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Originally Posted by Livia

Kirk is entitled to voice his opinions whether or not you agree. That is debate. Personally I find some of your opinions to be quite wacky... but I wouldn't stop you voicing them. Kirk is passionate about his opinions, so are you. The fact you disagree doesn't mean one of you is completely wrong and the other completely right. I feel like Kirk was hounded away. And he's not the first. The trick, as far as I can see, is this: learn to be insulting without actually breaking the rules; say something outrageous to someone then say you were only joking or post the little joker emoticon; always remember to make a point of quoting or addressing someone who's trying their best to ignore you... apparently that's not considered baiting, so do it until someone reacts, then you can hit the 'report' button and they'll get infracted. Also, if someone has a different opinion from you, they are obviously the devil incarnate.

Come back Kirk. We can't afford to lose another poster or this place will end up with the same bunch of people all agreeing with each other and posting the little "applause" emoticon after each other's posts.

There's fault on both "sides" though, some people on Kirks side were guilty of doing exactly what you're accusing the other "side" of doing. This is a forum, people are going to clash and when you're friends with a person or people, you lose the ability to look at the whole situation objectively. I really don't know what we as mods are expected to do other than try and enforce the rules when we see rule breaks, we're not baby sitters and we don't get paid to do this s**t and no matter what way we try to handle situations like these there's going to be people unhappy and complaining about how awful and biased we are

ETA : Stacey just proved my point btw (no offence to you Stacey) but you just did exactly what Livia accused the other side of doing but I'm sure it'll be fine because you're on the right side