as for my new tag [Opressive Adm_n,] this will be used in all responses to
Harnum's admin posts until he manages to DROP this grudge he claims not to
have against me. And i'm within my rights here, this is not a flame.
However, explanations
of just WHY you are holding a grudge against me are welcome and expected.
While to say you're my favourite person to deal with on the list would be
untrue, I have no deep grudge against you. As long as you obey the rules
of the list (laid out in the short and eminently readable FFML FAQ),
you're
free to do what you want.
Bull.
I will elaborate further if requested.
hell with it, i'll elaborate now, though i was hoping to make an impact with
a one-word response. You banned me, though i was not complained about, for
posting a reply to a private email. this [doing it without a complaint] was
unprecedented and unwarranted.
Not only that, but past precedent has been set for banning challenges that
produce excessive amounts of spam--even if said spam nominally consisted
of
fanfic-related material. Older listmembers may remember the Adfic
challenge of about a year back; this produced a huge amount of "fanfic",
generally less than 10k in length. For about a week, anime-themed ads
engulfed the FFML. Dozens of them. Eventually, a ban was placed on
posting adfics for a while, so that the fervour created by the challenge
would die down.
Okay... wait for the spam-flood, THEN ban it. THAT's the only way you can
use that precent to justify yourself. you didn't mention any precedents for
preemptively banning challenges that -might- have a flood of responses.