The content of the posts and PM's at LN are no longer available for me to defend myself, and it's basically just Player0's words against mine, and y371's.
y371 had asked a question about the Cascade in a thread. I responded. Player0 jumped in trashing the Cascade ("total waste of money", or something to that effect). What that had to do with the question I had no idea. Player0 then embarked on some rampage amounting to saying that water-block advances were pointless and that TEC's atop CPU's were the way to go. We got into a debate where I was basically saying that the reported temperatures don't neccessarily tell the whole story. Player0 then started throwing insults about, beating his chest claiming how all-knowledgable and important he was. y371 contacted me via LN's PM system asking me what Player0's problem was. I actually made an attempt to play down the situation. Player0 then started attacking y371 in the public forum thread using the content of y371's PM's to me. I got offended at the invasion of privacy over this, called Player0 on his bullshit practises, he threatened to ban me, and I basically said "Fine. Do it! I want no part of a forum who's administrators behave in this way".
The LN admin's, primarily lead by Player0 on a rampage, presumably because he was upset that somewhat wasn't kissing his ass and taking his word as gospel, decided to ban me after I requested that my account be cancelled. One of the LN forum admins subsequently contacted me by email to express his disappointment at the way Player0 had been acting, but also stated that I had said some things in the past which caused this action, but had declined to inform me just what they were.
Frankly I was appalled at the level of personal attacks levelled at myself by Player0 when I had pretty much just been reacting to his attacks on my work. He was basically calling me a liar and a corporate whore when I stated that I made no money on the blocks I make. All without foundation though.
I'm glad to never be a part of the LN community. My memories of that place have been going there a number of times to defend baseless attacks on my work and character, and I can only assume that this is the "history" to which Player0 refers. Obviously he's just a bit pissed at people that don't swallow his crap. I've never had such problems at any other forums that I visit. Anyone who has known me for some time now will know that I conduct myself in a very level-headed fashion and do my best to avoid making any form of personal attacks, whether publically or privately. Basically what Player0 describes as my behavior simply is not the way that I act.
If anyone has the issue, it is him. I still have no idea as to what caused the antipathy in the first place that was rampant over at LN towards me. I'm glad to never be involved at that site again.
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