What The Hell Was That? Debunked.

QED:

Lolly gave some...er...what'd you call them? Nebulous? Nebulous reasons why he banned you. You up for debunking them?

ndifference:

Sure.

QED:

Okay. This administration and this community are tired of you... Tired? What kind of policy is that?

ndifference:

It isn’t a policy, it’s turd-speak for “I can’t deal with you professionally.” It's turd-speak for "You haven't violated policy, I just don't like you."

QED:

What community is he talking about?

ndifference:

Let the record show I shrugged.

QED:

So noted. Okay, next. Publicly fighting with any other team. What’s he talking about?

ndifference:

No clue. The banning-reason on my page states, “…publicly fighting with any other team while you were a representative of this site in any way shape or form.” I assume he means publicly fighting while I was on Staff. To that I say, "Show me." I never publicly fought with any Staff member while I was on Staff. Privately, either. I occasionally...rarely, when you consider the scope of two and a half years...had a disagreement with another member of Staff, and those few were almost always with PVA, and those centered on the legitimacy of a policy or the selective enforcement thereof. Of course, lesser-evolved beings have a tendency to equate "criticism" with "fighting." I don't know if that's applicable here, but it certainly is a possibility.

QED:

Aside from your recent forum exchange, were you fighting with him?

ndifference:

I haven't said anything to him, publicly or otherwise, in over a year, except for a joke we shared in the Senior Forum.

QED:

Over a year?

ndifference:

Except for the Lit GD's and for Zeruch in the Politics Forum, I haven't said a word to any Staff member in over a year. It's been a year and a half since I said anything to realitysquared, a year and a half since I said anything to Angelo. So..."tired of me publicly fighting with Staff" is verifiably delusional.

QED:

How about all that fighting you were doing with SI back in the day?

ndifference:

Well that's a myth, isn't it? I'm sure a lot of people assume I was fighting with her, but during the course of that six-month period in '05, I said three things to her in what DA considers "public." Only two of those were when I was on Staff. And I wouldn’t characterize either one as a fight. The first was in a Lit thread where she was lying her ass off about the DD's and insulting writers. Blunt, perhaps, but certainly not a fight. The other thing I said to her was in a Community Update. [link] And all I said in that was, "I'm not addressing you, I'm addressing a dysfunctional system."

QED:

That's not a fight either. How about privately? You two fighting like cats and dogs?

ndifference:

Over the course of six months I said seven things to her in total. Two were in the Staff Forum, which is private. One was in her journal, which is private. One was in the Staff chatroom, which is private. One was in the forum, which I just covered, one was on a CommDev Update, to which I just referred, and the last was on mirrorkills’ user page – when I was no longer on Staff. None of those were belligerent. Sarcastic, perhaps. But certainly not belligerent.

QED:

Hmmm...were you fighting with realitysquared? Angelo? Another GD? Any programmers? Helpdesk Staff?

ndifference:

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

QED:

Okay, I guess that one's debunked. What about this one: This divide and arrogance and sheer disrespect you have been shoving down peoples throats for years now is done. [link]

ndifference:

Let the record show I shrugged. Again.

QED:

Here's a good one: So by all means, carry on pointing out perceived faults and painting this picture as upper administration vs a community when it is in fact an issue began by someone who was made a moderator who went power mad and scapegoated two other admins when he saw an opening and got everyone to follow along. [link]

ndifference:

(laughing) Classic. Scapegoated? Scapegoated which two Admins? Him and RS or SI and MK? How can you scapegoat the guilty? You know, if you think about his statement, he fits that description much better than I do. He went power mad and scapegoated me and Toni when he saw an opening.

QED:

Does seem to fit.

ndifference:

Or, you know, he could be talking about SI. There's a mountain of irrefutable proof that her job went straight to her head, that she scapegoated me and Toni, and that she got realitysquared and Lolly to go along with her. Either way, if he's talking about RS and himself I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were malfeasant. If he's talking about SI and MK, they were already found guilty by Angelo. His statement is pure nonsense.

QED:

Okay, I declare that one debunked. Here's one that mystifies me: the fact that you had to get bizarre okays from the CEO, or more accurately you went to someone with the least knowledge of the situation and the most power…? [link]

ndifference:

Ummmm...I don’t really know...perhaps he considers Angelo’s decisions to be “bizarre,” or maybe he just thinks the "chain of command" on deviantART is “bizarre.” That looks to me to be an insult to Angelo. Surely that's what not he intended?

QED:

Surely not.

ndifference:

The bottom line there is that Angelo, in addition to being CEO, was my boss. Who the hell else was I supposed to go to? Cap'n Crunch?

QED:

(laughing) How about your “agenda?”

ndifference:

My agenda was to do my job as it was outlined by Dygel and Angelo. Maybe I should have written them back and said, “Sorry, can’t do these things. They sound too much like an agenda.”

QED:

What kind of “bizarre games” have you been playing?

ndifference:

Um…uh…wow. That’s a puzzler. He seems to misuse the word "bizarre" a lot, doesn't he?

QED:

How about being "power-mad?"

ndifference:

I say, “What power is he talking about?” GD’s have power? Gallery directing isn’t about power, it’s about service to your gallery. How can you go mad over something that doesn’t exist? Sounds like someone is projecting, doesn’t it?

QED:

Okay, taking stock. You weren’t “publicly fighting” while on Staff or off it; you weren’t privately fighting while on Staff or off it; you weren’t playing “bizarre games” and didn’t have an “agenda” that you were “shoving down people throats for years.”

ndifference:

That's the long and short of it.

QED:

This is going nowhere. Is there any proof on his side that supports anything he says?

ndifference:

Nothing that I'm aware of. I'd be more than interested in seeing some of this proof. At the very least we should be entitled to fictional accounts of my exploits, if he can't supply anything real. And in this fictional account I want to be taller.

QED:

(laughing) I think he already supplied the fiction.

ndifference:

Well then hiss! Poor showing. I want my money back. Where's the manager?