after being PM'ed by james

[Kuja]

[SIZE=1][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]well as most of you know james has fired me. this was because i edited a thread. the guy was advertising his site in 4 forums saying to go join his boards. i changed the thread to say 'hello i am a complete moron'. now yea that was wrong... but i was having fun and he and adam have both changed peoples post to make them look dumb.

but james then proceded to block my access to the boards. now i can totally understand him firing me, he had been trying to do so since he promoted me to SM, using the excuse that my grammar is bad. thou most members understand the idea of what im saying and have to ask me what the rules he posts mean... i guess that means he wants to fire himself since people dont understand him right? anyway... y did he make it so i cant see the boards? was he scared i was going to tell what he calls 'lies' about him? well i didnt (and am only doing so now cause he PMed me and lied to my face about me lol) so yea...

well james gave me 2 choices in the staff forum. A. i could become a normal member and surf the site like that or B. stay a mod of the forums i was a mod in. now i was talking with other staff to see what they felt on it. this was in the moring, and i went to class that night and when i came back i could no longer see the forums. now where in these options was C. have all your forums turned off? umm i hadnt even talked to james so how did he know what i was going to pick? until i talked to him my mind wasnt going to be made up. yet he gives me options then makes a choice (which wasnt an option) on his own. now how exactly am i going to make a choice when he makes it so i cant post (all i could see was 'who's online' and my PMs, and he blocked me on AIM (i logged onto a brand new account and he was online so i know he blocked me). Now there are a few people who can tell you i had my access screwed cause i changed my pw and gave it to them and they saw exactly what was up.

about a week after all this i asked james why he had done this, he said that all he did was take access to the staff and o3 forums away. he said he would go and fix it. so im like good, cause there are some semi intellegent convesations in the gaming forums once in a while. so i wait a few hours since he said he would go and do it... and then log in (i could see the forums if i wasnt logged it) and still i couldnt log in. so i figured yea this is james's way of not holding a grudge. so i decide it isnt worth it, thou me and adam had been talking about him acciring a site that i work for (that isnt up yet he just likes the name). so it isnt as if im mad at o3 or anything.

so i go and start working for another site. helping with boards their, and getting the gamming site ready for launch. now we had a rule that said try not to talk about OB issues there and james makes a post there that says a few things about me. i mainly ignore it and post on something someone else had said about something unrelated. now another member there goes and says that james is wrong which is quite funny. thou i love how james acts like the admin when he goes elsewhere and breaks the rules there and thinks there will be no reprecussions. guess he has let his ego gotten to him so much he doesnt see he is wrong (yea i know this post is wrong i just have to clear my consious and get james to maybe just maybe see that he can be wrong when it comes to things that deal with these boards)

so i guess someone talked to james as to why i couldnt see the forums and he tells them a few things. now the other day i get an email saying i have a PM from james. so im all lost as to why he is sending me a PM. so i go and check it out. i read it and get a good laugh. it says that he thought i only had access removed for 24 hours. so yea i might have forgiven him for that. but then he says that if i had told him about it he would have given me access back immediatly, yet i had already talked to him about it and he said he would (and it was a 'nice' conversation considering) so i IM him on AIM yet again today and he says i never talked to him about it. lol ok james sure ;). then when i ask him what i should tell members when they ask me why did james ban me for calling a guy a moron when TN used to call people stupid in there posts. since both words have a similar meaning they thought it was unfair of james. so he avoids it and starts back on the grammar thing. i tell him that most members have trouble reading his college level grammar when most members are around 12-15 here. not saying ya'll are stupid just saying the average kid of that age will have a hard time understanding college level grammar. so he again changes the subject (why is it he cant answer anything with a strait answer?) and says he doesnt know why all of a sudden i started to dislike him.

so i explain that since he forced ginny to leave i havent exactly thought the best of him. he says he didnt force her to leave that it was her choice, which yea it was her choice to leave, but she left cause of his 'noah's ark theory. and she is very religious i dont think there are any of us here that can argue that point. now james thinks that his 'truth' is the only way to go and that religion is rubbish. now he says that his explain how noah's ark never isnt trying to shove his religion on someone which was one of the staff's rules we agreed on. now exlain to me how using athestic (sorry i cant spell) views in a thread about god isnt trying to show your views? now he says that is proving facts and that religion is just beliefs. now doesnt he BELIVE his facts are true? was he there did he see everything that went on? so he must believe what these people said, and all his sciences are truths cause he believes they are. yet he says he only uses facts... thou it was a fact that the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe, and oh yea those were scientific facts that were proven just like everything he says are facts. so yea science is just as inacurate as religion. and he is just proving his religious beliefs on us even if he doesnt know it. so by telling him this he ended up blocking me... around the part where i said he forced ginny to leave, he always seems to get upset by it when anyone brings up the fact that he pushed her away. i guess that is cause he knows it pissed off a lot of people in staff that he wouldnt admit that it wasnt partly his fault. he thinks that it is all her fault for posting in a thread about god... and she talked about god... he talked about noah's ark? yes god told them to go (according to most religions) and this story is widely believed by more than just christianity and he goes and bashes it..

