Tom! While I have you here, would you mind offering me a quote to back up your "Otter invented a fight!" idea?
Otter, before you continue to call me a liar, I'm going to try and answer these questions of yours.
So. Where you started this whole Evil Tom/Smodge thing. It's quite simple really.
http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php?topic=329.msg4351#msg4351I can't believe you'd try and pretend it never happened, and then call
me the liar. Lynch All Liars? Perhaps we should be looking at you for claiming I'm the liar, when there's proof right here that I am indeed telling the truth.
I direct you to the fact that
nobody had even
mentioned the fact that I'd corrected Smodge's grammar except:
Post #1: Me
Post #2: Corwin - Who said we should slay smodge (I assumed he was joking)
Post #3: And then Smodge who apologised for making the mistake.
End of story.
After that there was
14 posts, by mostly different people. None of them mentioned the grammar thing. As far as I knew, it was a non-issue.
Then, you come out of lurkerville (with a pile of votes on your head that you need to redirect) and vote for me. You said:
Is this sort of passive-aggressive correction helpful to anyone? I don't think so, and it's the sort of thing that creates rifts between players for no particularly good reason.
When it can clearly be seen that there was nothing of the sort. There was no rift or argument. It was a simple correction, which Smodge acknowledged. Until you went along and dredged it up.
That's fine, we should talk about things. If you think it's important, put a vote on it by all means. That's why we're here.
But then, in your next post not long after:
I'm perceiving some pretty blatant and uncalled-for incivility from Tom, and for reasons I think we've just made abundantly clear, I don't see a good town reason to act that way.
This is the source of the problem. You effectively say "He's being uncivil, and is scum". You obviously mask it and say it indirectly, but not-town = scum. You can't deny this.
After a heap of nothing, you bring up something that nobody has talked about, and when nobody continues to talk about it, you start making things up, saying I was uncivil, and that I can't be town.
Also:
but I'm not really comfortable saying "Well, since it's THEM, let's just ignore it!" If we said "If someone gives scum tells constantly, then it doesn't mean anything, it's just them being them!"
This is a great way to make everyone focus on something. Suddenly the attention is on Smodge/Tom. We weren't actually having a fight or doing *anything*. The issue was over. Done! But then you go and throw this up? Suddenly everyone is more focused on the way you're representing it, than what actually happened (or didn't happen).
My response is:
http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php?topic=329.msg4392#msg4392Effectively I say what I said here; I wasn't uncivil. There wasn't a Smodge/Tom 'thing' until you made a big deal about it. Nobody else thought it was important. Those who havn't been affected by your dramatics *still* don't think it's important.
I'd love to, but Tom hasn't offered the simple explanation that was asked, and is instead going for OMGUS mixed with flagrant lies. At this point, my vote isn't on him because of the correction, it's on there because his response has been so catastrophically bad.
No, it wasn't. You're just doing your best to make me
look bad.
OMGUS: Not quite. If you read through everything, you should be able to understand why I think Otter is suspicious.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is:
Otter created this argument out of fluff and air. I said as much. Now he's calling me a liar. I stand by
everything that I've said. He made things look horrible when there was nothing there, and now not only is he denying it, he's saying that I'm lieing. My vote lies firmly on him for now. I want to see how he reacts to this evidence.
In summary: Otter, you sir are the liar.