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Originally Posted by Paul Richardson
... and hypocritical, no one here has come close to the rudeness, disrespect and hatefulness ML has displayed to the '97%'. Anyone else posting like this would have been deleted, infracted and banned.
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And Meat has took a good bit of a bashing in return.
That's why I kept the edit to a minimum.
I remember hearing (true story) about the brother of a king who shot a monk for a laugh. The king pardoned his brother, but told him that he would likewise pardon anyone who decided to shoot his brother.
As far as i'm concerned, Meat shot his monk yesterday.
And if that doesn't scream "put me on a T shirt", I don't know what does
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Every time Meat comes to us and speaks to us like that there's an outpouring of sympathy for him. It's not doing the trick is it?
I'll be sympathetic for him, as well as having sympathy myself and the rest of the fans who are treated so harshly.
One thing I can't feel is guilty, because I believe he is wrong in his general opinion of us.
I think Meat needs to know that his action, as well as being VERY hurtful, also piss off long time fans who are an asset to our community.
His post went unedited, and so did the replies.
I called an end to it after a while (you'll note my post was directed to
everyone) but I couldn't very well edit everyones replies when they had been insulted so much.
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Originally Posted by AndrewG
Indeed. I really thought yesterday it might be best if his account was banned, maybe temporarily.
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IMPO, that's not realistic.
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Originally Posted by AndrewG
I also came to the site yesterday to hopefully start an interesting debate about the tour and album yet this was marred by Meat's reaction to the voice thread which then transgressed into the album thread which then got split into this "debate" thread by a moderator.
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The thread about the new album couldn't have been left as it was, could it?
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Originally Posted by robgomm
Rest assured Meat doesn't believe 97% hate him. It was a ploy to find out who the truly negative people are on the site.
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If it was, I don't know why he felt it neccersary.
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Originally Posted by robgomm
In short, his plan has worked very well.
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I beg to differ.
NOTHING positive has come from this (apart from maybe an invite to a dress rehearsal, which would be pretty cool, but we'll see if that happens
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As far as I can see it only achieved a lot of insult, upset, grief, and anger. Not to mention some long term fans getting so pissed off that our community had been so badly treated they no longer wish to be a part of our community. Including two of our forum staff.
Not to mention the fact I spent over 5 hours myself modding pretty much one thread. I can't even remember how many times I locked the thread, cleaned it, opened it, and then deleted more posts.
Believe me, it was not my idea of fun on a peaceful Sunday afternoon.
I can't say anything worked pretty well, least of all any kind of plan.