NickName wrote:
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I have no idea what you are referring to. I most certainly never posted anything at this level, nor am I now or ever been in any sort of "official" capacity with the game.
I would submit that your position as a Gencon judge 3 years running including head judge at the Masters last year and the fact that you've parlayed that experience (to some extent) into a direct line of communication with the very top people at WotC should put you in a position of higher responsibility than a simple forum guide with no actual authority.
I have to be careful in my wording here because history has proven there are people anticipating the opportunity to misconstrue something I say, or that I something I say is actually worded in a way that is confusing. So let me just say that I can see how you might think that about my experience with the game, and what it has led to. I disagree with the assertion that I'm in a position of authority of any sort as the best I can claim is being a sounding board for various ideas with no real say-so about the outcome of any particular issue.
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And I would further agree that you've posted stuff 10x worse than Fool's obvious joke (some of which you admittedly intended as humor but was not nearly as obvious.)
Define worse. I probably overreacted somewhat to Fool's post, but I still don't think it was so much meant as humor as it was a criticism of certain individuals. This is probably based moreso on previous discussions and some other things going on outside the view of the public eye, but nevertheless.
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But telling you this is so pointless I'm wondering right now why I don't just delete what I typed above and move on.
I've come to accept that you'll likely never understand how your posting style reads to those who don't have the ability to reassess things based on having met you in person and even if you do (or did) at some point you won't change it. My first impression is often "oh, what a
total jerk" followed by "oh wait, in RL Dennis = Boris and he just can't possibly mean it like it reads."
You're right about one thing. I can't change my posting style. Not because I don't want to or because I have some sort of perverse pleasure in offending people, but because I can't (as I recently discovered) be sure what actually offends. Even in disagreements between us about something, you have commented something I said offended you, and I actually went back and edited something entirely different - not ever realizing it was a different comment that got your attention.
I hate that we are suddenly making this about me, btw. It really should not be.