now within a 3 month period he forces probably the most liked staff member of o3 and fires another... then within a week another staff member quits the boards and practicly the only staff member that posted stuff for theotaku aslo leaves. now why is it that there is a o3online forum and staff of o3 didnt have access to it? hmm i could think of a few reasons but james would refute them all im sure. just like he will this whole post (or delete it lol). anyway i just would like to know... if this is his way of not holding a grude, what does he do when he does... cause he is treating me like i am thimoc or laughing stock or any of the other spammers that has come along... now i admit that what i did is wrong, but it is the same as other staff has done. and i admited i did this as soon as people asked, where as there was a rash of banning right after the new SMs came along and james took away the ability for the 3 new ones to ban... now i admit to what i did and get fired, where as someone else hides behind something a lot more serious and gets nothing, even thou james admitted he thinks he knows who did it. now if i could have banned this spammer i would have but james's idea that nothing bad would happen if the new SMs couldnt ban was again wrong something bad did happen.

well before this page takes 10 minutes to load ill wrap it up. i do like these boards and i enjoy the people here. hell i met my fiance here, who even had a thread where a ton of guys were confessing their love to her back on v2 :) (thou i said i liked a girl over 15 who could smile haha) anyway she rarely posts her as well.
now a lot of members that were big time posters back in the age of shinji are no longer here. the top 3 posters are no longer here 2 are banned and N-man posts every once in a while.
and while james makes all these 'improvements' the boards lose what is most important long term members. while yes new members are a nice thing to have... everyone here doesnt like newbies.
so in his 'running of HIS (not adam's) boards' he is actually helping kill them faster than was going on, a lot of members see the boards going downhill and are slowly leaving, now i enjoy these boards and this site a lot, i dont want to see that happening but as long as james runs them it is inevitable to see this. now in january he said he was going to leave and run his own site in a month or two. it is now may and james is still here cause the job fell threw. now those of us who stayed here get stuck with him. he had even told staff that he was going to train sephy and TN as the new admin for when he stepped down. yet all i see is him flexing his power by redoing the boards and rearanging the staff... that is an odd way to step down, or is he not going to step down until his site gets up... [/font][/size][/color]

[Guest BulmaVegeta1]

I think I see what you're saying....but I know one thing, this is proably going to get closed.

[James]

[color=royalblue]lol...kuja...it's [i]only an online forum[/i].

I don't know why you take everything so seriously.

I'm simply here to do a job and to ensure that the rules are followed; if you don't like me personally, that's something you'll just have to deal with.

The fact is, it's very easy to take what someone says out of context. It's very easy to shift blame from yourself to others.

I'm quite happy to accept my mistakes and admit where I'm wrong -- and I'm certainly not perfect.

As I mentioned to you, I hope that you can put this silliness behind you and start acting your age. I don't mean to sound condescending, but I really do feel that this has come way too far.

It's pointless to overanalyze things which really bare no relevance to your own issues with me.

This is certainly not the best way to go about it.

I also want to add something.

kuja tells me quite happily that at one point "over half the SMs wanted to quit".

Those of you in that position can determine whether or not that is a truthful statement -- but if it is, I want to say that I don't welcome people making a mountain out of a molehill.

At the end of the day, if people want to leave or if they have something to say, they are free to discuss that with me. There are mature ways of going about things -- kuja has demonstrated qualities which are not in accordance with what staff should be doing.

kuja was initially a great staff member, but I soon realized that if I didn't go along with what [i]he[/i] wanted, then I'd get nothing but rudeness and whatever else.

I will say to kuja what I have said to many others time and time again: if you don't like the way this site is operated, if you have a personal problem with me or anyone else here, [i]take it off the boards[/i].

I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to do a job. Those who know me personally (some members from here), understand my position on these matters and that I have only tried to go about this in a professional manner.

Whatever happens, I'm always very happy to talk it over. But how can I talk things over when I am being labeled a liar and when what I do/say is taken out of context so wildly?

I don't get involved in personal attacks -- I haven't said anything about kuja to discredit him on OtakuBoards. And I've done nothing to personally attack anyone here -- I challenge anyone to prove me wrong on that point.

Sure, sometimes there are misunderstandings, but I'm always happy to work them out.

I don't hold any grudge against kuja and I wish him the best in his other ventures.

The simple fact is, things didn't work out for him here on a professional level. I hope he can take his experience from here and use the lessons he has learned here to more appropriately deal with his colleagues in future.[/color]

[Justin]

I'd also like to put in my two cents here:

Kuja- You know how I feel about your "squabble" with James. But I think it's time for you to load up and move on. No matter who is/was right, you won't get anywhere doing things like this. I'm sorry.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i]
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kuja tells me quite happily that at one point "over half the SMs wanted to quit".

Those of you in that position can determine whether or not that is a truthful statement -- but if it is, I want to say that I don't welcome people making a mountain out of a molehill.

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[color=deeppink]I may be a bit bold in claiming that statement to be completely false, but I'm pretty sure that none of the other SMs wanted to quit...[/color]

[James]

[color=royalblue]I guess I just don't see the point in taking what was originally a small issue, and making it far larger.

It's something that threatens to encompass totally non-related issues, which is something nobody wants.

It's a shame that something so small became something so large.

As I've said, I'm happy to discuss any concerns openly and without reservation, but all of this underhandedness doesn't really help anyone put their case forward in a meaningful way.[/color]