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False Prophet is Mad with Power and needs to be stopped NOW - before it's too late.
EDIT: Comments have been closed to prevent flame wars.
False Prophet has overstepped his bounds as an administrator once again. He has routinely undermined the actions of his fellow administrators and has abused highly-contributing members of the community with his closed-minded and marxist/neo-nazi actions.
False Prophet only wishes to allow members who agree with his views to have access to contribute. False Prophet wants to ensure ArmchairGM.com only operates by his allowances. His actions in the past have been wrong and he continues to act in a manner that is wrong.
The following misnomers against the entire community have taken place:
1) FP wishes to eliminate ALL Anonymous commenting. He requested Wikia administrators ELIMINATE the ability for people to contribute anonymously. Think about that. Every memeber of this community began as an anonymous member. He wants NO anonymous users to have the ability to contribute their free, open thoughts.
2) FP banned Manny Stiles without warning, unilaterally and unneccessarily - without ANY discussion with member Manny Stiles - for an unprecedented length of time (55 days. Why 55 days? There is no logical or rational explanation) and for the following reason (and I quote): insults, thread-hijacking, and generally being an asshole. We'll see ya when football starts again. Somehow, calling someone "an asshole" isn't an insult when it's entered onto the block log by False Prophet.
2b) Despite the actions of Manny Stiles another user, HeywoodJablome posted very offensive and quite pornographic images in the VERY same thread Stiles was banned for - WITH NO CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER!!! No ban. No warning, not even a slap on the wrist. Why?
3) FP WRONGFULLY banned Captain Sarcastic and Sports Shaman simply because they have collaborated with Manny Stiles. CS and SS are guilty of exactly ZERO infractions according to the CoC. Yet, False Prophet banned them repeatedly even after other administrators saw his overt ignorance and released the ban of those two users. As soon as Mr. Joseph Rose a.k.a. "Captain Sarcastic" (Yes, he is a childhood friend of Manny Stiles) made a simple contribution with his typical sarcastic remark, FP banned him. Unilaterally.
4) False Prophet regularly abuses the delete functionality to which he has access.
5) False Prophet cannot accept that he and only he has problems with particularly creative and innovative users... that maybe the problem is his closed-mindedness. He refused to un-ban Tyrone Briggs even after the ENTIRE community (led by Manny Stiles) requested that Mr. Briggs be un-banned.
To have banned Manny Stiles and anyone associated with him in such a manner despite a three year track record of contributions and positive giving to the community is ABSOLUTELY wrong and ENTIRELY unjustified.
I invite False Prophet to engage in a dialogue to explain his drunk-with-power actions. False Prophet cannot rightfully explain why he acted in such a manner and continues to allow other users who commit far greater infractions to roam the site without retribution.
False Prophet is jealous of Manny Stiles and only wishes to silence him because Manny has the simple ability to see more than one side of any issue
Yes, it's simply personal. How do I know? Because False prophet and Manny Stiles have had many e-mails back and forth on various subjects over the past three years. Manny Stiles knows enough about the person behind the False Prophet personaa and finds it utterly pitiful that False Prophet refuses to engage in even a simple exchange or dialogue over this situation. he closed-mindedly has decided (once again) that his way is the right way and therefore the only way.
Has Manny Stiles circumvented the "ban". Absolutely and no. Why? Because it was a bullshit ban in the first place. Secondly, Stiles' actions post-ban are simply to demonstrate without a doubt that False Prophet is a detriment to the community. His "ban first, ask questions never" approach is not beneficial to anyone... it has only led Manny Stiles to act in a manner that is frustrating and annoying to the entire community. Yet, it is with a purpose.
The "terrorism" of the site will continue as long as the community allows it to. User: Manny Stiles has access to an endless supply of IP addresses. banning each one is only a waste of time and energy on the behalf of the administrators willing to fight this silly, childish war against one magnificent community member that they cannot understand or comprehend; Manny Stiles. What False Prophet and his cohorts and supporters cannot understand about a user like Manny Stiles is that "making sense", "supplying numbers and facts" or "living inside a pre-programmed box" is secondary to "having fun".
Manny Stiles was prepared to leave this site forever on his 3rd anniversary but the actions taken against his friends will only result in more needless bullshit. Manny Stiles fights for what's right, but he definitely has his own fun doing it! So watch out!
False Prophet is holding this site hostage by his short-sighted remedies and moronic decision making. There is absolutely NO reason Captain Sarcastic and Sports Shaman (who doesn't care to ever contribute to the site ever again anyway) have been banned just as there was no reason for Guy Named Guy to have been banned simply because he knows Manny stiles in the real world (and subsequently GNG was un-banned by SSR under a rare moment of reasonability).
Guy Named Guy has already informed a member of the community in a personal message that he will not attempt to contribute to this site "because of the immaturity of the administrators"!
Other QUALITY administrators such as JuTMs4Y and Davis21wylie have had their efforts to restore sense to the site overthrown - controlled by the voice of one False Prophet and the submissive immaturity of SSR.
It's your choice AGM.
Let freedom ring or let a person who boldly states his marxist ideals with beaming pride.
FREE Captain Sarcastic and show extremem apathy to the plight of Sports Shaman
They had NOTHING to do with the actions of Manny Stiles.
FREE Manny Stiles
He had nothing to do with the actions of False Prophet.
It was a bullshit ban and anyone that could have POSSIBLY been offended by comments made by Stiles are at fault too. It takes TWO to tango.
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