement and better Mod behavior, particularly on my part.

I do not want to appear tyrannical. I am making an honest attempt to reform according to the will of the majority.

So I do understand that you guys might feel betrayed, but it's only empathy; if I were in your position, I certainly wouldn't have felt as hurt as some of you did. Or at all, for that matter.

I still think that you overreacted. A lot. A whole lot. Even if you felt "betrayed" by a joke, that's not grounds for overthrowing (or trying to overthrow) the moderation team. As long as we're talking about "betrayals" here, I still say that a coup, even a failed coup, ranks far above a practical joke, especially when it isn't called for in any way. I still can't see how you feel that something like that is justified after I promised that I wouldn't allow something like the Wired incident to ever happen again. If you truly had the forum's best interest in mind, you would have let it go instead of trying to stir up dissent.